burner

Meanings

Plural: burners

Noun

• an apparatus for burning fuel (or refuse)
  • "a diesel engine is an oil burner"
• the heating elements of a stove or range on which pots and pans are placed for cooking
  • "the electric range had one large burner and three smaller one"
• Someone or something that burns.
• An element on a kitchen stove that generates localized heat for cooking.
• 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 allows data or music to be stored on a CDR or CD-ROM.
• Ellipsis of burner phone, a mobile phone used for only a short time and then thrown away so that the owner cannot be traced.
• An app that creates temporary phone numbers for a user.
• Ellipsis of burner account.
• An elaborate piece of graffiti.
• A pyrotechnic tear gas canister.
• A gun.
• Ellipsis of coal burner (“a nonblack person, usually a woman, who has sexual relationships with black people, usually men”).
• Alternative letter-case form of Burner (“participant in Burning Man”).

Synonyms

ring