burner
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbɜːnə/
ipa: /ˈbɝnɚ/
rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)nə(ɹ)
Forms: form: burners
Etymology: From burn + -er. Merged with and eclipsed related Middle English brennar, brennere (“an incendiary, incinerator”). Compare German Brenner (“burner”), Swedish brännare (“burner”).
Senses: glosses: Someone or something that burns.
examples: text: 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"
ref: 1975, Bob Dylan, “Tangled Up in Blue”, in Blood on the Tracks:
synonyms: ring
glosses: An element on a kitchen stove that generates localized heat for cooking.
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A device that generates localized heat for experiments; a Bunsen burner.
glosses: A device that burns fuel; e.g. a diesel engine; a hot-air balloon's propulsion system.
glosses: A device for burning refuse; an incinerator.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A device that allows data or music to be stored on a CDR or CD-ROM.
examples: text: No one on the corner has swagger like us / Hit me on my burner prepaid wireless
ref: 2007, “Paper Planes”, in Kala, performed by M.I.A.:
glosses: Ellipsis of burner phone, a mobile phone used for only a short time and then thrown away so that the owner cannot be traced.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: An app that creates temporary phone numbers for a user.
examples: text: 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.
ref: 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:
glosses: Ellipsis of burner account.
examples: text: […] we were doing productions, burners like 100 feet long and as tall as we could get, standing on people's shoulders, […]
ref: 2011, Adam Melnyk, Visual Orgasm: The Early Years of Canadian Graffiti, page 84:
text: 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.
ref: 2011, Scape Martinez, Graff 2: Next Level Graffiti Techniques, page 124:
glosses: An elaborate piece of graffiti.
glosses: A pyrotechnic tear gas canister.
glosses: A gun.
glosses: Ellipsis of coal burner (“a nonblack person, usually a woman, who has sexual relationships with black people, usually men”).
examples: text: In Mississippi, Tom turned an encampment of do-gooder burners into an organization he dubbed Burners Without Borders.
ref: 2011, Steven T. Jones, The Tribes of Burning Man:
text: 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”.
ref: 2016 September 5, Damien Gayle, “Luxury camp at Burning Man festival targeted by 'hooligans'”, in The Guardian:
text: 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.
ref: 2023 September 3, Edward Helmore, “Burning Man festival-goers trapped in desert as rain turns site to mud”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:
glosses: Alternative letter-case form of Burner (“participant in Burning Man”).
Derived terms: after-burner
afterburner
alcohol burner
Argand burner
backburner
back-burner
barn burner
barnburner
base-burner
baseburner
Blu-ray burner
book-burner
bra burner
Bude burner
burnerless
CD burner
charcoal burner
coal burner
dinosaur-burner
DVD burner
fishtail burner
flash burner
front burner
gas burner
hellburner
hyperburner
incense 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
triple burner
Welsbach burner
wood burner
worm burner