Definition of Burners

1. Noun. (plural of burner) ¹

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Definition of Burners

1. burner [n] - See also: burner

Medical Definition of Burners

1. Episodes of upper extremity burning pain. See: burner syndrome. Synonym: stingers. (05 Mar 2000)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Burners

burn the midnight oil
burn to a crisp
burn units
burn up
burnable
burnables
burndown
burndowns
burne
burned
burned-out
burned down
burned out
burner
burner syndrome
burners (current term)
burnest
burnet
burnet bloodwort
burneth
burnets
burnettize
burnettized
burnettizes
burnettizing
burnfire
burnfires
burnie
burnies
burning

Literary usage of Burners

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. United States Supreme Court Reports by Lawyers Co-operative Publishing Company, United States Supreme Court (1889)
"The master reported "that the number of lamp burners proven 1o have been sold by respondents, containing the invention claimed in and by the first claim of ..."

2. A Dictionary of Applied Chemistry by Thomas Edward Thorpe (1921)
"In Hofmann's furnace the tube is heated by two double rows of perforated cylindrical fireclay burners placed over ordinary fish-tail burners. ..."

3. Transactions (1900)
"It was found that, in Nuremberg, double burners are generally used in the lanterns, and in Munich only single burners. In the latter town there are 5370 ..."

4. Chemical Technology, Or, Chemistry in Its Applications to Arts and Manufactures by Charles Edward Groves, William Thorp, Friedrich Ludwig Knapp, Thomas Richardson, Edmund Ronalds, Henry Watts, William Joseph Dibdin (1900)
"Gas-burners. THIS is a subject of scarcely less importance than economical carbonising, seeing now easily the efforts of the engineer may be frustrated by ..."

5. Steam, Its Generation and Use by Babcock & Wilcox Company, John B. Litto, Steven C. Stultz (1913)
"CAPACITY OF burners —A good steam atomizing burner properly located in ... This question of capacity of individual burners is largely one of the proper ..."

6. The Encyclopædia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature and by Hugh Chisholm (1911)
"Mineral Otl burners.—The introduction of mineral oil, costing a mere fraction of the expensive animal and vegetable oils, revolutionized the illumination of ..."

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