Burn vs Prick - What's the difference?
burn | prick | Synonyms |
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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(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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*: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.
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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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A small hole or perforation, caused by piercing.
An indentation or small mark made with a pointed object.
(obsolete) A dot or other diacritical mark used in writing; a point.
(obsolete) A tiny particle; a small amount of something; a jot.
A small pointed object.
* Shakespeare
* Bible, Acts ix. 5
The experience or feeling of being pierced or punctured by a small, sharp object.
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(slang, vulgar) The penis.
(slang, pejorative) Someone (especially a man or boy) who is unpleasant, rude or annoying.
(now, historical) A small roll of yarn or tobacco.
The footprint of a hare.
(obsolete) A point or mark on the dial, noting the hour.
* Shakespeare
(obsolete) The point on a target at which an archer aims; the mark; the pin.
* Spenser
To pierce or puncture slightly.
To form by piercing or puncturing.
(dated) To be punctured; to suffer or feel a sharp pain, as by puncture.
To incite, stimulate, goad.
* (rfdate), (Shakespeare), (Two Gentlemen of Verona) , ii. 7.
To affect with sharp pain; to sting, as with remorse.
* Bible, Acts ii. 37
* Tennyson
(archaic) To urge one's horse on; to ride quickly.
* 1590 , (Edmund Spenser), (The Faerie Queene) , III.1:
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(transitive, chiefly, nautical) To mark the surface of (something) with pricks or dots; especially, to trace a ship’s course on (a chart).
(nautical, obsolete) To run a middle seam through the cloth of a sail. (The Universal Dictionary of the English Language, 1896)
To make acidic or pungent.
To become sharp or acid; to turn sour, as wine.
To aim at a point or mark.
To fix by the point; to attach or hang by puncturing.
* Sandys
(obsolete) To mark or denote by a puncture; to designate by pricking; to choose; to mark.
* Francis Bacon
* Sir Walter Scott
* Shakespeare
To make sharp; to erect into a point; to raise, as something pointed; said especially of the ears of an animal, such as a horse or dog; and usually followed by up .
* Dryden
(obsolete) To dress; to prink; usually with up .
(farriery) To drive a nail into (a horse's foot), so as to cause lameness.
(Webster 1913)
Burn is a synonym of prick.
As nouns the difference between burn and prick
is that burn is water while prick is a small hole or perforation, caused by piercing.As a verb prick is
to pierce or puncture slightly.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.
prick
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) prik, prikke, from (etyl) prica, . Pejorative context came from prickers, or witch-hunters.Noun
(en noun)- Pins, wooden pricks , nails, sprigs of rosemary.
- It is hard for thee to kick against the pricks .
- I felt a sharp prick as the nurse took a sample of blood.
- the pricks of conscience
- the prick of noon
- they that shooten nearest the prick
Derived terms
* pricker * prickle * prickly * pricktease * prickteaserEtymology 2
From (etyl) .Verb
(en verb)- John hardly felt the needle prick his arm when the adept nurse drew blood.
- to prick holes in paper
- to prick a pattern for embroidery
- to prick the notes of a musical composition
- (Cowper)
- A sore finger pricks .
- My duty pricks me on to utter that.
- Now when they heard this, they were pricked in their heart.
- I was pricked with some reproof.
- (Milton)
- At last, as through an open plaine they yode, / They spide a knight that towards them pricked fayre [...].
- Indeed, it is a memorable subject for consideration, with what unconcern and gaiety mankind pricks on along the Valley of the Shadow of Death.
- (Hudibras)
- (Hawkins)
- to prick a knife into a board
- The cooks prick it [a slice] on a prong of iron.
- (Isaac Newton)
- Some who are pricked for sheriffs.
- Let the soldiers for duty be carefully pricked off.
- Those many, then, shall die: their names are pricked .
- The courser pricks up his ears.