burner
See also: Burner
English
Etymology
From burn + -er.
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈbɜːnə/
- (General American) IPA(key): /ˈbɝnɚ/
Audio (AU) (file) - Rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)nə(ɹ)
Noun
burner (plural burners)
- Someone or something which burns.
- An element on a kitchen stove that generates localized heat for cooking.
- Synonym: (UK) ring
- Hyponym: back burner
- 1975, Bob Dylan (lyrics and music), “Tangled Up in Blue”, in Blood on the Tracks:
- 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"
- (chemistry) 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.
- (computing) A device that allows data or music to be stored on a CDR or CD-ROM.
- (slang) Ellipsis of burner phone; a mobile phone used for only a short time and then thrown away so that the owner cannot be traced.
- 2007, “Paper Planes”, in Kala, performed by M.I.A.:
- No one on the corner has swagger like us / Hit me on my burner prepaid wireless
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- (computing) An app that creates temporary phone numbers for a user.
- (Internet, slang) Ellipsis of burner account.
- 2021 June 8, Andy Martino, Cheated: The Inside Story of the Astros Scandal and a Colorful History of Sign Stealing, Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, →ISBN, LCCN 2020044984:
- 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.
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- (slang) An elaborate piece of graffiti.
- 2011, Adam Melnyk, Visual Orgasm: The Early Years of Canadian Graffiti, page 84:
- […] we were doing productions, burners like 100 feet long and as tall as we could get, standing on people's shoulders, […]
- 2011, Scape Martinez, Graff 2: Next Level Graffiti Techniques, page 124:
- There is a hierarchy of sorts: a throw-up can go over a tag, a piece over a throw-up, and a burner over a piece.
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- (slang) A pyrotechnic tear gas canister.
- (slang) A gun.
- (slang) Ellipsis of coal burner.
- Alternative letter-case form of Burner (“participant in Burning Man”).
- 2016 September 5, Damien Gayle, “Luxury camp at Burning Man festival targeted by 'hooligans'”, in The Guardian:
- White Ocean, co-founded by entrepreneurs Timur Sardarov, the son of a Russian oil magnate, and Oliver Ripley, and involving the trance DJ Paul Oakenfold, is viewed as one such camp, although it provides one of Burning Man’s biggest stages and claims to “feed hundreds of non-White Ocean burners a day”.
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Derived terms
- after-burner
- back-burner
- barn burner
- base-burner
- Blu-ray burner
- book-burner
- bra burner
- Bude burner
- CD burner
- charcoal burner
- dinosaur-burner
- DVD burner
- flash burner
- gas burner
- log burner
- log-burner
- Meker burner
- Meker-Fisher burner
- oat burner
- oat-burner
- oil burner
- oil burner route
- on the back burner
- pilot burner
- rice burner
- rose burner
- rosette burner
- sun-burner
- tart burner
- Teclu burner
- triple burner
- Welsbach burner
- wood burner
- worm burner
Descendants
- → Japanese: バーナー (bānā)
Translations
someone or something that burns
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element on a kitchen stove
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device that generates localized heat for experiments
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device that burns fuel
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a hot-air balloon's propulsion system
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device for burning refuse
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computing: device that allows data or music to be stored on a CD
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A mobile phone used for only a short time and then thrown away so that the owner cannot be traced — see burn phone
Anagrams
- Bruner, reburn