Difference between burn and burner
Definitions
verb
- execute by tying to a stake and setting alight
- feel strong emotion, especially anger or passion
- feel hot or painful
- shine intensely, as if with heat
- use up (energy)
noun
- damage inflicted by fire
- a place or area that has been burned (especially on a person's body)
- pain that feels hot as if it were on fire
- an injury caused by exposure to heat or chemicals or radiation
- a browning of the skin resulting from exposure to the rays of the sun
Examples
They could have been classed as ship-rigged sloops-of-war and were built by Thomas Fishburn in 1770 at Whitby.
Here we did everything but lift up the old-fashioned coal-burning Aga cooker, which must have weighed a couple of tons at least.
The AWPL, however, features eight-minute quarters providing 32 total minutes of game play and a little more lactic build-up, leg burn, and lung fatigue for the athletes.
Definitions
noun
- the heating elements of a stove or range on which pots and pans are placed for cooking
- an apparatus for burning fuel (or refuse)
Examples
The church was dedicated to St Anthony of Egypt, patron saint of swineherds and of charcoal burners, a trade carried out on the fell for many years in the past.
If you can manage financially, suggest plans are put on the back burner for at six months.
Browsing the shops is the main pastime: the stores offer rural knick-knacks and antiques as well as a fair amount of New Age wares such as quartz crystals, incense burners and Indian rugs.
