Meaning of Burn | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A large stream.
   Northern-England, Scotland
2. A village and civil parish in Selby district, North Yorkshire, England (OS grid ref SE5928).
   countable, uncountable
3. A physical injury caused by heat, cold, electricity, radiation or caustic chemicals.
   countable, uncountable
4. A sensation resembling such an injury.
   countable, uncountable
5. A river in Dartmoor, Devon, England, a tributary of the River Tavy.
   countable, uncountable
6. The act of burning something with fire.
   countable, uncountable
7. A short river in Norfolk, England, which flows into the North Sea.
   countable, uncountable
8. An intense non-physical sting, as left by shame or an effective insult.
   countable, slang, uncountable
9. A river in North Yorkshire, England, a tributary of the River Ure.
   countable, uncountable
10. An effective insult, often in the expression sick burn (excellent or badass insult).
    countable, slang, uncountable
11. A surname.
    countable, uncountable
12. Physical sensation in the muscles following strenuous exercise, caused by build-up of lactic acid.
    countable, uncountable
13. Tobacco.
    UK, slang, uncountable
14. The writing of data to a permanent storage medium like a compact disc or a ROM chip.
    countable, uncountable
15. The operation or result of burning or baking, as in brickmaking.
    countable, uncountable
16. A disease in vegetables; brand.
    uncountable
17. The firing of a spacecraft's rockets in order to change its course.
    countable, uncountable

Equivalents

Examples

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

“He burnt his hand in the fire.”

“chili burn from eating hot peppers”

“They’re doing a controlled burn of the fields.”

“One typical Grecian kiln engorged one thousand muleloads of juniper wood in a single burn.”

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

“TOM: I’m serious bruv. Put my burn and lighter and all that in my jeans please and give them here, then press the cell bell.”

““Any of you want to borrow some burn,” asked a scarred inmate known as Bull.”

“It was like no one was looking out for me, and the older kids used to take the piss ...they were always threatening me and taking my burn [tobacco][…]”

“As the prison week ended and the less careful inmates began to run out of burn they went through a peculiar begging ritual that I, never one to husband resources either, was quick to learn.”

“Allow additional burns enables you to create a multisession CD, which can be used again to write more data.”

“They have a good burn.”

“On 4 March 1999, the MCO performed its second course correction manoeuvre with a burn involving its four thrusters […]”

“This darksome burn, horseback brown, / His rollrock highroad roaring down, / In coop and in comb the fleece of his foam / Flutes and low to the lake falls home.”

“He may pitch on some tuft of lilacs over a burn, and smoke innumerable pipes to the tune of the water on the stones.”

“At this place, the clay in the 52 ft. embankment had been under water pressure for some weeks before the water level could be lowered, and the burn diverted through a temporary culvert.”

“When it was too heavy rain the burn ran very high and wide and ye could never jump it.”

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