BURNER

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does burner mean? 

• BURNER (noun)
  The noun BURNER has 2 senses:

1. an apparatus for burning fuel (or refuse)

2. the heating elements of a stove or range on which pots and pans are placed for cooking

  Familiarity information: BURNER used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• BURNER (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

An apparatus for burning fuel (or refuse)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Context example:

a diesel engine is an oil burner

Hypernyms ("burner" is a kind of...):

apparatus; setup (equipment designed to serve a specific function)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "burner"):

blowlamp; blowtorch; torch (a burner that mixes air and gas to produce a very hot flame)

gas bracket (a pipe with one or more burners projecting from a wall)

gas burner; gas jet (burner such that combustible gas issues from a nozzle to form a steady flame)

Derivation:

burn (cause to undergo combustion)

Sense 2

Meaning:

The heating elements of a stove or range on which pots and pans are placed for cooking

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Context example:

the electric range had one large burner and three smaller one

Hypernyms ("burner" is a kind of...):

heating element (the component of a heater or range that transforms fuel or electricity into heat)

 Context examples 

You will then see under a great beech-tree the hut of a charcoal-burner.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Those fat-burners had fewer stored carbohydrates to burn for energy, so their bodies more quickly transitioned to burning fat to fuel the exercise, according to the research.

(Exercise before Breakfast Burns More Fat, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

I've rented a little room out in North Oakland, retired neighborhood and all the rest, you know, and I've bought an oil-burner on which to cook.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

A large curved retort was boiling furiously in the bluish flame of a Bunsen burner, and the distilled drops were condensing into a two-litre measure.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Alleyne started off along the path indicated, and soon found the log-hut where the burner dwelt.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The oil-burner especially pleased her.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

Three dollars a week, an' four dollars a week, an' a young boy cookin' for himself on an oil-burner an' layin' up money, workin' all day an' studyin' all night, just workin' an' never playin', never havin' a good time, an' never learnin' how to have a good time—of course his thirty thousand came along too late.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

He was reading aloud when Maria thrust open the door and ushered in a young man in a natty suit who glanced briskly about him, noting the oil-burner and the kitchen in the corner before his gaze wandered on to Martin.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)