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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
burner
noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a CD burner/writer (=a piece of equipment for putting music, information etc on CDs)
▪ By 2002, CD burners were standard hardware for home computers.
Bunsen burner
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
back
▪ It had begun exploding when you lit the back burners, and Mrs Hooper was getting too nervous to touch it.
▪ Issues like desegregation go on the back burner.
▪ Their food was boiling in a pan on the back burner of the gas-stove in the alcove by the pantry door.
▪ The hazardous weather conditions put concerns about budget developments and the economy on the back burner.
▪ That put any promotion aspirations on the back burner.
▪ Their other project, meanwhile, is on the back burner.
▪ So for most of that period, the new perfume project was on the back burner.
■ NOUN
charcoal
▪ There may be charcoal pans where charcoal burners camped periodically to use the wood from the area around to produce charcoal.
▪ The brothers, Ray and Alan Mitchell, are charcoal burners.
▪ Of course, she thought, still clinging to the dubious shelter of the doorway. Charcoal burners.
gas
▪ The only way of heating it was by means of six or seven gas burners.
▪ I drink red wine and heat a pita bread on the gas burner and wrap it around alfalfa sprouts or green linguine.
▪ The gas burner was still on.
■ VERB
use
▪ A lever lid tin was used to heat coal dust, using a spirit burner.
▪ Coal to heat coal dust, using a spirit burner.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ All burners have automatic ignition and re-ignition.
▪ He waylaid Stella in the paint-frame where she had been sent to boil rabbit glue on the Bunsen burner.
▪ I have hot-air heat, with burner and furnace three years old.
▪ It may be necessary to pre-heat the burner in cool weather and the fumes can be smelly.
▪ The connections were loose, and the optic burner didn't respond to her impulse command.
▪ Their other project, meanwhile, is on the back burner.
▪ When he said no, she turned down the burner on the stove.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Burner

Burner \Burn"er\, n.

  1. One who, or that which, burns or sets fire to anything.

  2. The part of a lamp, gas fixture, etc., where the flame is produced.

    Bunsen's burner (Chem.), see Bunsen burner.

    Argand burner, Rose burner, etc. See under Argand, Rose, etc.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
burner

late 13c., also as a surname, Brenner, "person who makes bricks," agent noun from burn (v.)). As a name for a part of a lamp where the flame is applied, from 1790. Of gas-cooking stoves, by 1885.

Wiktionary
burner

n. 1 Someone or something which burns. 2 An element on a kitchen stove that generates localized heat for cooking. 3 (context chemistry English) A device that generates localized heat for experiments; a bunsen burner. 4 A device that burns fuel; e.g. a diesel engine; a hot-air balloon's propulsion system. 5 A device for burning refuse; an incinerator 6 (context computing English) A device that allows data or music to be stored on a CDR or CD-ROM. 7 (context slang English) A mobile phone used for only a short time and then thrown away so that the owner cannot be traced. 8 (context computing English) An app that creates temporary phone numbers for a user. 9 (context slang English) An elaborate piece of graffiti.

WordNet
burner
  1. n. an apparatus for burning fuel (or refuse); "a diesel engine is an oil burner"

  2. the heating elements of a stove or range on which pots and pans are placed for cooking; "the electric range had one large burner and three smaller one"

Wikipedia
Burner (comics)

Burner (Byron Calley), also known as Crucible is a fictional mutant character appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics. The character's first appearance was in Captain America Annual #4.

Burner (Breadwinner album)

Burner is the only album by American math rock band Breadwinner, released in 1994 through Merge Records. It compiles two out-of-print 7-inch singles released by the band, and 3 unreleased tracks.

Burner (rocket stage)

The Burner and Burner 2 rocket stages have been used as upper stages of launch vehicles such as the Thor-Burner and Delta since 1965. The currently available Burner 2 is powered by a Star 37 solid rocket motor. Thor Altair and Thor Burner were mainly used for US military meteorological programs (DMSP), although they also launched technological satellites.

In addition to use on Delta family rockets, Burner 2 stages have been used on both Atlas and Titan rockets.

Burner (Odd Nosdam album)

Burner is a studio album by American hip hop producer Odd Nosdam. It was released on Anticon in 2005.

The album features guest appearances from Mike Patton, Örvar Þóreyjarson Smárason, Jessica Bailiff, Dosh, Dax Pierson, and Jel, among others.

