burner
Someone or something that physically burns or causes something else to burn.
Other meanings
An element on a kitchen stove, hob or cooktop that generates localized heat for cooking.
A device that generates localized heat for experiments; a Bunsen burner.
A kind of
- apparatus
Kinds of burner
- torch
- gas burner
Related words
- alcohol burner
- bridge-burner
- afterburner
- backburner
- barnburner
- baseburner
- burnerless
- hellburner
- hyperburner
- preburner
- rickburner
- roadburner
Word history
From Middle English "brennar".
Where this comes from
This definition is adapted from “burner” on Wiktionary, by its contributors; related-word lists use Open English WordNet (CC BY 4.0, based on Princeton WordNet), published under CC BY-SA 4.0. This page is published under the same licence.