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Char

Char is the solid material that remains after light gases (e.g. coal gas) and tar have been driven out or released from a carbonaceous material during the initial stage of combustion, which is known as carbonization, charring, devolatilization or pyrolysis.

Burn

A burn is a type of injury to skin, or other tissues, caused by heat, cold, electricity, chemicals, friction, or ultraviolet radiation (like sunburn). Most burns are due to heat from hot liquids (called scalding), solids, or fire.

Char

To burn the surface of; scorch.

Burn

To undergo combustion or be consumed as fuel
The dry wood burned quickly.

Char

To reduce to carbon or charcoal by incomplete combustion. ]

Burn

To be damaged, injured, or destroyed by fire, heat, radiation, electricity, or a caustic agent
A house that burned to the ground.
Eggs that burned and stuck to the pan.
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Char

To work as a charwoman.

Burn

To consume fuel
A rocket stage designed to burn for three minutes before being jettisoned.

Char

Any of several salmonid fishes of the genus Salvelinus, usually having a dark body with light spots, and including the arctic char, the brook trout, and the lake trout.

Burn

To emit heat or light by fire or energy
Campfires burning in the dark.
Lights burning in the windows.

Char

A charwoman.

Burn

To become dissipated or be dispelled
The fog burned off as the sun came up. Their anger burned away in time.
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Char

(ergative) To burn something to charcoal.

Burn

To suffer death or punishment by fire
Souls burning in hell.

Char

To burn slightly or superficially so as to affect colour.

Burn

To be electrocuted.

Char

(obsolete) To turn, especially away or aside.

Burn

To be very hot; bake
A desert burning under the midday sun.

Char

To work, especially to do housework; to work by the day, without being a regularly hired servant.

Burn

To feel or look hot
A child burning with fever.

Char

(obsolete) To perform; to do; to finish.

Burn

To impart a sensation of heat
A liniment that burns when first applied.

Char

To work or hew (stone, etc.)

Burn

To penetrate something by intense heat, energy, or caustic effect
The acid burned into the table.

Char

A charred substance.

Burn

To cause a strong impression, especially by emotional intensity
A look that burned into them.
Shame burning into my heart.

Char

Any of the several species of fishes of the genus Salvelinus.
Among other native delicacies, they give you fresh char.

Burn

To become irritated or painful, as by chafing or inflammation
Eyes burning from the smoke.

Char

(obsolete) A time; a turn or occasion.

Burn

To become sunburned or windburned.

Char

(obsolete) A turn of work; a labour or item of business.

Burn

To be or become angry
An insult that really made me burn.

Char

An odd job, a chore or piece of housework.

Burn

To be very eager
Was burning with ambition.

Char

A charlady, a woman employed to do housework; cleaning lady.
I had to scrub the kitchen today, because the char couldn't come.

Burn

To cause to undergo combustion, especially to the point of destruction
We burned the scrap wood in the fireplace.

Char

A character (text element such as a letter or symbol).

Burn

To consume (fuel or energy, for example)
Burned all the wood that winter.

Char

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Burn

To use as a fuel
A furnace that burns coal.

Char

(British) cha (tea)

Burn

To metabolize (glucose, for example) in the body.

Char

One of the several species of fishes of the genus Salvelinus, allied to the spotted trout and salmon, inhabiting deep lakes in mountainous regions in Europe. In the United States, the brook trout (Salvelinus fontinalis) is sometimes called a char.

Burn

To damage or injure by fire, heat, radiation, electricity, or a caustic agent
Burned the toast.
Burned my skin with the acid.

Char

A car; a chariot.

Burn

To make or produce by fire or heat
Burn a hole in the rug.

Char

Work done by the day; a single job, or task; a chore.
When thou hast done this chare, I give thee leaveTo play till doomsday.

Burn

To dispel or dissipate, as by heat
The sun burned off the fog. Resentments that burned away their tender feelings.

Char

To perform; to do; to finish.
Thet char is chared, as the good wife said when she had hanged her husband.

