(v. t.) To consume with fire; to reduce to ashes by the action of heat or fire; -- frequently intensified by up: as, to burn up wood.
(v. t.) To injure by fire or heat; to change destructively some property or properties of, by undue exposure to fire or heat; to scorch; to scald; to blister; to singe; to char; to sear; as, to burn steel in forging; to burn one's face in the sun; the sun burns the grass.
(v. t.) To perfect or improve by fire or heat; to submit to the action of fire or heat for some economic purpose; to destroy or change some property or properties of, by exposure to fire or heat in due degree for obtaining a desired residuum, product, or effect; to bake; as, to burn clay in making bricks or pottery; to burn wood so as to produce charcoal; to burn limestone for the lime.
(v. t.) To make or produce, as an effect or result, by the application of fire or heat; as, to burn a hole; to burn charcoal; to burn letters into a block.
(v. t.) To consume, injure, or change the condition of, as if by action of fire or heat; to affect as fire or heat does; as, to burn the mouth with pepper.
(v. t.) To apply a cautery to; to cauterize.
(v. t.) To cause to combine with oxygen or other active agent, with evolution of heat; to consume; to oxidize; as, a man burns a certain amount of carbon at each respiration; to burn iron in oxygen.
(v. i.) To be of fire; to flame.
(v. i.) To suffer from, or be scorched by, an excess of heat.
(v. i.) To have a condition, quality, appearance, sensation, or emotion, as if on fire or excessively heated; to act or rage with destructive violence; to be in a state of lively emotion or strong desire; as, the face burns; to burn with fever.
(v. i.) To combine energetically, with evolution of heat; as, copper burns in chlorine.
(v. i.) In certain games, to approach near to a concealed object which is sought.
(n.) A hurt, injury, or effect caused by fire or excessive or intense heat.
(n.) The operation or result of burning or baking, as in brickmaking; as, they have a good burn.
(n.) A disease in vegetables. See Brand, n., 6.
(n.) A small stream.
Example Sentences:
(1) This is a fascinating possibility for solving the skin shortage problem especially in burn cases.
(2) Zinc in plasma and urine and serum albumin and alpha 2-macroglobulin were measured in 48 patients with burns.
(3) With the exception of PMMA and PTFE, all plastics leave a very heavy tar- and soot deposit after burning.
(4) The patient later died from complications of burns.
(5) In clinical situations on donor sites and grafted full-thickness burn wounds, the PEU film indeed prevented fluid accumulation and induced the formation of a "red" coagulum underneath.
(6) Biomass and crops for animals are as damaging as [burning] fossil fuels.” The recommendation follows advice last year that a vegetarian diet was better for the planet from Lord Nicholas Stern , former adviser to the Labour government on the economics of climate change.
(7) For the purpose of studying the role of elastase and protease of Pseudomonas aeruginosa in bacterial infection in burns, the effects of the vaccines made from each enzyme, their toxoids and OEP on protection against infection in burned mice were studied.
(8) The authors report on their experience in the use of cultured keratinocytes in severely burned children, observed in the Surgical Emergency and Pediatric Surgery Department at the Gaslini Institute of Genova.
(9) Frequency of symptoms like dizziness, headache, lachrymation, burning sensation in eyes, nausea and anorexia, etc, were much more in the exposed workers.
(10) This is triggered not so much by climate change but the cause of global warming itself: the burning of fossil fuels both inside and outside the home, says Farrar.
(11) It is often difficult if not impossible to include a pediatric patient in the planning of burn reconstruction.
(12) The fact that it is still used is regrettable yet unavoidable at present, but the average quantity is three times less than the mercury released into the atmosphere by burning the extra coal need to power equivalent incandescent bulbs.
(13) This phenomenon can have a special significance for defining the vitality in inflammation of bone tissue, in burns and in necrosis of soft tissues a.a. of the Achilles tendon.
(14) Kunduz hospital patients 'burned in beds … even wars have rules', says MSF chief Read more The resolution – which was supported by Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF), the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) and others – requests that Ban present recommendations on measures to prevent attacks and to ensure that those who carry them out are held accountable.
