burn
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: bûn
ipa: /bɜːn/
ipa: /bɔːn/
enpr: bûrn
ipa: /bɝn/
homophone: Bern
rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)n
Forms: form: burns
form: born
Etymology: From Middle English bernen (collateral form of brennen), from Old English birnan (“to burn”), metathesis from Proto-West Germanic *brinnan, from Proto-Germanic *brinnaną (“to burn”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰrenw-, present stem from *bʰrewh₁-. Doublet of brew.
Cognate with Cimbrian prönnan (“to burn”), Dutch barnen, branden (“to burn”), German brinnen (“to burn”), Luxembourgish brennen (“to burn”), Vilamovian brīn (“to burn”), Yiddish ברענען (brenen, “to burn”), Danish brænde (“to burn”), Faroese, Icelandic brenna (“to burn”), Norwegian Bokmål brenne (“to burn”), Norwegian Nynorsk brenna, brenne (“to burn”), Swedish brinna (“to burn”), Gothic 𐌱𐍂𐌹𐌽𐌽𐌰𐌽 (brinnan, “to burn”). See also Middle Irish brennim (“drink up”), bruinnim (“bubble up”); also Middle Irish bréo (“flame”), Albanian burth (“Cyclamen hederifolium, mouth burning”), Sanskrit भुरति (bhurati, “moves quickly, twitches, fidgets”). More at brew.
Senses: examples: text: She had second-degree burns from falling in the bonfire.
text: He burnt his hand in the fire.
glosses: A physical injury caused by heat, cold, electricity, radiation or caustic chemicals.
examples: text: chili burn from eating hot peppers
glosses: A sensation resembling such an injury.
examples: text: They’re doing a controlled burn of the fields.
text: One typical Grecian kiln engorged one thousand muleloads of juniper wood in a single burn.
ref: 2006, Edwin Black, chapter 2, in Internal Combustion:
glosses: The act of burning something with fire.
glosses: An intense non-physical sting, as left by shame or an effective insult.
glosses: An effective insult, often in the expression sick burn (excellent or badass insult).
examples: text: One and, two and, keep moving; feel the burn!
glosses: Physical sensation in the muscles following strenuous exercise, caused by build-up of lactic acid.
examples: text: TOM: I’m serious bruv. Put my burn and lighter and all that in my jeans please and give them here, then press the cell bell.
ref: 2002, Tom Wickham, “A Day In The Wrong Life”, in Julian Broadhead, Laura Kerr, editors, Prison Writing, 16th edition, Waterside Press, →ISBN, page 26:
text: “Any of you want to borrow some burn,” asked a scarred inmate known as Bull.
ref: 2006, S. Drake, A Cry for Help, Chipmunkapublishing ltd, →ISBN, Chapter 7, page 94:
text: It was like no one was looking out for me, and the older kids used to take the piss ...they were always threatening me and taking my burn [tobacco][…]
ref: 2006, Peter Squires, editor, Community Safety: Critical Perspectives on Policy and Practice, Policy Press, →ISBN, page 23:
text: As the prison week ended and the less careful inmates began to run out of burn they went through a peculiar begging ritual that I, never one to husband resources either, was quick to learn.
ref: 2010, Stephen Fry, The Fry Chronicles:
glosses: Tobacco.
examples: text: Allow additional burns enables you to create a multisession CD, which can be used again to write more data.
ref: 2003, Maria Langer, Mac OS X 10.2 Advanced, page 248:
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: The writing of data to a permanent storage medium like a compact disc or a ROM chip.
examples: text: They have a good burn.
glosses: The operation or result of burning or baking, as in brickmaking.
glosses: A disease in vegetables; brand.
examples: text: On 4 March 1999, the MCO performed its second course correction manoeuvre with a burn involving its four thrusters […]
ref: 2004, David Baker, Jane's Space Directory, page 529:
topics: aerospace
business
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: The firing of a spacecraft's rockets in order to change its course.
