burner
UK /ˈbɜːnə/ · US /ˈbɝnɚ/ noun
Forms burners
- noun An element on a kitchen stove, hob, or cooktop that generates localized heat for cooking.
- noun (chemistry) A device that generates localized heat for experiments; a Bunsen burner.
- noun A device that burns fuel; e.g. a diesel engine; a hot-air balloon's propulsion system.
- noun A device for burning refuse; an incinerator.
- noun (computing) A device that records data or music to an optical disc, such as a CD-R or DVD-RW.
- noun (computing) An app that creates temporary phone numbers for a user.
- noun (slang) An elaborate piece of graffiti.
- noun (slang) A pyrotechnic tear gas canister.
- noun A participant in the Burning Man festival.
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Etymology
From burn + -er. Merged with and eclipsed related Middle English brennar, brennere (“an incendiary, incinerator”). Compare German Brenner (“burner”), Swedish brännare (“burner”).
Webster’s 1913
- noun One who, or that which, burns or sets fire to anything.
- noun The part of a lamp, gas fixture, etc., where the flame is produced. Bunsen's burner (Chem.), a kind of burner, invented by Professor Bunsen of Heidelberg, consisting of a straight tube, four or five inches in length, having small holes for the entrance of air at the bottom. Illuminating gas being also admitted at the bottom, a mixture of gas and air is formed which burns at the top with a feebly luminous but intensely hot flame.
Sources: Wiktionary · Webster’s 1913 — from the Wiktionary entry “burner”, CC BY-SA 4.0. Details