3 definitions found
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
burner
noun
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"
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Burner \Burn"er\, noun
1. One who, or that which, burns or sets fire to anything.
2. The part of a lamp, gas fixture, etc., where the flame is
produced.
{Bunsen's burner} (Chem.), see {Bunsen burner}.
{Argand burner}, {Rose burner}, etc. See under {Argand},
{Rose}, etc.
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
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
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