burner

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

1. n. One that burns, especially:
2. n. A device, as in a furnace, stove, or gas lamp, that is lighted to produce a flame.
3. n. A device on a stovetop, such as a gas jet or electric element, that produces heat.
4. n. A unit, such as a furnace, in which something is burned: an oil burner.
5. n. An incinerator.
6. n. Slang An elaborate mural painted by a graffiti artist, usually on the wall of an abandoned building.
7. n. Slang A large, multicolored graffito.
8. idiom. on the back burner As a low priority: kept the project on the back burner all summer.
9. idiom. on the front burner As a high priority.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

1. n. A person who burns or sets fire to anything.
2. n. The part of a lamp from which the flame is sues; the part that holds the wick; also, the jetpiece from which a gas-flame issues. Burners include all forms of apparatus for burning gas, oils, or vapors, singly or in combination: as, a hydrocarbon burner, carbureting gas-burner, lime-light burner, regenerative burner, etc. See lamp-burner and gas-burner.
3. n. A device for heating a painted surface so that the paint can be removed. It has a lamp to which a blowpipe is attached, by which the flame from naphtha is driven with great force against the paint softening it so that it can be scraped off.

Wiktionary

1. n. Someone or something which burns.
2. n. An element on a kitchen stove that generates localized heat for cooking.
3. n. chemistry A device that generates localized heat for experiments; a bunsen burner.
4. n. A device that burns fuel; e.g. a diesel engine; a hot-air balloon's propulsion system.
5. n. A device for burning refuse; an incinerator
6. n. computing A device that allows data or music to be stored on a CDR or CD-ROM.
7. n. slang A mobile phone used for only a short time and then thrown away so that the owner cannot be traced.
8. n. slang An elaborate piece of graffiti.

GNU Webster's 1913

1. n. One who, or that which, burns or sets fire to anything.
2. n. The part of a lamp, gas fixture, etc., where the flame is produced.

WordNet 3.0

1. n. an apparatus for burning fuel (or refuse)
2. n. the heating elements of a stove or range on which pots and pans are placed for cooking