Derived terms: sense: Terms derived from burn (noun)
word: afterburn
sense: Terms derived from burn (noun)
word: back-burn
sense: Terms derived from burn (noun)
word: back burn
sense: Terms derived from burn (noun)
word: backburn
sense: Terms derived from burn (noun)
word: beard burn
sense: Terms derived from burn (noun)
word: burger burn
sense: Terms derived from burn (noun)
word: burn bag
sense: Terms derived from burn (noun)
word: burn-baited
sense: Terms derived from burn (noun)
word: burn barrel
sense: Terms derived from burn (noun)
word: burn-beat
sense: Terms derived from burn (noun)
word: burn building
sense: Terms derived from burn (noun)
word: burn center
sense: Terms derived from burn (noun)
word: burn-clearing
sense: Terms derived from burn (noun)
word: burnie
sense: Terms derived from burn (noun)
word: burn-in
sense: Terms derived from burn (noun)
word: burnlike
sense: Terms derived from burn (noun)
word: burn notice
sense: Terms derived from burn (noun)
word: burn-out
sense: Terms derived from burn (noun)
word: burnover
sense: Terms derived from burn (noun)
word: burn pavement
sense: Terms derived from burn (noun)
word: burn phone
sense: Terms derived from burn (noun)
word: burn pit
sense: Terms derived from burn (noun)
word: burnproof
sense: Terms derived from burn (noun)
word: burn rate
sense: Terms derived from burn (noun)
word: burn time
sense: Terms derived from burn (noun)
word: burn unit
sense: Terms derived from burn (noun)
word: burnup
sense: Terms derived from burn (noun)
word: burny
sense: Terms derived from burn (noun)
word: carpet burn
sense: Terms derived from burn (noun)
word: chemical burn
sense: Terms derived from burn (noun)
word: Chinese burn
sense: Terms derived from burn (noun)
word: churn and burn
sense: Terms derived from burn (noun)
word: cigarette burn
sense: Terms derived from burn (noun)
word: controlled burn
sense: Terms derived from burn (noun)
word: cool burn
sense: Terms derived from burn (noun)
word: cryoburn
sense: Terms derived from burn (noun)
word: dad burn
sense: Terms derived from burn (noun)
word: deorbit burn
sense: Terms derived from burn (noun)
word: do a slow burn
sense: Terms derived from burn (noun)
word: feel the burn
sense: Terms derived from burn (noun)
word: first-degree burn
sense: Terms derived from burn (noun)
word: fourth-degree burn
sense: Terms derived from burn (noun)
word: freeburn
sense: Terms derived from burn (noun)
word: freezer burn
sense: Terms derived from burn (noun)
word: friction burn
sense: Terms derived from burn (noun)
word: frostburn
sense: Terms derived from burn (noun)
word: frost burn
sense: Terms derived from burn (noun)
word: full-burn
sense: Terms derived from burn (noun)
word: hazard reduction burn
sense: Terms derived from burn (noun)
word: heartburn
sense: Terms derived from burn (noun)
word: heart-burn
sense: Terms derived from burn (noun)
word: ice burn
sense: Terms derived from burn (noun)
word: Indian burn
sense: Terms derived from burn (noun)
word: lean burn
sense: Terms derived from burn (noun)
word: lean-burn
sense: Terms derived from burn (noun)
word: limeburner
sense: Terms derived from burn (noun)
word: millipede burn
sense: Terms derived from burn (noun)
word: moonburn
sense: Terms derived from burn (noun)
word: moorburn
sense: Terms derived from burn (noun)
word: mowburn
sense: Terms derived from burn (noun)
word: nonburn
sense: Terms derived from burn (noun)
word: noseburn
sense: Terms derived from burn (noun)
word: outburn
sense: Terms derived from burn (noun)
word: overburn
sense: Terms derived from burn (noun)
word: postburn
sense: Terms derived from burn (noun)
word: powder-burn
sense: Terms derived from burn (noun)
word: powder burn
sense: Terms derived from burn (noun)
word: preburn
sense: Terms derived from burn (noun)
word: prescribed burn
sense: Terms derived from burn (noun)
word: proof of burn
sense: Terms derived from burn (noun)
word: rainburn
sense: Terms derived from burn (noun)
word: raster burn
sense: Terms derived from burn (noun)
word: razor burn
sense: Terms derived from burn (noun)
word: road burn
sense: Terms derived from burn (noun)
word: rope burn
sense: Terms derived from burn (noun)
word: rugburn
sense: Terms derived from burn (noun)
word: screen burn
sense: Terms derived from burn (noun)
word: screenburn
sense: Terms derived from burn (noun)
word: second-degree burn
sense: Terms derived from burn (noun)
word: sick burn
sense: Terms derived from burn (noun)
word: sideburn
sense: Terms derived from burn (noun)
word: sideburns
sense: Terms derived from burn (noun)
word: slow burn
sense: Terms derived from burn (noun)
word: slow-burn
sense: Terms derived from burn (noun)
word: suicide burn
sense: Terms derived from burn (noun)
word: sunburn
sense: Terms derived from burn (noun)
word: third-degree burn
sense: Terms derived from burn (noun)
word: underburn
sense: Terms derived from burn (noun)
word: welder's burn
sense: Terms derived from burn (noun)
word: windburn