burn

Signification

Noun

1. A physical injury caused by heat, cold, electricity, radiation or caustic chemicals.
2. A sensation resembling such an injury.
3. The act of burning something with fire.
4. (slang) An intense non-physical sting, as left by shame or an effective insult.
5. (slang) An effective insult, often in the expression sick burn (excellent or badass insult).
6. Physical sensation in the muscles following strenuous exercise, caused by build-up of lactic acid.
7. (slang) Tobacco.
8. The writing of data to a permanent storage medium like a compact disc or a ROM chip.
9. The operation or result of burning or baking, as in brickmaking.
10. A disease in vegetables; brand.
11. The firing of a spacecraft's rockets in order to change its course.
12. A kind of watercourse: a brook or creek.

Verb

1. To cause to be consumed by fire.
2. To be consumed by fire, or in flames.
3. To overheat so as to make unusable.
4. To become overheated to the point of being unusable.
5. To make or produce by the application of fire or burning heat.
6. To injure (a person or animal) with heat or chemicals that produce similar damage.
7. To cauterize.
8. To sunburn.
9. To consume, damage, or change the condition of, as if by action of fire or heat; to affect as fire or heat does.
10. To be hot, e.g. due to embarrassment.
11. To cause to combine with oxygen or other active agent, with evolution of heat; to consume; to oxidize.
12. To combine energetically, with evolution of heat.
13. To write data to a permanent storage medium like a compact disc or a ROM chip.
14. To render subtitles into a video's content while transcoding it, making the subtitles part of the image.
15. (slang) To betray.
16. (slang) To insult or defeat.
17. To waste (time); to waste money or other resources.
18. In certain games, to approach near to a concealed object which is sought.
19. To accidentally touch a moving stone.
20. In pontoon, to swap a pair of cards for another pair, or to deal a dead card.
21. To increase the exposure for certain areas of a print in order to make them lighter (compare dodge).
22. To be converted to another element in a nuclear fusion reaction, especially in a star.
23. (slang) To discard.
24. (slang) To shoot someone with a firearm.
25. To compromise (an agent's cover story).
26. To blackmail.
27. (slang) To desire or ache for (something); to focus on attaining (something).

Prononcé comme (IPA)

/bɜːn/

Étymologie

From Middle English bernen, birnen, from Old English birnan (“to burn”), metathesis from Proto-West Germanic *brinnan, from Proto-Germanic *brinnaną (“to burn”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰrenw-, present stem from *bʰrewh₁-. Doublet of brew.
See also Middle Irish brennim (“drink up”), bruinnim (“bubble up”); also Middle Irish bréo (“flame”), Albanian burth (“Cyclamen hederifolium, mouth burning”), Sanskrit भुरति (bhurati, “moves quickly, twitches, fidgets”). More at brew.