CD burner

1 3.2

A machine that writes music or files onto CDs

noun
/siː diː ˈbɜrnər/

: grabadora de CD

Hard-disk recorders with CD burners start at $399 and can process your recording and create unedited CDs without additional equipment.
use the CD burner

But my dad, one of those pops that bought all the EQ equipment to make music, he bought CD burners, changes, all that shit.

Examples

After buying a CD burner, he started making mixes of his favorite songs.
A while ago I bought a CD burner.

Traffic (2000)
Way back when, we worked on CD burners, and our chips were always a little faster than the competition.

Blog text (16)
It's been legal all along, since CD burners or CD to cassette recordings were available.

Blog text (24)
Their record company member, SONY, is one of the world's biggest sellers of blank CDs and CD burners.

Blog text (24)
I used my CD burner to create a copy of my favorite album.
She connected her computer to the CD burner to record the project files.

Synonyms

compact-disk burner

vsCD burner

4.0

A machine that writes music or data onto CDs

records data only and does not include music

How Capable

CD burner

1 3.2

CD drive

1 2.7

CD player

42 1.5

Surface Forms

CD burner singular

CD burners plural

Morphology

CD + burner

The compound is compositionally a device that 'burns' CDs (CD + burner), so learners can infer it is a machine related to CDs; however the verb 'burn' here has a specialized, metaphorical technical sense ('to record/write data onto a disc') that a B1 learner who only knows the literal sense of 'burn' may not predict. Cross-linguistically this recording sense varies (many languages use different verbs), so the expression is partially transparent but requires technical exposure.

Etymology

CD burner comes from the way the device works: a small laser actually 'burns' tiny marks on a blank CD. That's why a CD burner means the machine that 'records' or 'writes' data onto a disc.