Burner vs Stovetop - What's the difference?

As nouns the difference between burner and stovetop

is that burner is someone or something which burns while stovetop is the top of a stove; usually specifically the burners.

(en noun)

Someone or something which burns.

An element on a kitchen stove that generates localized heat for cooking.

* 1975 , (Bob Dylan), (Tangled Up in Blue)

She lit a burner on the stove

And offered me a pipe

"I thought you'd never say hello", she said

"You look like the silent type"

(chemistry) A device that generates localized heat for experiments; a bunsen burner.

A device that burns fuel; e.g. a diesel engine; a hot-air balloon's propulsion system.

A device for burning refuse; an incinerator

(computing) A device that allows data or music to be stored on a CDR or CD-ROM.

(slang) A mobile phone used for only a short time and then thrown away so that the owner cannot be traced.

(computing) An app that creates temporary phone numbers for a user.

(slang) An elaborate piece of graffiti.

* 2011 , Adam Melnyk, Visual Orgasm: The Early Years of Canadian Graffiti (page 84)

* (sense) ring

*stove-top

(en noun)

(cooking) The top of a stove; usually specifically the burners

You make this on the stovetop , not in the oven.

* cooktop * hob * range