Burn vs Break - What's the difference?

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As nouns the difference between burn and break

is that burn is water while break is break.

burn

English

Etymology 1

From (etyl) bernen, birnen, from (etyl) byrnan, .

Noun

(en noun)

A physical injury caused by heat or cold or electricity or radiation or caustic chemicals.

She had second-degree burns from falling in the bonfire.

A sensation resembling such an injury.

chili burn from eating hot peppers

The act of burning something.

They're doing a controlled burn of the fields.

* {{quote-book, year=2006, author=

, title=Internal Combustion , chapter=2 citation , passage=One typical Grecian kiln engorged one thousand muleloads of juniper wood in a single 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 !

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

tobacco

* {{quote-book, year=2002

, year_published= , publisher=Waterside Press , editor=Julian Broadhead, Laura Kerr , author=Tom Wickham , title=Prison Writing , chapter=A Day In The Wrong Life , edition=Sixteenth Edition citation , pageurl=http://books.google.com/books?id=7IpXLpypY7IC&pg=PA26 , isbn=9781872870403 , page=26 , passage=TOM: I’m serious bruv. Put my burn and lighter and all that in my jeans please and give them here, then press the cell bell.}}

* {{quote-book, year=2006

, year_published= , publisher=Chipmunkapublishing ltd , author=S. Drake , title=A Cry for Help , section=Chapter 7 citation , pageurl=http://books.google.com/books?id=LvdPsZHXG3kC&pg=PA94 , isbn=9781847470010 , page=94 , passage=“Any of you want to borrow some burn ,” asked a scarred inmate known as Bull.}}

* {{quote-book, year=2006

, year_published= , publisher=Policy Press , editor=Peter Squires , author= , title=Community Safety: Critical Perspectives on Policy and Practice , chapter= , volume= , volume_plain= , section= citation , pageurl= , isbn=9781861347305 1861347308 , page=23 , passage=It was like no one was looking out for me, and the older kids used to take the piss ...they were always threatening me and taking my burn [tobacco]

* 2010 , Stephen Fry, The Fry Chronicles :

As the prison week ended and the less careful inmates began to run out of burn they went through a peculiar begging ritual that I, never one to husband resources either, was quick to learn.

The operation or result of burning or baking, as in brickmaking.

They have a good burn .

A disease in vegetables; brand.

An effective insult.

Derived terms

* burn-in * chemical burn * first-degree burn * freezer burn * rugburn * friction burn * carpet burn * outburn * powder burn * second-degree burn * sideburns * slow burn * sunburn * third-degree burn

Verb

(lb) To be consumed by fire, or at least in flames.

*{{quote-magazine, date=2013-07-20, volume=408, issue=8845, magazine=(The Economist)

, title= Welcome to the plastisphere , passage=Plastics are energy-rich substances, which is why many of them burn so readily. Any organism that could unlock and use that energy would do well in the Anthropocene. Terrestrial bacteria and fungi which can manage this trick are already familiar to experts in the field.}}

(lb) To become overheated to the point of being unusable.

(lb) To feel hot, e.g. due to embarrassment.

(lb) To sunburn.

To accidentally touch a moving stone.

To cause to be consumed by fire.

*{{quote-magazine, date=2013-06-29, volume=407, issue=8842, page=29, magazine=(The Economist)

, title= Unspontaneous combustion , passage=Since the mid-1980s, when Indonesia first began to clear its bountiful forests on an industrial scale in favour of lucrative palm-oil plantations, “haze” has become an almost annual occurrence in South-East Asia. The cheapest way to clear logged woodland is to burn it, producing an acrid cloud of foul white smoke that, carried by the wind, can cover hundreds, or even thousands, of square miles.}}

To overheat so as to make unusable.

*:They burned the old gun that used to stand in the dark corner up in the garret, close to the stuffed fox that always grinned so fiercely. Perhaps the reason why he seemed in such a ghastly rage was that he did not come by his death fairly. Otherwise his pelt would not have been so perfect.

(lb) To injure (a person or animal) with heat or caustic chemicals.

(lb) To make or produce by the application of fire or burning heat.

