| burn | 1. A hurt, injury, or effect caused by fire or excessive or intense heat. 2. The operation or result of burning or baking, as in brickmaking; as, they have a good burn. 3. A disease in vegetables. See Brand. 1. To consume with fire; to reduce to ashes by the action of heat or fire; frequently intensified by up: as, to burn up wood. "We'll burn his body in the holy place." 2. To injure by fire or heat; to change destructively some property or properties of, by undue exposure to fire or heat; to scorch; to scald; to blister; to singe; to char; to sear; as, to burn steel in forging; to burn one's face in the sun; the sun burns the grass. 3. To perfect or improve by fire or heat; to submit to the action of fire or heat for some economic purpose; to destroy or change some property or properties of, by exposure to fire or heat in due degree for obtaining a desired residuum, product, or effect; to bake; as, to burn clay in making bricks or pottery; to burn wood so as to produce charcoal; to burn limestone for the lime. 4. To make or produce, as an effect or result, by the application of fire or heat; as, to burn a hole; to burn charcoal; to burn letters into a block. 5. To consume, injure, or change the condition of, as if by action of fire or heat; to affect as fire or heat does; as, to burn the mouth with pepper. "This tyrant fever burns me up." (Shak) "This dry sorrow burns up all my tears." (Dryden) "When the cold north wind bloweth, . . . It devoureth the mountains, and burneth the wilderness, and consumeth the ass as fire." (Ecclus. Xliii. 20, 21) 6. <surgery> To apply a cautery to; to cauterize. 7. <chemistry> To cause to combine with oxygen or other active agent, with evolution of heat; to consume; to oxidize; as, a man burns a certain amount of carbon at each respiration; to burn iron in oxygen. <engineering> To burn, To burn together, as two surfaces of metal, to fuse and unite them by pouring over them a quantity of the same metal in a liquid state. To burn a bowl, to displace it accidentally, the bowl so displaced being said to be burned. To burn daylight, to light candles before it is dark; to waste time; to perform superfluous actions. To burn one's fingers, to get one's self into unexpected trouble, as by interfering the concerns of others, speculation, etc. To burn out, to destroy or obliterate by burning. "Must you with hot irons burn out mine eyes?" . To be burned out, to suffer loss by fire, as the burning of one's house, store, or shop, with the contents. To burn up, To burn down, to burn entirely. Origin: OE. Bernen, brennen, v.t, early confused with beornen, birnen, v.i, AS. Baernan, bernan, v.t, birnan, v.i.; akin to OS. Brinnan, OFries. Barna, berna, OHG. Brinnan, brennan, G. Brennen, OD. Bernen, D. Branden, Dan. Braende, Sw. Branna, brinna, Icel. Brenna, Goth. Brinnan, brannjan (in comp), and possibly to E. Fervent. 1. To be of fire; to flame. "The mount burned with fire." 2. To suffer from, or be scorched by, an excess of heat. "Your meat doth burn, quoth I." (Shak) 3. To have a condition, quality, appearance, sensation, or emotion, as if on fire or excessively heated; to act or rage with destructive violence; to be in a state of lively emotion or strong desire; as, the face burns; to burn with fever. "Did not our heart burn within us, while he talked with us by the way?" (Luke xxiv. 32) "The barge she sat in, like a burnished throne, Burned on the water." (Shak) "Burning with high hope." (Byron) "The groan still deepens, and the combat burns." (Pope) "The parching air Burns frore, and cold performs the effect of fire." (Milton) 4. <chemistry> To combine energetically, with evolution of heat; as, copper burns in chlorine. 5. In certain games, to approach near to a concealed object which is sought. To burn out, to burn till the fuel is exhausted. To burn up, To burn down, to be entirely consumed. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
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| burn units | Specialised hospital facilities which provide intensive care for burn patients. (12 Dec 1998) |
| radiation burn | A burn caused by exposure to radium, X-rays, atomic energy in any form, ultraviolet rays, etc. (05 Mar 2000) |
| mass burn facility | A facility in which the pretreatment of MSW includes only inspection and simple separation to remove oversize, hazardous, or explosive materials. Large mass burn facilities have capacities of 3000 tons of MSW per day or more. Modular plants with capacities as low as 25 tons per day have been built. Mass burn technologies represent over 75% of all the MSW-to-energy facilities constructed in the United States to date. The major components of a mass burn facility include refuse receiving and handling, combustion and steam generation, flue gas cleaning, power generation, condenser cooling water, residue hauling, and storage. (05 Dec 1998) |
| partial-thickness burn | A burn involving the epidermis and dermis and usually forming blisters that may be superficial, or by deep dermal necrosis, followed by epithelial regeneration extending from the skin appendages. Synonym: partial-thickness burn. (05 Mar 2000) |
| chemical burn | A burn due to a caustic chemical. (05 Mar 2000) |
| prescribed burn | <ecology> The process of burning an area of land in order to kill certain plant species and to favor the growth of others. (31 Dec 1997) |
| superficial burn | A burn involving only the epidermis and causing erythema and oedema without vesiculation. Synonym: superficial burn. (05 Mar 2000) |
| thermal burn | A burn caused by heat. (05 Mar 2000) |
| kangri burn carcinoma | kang cancer |
| flash burn | A burn due to very brief exposure to intense radiant heat; the typical burn produced by atomic explosion. (05 Mar 2000) |
| full-thickness burn | A burn involving destruction of the entire skin; deep third-degree burns extend into subcutaneous fat, muscle, or bone and often cause much scarring. Synonym: full-thickness burn. (05 Mar 2000) |
| antidepressive agents, second-generation | A structurally and mechanistically diverse group of drugs that are not tricyclics or monoamine oxidase inhibitors. The most clinically important appear to act selectively on serotonergic systems, especially by inhibiting serotonin reuptake. (12 Dec 1998) |
| centimeter-gram-second system | The scientific system of expressing the fundamental physical units of length, mass, and time, and those units derived from them, in centimeters, grams, and seconds; currently being replaced by the International System of Units based on the meter, kilogram, and second. (05 Mar 2000) |
| centimeter-gram-second unit | <unit> An absolute unit of the centimeter-gram-second system. (05 Mar 2000) |