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burner en · NOUN

Pronunciation

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/ˈbɝnɚ/ (General-American)
/ˈbɜːnə/ (Received-Pronunciation)

Etymology

From burn + -er. Merged with and eclipsed related Middle English brennar, brennere (“an incendiary, incinerator”). Compare German Brenner (“burner”), Swedish brännare (“burner”).

Meanings

Someone or something that physically burns or causes something else to burn. ▸ 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" 1975, Bob Dylan, “Tangled Up in Blue”, in Blood on the Tracks:
Someone or something that physically burns or causes something else to burn. ▸ A device that generates localized heat for experiments; a Bunsen burner.
Someone or something that physically burns or causes something else to burn. ▸ A device that burns fuel; e.g. a diesel engine; a hot-air balloon's propulsion system.
Someone or something that physically burns or causes something else to burn. ▸ 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.
(abbreviation, alt-of, ellipsis, 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.
alt of burner phone
- No one on the corner has swagger like us / Hit me on my burner prepaid wireless 2007, “Paper Planes”, in Kala, performed by M.I.A.:
An app that creates temporary phone numbers for a user.
(Internet, abbreviation, alt-of, ellipsis, slang) Ellipsis of burner account.
alt 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. 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:
(slang) 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, […] 2011, Adam Melnyk, Visual Orgasm: The Early Years of Canadian Graffiti, page 84:
- 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. 2011, Scape Martinez, Graff 2: Next Level Graffiti Techniques, page 124:
(slang) A pyrotechnic tear gas canister.
(slang) A handgun.
(abbreviation, alt-of, ellipsis, slang) Ellipsis of coal burner (“a nonblack person, usually a woman, who has sexual relationships with black people, usually men”).
alt of coal burner
(alt-of, slang) Alternative letter-case form of Burner (“participant in Burning Man”).
alt of Burner
- Tens of thousands of “burners” at the Burning Man festival have been told to stay in the camps, conserve food and water and are being blocked from leaving Nevada’s Black Rock desert after a slow-moving rainstorm turned the event into a mud bath. 2023 September 3, Edward Helmore, “Burning Man festival-goers trapped in desert as rain turns site to mud”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:
- 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”. 2016 September 5, Damien Gayle, “Luxury camp at Burning Man festival targeted by 'hooligans'”, in The Guardian:
- In Mississippi, Tom turned an encampment of do-gooder burners into an organization he dubbed Burners Without Borders. 2011, Steven T. Jones, The Tribes of Burning Man:

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Spelling	Features	Labels	Source
burners	Number=Plur		lexicographic

Translations (103)

