Burner

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. isim An element on a kitchen stove, hob, or cooktop 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"”

2. isim A device that generates localized heat for experiments; a Bunsen burner.
3. isim A device that burns fuel; e.g. a diesel engine; a hot-air balloon's propulsion system.
4. isim A device for burning refuse; an incinerator.
5. isim A device that records data or music to an optical disc, such as a CD-R or DVD-RW.
6. isim Ellipsis of burner phone, a mobile phone used for only a short time and then thrown away so that the owner cannot be traced.

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

7. isim An app that creates temporary phone numbers for a user.
8. isim Ellipsis of burner account.

   “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.”

9. isim An elaborate piece of graffiti.

   “[…] we were doing productions, burners like 100 feet long and as tall as we could get, standing on people's shoulders, […]”

10. isim A pyrotechnic tear gas canister.
11. isim A gun.
12. isim Ellipsis of coal burner (“a nonblack person, usually a woman, who has sexual relationships with black people, usually men”).
13. isim Alternative letter-case form of Burner (“participant in Burning Man”).

    “In Mississippi, Tom turned an encampment of do-gooder burners into an organization he dubbed Burners Without Borders.”

14. isim A participant in the Burning Man festival.