burner

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UK /ˈbɜːnə/ US /ˈbɝnɚ/

noun 6

Collocations

ADJ.

little, prepaid, removable, under, wireless

She bought a prepaid burner phone to keep her personal number private.

VERB + BURNER

back, came, gas, lit, turn, use

She turned the back burner down to simmer the sauce slowly.

BURNER + NOUN

algeria, data, stove, tea

She put the kettle on the stove burner while waiting for her tea to steep.

PREP.

after, from, in, off, on, on, with

She turned the heat off on the back burner when the sauce started to boil over.

Definitions

noun

Someone or something that burns.

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"

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

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

A device for burning refuse; an incinerator.

noun

A participant in the Burning Man festival.

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Idioms & Phrases

on the back burner

Not immediate; inactive; receiving or requiring less than full or regular attention.

That project is on the back burner until we deal with higher priorities.

oil burner

A heating device which burns fuel oil; an oil furnace.

on the front burner

Currently receiving attention.

[…] arms control was on the front burner. With the fall of the Berlin Wall and with other events in the Soviet Union, arms control has not been on the lips of many Senators or peop

Example Bank

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"

Wiktionary

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

Wiktionary

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.

Wiktionary

Put the teapot on the burner, otherwise the tea will be cold.

Tatoeba · #1742340

I think we're going to need to put this project on the back burner for a little while.

Tatoeba · #1955514

Tom put his career on the back burner and became a house husband, to enable Mary to pursue her career.

Tatoeba · #4472873

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