pt gravador de CD (computing: device that records data or music to an optical disc) · id perekam (computing: device that records data or music to an optical disc) · de Kochfeld (element on a kitchen stove) · pl palnik (element on a kitchen stove) · cy llosgwr (device that burns fuel) · ru горе́лка (element on a kitchen stove) · de Bunsenbrenner (device that generates localized heat for experiments) · de Heizspirale (element on a kitchen stove) · fr feu (element on a kitchen stove) · hu rózsa (element on a kitchen stove) · sv brännare (computing: device that records data or music to an optical disc) · cy llosgydd (someone or something that burns) · de Herdplatte (element on a kitchen stove) · fi CD-poltin (computing: device that records data or music to an optical disc) · de Heizplatte (element on a kitchen stove) · haw pā kapuahi (element on a kitchen stove) · fi polttaja (someone or something that burns) · nl brander (computing: device that records data or music to an optical disc) · bg горелка (device that burns fuel) · fi poltin (device for burning refuse) · sl zapisovalnik (computing: device that records data or music to an optical disc) · es fogón (element on a kitchen stove) · fi poltin (device that generates localized heat for experiments) · es quemador (a hot-air balloon's propulsion system) · pl nagrywarka (computing: device that records data or music to an optical disc) · id pembakar (computing: device that records data or music to an optical disc) · ms perakam (computing: device that records data or music to an optical disc) · it fornello (element on a kitchen stove) · pt maçarico (device that generates localized heat for experiments) · de Flamme (element on a kitchen stove) · ru механи́зм для за́писи CD (computing: device that records data or music to an optical disc) · it bruciatore (device that generates localized heat for experiments) · it becco di Bunsen (device that generates localized heat for experiments) · ms penunu (device for burning refuse) · es fuego (element on a kitchen stove) · el μάτι (element on a kitchen stove) · bg горелка (device that generates localized heat for experiments) · pt bico de Bunsen (device that generates localized heat for experiments) · fi keittolevy (element on a kitchen stove) · es quemador (someone or something that burns) · de Brenner (someone or something that burns) · de Brenner (computing: device that records data or music to an optical disc) · fi poltin (element on a kitchen stove) · bg горелка (element on a kitchen stove) · hu égető (someone or something that burns) · de Verbrennungsofen (device for burning refuse) · pt queimador (someone or something that burns) · cmn 煤氣灶 /煤气灶 (element on a kitchen stove) · fi kaasupoltin (element on a kitchen stove) · cy llosgydd (device that generates localized heat for experiments) · fo fløgubrennari (computing: device that records data or music to an optical disc) · fi poltin (computing: device that records data or music to an optical disc) · de Brenner (device that burns fuel) · nb kokeplate (element on a kitchen stove) · sh pisač (computing: device that records data or music to an optical disc) · pt boca (element on a kitchen stove) · de Kochplatte (element on a kitchen stove) · fr brûleur (element on a kitchen stove) · pt maçarico (a hot-air balloon's propulsion system) · tr ocak gözü (element on a kitchen stove) · hu gázégő (element on a kitchen stove) · es hornillo (element on a kitchen stove) · de Brenner (device that generates localized heat for experiments) · es hornilla (element on a kitchen stove) · la cremator (someone or something that burns) · ru конфо́рка (element on a kitchen stove) · de CD-Brenner (computing: device that records data or music to an optical disc) · hu égő (someone or something that burns) · hu láng (element on a kitchen stove) · cmn 燃燒器 /燃烧器 (element on a kitchen stove) · sh snimač (computing: device that records data or music to an optical disc) · it fuoco (element on a kitchen stove) · ta அடுப்பு (computing: device that records data or music to an optical disc) · gd cearcall (element on a kitchen stove) · ta குறுந்தகடெழுதி (computing: device that records data or music to an optical disc) · hu Bunsen-égő (device that generates localized heat for experiments) · pdt Brenna (element on a kitchen stove) · es quemador (computing: device that records data or music to an optical disc) · tr sıcak plaka (element on a kitchen stove) · de Gasbrenner (device that burns fuel) · fi poltin (someone or something that burns) · es hornalla (element on a kitchen stove) · fo brennari (computing: device that records data or music to an optical disc) · hu gázrózsa (element on a kitchen stove) · fi poltin (device that burns fuel) · hu CD-író (computing: device that records data or music to an optical disc) · gl queimador (element on a kitchen stove) · ms penunu Bunsen (device that generates localized heat for experiments) · it inceneritore (device for burning refuse) · ms pembakar (device that burns fuel) · es incinerador (device for burning refuse) · cy llosgwr (someone or something that burns) · fr graveur (computing: device that records data or music to an optical disc) · ms pembakar (computing: device that records data or music to an optical disc) · es quemador (element on a kitchen stove) · ja バーナー (element on a kitchen stove) · pt queimador (device that generates localized heat for experiments) · es quemador (device that generates localized heat for experiments) · it masterizzatore (computing: device that records data or music to an optical disc) · pt queimador (a hot-air balloon's propulsion system) · es grabador de CD (computing: device that records data or music to an optical disc) · hu égő (element on a kitchen stove) · mi hatete (device that burns fuel)

wikidata: Q1574963

burner en · NOUN

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