burn

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Contents 1 English 1.1 Pronunciation 1.2 Etymology 1 1.2.1 Noun 1.2.1.1 Derived terms 1.2.1.2 Translations 1.2.2 Verb 1.2.2.1 Derived terms 1.2.2.2 Translations 1.3 Etymology 2 1.3.1 Noun 1.3.1.1 Related terms 1.3.1.2 Translations 1.4 References 2 Scots 2.1 Noun

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• enPR: bû(r)n, IPA: /bɜː(r)n/, SAMPA: /b3:(r)n/
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  Rhymes: -ɜː(r)n

• Homophones: Bern

[edit] Etymology 1

From Old English birnan, beornan and Old Norse brenna (“‘to burn, light’”).

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burn (plural burns)

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

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

2. The act of burning something.

   They’re doing a controlled burn of the fields.

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

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

4. (slang) An intense non-physical sting, as left by an effective insult.

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to burn (third-person singular simple present burns, present participle burning, simple past and past participle burned or burnt (mostly UK))

1. (intransitive) To be consumed by fire, or at least in flames.

   He watched the house burn.

2. (intransitive) To become overheated so as to make unusable.

   The grill was too hot and the steak was burned.

3. (intransitive) To feel hot, e.g. due to embarrassment.

   Her cheeks burned with shame.

4. (intransitive) To sunburn.

   She forgot to put on sunscreen and burned.

5. (intransitive, curling) To accidentally touch a moving stone.
6. (transitive, ergative) To cause to be consumed by fire.

   He burned his manuscript in the fireplace.

7. (transitive, ergative) To overheat so as to make unusable.

   He burned the toast.

8. (transitive) To injure (a person or animal) with heat or caustic chemicals.

   She burned the child with an iron, and was put in jail for ten years.

9. (transitive, slang) To betray.

   The informant burned him.

10. (transitive, computing) To write data to a permanent storage medium like a compact disc or a ROM chip.

    We’ll burn this program onto an E-PROM one hour before the demo begins.

11. (transitive) To waste (time).

    We have an hour to burn.

12. (transitive, slang) To insult or defeat.

    I just burned you again.

13. (transitive, card games) In pontoon, to swap a pair of cards for another pair. Also to deal a dead card.

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[edit] Etymology 2

From Old English burna, burne (“‘spring, fountain’”), from Proto-Germanic *brunnoz. Cognate with Dutch born, German Born.

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burn (plural burns)

1. (Scottish, Northern England, Geordie) A stream.

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• bourn

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• “burn” in the Online Etymology Dictionary, Douglas Harper, 2001
• Webster's Seventh New Collegiate Dictionary, Springfield, Massachusetts, G.&C. Merriam Co., 1967
• Northumberland Words, English Dialect Society, R. Oliver Heslop, 1893-4[1]

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burn (plural burns)

1. A small river.