Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Capable of being burned.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Combustible.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Able to be
burned ;combustible
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective capable of burning
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Examples
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Depending on your city's local rules, trash must be separated into categories such as burnable -- called moeru, which sounds like an anime term although it's a different word altogether -- cans
Anime Nano! 2009
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Depending on your city's local rules, trash must be separated into categories such as burnable -- called moeru, which sounds like an anime term although it's a different word altogether -- cans
Anime Nano! 2009
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Should fish bones go in the burnable or nonburnable trash?
Evacuees Set Rules to Create Sense of Normalcy Daisuke Wakabayashi 2011
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The girl imagines stuffing the family candy stand into the bag of burnable refuse.
Devoured Deborah Jiang Stein 2012
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And periodically an archer lands a pitch-fired arrow in something burnable.
Fire The Sky W. Michael Gear 2011
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It lays out in painstaking detail how to replace the garbage bags, crush the plastic bottles, and separate the trash between burnable and nonburnable items while picking out paper, plastic bottles, glass bottles and cans for possible recycling.
Evacuees Set Rules to Create Sense of Normalcy Daisuke Wakabayashi 2011
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The girl will spend her life behind the candy stand, just as she's expected to set garbage out on its sunrise schedule, separating burnable and non-burnable.
Devoured Deborah Jiang Stein 2012
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I have always maintained that when you don't know what to give someone, stick with things that are readable, edible, burnable or pourable.
In the Mood for Stuff You Can Burn, Eat or Read Rita Konig 2011
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The clinical psychologist's chief criticism of Nippon's project: It overestimates the availability of forest "slash" available for burning, and means Nippon will have to truck in tons of other burnable waste to power its boiler.
Paper Mill Struggles to Run on Logging Waste Joel Millman 2011
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In response, the Department of Energy decided in the late 1990's to produce new supplies in a commercial power reactor, using new tritium-producing burnable absorber rods (TBARs).
Robert Alvarez: Future Supply of New Tritium Explosive for U.S. Nuclear Weapons in Doubt Robert Alvarez 2010
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