Word Finder - burns

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A physical injury caused by heat, cold, electricity, radiation or caustic chemicals.

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She had second-degree burns from falling in the bonfire.

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A sensation resembling such an injury.

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chili burn from eating hot peppers

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The act of burning something with fire.

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They're doing a controlled burn of the fields.

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An intense non-physical sting, as left by shame or an effective insult.

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An effective insult, often in the expression sick burn (excellent or badass insult).

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Physical sensation in the muscles following strenuous exercise, caused by build-up of lactic acid.

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One and, two and, keep moving; feel the burn!

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Tobacco.

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The writing of data to a permanent storage medium like a compact disc or a ROM chip.

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The operation or result of burning or baking, as in brickmaking.

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They have a good burn.

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A disease in vegetables; brand.

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To cause to be consumed by fire.

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He burned his manuscript in the fireplace.

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To be consumed by fire, or in flames.

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He watched the house burn.

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To overheat so as to make unusable.

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He burned the toast. The blacksmith burned the steel.

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To become overheated to the point of being unusable.

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The grill was too hot and the steak burned.

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To make or produce by the application of fire or burning heat.

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to burn a hole;  to burn letters into a block

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To injure (a person or animal) with heat or chemicals that produce similar damage.

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She burned the child with an iron, and was jailed for ten years.

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To cauterize.

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To sunburn.

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She forgot to put on sunscreen and burned.

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To consume, injure, or change the condition of, as if by action of fire or heat; to affect as fire or heat does.

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to burn the mouth with pepper

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To be hot, e.g. due to embarrassment.

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The child's forehead was burning with fever.  Her cheeks burned with shame.

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To cause to combine with oxygen or other active agent, with evolution of heat; to consume; to oxidize.

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A human being burns a certain amount of carbon at each respiration.  to burn iron in oxygen

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To combine energetically, with evolution of heat.

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Copper burns in chlorine.

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To write data to a permanent storage medium like a compact disc or a ROM chip.

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We’ll burn this program onto an EEPROM one hour before the demo begins.

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To betray.

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The informant burned him.

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To insult or defeat.

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I just burned you again.

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To waste (time); to waste money or other resources.

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The company has burned more than a million dollars a month this year.

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In certain games, to approach near to a concealed object which is sought.

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You're cold... warm... hot... you're burning!

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To accidentally touch a moving stone.

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In pontoon, to swap a pair of cards for another pair, or to deal a dead card.

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To increase the exposure for certain areas of a print in order to make them lighter (compare dodge).

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(of an element) To be converted to another element in a nuclear fusion reaction, especially in a star

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To discard.

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To shoot someone with a firearm.

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A stream.

It burns with a pale blue flame, forming sulphur dioxide and water.

This mixture burns with a green flame forming boron trioxide; whilst boron is deposited on passing the gas mixture through a hot tube, or on depressing a cold surface in the gas flame.

A mixture of carbon bisulphide vapour and nitric oxide burns with a very intense blue-coloured flame, which is very rich in the violet or actinic rays.

In front of Greyfriars church stands a marble statue of Burns, unveiled in 1882, and there is also a monument to Charles, third duke of Queensberry.

It burns with a pale blue flame to form carbon dioxide and sulphur dioxide.

The metal is quite permanent in dry air, but in moist air it becomes coated with a superficial layer of the oxide; it burns on heating to redness, forming a brown coloured oxide; and is readily soluble in mineral acids with formation of the corresponding salts.

St Michael's (1746), a stately pile, was the church which Robert Burns attended, and in its churchyard he was buried, his remains being transferred in 1815 to the magnificent mausoleum erected in the south-east corner, where also lie his wife, Jean Armour, and several members of his family.

Burns composed several prologues and epilogues for some of its actors and actresses.

The most interesting event in the history of Dumfries is its connexion with Burns, for the poet resided here from December 1791 till his death on the 21st of July 1796.

Potassium, when heated, burns in the vapour of carbon bisulphide, forming potassium sulphide and liberating carbon.

It burns with a white flame and is soluble in water.

He is the connecting-link between the greater "Makars" of the 5th and 16th centuries, and Fergusson (q.v.) and Burns.

Dumfries, Annan, Kirkcudbright, Lochmaben and Sanquharthe "Five Carlins" of Burns's Election Ballads - combine to return one member to Parliament.

Robert Burns, the poet, in a letter dated August 1784, describes the sect as idle and immoral.

The barley-corn has been personified as representing the malt liquor made from barley, as in Burns's song "John Barleycorn."

The arrests of Sims and of Shadrach in Boston in 1851; of "Jerry" M`Henry, in Syracuse, New York, in the same year; of Anthony Burns in 1854, in Boston; and of the two Garner families in 1856, in Cincinnati, with other cases arising under the Fugitive Slave Law of 1850, probably had as much to do with bringing on the Civil War as did the controversy over slavery in the Territories.

If the gas be mixed with the vapour of carbon disulphide, the mixture burns with a vivid lavender-coloured flame Nitric oxide is soluble in solutions of ferrous salts, a dark brown solution being formed, which is readily decomposed by heat, with evolution of nitric oxide.

