Burn vs Use - What's the difference?
burn | use | 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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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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, title= To overheat so as to make unusable.
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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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The act of using.
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* Milton
* Alexander Pope
A function; a purpose for which something may be employed.
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(obsolete, rare) Interest for lent money; premium paid for the use of something; usury.
* 1599 , (William Shakespeare), (Much Ado About Nothing) ,
* Jeremy Taylor
(archaic) Continued or repeated practice; usage; habit.
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* Shakespeare
(obsolete) Common occurrence; ordinary experience.
* Shakespeare
(religion) The special form of ritual adopted for use in any diocese.
* Book of Common Prayer
(forging) A slab of iron welded to the side of a forging, such as a shaft, near the end, and afterward drawn down, by hammering, so as to lengthen the forging.
(archaic) To accustom; to habituate.
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*(John Milton) (1608–1674)
*:Thou with thy compeers, / Used to the yoke, draw'st his triumphant wheels.
To employ; to apply; to utilize.
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To exploit.
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, magazine=(American Scientist), title= (dated) To behave toward; to act with regard to; to treat.
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*(John Milton) (1608–1674)
*:How wouldst thou use me now?
*(Joseph Addison) (1672–1719)
*:Cato has used me ill.
To habitually do; to be wont to do.
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*Bible, 1 (w) iv.9
*:Use hospitality one to another.
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*:Peter Pol'', doctor in divinitie used to sit upon his mule, who as ''Monstrelet'' reporteth, was wont to ride up and downe the streets of ''Paris , ever sitting sideling, as women use .
* 1693 , Sir Norman Knatchbull, Annotations upon some difficult texts in all the books of the New Testament
(past tense with infinitive) To habitually do. See used to.
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Burn is a synonym of use.
As a noun burn
is water.As a verb use is
.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.
use
English
(wikipedia use)Alternative forms
* (archaic)Etymology 1
From (etyl) from Old English nytt.Noun
(en noun)Ed Pilkington
‘Killer robots’ should be banned in advance, UN told, passage=In his submission to the UN, [Christof] Heyns points to the experience of drones. Unmanned aerial vehicles were intended initially only for surveillance, and their use for offensive purposes was prohibited, yet once strategists realised their perceived advantages as a means of carrying out targeted killings, all objections were swept out of the way.}}
- God made two great lights, great for their use / To man.
- 'Tis use alone that sanctifies expense.
How algorithms rule the world, passage=The use of algorithms in policing is one example of their increasing influence on our lives. And, as their ubiquity spreads, so too does the debate around whether we should allow ourselves to become so reliant on them – and who, if anyone, is policing their use.}}
- I have no further use for these textbooks.
- DON PEDRO. Come, lady, come; you have lost the heart of Signior Benedick.
- BEATRICE. Indeed, my lord, he lent it me awhile; and I gave him use for it, a double heart for a single one: [...]
- Thou art more obliged to pay duty and tribute, use and principal, to him.
- Let later age that noble use envy.
- How weary, stale, flat and unprofitable, / Seem to me all the uses of this world!
- O Caesar! these things are beyond all use .
- the Sarum, or Canterbury, use'''; the Hereford '''use'''; the York '''use'''; the Roman '''use ; etc.
- From henceforth all the whole realm shall have but one use .
Synonyms
* (act of using) employment, usage, note, nait * (usefulness) benefit, good, point, usefulness, utility, note, naitDerived terms
* disuse * fair use * hyper-use * misuse * no use * overuse * reuse * underuse * useful * useless * usement * what’s the useEtymology 2
From (etyl) ).Verb
(us)David Van Tassel], [http://www.americanscientist.org/authors/detail/lee-dehaan Lee DeHaan
Wild Plants to the Rescue, volume=101, issue=3, magazine=(American Scientist) , passage=Plant breeding is always a numbers game.
Katie L. Burke
In the News, passage=Oxygen levels on Earth skyrocketed 2.4 billion years ago, when cyanobacteria evolved photosynthesis: the ability to convert water and carbon dioxide into carbohydrates and waste oxygen using solar energy.}}
- For in the Rites of funeration they did use to anoint the dead body, with Aromatick Spices and Oyntments, before they buried them.