(lb) To consume, injure, or change the condition of, as if by action of fire or heat; to affect as fire or heat does.

*(William Shakespeare) (1564-1616)

*:This tyrant fever burns me up.

*(John Dryden) (1631-1700)

*:This dry sorrow burns up all my tears.

To cauterize.

To betray.

To write data to a permanent storage medium like a compact disc or a ROM chip.

(lb) To waste (time).

To insult or defeat.

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

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

To combine energetically, with evolution of heat.

To cause to combine with oxygen or other active agent, with evolution of heat; to consume; to oxidize.

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

Derived terms

* burn a hole in one's pocket * * burn book * burn down * burn in * burn out * burn rubber * burn the roof * burn through * burn up * burner * burnout * ears are burning

Etymology 2

From (etyl) burn, bourne, from (etyl) burne, .

Noun

(en noun)

(Scotland, northern England) A stream.

* 1881 , Gerard Manley Hopkins,

THIS darksome burn , horseback brown,

His rollrock highroad roaring down,

In coop and in comb the fleece of his foam

Flutes and low to the lake falls home.

* 1881 , :

He may pitch on some tuft of lilacs over a burn , and smoke innumerable pipes to the tune of the water on the stones.

* 2008 , (James Kelman), Kieron Smith, Boy , Penguin 2009, page 105:

When it was too heavy rain the burn ran very high and wide and ye could never jump it.

References

* * * English ergative verbs English irregular verbs 1000 English basic words ----

break

English

(wikipedia break)

Verb

(intransitive) To separate into two or more pieces, to fracture or crack, by a process that cannot easily be reversed for reassembly.

If the vase falls to the floor, it might break .

She broke the vase.

# (intransitive) To crack or fracture (bone) under a physical strain.

His ribs broke under the weight of the rocks piled on his chest.

She broke his neck.

He slipped on the ice and broke his leg.

(US) To divide (something, often money) into smaller units.

''Can you break a hundred-dollar bill for me?

The wholesaler broke the container loads into palettes and boxes for local retailers.

To cause (a person) to lose his or her spirit or will; to crush the spirits of; to ruin (a person) emotionally.

Her child's death broke Angela.

Interrogators have used many forms of torture to break prisoners of war.

* Shakespeare

an old man, broken with the storms of state

To be crushed, or overwhelmed with sorrow or grief.

My heart is breaking .

To cause (a person or animal) to lose its will.

You have to break an elephant before you can use it as an animal of burden.

The interrogator hoped to break her to get her testimony against her accomplices.

To interrupt; to destroy the continuity of; to dissolve or terminate.

I've got to break this habit I have of biting my nails.

to break''' silence; to '''break''' one's sleep; to '''break one's journey

I had won four games in a row, but now you've broken my streak of luck.

* Shakespeare

Go, release them, Ariel; / My charms I'll break , their senses I'll restore.

To ruin financially.

The recession broke some small businesses.

* Dryden

With arts like these rich Matho, when he speaks, / Attracts all fees, and little lawyers breaks .

To violate, to not adhere to.

When you go to Vancouver, promise me you won't break the law.

He broke his vows by cheating on his wife.

break one's word

Time travel would break'' the laws of physics.

* Milton

Out, out, hyena! these are thy wonted arts / To break all faith, all vows, deceive, betray.

(of a fever) To pass the most dangerous part of the illness; to go down, temperaturewise.

Susan's fever broke at about 3 AM, and the doctor said the worst was over.

To design or use a powerful (yet legal) strategy that unbalances the game in a player's favor.

Letting white have three extra queens would break chess.

(intransitive) To stop, or to cause to stop, functioning properly or altogether.

On the hottest day of the year the refrigerator broke .

Did you two break the trolley by racing with it?

# To cause (some feature of a program or piece of software) to stop functioning properly; to cause a regression.

Adding 64-bit support broke backward compatibility with earlier versions.

To cause (a barrier) to no longer bar.

break a seal

# (specifically) To cause the shell of (an egg) to crack, so that the inside (yolk) is accessible.

# (specifically) To open (a safe) without using the correct key, combination or the like.

(of a wave of water) To collapse into surf, after arriving in shallow water.

