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US
/ˈbɝnɝ/
]
[ UK /bˈɜːnɐ/ ]
[ UK /bˈɜːnɐ/ ]
NOUN
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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 -
an apparatus for burning fuel (or refuse)
a diesel engine is an oil burner
How To Use burner In A Sentence
- 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. The Sun
- 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.
- Refrigerator, dual burner gas stove, sink, kitchen board and removable table, all these make a nice dinner available and enjoyable.
- Careful with that incense burner. Times, Sunday Times
- With electric cook tops, there are a number of new types of burners on the market: solid disk elements, radiant elements under glass, halogen elements, and induction elements.
- And in case you missed it--and in the traditional media's habit of going monotonal when things like Obama's speech happen, you can certainly be forgiven if you did--this past monday Darcy Burner unveiled the Responsible Plan to end the war in Iraq PDF. Archive 2008-03-01
- In the dark days of winter it is comforting to feel the warmth of crackling logs in an open fireplace or a wood burner. Times, Sunday Times
- All burners have automatic ignition and re-ignition.
- If you have an electric storage water heater in a tight space and want to convert it to gas, you can use an add-on burner for the electric tank.