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burner

A burner is something that fire comes from. A burner uses fuel (such as propane) and is often found on old stoves. A burner is a the thing on stove that makes heat, even if it is electric. Take the kettle off the burner please.

burner

an apparatus for burning fuel (or refuse) a diesel engine is an oil burner the heating elements of a stove or range on which pots and pans are placed for cooking the electric range had one large burner and three smaller one

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Simple sentences

I think we're going to need to put this project on the back burner for a little while.
Tom put his career on the back burner and became a house husband, to enable Mary to pursue her career.
Tom had put the project on the back burner. But, after receiving several emails about it this week, it suddenly went on the front burner.

Movie subtitles

Do you need me to call Valencia from a burner phone and tell her there's been a murder at the yoga studio so you and Josh can have more alone time?
That's solid, Jackson. Now you're cookin' on the front burner.
A lot fancier than my old coal burner on the CO.
Burner of Rome!
He can trade for a six-burner gas range.
A barn burner is the meanest, lowest creature there is.
He's a barn burner.
Barn burner!
A message form Burner, Sir.
Burner, take a look around.
He said we could use the burner in his kitchen to heat up the TV dinners.
He was a great burner.
For example, the sodium and the sodium chloride both changed the light of the Bunsen burner to yellow.
Anyone can see it's a shag spot burner.
Now you're cookin' on the front burner.
You're perfectly respectable, but of course, as long as we don't roll on the floor and give the butler hysterics, we'll be cooking on the front burner.
He knew the case was hot and he was set to cook on the front burner.
Did you have to choose a convent burner?
What's the difference whether you have hydrochloric acid or a pot roast cooking on a Bunsen burner?
But how am I gonna turn up the burner?
Turn down your burner.
We'll use the burner.
Anybody which owns a two-burner gas stove.
You know, I've been cooking up victuals on a one-burner for the last three years.
I've got to buy a butane burner. The gas range doesn't work.
This just has to be a ground-pounding track burner!
Burner 800, increasing.
It was a brand new burner.
Hey kid, will you give me the incense burner?
When I adjust the burner, we will smoke him out.
Things went on the back burner between them till 1942.
At least he is not a book-burner, you Nazi cow.
I hear the NSC meeting was a real barn burner.
Whoa, bra-burner!

News and current affairs

In the meantime, the significant upturn in growth makes radical change far less important and it is a short step from there to putting change on the back burner.
China might not agree, but such a move might at least return the issue to the back burner, while reinforcing Japan's image as a peaceful power.
Moreover, aggressive counter-terrorism activities and the separation barrier have decisively reduced cross-border attacks, containing mounting pressure in Palestine as the conflict remains on the back burner.
First, Iran's nuclear program is now on the diplomatic front burner.
Efforts to open the southern border of the US and the eastern border of the EU are put on the back burner.
Regarded as an urgent problem until recently, the federal deficit is now being placed on the back burner of American politics.
Merely moving the problem to the back burner will not prevent it from boiling over.
This has forced productive research laboratories to close, putting potentially life-saving research - like that on an Ebola vaccine - on the back burner.
Unfortunately, movements towards fundamental tax reform are on the back burner in most countries.
SEOUL - South Korean officials have recently realized that the United States is likely to try to forbid them from enriching uranium and expanding their country's missile range, rather than leave these issues on the diplomatic back burner.
We cannot afford to leave the region's protracted conflicts such as the ones in Nagorno-Karabakh and Transnistria on the back burner, as last year's war in Georgia made abundantly clear.

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