To end.

The forecast says the hot weather will break by midweek.

To burst forth; to make its way; to come into view.

* Shakespeare

The clouds are still above; and, while I speak, / A second deluge o'er our head may break .

* Wordsworth

And from the turf a fountain broke , / And gurgled at our feet.

To interrupt or cease one's work or occupation temporarily.

Let's break for lunch.

To interrupt (a fall) by inserting something so that the falling object not hit something else beneath.

He survived the jump out the window because the bushes below broke his fall.

(ergative) To disclose or make known an item of news, etc.

The newsman wanted to break a big story, something that would make him famous.

I don't know how to break this to you, but your cat is not coming back.

In the latest breaking news...

When news of their divorce broke , ...

(of morning) To arrive.

Morning has broken .

* Shakespeare

The day begins to break , and night is fled.

(of a sound) To become audible suddenly.

* , The Battle-Day of Germantown'', reprinted in ''Washington and His Generals "1776" , page 45 [http://google.com/books?id=EM-qNjWrI9YC&pg=PA45&dq=%22sound+of+musquetry%22]:

Like the crash of thunderbolts.

To change a steady state abruptly.

His coughing broke the silence.

His turning on the lights broke the enchantment.

With the mood broken , what we had been doing seemed pretty silly.

(copulative, informal) To suddenly become.

Things began breaking bad for him when his parents died.

The arrest was standard, when suddenly the suspect broke ugly.

Of a voice, to alter in type: in men generally to go up, in women sometimes to go down; to crack.

His voice breaks when he gets emotional.

To surpass or do better than (a specific number), to do better than (a record), setting a new record.

He broke the men's 100-meter record.

I can't believe she broke 3 under par!

The policeman broke sixty on a residential street in his hurry to catch the thief.

(sports, and, games):

# (tennis) To win a game (against one's opponent) as receiver.

He needs to break serve to win the match.

#* {{quote-news, year=2012

, date=June 28 , author=Jamie Jackson , title=Wimbledon 2012: Lukas Rosol shocked by miracle win over Rafael Nadal , work=the Guardian citation , page= , passage=Yet when play restarted the Czech was a train that kept on running over Nadal. After breaking Nadal in the opening game of the final set, he went 2-0 up and later took the count to 4-2 with yet another emphatic ace – one of his 22 throughout.}}

# (intransitive, billiards, snooker, pool) To make the first shot; to scatter the balls from the initial neat arrangement.

Is it your or my turn to break ?

# (backgammon) To remove one of the two men on (a point).

To demote, to reduce the military rank of.

* 1953 February 9, “ Books: First Rulers of Asia”, in Time :

And he played no favorites: when his son-in-law sacked a city he had been told to spare, Genghis broke him to private.

* 1968 , , Back Bay (2003), ISBN 978-0-316-52940-2, page 215:

One morning after the budget had failed to balance Finanzminister von Scholz picked up Der Reichsanzeiger and found he had been broken to sergeant.

* 2006 , , Medal of Honor: Portraits of Valor Beyond the Call of Duty , Second Edition, Artisan Books, ISBN 978-1-57965-314-9, page 42:

Not long after this event, Clausen became involved in another disciplinary situation and was broken to private—the only one to win the Medal of Honor in Vietnam.

To end (a connection), to disconnect.

The referee ordered the boxers to break the clinch.

The referee broke the boxers' clinch.

I couldn't hear a thing he was saying, so I broke the connection and called him back.

(of an emulsion) To demulsify.

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(sports) To counter-attack

* {{quote-news, year=2010

, date=December 28 , author=Kevin Darlin , title=West Brom 1 - 3 Blackburn , work=BBC citation , page= , passage=The Baggies almost hit back instantly when Graham Dorrans broke from midfield and pulled the trigger from 15 yards but Paul Robinson did superbly to tip the Scot's drive around the post. }}

(obsolete) To lay open, as a purpose; to disclose, divulge, or communicate.

* Shakespeare

Katharine, break thy mind to me.

To become weakened in constitution or faculties; to lose health or strength.