Burn

To execute or kill with fire
Burning heretics at the stake.

Char

To work or hew, as stone.

Burn

To execute by electrocution.

Char

To work by the day, without being a regularly hired servant; to do small jobs.

Burn

To irritate or inflame, as by chafing or sunburn.

Char

To reduce to coal or carbon by exposure to heat; to reduce to charcoal; to burn to a cinder.

Burn

To impart a sensation of intense heat to
The chili burned my mouth.

Char

To burn slightly or partially; as, to char wood.

Burn

To make angry
What really burns me is his arrogance.

Char

A charred substance

Burn

To brand (an animal).

Char

A human female who does housework;
The char will clean the carpet

Burn

To engrave or make indelible by burning
Burned his initials into the wood.

Char

Any of several small-scaled trout

Burn

To cause to be felt or remembered because of emotional intensity
The image of the accident was burned into my memory.

Char

Burn to charcoal;
Without a drenching rain, the forest fire will char everything

Burn

To harden or impart a finish to by subjecting to intense heat; fire
Burn clay pots in a kiln.

Char

Burn slightly and superficially so as to affect color;
The cook blackened the chicken breast
The fire charred the ceiling above the mantelpiece
The flames scorched the ceiling

Burn

To defeat in a contest, especially by a narrow margin.

Burn

(Sports) To outplay or score on (an opponent), especially through quick or deceptive movement.

Burn

To inflict harm or hardship on; hurt
"Huge loan losses have burned banks in recent years" (Christian Science Monitor).

Burn

To swindle or deceive; cheat
We really got burned on the used car we bought.

Burn

To write data onto (an optical disc).

Burn

To write (data) onto an optical disc.

Burn

An injury produced by fire, heat, radiation, electricity, or a caustic agent.

Burn

A burned place or area
A cigarette burn in the tablecloth.

Burn

An act, process, or result of burning
The fire settled down to a steady burn.

Burn

A sensation of intense heat, stinging pain, or irritation
A chili burn on the tongue.
The burn of alcohol on an open wound.

Burn

A sunburn or windburn.

Burn

A small stream; a brook.

Burn

A physical injury caused by heat, cold, electricity, radiation or caustic chemicals.
She had second-degree burns from falling in the bonfire.

Burn

A sensation resembling such an injury.
Chili burn from eating hot peppers

Burn

The act of burning something with fire.
They're doing a controlled burn of the fields.

Burn

(slang) An intense non-physical sting, as left by shame or an effective insult.

Burn

(slang) An effective insult, often in the expression sick burn excellent or badass insult.

Burn

Physical sensation in the muscles following strenuous exercise, caused by build-up of lactic acid.
One and, two and, keep moving; feel the burn!

Burn

Tobacco.

Burn

(computing) The writing of data to a permanent storage medium like a compact disc or a ROM chip.

Burn

The operation or result of burning or baking, as in brickmaking.
They have a good burn.

Burn

(uncountable) A disease in vegetables; brand.

Burn

(aerospace) The firing of a spacecraft's rockets in order to change its course.

Burn

Stream A stream.

Burn

(transitive) To cause to be consumed by fire.
He burned his manuscript in the fireplace.

Burn

(intransitive) To be consumed by fire, or in flames.
He watched the house burn.

Burn

(transitive) To overheat so as to make unusable.
He burned the toast. The blacksmith burned the steel.

Burn

(intransitive) To become overheated to the point of being unusable.
The grill was too hot and the steak burned.

Burn

(transitive) To make or produce by the application of fire or burning heat.
To burn a hole;
To burn letters into a block

Burn

(transitive) To injure (a person or animal) with heat or chemicals that produce similar damage.
She burned the child with an iron, and was jailed for ten years.

Burn

To cauterize.

Burn

(ambitransitive) To sunburn.
She forgot to put on sunscreen and burned.

Burn

(transitive) To consume, injure, or change the condition of, as if by action of fire or heat; to affect as fire or heat does.
To burn the mouth with pepper

Burn

(intransitive) To be hot, e.g. due to embarrassment.
The child's forehead was burning with fever.
Her cheeks burned with shame.

