单词 | burner |
释义 | burnern. 1. a. One who burns, or consumes with fire. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > properties of materials > temperature > heat > burning > [noun] > consumption by fire > one who burnerc1380 c1380 J. Wyclif Sel. Wks. III. 329 Alle brenneris of houses and cornes ben cursed opynly in parische chirches. c1503 R. Arnold Chron. f. lxvij/2 Brenners of houses & chirches. 1563 2nd Tome Homelyes Wilful Rebell. i, in J. Griffiths Two Bks. Homilies (1859) ii. 558 The burners of their villages. 1702 C. Mather Magnalia Christi vii. vi. 50/2 Weymouth also suffered from these Burners no little Damage. 1872 J. Morley Voltaire i. 13 The burner of books, and tormentor of those who wrote them. b. figurative. ΚΠ 1872 C. H. Spurgeon Treasury of David III. Ps. lix. 12 Persecutors in talk, burners and stabbers with the tongue. c. A swindler. U.S. ? Obsolete. (Cf. burn v.1 14f.) ΘΚΠ the mind > possession > taking > stealing or theft > thief > defrauder or swindler > [noun] feature14.. frauderc1475 prowler1519 lurcher1528 defrauder1552 frauditor1553 taker-upc1555 verserc1555 fogger1564 Jack-in-the-box1570 gilenyer1590 foist1591 rutter1591 crossbiter1592 sharker1594 shark1600 bat-fowler1602 cheater1606 foister1610 operator1611 fraudsman1613 projector1615 smoke-sellera1618 decoy1618 firkera1626 scandaroon1631 snapa1640 cunning shaver1652 knight of industrya1658 chouse1658 cheat1664 sharper1681 jockey1683 rooker1683 fool-finder1685 rookster1697 sheep-shearer1699 bubbler1720 gyp1728 bite1742 swindler1770 pigeon1780 mace1781 gouger1790 needle1790 fly-by-night1796 sharp1797 skinner1797 diddler1803 mace cove1811 mace-gloak1819 macer1819 flat-catcher1821 moonlight wanderer1823 burner1838 Peter Funk1840 Funk1842 pigeoner1849 maceman1850 bester1856 fiddler1857 highway robber1874 bunco-steerer1875 swizzler1876 forty1879 flim-flammer1881 chouser1883 take-down1888 highbinder1890 fraud1895 Sam Slick1897 grafter1899 come-on1905 verneuker1905 gypster1917 chiseller1918 tweedler1925 rorter1926 gazumper1932 chizzer1935 sharpie1942 sharpster1942 slick1959 slickster1965 rip-off artist1968 shonky1970 rip-off merchant1971 1838 Lexington Observer & Reporter 3 Nov. He pulls out his pocket book, it is seized by the burner who makes off with it. 1842 Spirit of Times (Philadelphia) 15 Jan. The burners make better plots than most of our dramatists. 1844 Spirit of Times (Philadelphia) 19 Aug. Two negro burners were arrested in the act of trying to burn two Pottsville boatmen with a plated chain worth about fifteen cents. 1845 Congress. Globe 6 Jan. App. 118/1 The Empire Club [of New York]..consisted of gamblers, pickpockets, droppers, burners, thimble-riggers and the like. 2. One who prepares or produces by burning. Chiefly in combination, as brick-burner, charcoal-burner, lime-burner. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > worker > workers according to type of work > manual or industrial worker > worker performing process or spec. task > [noun] > who burns burner1463 society > occupation and work > worker > workers according to type of work > manual or industrial worker > producer > makers of other manufactured materials > [noun] > of charcoal coaler1276 colliera1375 coalmana1450 wood-coaler1600 charcoal-collier1636 coalburner1636 charcoal-burner1825 1463 Mann. & Househ. Exp. (1790) 154 To pay to a lyme brenner ffor lyme vis. viiid. ?1518 Cocke Lorelles Bote sig. B.vj Parys plasterers, daubers, and lyme borners. 1562 Act 5 Eliz. iv. §30 The Art or Occupation of a..Lime burner, Brickmaker..Burner of Oare and Wood-Ashes. 1702 R. Neve Apopiroscopy Prolegomenon sig. A8v The Trades, of Brick-Burners, Tanners, and divers other Mechanical Professions. 1825 J. Neal Brother Jonathan II. 71 I mistook them at first for charcoal-burners. 1874 Linc. Chron. 4 Dec. in E. Peacock Gloss. Words Manley & Corringham, Lincs. (E.D.S.) To brickyard hands: wanted two steady men as burners. 3. A vessel to hold something that is burning. