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Webster's 1828 DictionaryBURN'ER, n. A person who burns or sets fire to any thing. WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)n Merriam Webster'snoun Date: 14th century Oxford Reference Dictionaryn. the part of a gas cooker, lamp, etc. that emits and shapes the flame. Phrases and idioms: on the back (or front) burner colloq. receiving little (or much) attention. Webster's 1913 DictionaryBurner Burn"er, n. 1. One who, or that which, burns or sets fire to anything. 2. 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. Argand burner, Rose burner, etc. See under Argand, Rose, etc. Collin's Cobuild Dictionary(burners) A burner is a device which produces heat or a flame, especially as part of a cooker, stove, or heater. He put the frying pan on the gas burner. N-COUNT see also back burner, front burner 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar TongueA clap. The blowen tipped the swell a burner; the girl gave the gentleman a clap. 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar TongueHe is no burner of navigable rivers; i.e. he is no conjuror, or man of extraordinary abilities; or rather, he is, but a simple fellow. See THAMES. Moby ThesaurusArgand burner, acetylene welder, annihilator, arsonist, biblioclast, blast lamp, blowpipe, blowtorch, bomber, burning ghat, caliduct, cinerator, cooker, cookery, cremator, crematorium, crematory, demolisher, destroyer, dynamitard, dynamiter, element, exterminator, furnace, gas burner, gas jet, gas mantle, heater, heating duct, hun, iconoclast, idol breaker, idoloclast, incandescent mantle, incinerator, jet, mantle, nihilist, pilot light, ruiner, steam pipe, stove, syndicalist, terrorist, tewel, torch, tuyere, vandal, warmer, welder, welding blowpipe, wrecker |