burner
UK/ˈbɜːnə/US/ˈbɝnɚ/
burner noun: an element on a kitchen stove, hob, or cooktop that generates localized heat for cooking. Also the ellipsis of burner phone.
Noun (1)
burner (plural burners)
- 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
- 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.
- A device that records data or music to an optical disc, such as a CD-R or DVD-RW.
- An app that creates temporary phone numbers for a user.
- 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
- A pyrotechnic tear gas canister.
- A handgun.
Noun (2) capitalized: Burner
Burner (plural Burners)
- A participant in the Burning Man festival.
Also used as
burner is also the ellipsis of burner phone.
burner is also the ellipsis of burner account.
burner is also the ellipsis of coal burner.
burner is also the alternative letter-case form of Burner.
burner meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Marathi and Urdu
burner in Hindi
- बर्नर, जलाने वाला, जलानेवाला
burner in Tamil
- computing: device that records data or music to an optical disc
- அடுப்பு aṭuppu, குறுந்தகடெழுதி kuṟuntakaṭeḻuti
burner in Marathi
- बर्नर
burner in Urdu
- برنر, جلانے والا
More languagesFewer languages
- burner in Bengali
- বার্নার
- burner in Malayalam
- ബർണർ
- burner in Kannada
- ಬರ್ನರ್
- burner in Punjabi
- ਬਰਨਰ, ਜਲਣ ਕਰਨ ਵਾਲਾ
- burner in Gujarati
- બર્નર
- burner in Odia
- ବର୍ଣ୍ଣର୍, ବର୍ନର
- burner in Nepali
- बर्नर
- burner in Malay
- penunu Bunsen, pembakar, penunu, perakam
- burner in Indonesian
- pembakar, perekam
Examples of burner in a sentence
- That project is on the back burner until we deal with higher priorities.
- The balloon was equipped with a burner to create hot air for lift.
- Here in Canada very few people gather charcoal burners for food, as it is tricky to identify.
Synonyms of burner
Forms of burner
| plural | burners |
|---|---|
| plural | Burners |
| alternative form | burner |
Origin of burner
From burn + -er. Merged with and eclipsed related Middle English brennar, brennere (“an incendiary, incinerator”). Compare German Brenner (“burner”), Swedish brännare (“burner”).
Words formed from burner
- afterburner
- after-burner
- alcohol burner
- Argand burner
- back-burner
- backburner
- barn burner
- barnburner
- base-burner
- baseburner
- beehive burner
- Blu-ray burner
- book-burner
- bra burner
- bridge-burner
- Bude burner
- burnerless
- CD burner
- charcoal burner
- coal burner
- dinosaur-burner
- DVD burner
- fishtail burner
- flash burner
- front burner
- gas burner
- hairburner
- hellburner
- hyperburner
- incense burner
- induction burner
- log burner
- log-burner
- Meker burner
- Meker-Fisher burner
- mortgage burner
- oat-burner
- oat burner
- oil burner
- oil burner route
- on the back burner
- pilot burner
- preburner
- rice burner
- rickburner
- roadburner
- rose burner
- rosette burner
- slow burner
- sun-burner
- tart burner
- Teclu burner
- teepee burner
- triple burner
- Welsbach burner
- wigwam burner
- wood burner
- worm burner
Phrases with burner
Words that rhyme with burner
Questions about burner
- What does burner mean?
- Burner means an element on a kitchen stove, hob, or cooktop that generates localized heat for cooking.
- What is burner in Hindi?
- Burner in Hindi is बर्नर, जलाने वाला, जलानेवाला. See Burner meaning in Hindi.
- What part of speech is burner?
- Burner is a noun.
- How do you pronounce burner?
- Burner is pronounced /ˈbɜːnə/ (UK).
- What is the plural of burner?
- The plural of burner is burners.
Words near burner in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: burner (page history and authors); Burner (page history and authors); burner (Hindi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); burner (Marathi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); burner (Urdu, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); burner (Bengali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); burner (Malayalam, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); burner (Kannada, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); burner (Punjabi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); burner (Gujarati, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); burner (Odia, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); burner (Nepali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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