John Thoreau, his father, who married the daughter of a New England clergyman, was the son of a John Thoreau of the isle of Jersey, who, in Boston, married a Scottish lady of the name of Burns.

Its library contains many important MSS., among them Burns's correspondence with George Thomson, and several cartularies including those of St Andrews and Brechin.

This step, which caused him to be ostracized for a time from the Boston circles in which he had been reared, brought him the cases of the fugitive slaves, Shadrach, Sims and Burns, and of the rescuers of Shadrach.

On the night following the surrender of Burns (May 1854) Dana was brutally assaulted on the Boston streets.

More popular than any of the preceding, and well known in England through Sir John Bowring's translation, are the charming lyrics of Alexander Petofi (q.v.), the " Burns " of Hungary.

He is the Magyarizer of Shakespeare's Anthony and Cleopatra, Othello, Macbeth, Henry VIII., Winter's Tale, Romeo and Juliet and Tempest, as also of some of the best pieces of Burns, Moore, Byron, Shelley, Milton, Beranger, Lamartine, Victor Hugo, Goethe and others.

This strain runs throughout many of the occasional poems, and is not wanting in odd passages in Dunbar's contemporaries; and it has the additional interest of showing a direct historical relationship with the work of later Scottish poets, and chiefly with that of Robert Burns.

The city has 95 acres of boulevards and avenues under park supervision and several fine parks (17, with 307 acres in 1907), notably Washington (containing Calverley's bronze statue of Robert Burns, and Rhind's "Moses at' the Rock of Horeb"), Beaver and Dudley, in which is the old Dudley Observatory - the present Observatory building is in Lake Avenue, south-west of Washington Park, where is also the Albany Hospital.

It burns when brought into contact with chlorine, forming silicon chloride and hydrochloric acid.

It burns with a pale-blue flame forming silicon fluoride, silicofluoric acid and silicic acid.

He had sixteen children, his son Patrick being the "auld Wodrow" of Burns's poem "Twa Herds."

Ayr proper lies on the south bank of the river, which is crossed by three bridges, besides the railway viaduct - the Victoria Bridge (erected in 1898) and the famous "Twa Brigs" of Burns.

The prophecy which Burns put into the mouth of the venerable structure came true in 1877, when the newer bridge yielded to floods and had to be rebuilt.

There are statues of Burns, the 13th earl of Eglinton, General Smith Neill and Sir William Wallace.

The "auld clay biggin" in which Robert Burns was born on the 25th of January 1759, has been completely repaired and is now the property of the Ayr Burns's Monument trustees.

Not far distant, on a conspicuous position close by the banks of the Doon, stands the Grecian monument to Burns, in the grounds of which is the grotto containing Thom's figures of Tam o' Shanter and Souter Johnnie.

In the last case it becomes coated with a greyish-black layer of an oxide (dioxide (?)), at a red heat the layer consists of the trioxide (B1203), and is yellow or green in the case of pure bismuth, and violet or blue if impure; at a bright red heat it burns with a bluish flame to the trioxide.

When heated in air, tellurium burns, forming the dioxide Te02.

It burns, and also, like sulphuretted hydrogen, precipitates many metals from solutions of their salts.

When heated in air the metal burns if in the form of thin wire, and is superficially oxidized if more compact.

It is unaffected by any acid or mixture of acids, but burns to the pentoxide when heated.

This class of c coal burns with a very small amount of flame, produc ing intense local heat and no smoke.

Fire-damp when mixed with from four to twelve times its volume of atmospheric air is explosive; but when the proportion is above or below these limits it burns quietly with a pale blue flame.

It is a silvery white metal which burns on heating in air.

With the gas in excess a heavy lurid flame emitting dense volumes of smoke results, whilst if it be driven out in a sufficiently thin sheet, it burns with a flame of intense brilliancy and almost perfect whiteness, by the light of which colours can be judged as well as they can by daylight.

It is probable that when a flame is smoking badly, distinct traces of carbon monoxide are being produced, but when an acetylene flame burns properly the products are as harmless as those of coal gas, and, light for light, less in amount.

Hydrogen gas readily burns in oxygen or air with the formation of water.

The powdery metal burns readily in air; the crystalline metal requires to be heated in an oxyhydrogen flame before it catches fire.

Dialogues is reprinted in the Quarterly Series (Burns & Oates).

On adjusting the gas so that it burns in a thin column, just not roaring, it is extraordinarily sensitive to some particular range of notes, going down and roaring when a note is sounded.

In addition to the statues in Juneau Park there is a statue of Kosciusko in the park of that name; one of Washington and a soldiers' monument on Grand Avenue; a statue of Henry Bergh in front of the city hall; one of Robert Burns in the First Ward Park, and, in Washington Park, a replica of Ernst Rietschel's Schiller-Goethe monument in Jena, given to the city in 1908 by the Germans of Milwaukee.

It is fed by the Gyle and numerous burns, and drained by the Achray to Loch Achray and thence by the Black Avon to Loch Vennacher.

It does not support combustion; and it does not burn readily unless mixed with oxygen, when it burns with a pale yellowish-green flame.