plural burners
1
: one that burns: such as
a
: the part of a fuel-burning or heat-producing device (such as a furnace or stove) where the flame or heat is produced
b
: a device for recording data on an optical disk
2
: an athlete who possesses great speed
3
: burner phone
… I leaned over and checked the glove box. There were two cell phones in there, both pre-paid burners with a set number of pre-paid minutes, both still in their drugstore packaging, effectively untraceable if bought with cash …—
Lee Child
Lee Child4
medical
: stinger sense 4
He missed two games late in the season because of what athletic trainers call "cervical burners," a fairly appropriate description of the pain that would originate in Wadsworth's neck and shoot down his body.—Emily Dorman
Emily Dormansee also burner account
Examples of burner in a Sentence
The burner on the furnace isn't working.
The computer comes equipped with a CD burner.
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Burner: Coleman grills have between one and three adjustable burners, all in a horseshoe shape for balancing heat across the grill’s surface.
—Bestreviews, Mercury News, 3 Apr. 2025
With Aaron Judge hitting second, the Yankees don’t need a speed burner hitting ahead of him — not that the Yankees really have one anyway, other than perhaps Anthony Volpe who didn’t fare that well in the top spot last year.
—Bill Madden, New York Daily News, 29 Mar. 2025
But years before that, with the 1998 launch of the original Half-Life, Valve cofounder and then-CMO Monica Harrington said she was inspired to take DRM more seriously by her nephew's reaction to the purchase of a new CD-ROM burner.
—Ars Technica, 24 Mar. 2025
Another burner, Nori is sublime athlete who looks cut from marble.
—Anthony Stitt, Forbes, 28 Feb. 2025
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Bestreviews, Mercury News, 3 Apr. 2025
With Aaron Judge hitting second, the Yankees don’t need a speed burner hitting ahead of him — not that the Yankees really have one anyway, other than perhaps Anthony Volpe who didn’t fare that well in the top spot last year.
—Bill Madden, New York Daily News, 29 Mar. 2025
But years before that, with the 1998 launch of the original Half-Life, Valve cofounder and then-CMO Monica Harrington said she was inspired to take DRM more seriously by her nephew's reaction to the purchase of a new CD-ROM burner.
—Ars Technica, 24 Mar. 2025
Another burner, Nori is sublime athlete who looks cut from marble.
—Anthony Stitt, Forbes, 28 Feb. 2025
See All Example Sentences for burner
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“Burner.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/burner. Accessed 16 Apr. 2025.
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burner
noun
burn·er
ˈbər-nər 
: one that burns: as
a
: the part of a fuel-burning or heat-producing device (as a furnace or stove) where a flame or heat is produced
b
: a device for recording data on an optical disk
Medical Definition
burner
noun
burn·er
ˈbər-nər
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