(n.) One who, or that which, burns or sets fire to anything.
(n.) The part of a lamp, gas fixture, etc., where the flame is produced.
Example Sentences:
(1) As radiation sources, the following ones have proved useful: high-pressure mercury-vapour lamps, compound radiation systems consisting of high-pressure mercury-vapour burner, series coiled filament and reflector bulbs made of special glass as well as halogen metal-vapour lamps.
(2) April's blood was found in the bathroom and hall but, most importantly, on the underside of the carpet in front of the wood burner in the living room.
(3) Over the next year we hope to continue renovating the existing elements: re-insulating the north-facing walls, adding solar panels and linking the wood burner up to the central heating hot water tank."
(4) My regret at not eating these tasty snacks is soon allayed by Sara’s magical wilderness cooking skills: she somehow conjures up a three-course dinner from a few packets and a single burner.
(5) The barn where we ate and did classes was more than spacious enough for our group of 10, with underfloor heating and two wood burners making it feel positively tropical in December.
(6) Extracts of effluents from a modern residential oil burner have been evaluated in several toxicological assay systems.
(7) This is all a result of investment in British stores being put on the back burner as profits from home were poured into the US business.
(8) With this method, there is no burner clogging or adjustment necessary for sample viscosity.
(9) The level of these agents was reduced in effluents from continuous oil burner operation.
(10) For the moment, Garrett says he has put teaching on the back burner; it's nice "to have the option" to go back into it, but he will now pursue his other, more exotic career.
(11) And many of the large NGOs have even put the KXL battle on the back burner until after the elections.
(12) Some of the difficulties in the EMG assessment of this region are reviewed, as well as the clinical and EMG findings with three entities, "burners," acute brachial neuropathy, and rotator cuff tears, which affect it and which occur in athletes.
(13) The main area for improvement was the refinery at Rho where it was aimed to disperse gases at a higher level by raising the chimneys and to use fuel gas in those burners which were connected to lower chimneys.
(14) Common problems--muscle cramps, burners (or stingers), and ankle and shoulder injuries--can be managed effectively with certain basic techniques.
(15) The minimal exposure time was obtained when the standard WL microscope was equipped with a UV light source containing a DC powered mercury burner and a concave mirror.
(16) It will serve no purpose for me to speculate as to what happened but all the indications are that you burned at least a part of her in the wood burner."
(17) Two causes were identified: spilling of the contents of the fondue pot and explosion of the fondue fuel when added to the burner during a meal.
(18) The protests, if you want to call it that, are kind of on the back burner.
(19) Nitroarenes in the environment seem to be ubiquitous; the majority of the compounds are emitted directly from diesel emissions, kerosene heaters, and gas and liquefied-gas burners or heaters.
(20) We can’t afford this issue being on the back burner any longer,” said Khan.
Burnet
Definition:
(n.) A genus of perennial herbs (Poterium); especially, P.Sanguisorba, the common, or garden, burnet.
Example Sentences:
(1) You’re most at risk of being killed when you leave,” Burnet says.
(2) They could be upstairs or even behind the door,” says Burnet.
(3) In some cases, our staff can be more approachable.” The focus on domestic abuse started six years ago at Peabody, when Burnet was hired, and in that time the number of new cases reported has increased by 825%.
(4) You need to think about the fact it could be masked as something else.” If an employee spots the signs of domestic abuse, they report their concerns to the organisation’s specialist team, led by Burnet.
(5) According to the authors, although in a few cases the tumour may induce development of a clone secreting Igmc, usually carcinoma and Igmc are independent from one another and are due to a common mechanism : reduction in cell immunity, according to Burnet.
(6) The age dependence and the anatomical distribution of the lesions of such disorders imply a Burnet type 'forbidden clone' theory of ageing.
(7) Burnet spent three years working at domestic abuse charity Refuge before moving to Peabody, a large provider of social housing in London.
(8) The first, proposed by Cunningham, holds that clonal deletion as viewed by Burnet operates in early life; however, later in life all autoreactive B cells not eliminated during ontogeny are prevented from expanding and secreting anti-self antibodies by a compensatory suppressor mechanism.
(9) The discovery of the 'one cell - one antibody' dogma and the demonstration that only a small minority of B cells possessed receptors specific for a given antigen were consistent with Burnet's clonal selection hypothesis, which was later formally proven by preparing antigen-specific lymphocytes and inducing clonal activation in vitro.
(10) Burnet says the aim is to get the leaders in the community to act.
(11) I believe that Wally Rowe would have been interested, for every case I have described presents problems in the ecology of viruses, and like my mentor Macfarlane Burnet, Wally approached virology from an ecological point of view, whether he was thinking about the DNA provirus of retroviruses and the host chromosome, the pathogenesis of disease, or the spread of viruses in animal populations, all topics to which he made major contributions.
(12) Circulation of the Q fever agent with different virulent properties has indicated the necessity of purposeful diagnosis of this sickness both among the acute fever diseases and among flaccid course, subclinical and chronic ones not excluding the etiological role of the Burnet rickettsia.
(13) If the Burnet's hypothesis of the antieoplastic "immunological surveillance" is strictly interpreted, it would result unappropriate to speak of "immunosuppressive therapy" in malignant hemoblastoses and allied neoplastic diseases, although the treatment of such affections consists of the administration of mostly immune system-depressing agent.
(14) The model describing the reaction of the immune system to infectious agent invasion is constructed on the bases of Burnet's clonal selection theory and the co-recognition principle.
(15) By splendid irony, the unexpectedly available space in the vault at Westminster Abbey was soon filled ‑ with the bodies of a troop of illegitimate offspring of Charles II and their families, including the Earl of Doncaster, son of the king and his mistress Lucy Walter, and Charles Fitzroy, Duke of Cleveland and Southampton, his son by Barbara Villiers, the woman described by Bishop Burnet as "a woman of pleasure ... vastly expensive and consequently very covetous".
(16) Many problems still remain unsolved, but now as ever, the basis of most experimental studies is still formed by Burnet's clonal selection theory.
(17) Initially scheduled for only 13 weeks due to fears that its length would turn viewers off, it went on to become the most popular news show in Britain, launching the careers of some of our beest known newsreaders such as Alastair Burnet, Reginald Bosanquet, Sandy Gall, Alastair Stewart and Trevor McDonald.
(18) According to the Burnet's immune surveillance theory the T-lymphocytes eliminate malignant cells in an early stage.
(19) Burnet's clonal selection theory suggests that each B lymphocyte is committed to a single antibody specificity.
(20) The action of polyphenols of great burnet is more effective as compared with venoruton.