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > properties of materials > temperature > heat > heating or making hot > that which or one who heats > [noun] > a device for heating or warming > vessel to hold something that is burning burner1856 1856 T. Hook Gilbert Gurney I. vi. (L) To put three or four of the pastilles into a burner on the chimney-piece. 4. a. That part of an illuminating apparatus from which the flame comes; in a lamp the wick-holder; in a gas-light the part containing the hole or holes through which the gas passes before combustion. Often with defining words, as burner Argand, batwing burner, Bunsen burner, burner cockspur, fish-tail burner. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > properties of materials > temperature > heat > burning > [noun] > combustibility > devices for burning gases burner1790 afterburner1955 the world > matter > light > artificial light > an artificial light > [noun] > lamp > parts of > burner burner1790 the world > matter > properties of materials > temperature > heat > heating or making hot > that which or one who heats > [noun] > a device for heating or warming > fuelled by gas > gas-burner > types of cockspur burner1808 rose burner1820 batwing burner1828 gas ring1837 rosette1856 Bude-burner1875 1790 W. Roy in Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 80 162 A simple Argand's burner. 1808 W. Murdock in Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 98 125 The burners..are connected with the mains, by short tubes. 1828 M. R. Mitford Our Village III. 283 The luminary..had four burners, which never..were all in action together. 1886 Harper's Mag. Feb. 463/2 From the centre of the dome a large chandelier was suspended, furnished with four electric burners. b. Welsbach incandescent gas burner, a burner devised by Auer von Welsbach for producing an incandescent light by means of a mantle (see mantle n. 16b) and Bunsen burner. Also called the Auer burner, incandescent burner, or Welsbach burner. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > light > artificial light > an artificial light > artificial light defined by light-source > [noun] > incandescent lamp > burner Welsbach incandescent gas burner1894 1894 Daily News 7 Nov. 7/3 The use of the ‘incandescent’ or Welsbach burners is rapidly increasing..The leading features of the system are..the incandescence of a cone or ‘mantle’ of filament, by which a soft, white, steady, and smokeless light is given. 1902 Encycl. Brit. XXX. 260/2 Incandescent Burners. The invention of the Welsbach mantle places at the disposal of lighthouse authorities the means of producing a light of high intensity. c. In a gas cooker, the part containing the hole or holes through which the gas passes before combustion. See also cook v.1 Phrases 3. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > properties of materials > temperature > heat > heating or making hot > that which or one who heats > [noun] > a device for heating or warming > fuelled by gas > gas-burner gas burner1807 burner1885 1885 Army & Navy Co-op. Soc. Price List Jan. 368 Gas stove.., lever taps to hot-plate, and extra simmering burner in centre of ring burner, with brass handle tap. 1963 Good Housek. Setting Up Home viii. 113 A cooker with four burners and a grill is the usual choice for family cooking. 1963 Good Housek. Setting Up Home viii. 113 Oven burners may be arranged at the sides or back. Draft additions September 2021 With modifying word: a fuel or flammable object that burns in the manner specified. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > properties of materials > temperature > heat > burning > [noun] > that which is burnt combusta1834 burner1838 the world > matter > properties of materials > temperature > heat > burning > [noun] > going or setting on fire > going on fire > an inflammable substance inflammability1646 inflammable1770 burner1838 1838 Paxton's Mag. Bot. 4 57 Sea-coal, though a rapid burner, is very liable to be extinguished suddenly. 1872 R. Murray Mod. Householder 415 Silkstone is a good burner with a very little ash. 1913 J. Kenlon Fires & Fire-fighters 295 Warehouses..may not inaptly be described as quick burners since their construction the world over is..apparently framed with no consideration of fire risks. 