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BURNING

Look up burn in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.

Burn may refer to:

  • Burn (injury), injury to the skin caused by heat, electricity, chemicals, or radiation
  • Combustion or burning, an exothermic reaction between a substance (the fuel) and a gas (the oxidizer)
  • Burning, a self sustaining thermonuclear (nuclear fusion) reaction
  • Execution by burning, an execution by fire, usually by being burnt to death on a pyre. Immolation is destruction by fire, although it often refers specifically to suicide by burning
  • A burn is the firing of a rocket propulsion system
  • Burning is the recording process for various technologies based on compact discs or DVDs. The recorder itself is sometimes called a burner
  • An Indian burn (also called a Chinese burn) is a common school prank
  • Burn (stream), in Scotland and north-eastern England, a type of stream which is smaller than a river
  • Burned (image), an image with highlights or shadows considerably outside the medium's gamut
  • Burning-in, a manipulation during photographic enlargement to darken selected areas of the final print
  • To burn in is to exercise components (such as electronics) before putting them into service
  • To be burned is to have been dealt a stinging insult or to have suffered a painful loss
  • Burner (Burning Man), an active participant in the annual Burning Man festival
  • A burner is the heat-producing element of a stove
  • A burner (hot air balloon) is used to inflate a hot air balloon
  • A burner is a large, elaborate graffiti piece
  • Stinger (medicine) or burner, a neurological injury
  • Burn, North Yorkshire, a town England
  • Burn (columnist), a world-famous forum poster on I Have An Idea (www.ihaveanidea.org)

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