(15) A 26-year-old man with 40% full-thickness burns was treated by excision and split-skin grafting on the 7th post-burn day.
(16) We conclude that a burn involving the chest wall results in cardiopulmonary abnormalities, not seen after a body burn of a comparable size, which appear to be due to hyperthermia and an increased release of prostacyclin and O2 radicals.
(17) During treatment, the mother underwent an abortion and burned her face with kitchen chemicals.
(18) The tinsel coiled around a jug of squash and bauble in the strip lighting made a golf-ball size knot of guilt burn in my throat.
(19) Significant enhancement of IL-2 production by indomethacin was seen in the burned group (mean, 95%), but not in controls (mean, 23.8%) or normal mice (mean, 17.2%), and similar effects were seen with flurbiprofen.
(20) Twenty-one days of treatment of one group of burned rats with the selective beta 2-adrenergic agonist, clenbuterol, increased resting energy expenditure and normalized body weight gain, muscle mass, and muscle protein content.
Burp
Definition:
Example Sentences:
(1) "When I burp and pass wind the smell is absolutely horrendous.
(2) Emissions from livestock, largely from burping cows and sheep and their manure, currently make up almost 15% of global emissions.
(3) A 'mere' three hours per week on Radio 2 earn him £530,000 a year, which works out at £3,397 an hour, which, if you are inclined, you can break down into pounds per minute or pennies per burp.
(4) ITV's coverage of the tournament to date may or may not provide some fodder for Harry Hill's TV Burp, which returned with 4.4 million viewers, rising to 4.61 million when ITV1+1 viewers were included – a 19.3% share of the audience.
(5) In some ways these films are a straightforward response to box-office disenfranchisement: a burp from the bible belt, ignored by an industry set on manufacturing global blockbusters.
(6) Let's Dance was up against ITV1's New You've Been Framed, with 4.112 million (18.3%) and Harry Hill's TV Burp, which had 5.278 million (22.2%).
(7) In one species of vocalizing fish, the plainfin midshipman (Porichthys notatus), large, nest-guarding males ('type I') use striated muscles to produce acoustic communication signals that include short duration (less than 1 s) 'burps' important in agonistic encounters and long duration (in the order of minutes) 'hums' which function in attracting females to nest sites during the breeding season.
(8) Like, she wouldn't know that it's not OK just to burp in someone's face at the dinner table, which allowed me to play her with a measure of black comedy.
(9) It is effective in prevention of reflux and the patient is able to burp and vomit if necessary.
(10) Jack And The Beanstalk, SECC, Glasgow, to 6 Jan Harry Hill Harry Hill Ex-Burp man 1 Binoculars To check that I've legally parked from the office window.
(11) I miss Harry Hill's TV Burp [on ITV] and [BBC1's] Total Wipeout."
(12) drew 4.1 million and 19% at 7pm, while at 7.30pm Harry Hill's TV Burp brought in 5.3 million and a 23% audience share, down 1 million and five share points on last week.
(13) At the same time on ITV1, 4.5 million were watching Harry Hill's TV Burp.
(14) Burping (44.53%) and proper posturing (92%) of the child is not being practiced.
(15) Females, and a second group of smaller reproductively active males ('type II') that 'sneak' spawn, do not generate hums, although they produce burps.
(16) As executive chairman Michael Grade said he would move upstairs to become non-executive chairman of the cash-strapped broadcaster, his content-led recovery policy bore fruit with singing contest The X Factor winning best entertainment programme, while Harry Hill beat Ross to take home the Bafta for entertainment performance for the second year in a row, for his often-hilarious look at the week's television, TV Burp.
(17) W e will then live with the statistical risk of some gigantic underground burp.
(18) Decision Rules and Regulating Functions were associated only for burping during a feeding.
(19) 42% had no knowledge about the proper technique for feeding; 74%, burping; 90%, weaning; and 75%, colostrum.
(20) It was enough to put ITV1's lineup to the sword, including New You've Been Framed, which had 3.9 million viewers (17.2%) between 7.20pm and 7.50pm, and Harry Hill's TV Burp, with 4.3 million viewers (18.9%) between 7.50pm and 8.20pm.