1955 E. H. Burke Camping Handbk. 59/1 Gather six or eight saplings... Be sure they are good slow burners. 2002 Manawatu (N.Z) Standard (Nexis) 21 May 14 Poplar timber, as well as being a poor burner, had durability. Draft additions March 2022 colloquial (originally and chiefly U.S.). An inexpensive prepaid mobile phone; esp. one used for a short time and then discarded to protect the anonymity of the owner; short for burner phone n. at Additions. ΘΚΠ society > communication > telecommunication > telegraphy or telephony > telephony > telephone equipment > [noun] > telephone > types of microtelephone1879 field telephone1880 telephone extension1881 pay telephone1886 home telephone1893 substation1897 extension1906 railophone1911 dial phone1917 payphone1919 dial telephone1921 autophone1922 mobile telephone1930 viewphone1932 videophone1944 mobile phone1945 car phone1946 video telephone1947 speaker-phone1955 picture telephone1956 princess phone1959 touchtone telephone1961 touch-tone1962 touchtone phone1963 picture phone1964 Trimphone1965 princess telephone1966 vision-telephone1966 visiophone1971 princess1973 warbler1973 landline1977 cardphone1978 feature phone1979 smartphone1980 mobile1982 cell phone1983 Vodafone1984 cellular1985 mobile device1989 brick1990 satphone1991 celly1992 burner phone1996 keitai1998 burner2002 2002 Capital (Annapolis, Maryland) 3 Jan. a1/4 Drug organizations..buy prepaid wireless phones—which they call burners—and throw them out after a few days. 2004 J. L. Kecken Wire (transcribed from TV programme) 3rd Ser. Episode 7 If we had a burner that we knew was used by one of Stringer's players we could use what we know about that organization to make all kinds of connections. 2021 Ottawa Citizen (Nexis) 3 Apr. b5 We are talking on the phone rather than on video, but not because he is using a burner to spill secrets without being surveilled—he simply doesn't have Wi-Fi in his apartment. Draft additions March 2022 burner phone n. colloquial (originally and chiefly U.S.) an inexpensive prepaid mobile phone; esp. one used for a short time and then discarded to protect the anonymity of the owner.So called because the phone is often destroyed or disposed of once it has served its purpose. ΘΚΠ society > communication > telecommunication > telegraphy or telephony > telephony > telephone equipment > [noun] > telephone > types of microtelephone1879 field telephone1880 telephone extension1881 pay telephone1886 home telephone1893 substation1897 extension1906 railophone1911 dial phone1917 payphone1919 dial telephone1921 autophone1922 mobile telephone1930 viewphone1932 videophone1944 mobile phone1945 car phone1946 video telephone1947 speaker-phone1955 picture telephone1956 princess phone1959 touchtone telephone1961 touch-tone1962 touchtone phone1963 picture phone1964 Trimphone1965 princess telephone1966 vision-telephone1966 visiophone1971 princess1973 warbler1973 landline1977 cardphone1978 feature phone1979 smartphone1980 mobile1982 cell phone1983 Vodafone1984 cellular1985 mobile device1989 brick1990 satphone1991 celly1992 burner phone1996 keitai1998 burner2002 1996 ‘Kingpin Skinny Pimp’ One Life 2 Live (transcribed from song) in King Of Da Playaz Ball Ballin' down the strip with a trunk full of hot shit Talkin' on the burner phone, bumpin' hutch, sweatin' the bitch. 2008 Global Broadcast Database: KFMB (transcript of TV programme) (Nexis) 31 Jan. She didn't call you from her phone. I gave her a burner phone to use to call me. She must have been using it for other things. 2019 C. Goldberg Nobody's Victim i. 23 Most local police are neither trained nor equipped to handle digital forensics, especially if the perpetrator is skilled at masking his identity online, using fake accounts and burner phones. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1888; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.c1380 |
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