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burner¹
- /ˈbɜːnə/ UK
- /ˈbɝnɚ/ US
Rhymes with -ɜː(ɹ)nə(ɹ)
Where it comes from
From burn + -er. Merged with and eclipsed related Middle English brennar, brennere (“an incendiary, incinerator”). Compare German Brenner (“burner”), Swedish brännare (“burner”).
noun burners
- An element on a kitchen stove, hob, or cooktop that generates localized heat for cooking. She lit a burner on the stove / And offered me a pipe / "I thought you'd never say hello", she said / "You look like the silent type"
- A device that generates localized heat for experiments; a Bunsen burner.
- A device that burns fuel; e.g. a diesel engine; a hot-air balloon's propulsion system.
- A device for burning refuse; an incinerator.
- A device that records data or music to an optical disc, such as a CD-R or DVD-RW.
- Ellipsis of burner phone, a mobile phone used for only a short time and then thrown away so that the owner cannot be traced. No one on the corner has swagger like us / Hit me on my burner prepaid wireless
- An app that creates temporary phone numbers for a user.
- Ellipsis of burner account Internet sleuths later discovered that the username, @SO_blessed1, appeared to be a burner belonging to the Twitter user Incarcerated Bob, who had long been spreading false information.
- An elaborate piece of graffiti. […] we were doing productions, burners like 100 feet long and as tall as we could get, standing on people's shoulders, […]
- A pyrotechnic tear gas canister.
- A handgun.
- Ellipsis of coal burner (“a nonblack person, usually a woman, who has sexual relationships with black people, usually men”).
- Alternative letter-case form of Burner (“participant in Burning Man”). In Mississippi, Tom turned an encampment of do-gooder burners into an organization he dubbed Burners Without Borders.
Burner²
- /ˈbɜːnə/ UK
Rhymes with -ɜː(ɹ)nə(ɹ)
noun Burners · burner
- A participant in the Burning Man festival.
Thesaurus
Closest in meaning: combustion, burning, fire, incinerator, incense, stove, flue, gas, engraver, hotplate, engraving, portable, printmaker, plan, recorder, writer
Translations
Every language
noun element on a kitchen stove
| Español | fogón, fuego, quemador, hornalla, hornilla, hornillo |
|---|---|
| 日本語 | バーナー bānā |
| 中文 | 燃燒器 /燃烧器 ránshāoqì, 煤氣灶 /煤气灶 gas burner |
| Português | boca |
| Français | feu, brûleur |
| Deutsch | Kochplatte, Herdplatte, Heizplatte, Heizspirale, Flamme, Kochfeld |
| Italiano | fuoco, fornello |
| Ελληνικά | μάτι máti |
| Русский | горе́лка gorélka, конфо́рка konfórka |
noun device that generates localized heat for experiments
| Español | quemador |
|---|---|
| Português | bico de Bunsen, queimador, maçarico |
| Deutsch | Brenner, Bunsenbrenner |
| Italiano | becco di Bunsen, bruciatore |
noun device that burns fuel
| Deutsch | Gasbrenner, Brenner |
|---|
noun device for burning refuse
| Español | incinerador |
|---|---|
| Deutsch | Verbrennungsofen |
| Italiano | inceneritore |
noun computing: device that records data or music to an optical disc
| Español | grabador de CD, quemador |
|---|---|
| Português | gravador de CD |
| Français | graveur |
| Deutsch | Brenner, CD-Brenner |
| Italiano | masterizzatore |
| Русский | механи́зм для за́писи CD mexanízm dlja zápisi CD |
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title = {burner},
howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
year = {2026},
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