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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
sunburn
noun
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▪ His only injuries were sunburn, insect bites and chafing caused by spending more than 40 hours in his wetsuit.
▪ Many adults skin problems begin with childhood sunburn.
▪ Much worse is the link between serious sunburn and deadly skin cancer.
▪ Sun, sea, sand, surfing and yes, you've guessed it, sunburn!
▪ Tan slowly, avoid sunburn and use sun filter creams and lotions - lots and often.
▪ They have rubbed me all over with charcoal and lizard-grease to protect me from sunburn.
▪ Unexpectedly he suffered from sunburn, and had never used suntan lotion before.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Sunburn

Sunburn \Sun"burn`\, n. The burning or discoloration produced on the skin by the heat of the sun; tan.

Sunburn

Sunburn \Sun"burn`\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Sunburnedor Sunburnt; p. pr. & vb. n. Sunburning.] To burn or discolor by the sun; to tan.

Sunburnt and swarthy though she be.
--Dryden.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
sunburn

1520s, from sun (n.) + burn (v.). Sunburnt (c.1400) is older than sunburned (c.1500, sunne y-brent). As a noun from 1650s.

Wiktionary
sunburn

n. A burn on the skin caused by excess exposure to the sun's rays. vb. 1 (context intransitive English) To receive a sunburn. 2 (context transitive English) To burn or discolour by the sun; to tan.

WordNet
sunburn

v. get a sunburn by overexposure to the sun [syn: burn]

sunburn
  1. n. a browning of the skin resulting from exposure to the rays of the sun [syn: tan, suntan, burn]

  2. redness of the skin caused by exposure to the rays of the sun [syn: erythema solare]

Wikipedia
Sunburn (Fuel album)

Sunburn is the full-length debut album by the band Fuel released in 1998. It was produced by Steven Haigler. The songs "Shimmer", "Jesus or a Gun", and "Bittersweet" were released as singles. "Shimmer" peaked at #42 on the Billboard Hot 100.

Sunburn was certified Platinum (one million units sold) by the RIAA on May 24, 2000.

Sunburn (disambiguation)

Sunburn is a condition of the skin after overexposure to ultraviolet radiation.

Sunburn may also refer to:

  • Sun scald, the effects of ultraviolet radiation on the plant kingdom
  • SS-N-22 Sunburn, two Soviet anti-ship missiles
  • Sunburn (Blake Babies album), 1990
  • Sunburn (Sun album)
  • Sunburn (Fuel album), 1998
  • "Sunburn" (Fuel song), 1999
  • "Sunburn" (Muse song), 2000
  • Sunburn (Owl City song)
  • Sunburn, a 2004 album by Gordie Sampson
  • Sunburn (film), a 1979 film starring Farrah Fawcett
  • Sunburn (TV series), a BBC series starring Michelle Collins and Sean Maguire
  • Sunburn (Transformers), a fictional female Transformers character
  • Sunburn Festival, an electronic dance music festival held in Candolim Beach, Goa, India
Sunburn (film)

Sunburn is a 1979 British-American comedy film directed by Richard C. Sarafian and written by James Booth, John Daly and Stephen Oliver. It is based on the novel The Bind by Stanley Ellin. The film stars Farrah Fawcett, Charles Grodin, Art Carney, Joan Collins, William Daniels and John Hillerman. The film was released on August 10, 1979, by Paramount Pictures.

Sunburn (TV series)

Sunburn is a British television series that followed the lives of a group of British holiday reps. It was broadcast on BBC One between 16 January 1999 and 1 May 2000, running for two series of six and eight episodes respectively. The first was set and filmed in Cyprus and the second in Algarve. The cast included Michelle Collins, Rebecca Callard, Sharon Small, George Layton and Sean Maguire, with Paul Nicholas joining later. The series was created by Mike Bullen, who was interested in the behind-the-scenes lives of holiday reps after watching the docusoap Holiday Reps. Bullen wrote most of the first series but scaled back his involvement in the second; most of that series' episodes were written by Lizzie Mickery and Sally Wainwright.

The series has never been released on video or DVD.

