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Wordnet 3.0

NOUN (2)

1. an apparatus for burning fuel (or refuse);
- Example: "a diesel engine is an oil burner"

2. the heating elements of a stove or range on which pots and pans are placed for cooking;
- Example: "the electric range had one large burner and three smaller one"


The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Burner \Burn"er\, n. 1. One who, or that which, burns or sets fire to anything. [1913 Webster] 2. The part of a lamp, gas fixture, etc., where the flame is produced. [1913 Webster] Bunsen's burner (Chem.), see Bunsen burner. Argand burner, Rose burner, etc. See under Argand, Rose, etc. [1913 Webster]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

burner n 1: an apparatus for burning fuel (or refuse); "a diesel engine is an oil burner" 2: 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"
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:

52 Moby Thesaurus words for "burner": Argand burner, acetylene welder, annihilator, arsonist, biblioclast, blast lamp, blowpipe, blowtorch, bomber, burning ghat, caliduct, cinerator, cooker, cookery, cremator, crematorium, crematory, demolisher, destroyer, dynamitard, dynamiter, element, exterminator, furnace, gas burner, gas jet, gas mantle, heater, heating duct, hun, iconoclast, idol breaker, idoloclast, incandescent mantle, incinerator, jet, mantle, nihilist, pilot light, ruiner, steam pipe, stove, syndicalist, terrorist, tewel, torch, tuyere, vandal, warmer, welder, welding blowpipe, wrecker