English Dictionary

burner

/ˈbɜːnə/

noun

Someone or something which burns. / An element on a kitchen stove that generates localized heat for cooking. / (chemistry) A device that generates localized heat for experiments; a Bunsen burner.

The burner on the stove is not working.

意味（1）

Someone or something which burns.

意味（2）

An element on a kitchen stove that generates localized heat for cooking.

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

意味（3）

(chemistry) A device that generates localized heat for experiments; a Bunsen burner.

意味（4）

A device that burns fuel; e.g. a diesel engine; a hot-air balloon's propulsion system.

意味（5）

A device for burning refuse; an incinerator.

意味（6）

(computing) A device that allows data or music to be stored on a CDR or CD-ROM.

意味（7）

(slang) Ellipsis of burner phone; a mobile phone used for only a short time and then thrown away so that the owner cannot be traced.

No one on the corner has swagger like us / Hit me on my burner prepaid wireless

意味（8）

(computing) An app that creates temporary phone numbers for a user.

意味（9）

(Internet, slang) Ellipsis of burner account.

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.

意味（10）

(slang) An elaborate piece of graffiti.

[…] we were doing productions, burners like 100 feet long and as tall as we could get, standing on people's shoulders, […]

意味（11）

(slang) A pyrotechnic tear gas canister.

意味（12）

(slang) A gun.

意味（13）

(slang) Ellipsis of coal burner.

意味（14）

Alternative letter-case form of Burner (“participant in Burning Man”).

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”.