Liberal Dictionary English Dictionary
noun
- a person or thing that burns.
- that part of a gas fixture, lamp, etc., from which flame issues or in which it is produced.
- any apparatus or receptacle in which fuel or refuse is burned.
- Informal. burner phone.
adjective
- temporary or disposable, often used to remain anonymous: burner email accounts;a burner digital identity.
noun
- the part of a stove, lamp, etc, that produces flame or heat
- an apparatus for burning something, as fuel or refusean oil burner
late 13c., also as a surname, Brenner, “person who makes bricks,” agent noun from burn (v.)). As a name for a part of a lamp where the flame is applied, from 1790. Of gas-cooking stoves, by 1885.