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noun

burner

an apparatus for burning fuel (or refuse)

In a sentence

Six example sentences with burner, each labelled with its topic.

  • Move the pan to the back burner and let the sauce tick along at a bare simmer for an hour.

    Cooking

  • The lab technician lit the burner, adjusted the collar until the flame turned blue, and set the flask above it.

    Science

  • Every campsite stove has a single burner, so dinner means one pot of noodles and a kettle afterward.

    Travel

  • The furnace's burner mixes gas and air before ignition, and a dirty nozzle throws a yellow flame instead of a blue one.

    Technology

  • The Argand burner of 1780 fed air through a hollow wick and gave ten times the light of a single candle.

    History

  • The incinerator's main burner runs at eight hundred degrees so the plastic in household refuse breaks down completely.

    Environment

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