Sunburn (Blake Babies album)

Sunburn is the third album by the Blake Babies, released in 1990 (see 1990 in music).

Sunburn (Fuel song)

"Sunburn" is Fuel's third single from the album Sunburn. It spent 9 weeks on the Billboard Alternative Songs chart in 1999, peaking at No. 31.

The album version of the song was featured on the Scream 3 movie soundtrack Scream 3: The Album. A live acoustic version was also featured on the charitable album Live in the X Lounge.

"Sunburn" was released as second track on a double A-side maxi single "Shimmer / Sunburn" in Australia on May 7, 1999. It spent 29 weeks on Australian charts, reaching No. 16 in August 1999.

Sunburn (Sun album)

'Sunburn ' is the third album by Dayton, Ohio funk band Sun.

Sunburn (1999 film)

Sunburn is a 1999 film directed by Nelson Hume. The film stars Cillian Murphy, Paloma Baeza, and Barry Ward. The film is about a group of young Irish people who spend the summer in the USA.

Sunburn

Sunburn is a form of radiation burn that affects living tissue, such as skin, that results from an overexposure to ultraviolet (UV) radiation, commonly from the sun. Common symptoms in humans and other animals include red or reddish skin that is hot to the touch, pain, general fatigue, and mild dizziness. An excess of UV radiation can be life-threatening in extreme cases. Exposure of the skin to lesser amounts of UV radiation will often produce a suntan.

Excessive UV radiation is the leading cause of primarily non-malignant skin tumors. Sunscreen is widely agreed to prevent sunburn and some types of skin cancer. Clothing, including hats, is considered the preferred skin protection method. Moderate sun tanning without burning can also prevent subsequent sunburn, as it increases the amount of melanin, a photoprotective pigment that is the skin's natural defense against overexposure. Importantly, both sunburn and the increase in melanin production are triggered by direct DNA damage. When the skin cells' DNA is overly damaged by UV radiation, type I cell-death is triggered and the skin is replaced.

Usage examples of "sunburn".

Mrs Palk had painted calamine on his sunburned legs, but they were very sore and tender, and although he tried to hide the pain he winced every time he took a step.

When he opened his eyes he saw Chara swimming towards him, the paleness of fright dulling the bronze of her sunburn.

I was suddenly conscious of the beat-up old dungarees and my hairy and sunburned nakedness from the waist up, and was a little burned at the same time because I was conscious of it.

He showed the same lesson to an orchardman from Goson, whose name was Korin, to the potter, Kosul, from his own group, and to a woman from the west, Maol, a farmwife who blushed redder than sunburn, but who understood what he wished to say.

He remembered, as if in an old legend, a sunburned California youth in a garish pachuco jacket, painting vans in a body shop.

Now his blue eyes looked bright and idealistic in his sunburned, ascetic face, as he climbed down to cover me with another one of those rustless belly-guns he seemed to have got a bushel of somewhere.

To the suited inhabitants of Samstead, sunburn was an alien affliction.

He turned and looked into the sunburned, battle-scarred face of a grizzled veteran, recognizing the man as the same vajra commander they had encountered on the cliff south of the Sarayu, just after they left the raj-marg.

Three or four of the men round the fire were evidently underkeepers and verderers from the forest, sunburned and bearded, with the quick restless eye and lithe movements of the deer among which they lived.

Bryan was in the wading pool, with his body covered up with soaking towels to preclude more sunburn.

He was a beefy, red-faced man in his mid-fifties, muscled where Hubert was merely fat, his sunburned hands scarred and callused from years of wielding a sword.

The father lay inert upon the white bed, Mr Massy looked queer and obliterated, so little now that the sailor with his sunburned skin was in the room.

At the same moment Sacheverell saw Phil and his sunburned top disappeared from the saucer as swiftly as a hand puppet jerked below stage.

The pain in withdrawal was the extreme feeling of anxiety that Ryan remembered wella raw, hypersensitive feeling, like a sunburned nervous systemwanting to either take a drink or go out the window.

The anger seemed to drop from him, and his face looked strained all at once, the dark sunburn looking almost sickly in the queer crosslights of the church.