Burner

Burner may refer to:

  • Gas burner, Coal burner or oil burner, a mechanical device that burns a gas or liquid fuel into a flame in a controlled manner
    • Laboratory gas burners:
      Bunsen burner
      Meker burner
      Teclu burner
  • Hot-air balloon device, a device to inflate a hot air balloon
  • Burner (rocket stage)
  • Raleigh Burner, a 1980s BMX bike manufactured by Raleigh Bicycle Company
  • Burner (Burning Man), an active participant in the annual Burning Man festival and/or the surrounding community
  • Burner (Breadwinner album), 1994
  • Burner (Odd Nosdam album), 2005
  • Burner (comics), a fictional mutant character in the Marvel Comics Universe
  • Burner or stinger (medicine), a minor neurological injury suffered mostly by athletes participating in contact sports
  • CD burner, a CD/DVD recording tool; see Optical disc drive
  • Slang for a prepaid cellphone
  • Burner (mobile application) for cell phone privacy
Burner (mobile application)

Burner is a mobile application for iOS and Android made by Ad Hoc Labs, Inc. that allows users to create temporary disposable phone numbers in the U.S. and Canada. The app allows smartphone users to have a phone number that is anonymous and can be thrown away, for purposes such as online ads, while traveling, for business projects, or for dating profiles. Burner is a trademark of Ad Hoc Labs, an Atwater Village, Los Angeles-based software startup.

The application's name is a reference to so-called "burner phones," prepaid mobile phones that are replaced frequently. Burner phones have been used to control costs, reduce contractual obligations, and provide a degree of privacy in mobile phone use. They have been used in popular culture by drug dealers on The Wire, spies on Burn Notice, and agents in Mission: Impossible. The company has stated it would comply with law enforcement requests but would require valid search warrants.

Usage examples of "burner".

Carved in this rock were two sets of alcoves: a high series containing the biogas burners, which provided the cells with what light and warmth they enjoyed, and, set twice as frequent, a lower series containing lengths of chain, firmly stapled into place.

I was pouring something from one test-tube to another, and West was busy over the alcohol blast-lamp which had to answer for a Bunsen burner in this gasless edifice, when from the pitch-black room we had left there burst the most appalling and demoniac succession of cries that either of us had ever heard.

I was pouring something from one test-tube to another, and West was busy over the alcohol blast-lamp which had to answer for a Bunsen burner in this gasless edifice, when from the pitch-black room we had left there burst the most appalling and daemoniac succession of cries that either of us had ever heard.

Nick De Profundis, the company lounge lizard, has surprised everybody by changing, inside the phone booth of factory spaces here, to an energetic businessman, selling A4 souvenirs: small items that can be worked into keychains, money clips or a scatter-pin for that special gal back home, burner cups of brass off the combustion chambers, ball bearings from the servos, and this week the hep item seems to be SA 100 acorn diodes, cute little mixing valves looted out of the Tele-funken units, and the even rarer SA 102s, which of course fetch a higher price.

She repeats the procedure with a rock taken from the uninoculated control jar and then, as a precaution, takes tiny chips from several of the other inoculated cubes of rock, inserts them into a glass straw under carbon dioxide, and seals the straw by melting its ends in a Bunsen burner flame.

As the Metron Burner soared through hyper- space, Leeper made an adjustment to the nav computer.

Just then, Bama and Leeper stepped down from the Metron Burner and approached the hangar.

She was appalled, good Strong Legger that she was, burner of crafts and carvings, suppressor of arts that harmed no one.

There was a bowl of potato salad in the refrigerator, a big pot of newly picked butter beans on the spare burner, and Maidie set Cletus to slicing a half-dozen fresh-off-the-vine tomatoes while she got out her bread tray.

The kids squat in a semicircle and stare at me while Marag helps his wife pump a little white gas burner to hissing flame.

But it might be a burner, a frag, a high-ex, a shrap, a stun or a smoke.

The next three days Gareth Swales spent at the harbour, drinking tea and whisky in the office of the harbour master, riding out with the pilot to meet every new vessel as it crossed the bar, jogging in a ricksha along the wharf to speak with the skippers of dhows and Tuggers, rusty old coal-burners and neater, newer oil, burners, or rowing about the harbour in a hired ferry to hail the vessels that lay at anchor in the roads.

Anthracite is practically smokeless, and was satisfactory to home owners, but they could not get anthracite during the strike, and when the oil burner was installed there was no point in going back to coal.

UFOnaut technology has long since abandoned hydromagnetic plasmas, thermonuclear reactions, gigawatt laser jets, or any other concept we know, along with the steam engine and the gas burner, and has probably gone beyond the next three big steps we will make in motive power, too.

Harry saw Bunsen burners, hydrometer jars, spiral tubes of glass, all leading to a metal cylinder that projected from a heavy wall bracket.