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A physical injury caused by heat or cold or electricity or radiation or caustic chemicals.
A sensation resembling such an injury.
The act of burning something.
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(slang) An intense non-physical sting, as left by an effective insult.
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* 2010 , Stephen Fry, The Fry Chronicles :
The operation or result of burning or baking, as in brickmaking.
A disease in vegetables; brand.
An effective insult.
(lb) To be consumed by fire, or at least in flames.
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, title= (lb) To become overheated to the point of being unusable.
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(lb) To feel hot, e.g. due to embarrassment.
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(lb) To sunburn.
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To accidentally touch a moving stone.
To cause to be consumed by fire.
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(lb) To injure (a person or animal) with heat or caustic chemicals.
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(lb) To make or produce by the application of fire or burning heat.
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(lb) To consume, injure, or change the condition of, as if by action of fire or heat; to affect as fire or heat does.
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*(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.
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To write data to a permanent storage medium like a compact disc or a ROM chip.
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(lb) To waste (time).
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To insult or defeat.
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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.
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To cause to combine with oxygen or other active agent, with evolution of heat; to consume; to oxidize.
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In certain games, to approach near to a concealed object which is sought.
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(Scotland, northern England) A stream.
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(not comparable) No longer living.
(hyperbole) Figuratively, not alive; lacking life
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(of another person) So hated that they are absolutely ignored.
Without emotion.
Stationary; static.
Without interest to one of the senses; dull; flat.
Unproductive.
Completely inactive; without power; without a signal.
(not comparable) Broken or inoperable.
(not comparable) No longer used or required.
(not comparable, sports) Not in play.
Tagged out.
(not comparable) Full and complete.
(not comparable) Exact.
Experiencing pins and needles (paresthesia).
(informal) (Certain to be) in big trouble.
Constructed so as not to transmit sound; soundless.
(obsolete) Bringing death; deadly.
(legal) Cut off from the rights of a citizen; deprived of the power of enjoying the rights of property.
(engineering) Not imparting motion or power.
(lb) Exactly right.
(lb) Very, absolutely, extremely, suddenly.
As if dead.
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(in the singular) Time when coldness, darkness, or stillness is most intense.
(in the plural) Those who have died.
(archaic) Formerly, "be dead" was used instead of "have died" as the perfect tense of "die".
To prevent by disabling; stop.
* 1826 , The Whole Works of the Right Rev. Edward Reynolds, Lord Bishop of Norwich , collected by Edward Reynolds, Benedict Riveley, and Alexander Chalmers. pp. 227. London: B. Holdsworth.
To make dead; to deaden; to deprive of life, force, or vigour.
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(UK, transitive, slang) To kill.
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In lang=en terms the difference between burn and dead
is that burn is an intense non-physical sting, as left by an effective insult while dead is cut off from the rights of a citizen; deprived of the power of enjoying the rights of property.In transitive terms the difference between burn and dead
is that burn is to waste (time) while dead is to make dead; to deaden; to deprive of life, force, or vigour.As nouns the difference between burn and dead
is that burn is a physical injury caused by heat or cold or electricity or radiation or caustic chemicals while dead is (time when coldness, darkness, or stillness is most intense) Time when coldness, darkness, or stillness is most intense.As verbs the difference between burn and dead
is that burn is to be consumed by fire, or at least in flames while dead is formerly, "be dead" was used instead of "have died" as the perfect tense of "die".As an adjective dead is
no longer living.As an adverb dead is
exactly right.burn
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) bernen, birnen, from (etyl) byrnan, .Noun
(en noun)- She had second-degree burns from falling in the bonfire.
- chili burn from eating hot peppers
- They're doing a controlled burn of the fields.
citation, passage=One typical Grecian kiln engorged one thousand muleloads of juniper wood in a single burn .}}
- One and, two and, keep moving; feel the burn !
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.}}
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.}}
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]
- 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.
- They have a good burn .
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 burnVerb
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.}}
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.}}
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 burningEtymology 2
From (etyl) burn, bourne, from (etyl) burne, .Noun
(en noun)- 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.
- He may pitch on some tuft of lilacs over a burn , and smoke innumerable pipes to the tune of the water on the stones.
- When it was too heavy rain the burn ran very high and wide and ye could never jump it.
dead
English
Adjective
(er)- All of my grandparents are dead .
- When a man's verses cannot be understood, nor a man's good wit seconded with the forward child, understanding, it strikes a man more dead than a great reckoning in a little room.
- He is dead to me.
- She stood with dead face and limp arms, unresponsive to my plea.
- the dead''' load on the floor''; ''a '''dead lift .
- dead''' air''; ''a '''dead glass of soda .
- dead''' time''; '''''dead fields ; also in compounds.
- OK, the circuit's dead . Go ahead and cut the wire.
- Now that the motor's dead you can reach in and extract the spark plugs.
- That monitor is dead ; don’t bother hooking it up.
- There are several dead laws still on the books regulating where horses may be hitched.
- Is this beer glass dead ?
- Once the ball crosses the foul line, it's dead .
- dead''' stop''; '''''dead''' sleep''; '''''dead''' giveaway''; '''''dead silence
- dead''' center''; '''''dead''' aim''; ''a '''dead''' eye''; ''a '''dead level
- After sitting on my hands for a while, my arms became dead .
- "You come back here this instant! Oh, when I get my hands on you, you're dead , mister!"
- a dead floor
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- A person who is banished or who becomes a monk is civilly dead .
- the dead spindle of a lathe
Quotations
* (English Citations of "dead")Synonyms
* See alsoAntonyms
* alive * livingAdverb
(-)- dead''' right''; '''''dead''' level''; '''''dead''' flat''; '''''dead''' straight''; '''''dead left
- He hit the target dead in the centre.
- dead''' wrong''; '''''dead''' set''; '''''dead''' serious''; '''''dead''' drunk''; '''''dead''' broke''; '''''dead''' earnest''; '''''dead''' certain''; '''''dead''' slow''; '''''dead''' sure''; '''''dead''' simple''; '''''dead''' honest''; '''''dead''' accurate''; '''''dead''' easy''; '''''dead''' scared''; '''''dead''' solid''; '''''dead''' black''; '''''dead''' white''; '''''dead empty ;
- dead''' tired''; '''''dead''' quiet''; '''''dead''' asleep''; '''''dead''' pale''; '''''dead''' cold''; '''''dead still
- I was tired of reading, and dead sleepy.
Noun
(dead)- The dead''' of night.'' ''The '''dead of winter.
- Have respect for the dead .
Synonyms
* (those who have died) the deceasedVerb
(en verb)- "I do not frustrate the grace of God: for if righteousness come by the law, then Christ is dead [????????] in vain." Galatians 2:21, King James Version (1611).
- “What a man should do, when finds his natural impotency dead him in spiritual works”
- Heaven's stern decree, / With many an ill, hath numbed and deaded me.
- This dude at the club was trying to kill us so I deaded him, and then I had to collect from Spice.
- “What, you was just gonna dead him because if that's the case then why the fuck we getting the money?” Sha asked annoyed.
