gas burner
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- noun
- /ɡæs ˈbɜrnər/
:
quemador de gas
- She stood and turned off the stove's gas burners, then folded her arms across her middle.
- turn the gas burner
- gas burner flame
- four gas burners
Examples
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She brought a gas burner, too, and she's making pork miso soup for us.
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With six gas burners ablaze, I turned out velvety soups and rib-sticking stews.
Fiction book (1996) -
The bathroom was warm and steamy, heated by the glow of a gas burner in one wall.
Fiction book (1994) -
The water was heated in the kitchen on the gas burners in a soup pot and tea kettle.
Fiction book (1995) -
To his right, just past the open window, there was a short, stumpy icebox with a small gas burner on its top.
Fiction book (2000) -
From inside, Xavier could smell the stale beer and the food frying on gas burners.
Fiction book (1998) -
Here he inspects his body, listens to his memories, makes countless cups of coffee on the small gas burner, and offers them to me proudly: "You don't have coffee like this in America."
Fiction book (1994) -
With the potatoes peeled and the pot installed over a gas burner, mother and daughter rattled down in the elevator that, as usual, hesitated and lurched between floors, listlessly threatening to get stuck.
Fiction book (1996) -
The bathroom was warm and steamy, heated by the glow of a gas burner in one wall.
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Alternatively, cook in the same manner over a gas burner or hot charcoal grill.
Synonyms
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3.3
A device that burns fuel to make heat, used in labs or factories
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3.5
A small gas device with an adjustable flame used in labs to heat things and do experiments
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A device that sends gas through a small opening to make a steady flame for heat or light
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A metal ring on a gas stove that makes a flame for cooking
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Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning 'a device that produces a steady flame by burning combustible gas' is directly and transparently composed from 'gas' (gaseous fuel) + 'burner' (an apparatus that combusts fuel). This straightforward noun+noun composition follows common cross-linguistic patterns, so a B1 learner who knows both constituents would readily infer the MWE's meaning.
Etymology
Gas burner comes from a simple image: a device that burns gas at a small metal ring, so the burner makes a steady flame. That's why it means 'a device that makes a steady flame for cooking or heating'.