Burn vs Smart - What's the difference?
burn | smart | 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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, 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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*: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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To hurt or sting.
* 1897 , (Bram Stoker), (Dracula) Chapter 21
To cause a smart or sting in.
* T. Adams
To feel a pungent pain of mind; to feel sharp pain or grief; to suffer; to feel the sting of evil.
* Alexander Pope
* Bible, Proverbs xi. 15
Causing sharp pain; stinging.
* Shakespeare
Sharp; keen; poignant.
Exhibiting social ability or cleverness.
* 1811 , Jane Austen, Sense and Sensibility , chapter 19
Exhibiting intellectual knowledge, such as that found in books.
(often, in combination) Equipped with intelligent behaviour.
Good-looking.
Cleverly shrewd and humorous in a way that may be rude and disrespectful.
* Young
* Addison
Sudden and intense.
* Clarendon
* 1860 July 9, Henry David Thoreau, journal entry, from Thoreau's bird-lore'', Francis H. Allen (editor), Houghton Mifflin (Boston, 1910), ''Thoreau on Birds: notes on New England birds from the Journals of Henry David Thoreau , Beacon Press, (Boston, 1993), page 239:
(US, Southern, dated) Intense in feeling; painful. Used usually with the adverb intensifier right .
(archaic) Efficient; vigorous; brilliant.
* Dryden
(archaic) Pretentious; showy; spruce.
(archaic) Brisk; fresh.
A sharp, quick, lively pain; a sting.
Mental pain or suffering; grief; affliction.
* Milton
* Spenser
Smart-money.
(slang, dated) A dandy; one who is smart in dress; one who is brisk, vivacious, or clever.
In intransitive terms the difference between burn and smart
is that burn is to sunburn while smart is to hurt or sting.In transitive terms the difference between burn and smart
is that burn is to waste (time) while smart is to cause a smart or sting in.As an adjective smart is
causing sharp pain; stinging.As an initialism SMART is
specific, Measurable, Attainable, Realistic, Tangible, a mnemonic for goal-setting.As a proper noun Smart is
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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.
smart
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) smerten, from (etyl) .Verb
- After being hit with a pitch, the batter exclaimed "Ouch, my arm smarts !"
- He moved convulsively, and as he did so, said, "I'll be quiet, Doctor. Tell them to take off the strait waistcoat. I have had a terrible dream, and it has left me so weak that I cannot move. What's wrong with my face? It feels all swollen, and it smarts dreadfully."
- A goad that smarts the flesh.
- No creature smarts so little as a fool.
- He that is surety for a stranger shall smart for it.
Etymology 2
From (etyl) smart, smarte, smerte, from (etyl) .Adjective
(er)- How smart a lash that speech doth give my conscience.
- a smart pain
- I always preferred the church, and I still do. But that was not smart' enough for my family. They recommended the army. That was a great deal too ' smart for me.
- smart''' bomb'', '''''smart car
- smart'''card'', '''''smart phone
- a smart outfit
- He became tired of his daughter's sarcasm and smart remarks''.
- Who, for the poor renown of being smart / Would leave a sting within a brother's heart?
- a sentence or two, which I thought very smart
- smart skirmishes, in which many fell
- There is a smart shower at 5 P.M., and in the midst of it a hummingbird is busy about the flowers in the garden, unmindful of it, though you would think that each big drop that struck him would be a serious accident.
- He raised his voice, and it hurt her feelings right smart .
- That cast on his leg chaffs him right smart .
- The stars shine smarter .
- a smart gown
- a smart breeze
Synonyms
* (exhibiting social ability) bright, capable, sophisticated, witty * (exhibiting intellectual knowledge) cultivated, educated, learned, see also * (good-looking) attractive, chic, stylish, handsome * sillyAntonyms
* (exhibiting social ability) backward, banal, boorish, dull, inept * (exhibiting intellectual knowledge) ignorant, uncultivated, simple * (good-looking) garish, , tackyDerived terms
* smart aleck * smart as a whip * smart casual * smart offEtymology 3
From (etyl) smerte, from . More above.Noun
(en noun)- To stand 'twixt us and our deserved smart .
- Counsel mitigates the greatest smart .
- (Fielding)