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burner

40 1.0

A heating part on a stove where you put pots and pans to cook

noun
/ˈbɜrnər/

: quemador

The heat supplied to a frying pan depends on the burner and its setting.
pot on a burner
heat from the burner
flame on the burner

Almost every Japanese gas cooktop has three burners and a stride out grill.

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Examples

Mom let them in, then calmly set her coffee pot on a burner to heat.

Academic text (2001)
I shut the water off and set the pan on the burner to boil.

Fiction book (1990)
Now turn the burner heat on to medium low.
Then I noticed a stove burner was on with a small pot on it with nothing inside.

Two Hot Takes
I lit two candles for light and ignited the stove's burner to melt snow.

Fiction book (1996)
Almost every Japanese gas cooktop has three burners and a stride out grill.

Stanford
A four-burner Norge range, complete with a built-in electric clock and timer.

Here (2024)
Before cooking, make sure to adjust the burner to the desired temperature.
She placed a pot of water on the burner to boil it for pasta.
The chef turned off the burner after using it to prepare the sauce.

Synonyms

gas burner

vsburner

1 2.3

A tool that makes a steady flame to cook or heat things

is part of a stove that provides heat and holds pots and pans

Idioms

on the back burner

Informal

16 5.0

Kept for later and given lower priority

on the front burner

5 4.4

A matter that needs immediate attention and is very important

Compounds

back burner

Informal

20 3.9

A task or plan kept for later because it is not urgent

front burner

8 4.2

A thing that needs the most attention right now

Bunsen burner

Specialized

4 3.5

A small gas device with an adjustable flame used in labs to heat things and do experiments

CD burner

1 3.2

A machine that writes music or files onto CDs

gas burner

1 2.3

A tool that makes a steady flame to cook or heat things

rice burner

Slur

1 9.9

An insulting slang term often used for small cheap cars made in East Asia

oil burner

1 3.3

A machine that burns oil to make heat for a building

bra burner

Slang

8.9

A slang name for a very hard workout that makes you sweat a lot

charcoal burner

4.5

A small stove that burns charcoal for heat or cooking

charcoal burner

Archaic

7.7

A person who makes fuel for fires by burning wood slowly

compact-disk burner

4.0

A machine that writes music or data onto CDs

pilot burner

Specialized

6.1

A small gas flame that stays lit to light a larger flame when needed

How Hot

blowtorch

Specialized

16 4.6

burner

40 1.0

gas jet

Specialized

1 4.4

pilot light

Specialized

4 3.8

Surface Forms

burner singular

burners plural

Morphology

burner = burn (transparent) = burn + er

The word 'burner' is transparently derived from 'burn' with the addition of the suffix '-er', indicating an object that performs the action of burning.

Etymology

Burner comes from the simple verb burn plus the ending -er, which means 'one that does something'. So a burner on a stove is literally 'the thing that burns' and gives heat for cooking.