* Jonathan Swift

See how the dean begins to break ; / Poor gentleman he droops apace.

(obsolete) To fail in business; to become bankrupt.

* Francis Bacon

He that puts all upon adventures doth oftentimes break , and come to poverty.

To destroy the arrangement of; to throw into disorder; to pierce.

The cavalry were not able to break the British squares.

To destroy the strength, firmness, or consistency of.

to break flax

To destroy the official character and standing of; to cashier; to dismiss.

* Jonathan Swift

I see a great officer broken .

To make an abrupt or sudden change; to change the gait.

to break into a run or gallop

(archaic) To fall out; to terminate friendship.

* Collier

To break upon the score of danger or expense is to be mean and narrow-spirited.

Quotations

* (English Citations of "break")

Usage notes

The sense relating to a spell of weather is most likely to be used after a period of persistent good or bad weather; it is rarely used to signify the end of short-lived conditions. In colloquial use, the past participle is sometimes 'broke' instead of 'broken,' as in the expression "."

Synonyms

* burst, bust, shatter, shear, smash, split * crack, fracture * subject, tame * contravene, go against, violate * break down, bust, fail, go down (of a computer or computer network)

Antonyms

* assemble, fix, join, mend, put together, repair * hold

Derived terms

* breakage * break a leg * break apart * break away * break bad * break bread * break down * breaker * break even * break in * break into * break loose * break new ground * break off * break one's fast * break open * break out * break rank * break someone's heart * break stride * break the ice * break through * break up * break wind * icebreaker * make-or-break * outbreak * be on a break

Noun

(en noun)

An instance of breaking something into two pieces.

The femur has a clean break and so should heal easily.

A physical space that opens up in something or between two things.

The sun came out in a break in the clouds.

He waited minutes for a break in the traffic to cross the highway.

(music) A short section of music, often between verses, in which some performers stop while others continue.

The fiddle break was amazing; it was a pity the singer came back in on the wrong note.

A rest or pause, usually from work; a breaktime.

Let’s take a five-minute break .

A temporary split (with a romantic partner).

I think we need a break.

An interval or intermission between two parts of a performance, for example a theatre show, broadcast, or sports game.

* {{quote-news, year=2010

, date=December 29 , author=Chris Whyatt , title=Chelsea 1 - 0 Bolton , work=BBC citation , page= , passage=But they marginally improved after the break as Didier Drogba hit the post. }}

A significant change in circumstance, attitude, perception, or focus of attention: big break, lucky break, bad break.

(British, weather) a change; the end of a spell of persistent good or bad weather

The beginning (of the morning).

daybreak

at the break of day

An act of escaping.

make a break for it

make a break for the door

It was a clean break .

prison break

(surfing) A place where waves break (that is, where waves pitch or spill forward creating white water).

The final break in the Greenmount area is Kirra Point.

# (tennis) A game won by the receiving player(s).

# (billiards, snooker, pool) The first shot in a game of billiards

# (snooker) The number of points scored by one player in one visit to the table

# (soccer) The counter-attack

#* {{quote-news, year=2010

, date=December 28 , author=Owen Phillips , title=Sunderland 0 - 2 Blackpool , work=BBC citation , page= , passage=Blackpool were not without their opportunities - thanks to their willingness to commit and leave men forward even when under severe pressure - and they looked very capable of scoring on the break . }}

(dated) A large four-wheeled carriage, having a straight body and calash top, with the driver's seat in front and the footman's behind.

A sharp bit or snaffle.

* Gascoigne

Pampered jades which need nor break nor bit.

Usage notes

* (music) The instruments that are named are the ones that carry on playing, for example a (fiddle break) implies that the fiddle is the most prominent instrument playing during the break.

Synonyms

* (instance of breaking something into two pieces) split * (physical space that opens up in something or between two things) breach, gap, space * (sense) time out

Derived terms

* beach break * bio-break * break point * century break * clean break * daybreak * give someone a break * heartbreak * jailbreak * make a break for it * maximum break * point break * take a break

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Burn vs Break - What's the difference?

As nouns the difference between burn and break

burn

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break

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