noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a CD burner/writer (= a piece of equipment for putting music, information etc on CDs )
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By 2002, CD burners were standard hardware for home computers.
Bunsen burner
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
back
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It had begun exploding when you lit the back burners , and Mrs Hooper was getting too nervous to touch it.
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Issues like desegregation go on the back burner .
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Their food was boiling in a pan on the back burner of the gas-stove in the alcove by the pantry door.
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The hazardous weather conditions put concerns about budget developments and the economy on the back burner .
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That put any promotion aspirations on the back burner .
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Their other project, meanwhile, is on the back burner .
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So for most of that period, the new perfume project was on the back burner .
■ NOUN
charcoal
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There may be charcoal pans where charcoal burners camped periodically to use the wood from the area around to produce charcoal.
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The brothers, Ray and Alan Mitchell, are charcoal burners .
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Of course, she thought, still clinging to the dubious shelter of the doorway. Charcoal burners .
gas
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The only way of heating it was by means of six or seven gas burners .
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I drink red wine and heat a pita bread on the gas burner and wrap it around alfalfa sprouts or green linguine.
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The gas burner was still on.
■ VERB
use
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A lever lid tin was used to heat coal dust, using a spirit burner .
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Coal to heat coal dust, using a spirit burner .
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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All burners have automatic ignition and re-ignition.
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He waylaid Stella in the paint-frame where she had been sent to boil rabbit glue on the Bunsen burner .
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I have hot-air heat, with burner and furnace three years old.
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It may be necessary to pre-heat the burner in cool weather and the fumes can be smelly.
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The connections were loose, and the optic burner didn't respond to her impulse command.
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Their other project, meanwhile, is on the back burner .
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When he said no, she turned down the burner on the stove.