Burn

To cause to combine with oxygen or other active agent, with evolution of heat; to consume; to oxidize.
A human being burns a certain amount of carbon at each respiration.
To burn iron in oxygen

Burn

To combine energetically, with evolution of heat.
Copper burns in chlorine.

Burn

To write data to a permanent storage medium like a compact disc or a ROM chip.
We’ll burn this program onto an EEPROM one hour before the demo begins.

Burn

To render subtitles into a video's content while transcoding it, making the subtitles part of the image.
My old DVD player could play DivX files but didn't recognize the subtitle file, so I had to burn them in.

Burn

To betray.
The informant burned him.

Burn

To insult or defeat.
I just burned you again.

Burn

(transitive) To waste (time); to waste money or other resources.
We have an hour to burn.
The company has burned more than a million dollars a month this year.

Burn

In certain games, to approach near to a concealed object which is sought.
You're cold... warm... hot... you're burning!

Burn

To accidentally touch a moving stone.

Burn

In pontoon, to swap a pair of cards for another pair, or to deal a dead card.

Burn

(photography) To increase the exposure for certain areas of a print in order to make them lighter (compare dodge).

Burn

To be converted to another element in a nuclear fusion reaction, especially in a star.

Burn

To discard.

Burn

To shoot someone with a firearm.

Burn

To compromise (an agent's cover story).

Burn

To blackmail.

Burn

To consume with fire; to reduce to ashes by the action of heat or fire; - frequently intensified by up: as, to burn up wood.

Burn

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.

Burn

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.

Burn

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.

Burn

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.
This dry sorrow burns up all my tears.
When the cold north wind bloweth, . . . it devoureth the mountains, and burneth the wilderness, and consumeth the ass as fire.

Burn

To apply a cautery to; to cauterize.

Burn

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.

Burn

To be of fire; to flame.

Burn

To suffer from, or be scorched by, an excess of heat.
Your meat doth burn, quoth I.

Burn

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?
The barge she sat in, like a burnished throne,Burned on the water.
Burning with high hope.
The groan still deepens, and the combat burns.
The parching airBurns frore, and cold performs the effect of fire.

Burn

To combine energetically, with evolution of heat; as, copper burns in chlorine.

Burn

In certain games, to approach near to a concealed object which is sought.

Burn

A hurt, injury, or effect caused by fire or excessive or intense heat.

Burn

The operation or result of burning or baking, as in brickmaking; as, they have a good burn.

Burn

A small stream.

Burn

Pain that feels hot as if it were on fire

Burn

A browning of the skin resulting from exposure to the rays of the sun

Burn

An injury cause by exposure to heat or chemicals or radiation

Burn

A burned place or area

Burn

Damage inflicted by burning

Burn

Destroy by fire;
They burned the house and his diaries

Burn

Shine intensely, as if with heat;
The coals were glowing in the dark
The candles were burning

Burn

Undergo combustion;
Maple wood burns well

Burn

Cause a sharp or stinging pain or discomfort;
The sun burned his face

Burn

Cause to burn or combust;
The sun burned off the fog
We combust coal and other fossil fuels

Burn

Feel strong emotion, especially anger or passion;
She was burning with anger
He was burning to try out his new skies

Burn

Cause to undergo combustion;
Burn garbage
The car burns only Diesel oil

Burn

Burn at the stake;
Witches were burned in Salem

Burn

Spend (significant amounts of money);
He has money to burn

Burn

Feel hot or painful;
My eyes are burning

Burn

Burn, sear, or freeze (tissue) using a hot iron or electric current or a caustic agent;
The surgeon cauterized the wart

Burn

Get a sunburn by overexposure to the sun

Burn

Create by duplicating data;
Cut a disk
Burn a CD

Burn

Use up (energy);
Burn off calories through vigorous exercise

Burn

Burn with heat, fire, or radiation;
The iron burnt a hole in my dress

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