What's the difference between burnt and burst?

Burnt


Definition:

  • () of Burn
  • (p. p. & a.) Consumed with, or as with, fire; scorched or dried, as with fire or heat; baked or hardened in the fire or the sun.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) He was burnt alive along with three customers as flames from the car set his carpet shop ablaze.
  • (2) Chemical analysis of the smoke concensate of bidis and cigarettes showed that condensate from bidis had a higher benzo[a]pyrene level than was observed in cigarette smoke condensate, when compared on the basis of the mass (mg) burnt.
  • (3) We believe that 'neuromuscular and vascular hamartoma' is not a hamartomatous condition but may be seen as part of the histological spectrum of Crohn's disease, possibly in a chronic and 'burnt out' phase.
  • (4) The authors present a retrospective investigation concerning 49 EEG performed on 45 patients from five months to nineteen years old, presenting a burnt skin surface of between 1% and 70%.
  • (5) The fires raced through burnt and unburnt areas alike, leaping roads and clearings.
  • (6) "Will I get burnt to death in a giant effigy of a man woven from wicker?"
  • (7) Associate professor Ian O’Hara from Queensland University of Technology’s Centre for Tropical Crops and Biocommodities is leading a $5.7m project (with $2.1m Arena funding ) to convert the industry’s crop wastes (which are usually either burnt or left to degrade) into renewable fuels for farming and transportation.
  • (8) Divers have found the body of one of two oil workers who were missing after four others were badly burnt by an explosion on a platform in the Gulf of Mexico.
  • (9) He went from minstrel show to blackface, from vaudeville to Broadway before he hit a fabulous prosperity as the most sentimental of all sentimental singers, a poor Russian cantor's son daubed with burnt cork and down on one knee sobbing for the "mammy" he had never known in a south that nobody ever knew.
  • (10) Parts of the town have been burnt, our facilities were completely looted, but people are coming back and are not afraid any more.
  • (11) Twenty cows and 20 uncalved 20 month old heifers with severely burnt teats were studied.
  • (12) Pulsatile release of luteinising hormone was found in control subjects but was absent or diminished in burnt patients with low serum testosterone concentrations.
  • (13) This must have happened while the rest of us were trying to avoid being burnt at the stake by raging Protestants and Patrick Harvie.
  • (14) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Burnt-out classrooms in Chibok, from where Boko Haram fighters seized 276 teenagers in April 2014.
  • (15) Zschäpe was arrested in November 2011, after the bodies of Mundlos and Böhnhardt were found in a burnt out caravan in Eisenach, following a bank robbery that went badly wrong, after which the men apparently killed each other in a suicide pact.
  • (16) "The film has burnt everybody out for this year," says Allen, pointing out that the actors who play Will and Simon, Simon Bird and Joe Thomas, are pushing 28.
  • (17) After 20 days 4 sheets of cells of first subculture, each 10 cm in diameter, representing a surface of approximately 300 cm2, were implanted on the front of the left thigh, which was burnt third-degree deep.
  • (18) It owed altogether too much to Scott and was a fiasco that stung its author so badly that a story claims he sought out all the copies he could find to have them burnt.
  • (19) Sulfuric acid was carefully distilled off the burnt material.
  • (20) Howard Amos (@howardamos) Back outside the burnt out trade union building.

Burst


Definition:

  • (imp. & p. p.) of Burst
  • (v. i.) To fly apart or in pieces; of break open; to yield to force or pressure, especially to a sudden and violent exertion of force, or to pressure from within; to explode; as, the boiler had burst; the buds will burst in spring.
  • (v. i.) To exert force or pressure by which something is made suddenly to give way; to break through obstacles or limitations; hence, to appear suddenly and unexpectedly or unaccountably, or to depart in such manner; -- usually with some qualifying adverb or preposition, as forth, out, away, into, upon, through, etc.
  • (v. t.) To break or rend by violence, as by an overcharge or by strain or pressure, esp. from within; to force open suddenly; as, to burst a cannon; to burst a blood vessel; to burst open the doors.
  • (v. t.) To break.
  • (v. t.) To produce as an effect of bursting; as, to burst a hole through the wall.
  • (n.) A sudden breaking forth; a violent rending; an explosion; as, a burst of thunder; a burst of applause; a burst of passion; a burst of inspiration.
  • (n.) Any brief, violent exertion or effort; a spurt; as, a burst of speed.
  • (n.) A sudden opening, as of landscape; a stretch; an expanse.
  • (n.) A rupture or hernia; a breach.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) This modulation results from repetitive, alternating bursts of excitatory and inhibitory postsynaptic potentials, which are caused at least in part by synaptic feedback to the command neurons from identified classes of neurons in the feeding network.
  • (2) Pokeweed mitogen-stimulated rat spleen cells were identified as a reliable source of rat burst-promoting activity (PBA), which permitted development of a reproducible assay for rat bone marrow erythroid burst-forming units (BFU-E).
  • (3) PMNs could be primed for PMA-triggered oxidative burst by muramyl peptide molecules (MDP) and two of its adjuvant active nonpyrogenic derivatives.
  • (4) For each temporal position of the independent noise, discriminability was a function of the ratio of the duration of the independent noise (tau) to the total burst duration.
  • (5) Peripheral blood monocytes undergo an oxidative burst similar to that seen in neutrophils.
  • (6) The 20-year-old now holds two world records after he broke the 50m best at the European Championships in Berlin during a 2014 season which saw him burst on to the international stage.
  • (7) Masking experiments are demonstrated for electrical frequency-modulated tone bursts from 1,000 to 10,000 cps and from 10,000 to 1,000 cps with superimposed clicks.
  • (8) Isolated outer hair cells from the organ of Corti of the guinea pig have been shown to change length in response to a mechanical stimulus in the form of a tone burst at a fixed frequency of 200 Hz (Canlon et al., 1988).
  • (9) Moreover, the most recent combined application of the rat interstitial cell testosterone (RICT) bioassay and a novel multiple-parameter deonvolution model has allowed investigators to dissect plasma concentration profiles of bioactive LH into defined secretory bursts, which have numerically explicit amplitudes, locations in time, and durations, and are acted upon by determinable subject- and study-specific endogenous metabolic clearance rates.
  • (10) By this action, oxytocin is believed to increase the probability of successful regenerative spikes and thereby initiate electrical activity in quiescent preparations, increase the frequency of burst discharges, the number of spikes in each burst, and the amplitude of spikes in individual cells.
  • (11) When we gave her a gift of a few books in English, she burst out crying.
  • (12) Our hypothesis is that phase unlocking may be one of the induction mechanisms of spike-burst activity.
  • (13) As the frequency of the stimulus bursts was progressively changed, the sinoatrial (SA) nodal pacemaker cells became synchronized with the repetitive bursts of stimuli over a certain range of burst frequencies.
  • (14) Respiratory burst activity was evaluated in monolayers of rat inflammatory peritoneal macrophages by measuring: (1) luminol-dependent chemiluminescence and (2) the production of 14CO2 from the oxidation of [1-14C] glucose.
  • (15) After more than 10 weeks, CD34+, CD33- cells gradually recovered, as erythroid burst colony-forming cells increased following GM colony-forming cells.
  • (16) It is suggested that during increased levels of extracellular adenosine the response of LGND relay neurones to activating brainstem influences will be depressed, and a pattern of Ca(2+)-mediated burst firing will be favoured.
  • (17) Polygraphic and videotape recordings, carried out for several nights, showed that after nearly each REM period, he would wake up briefly, presenting eye blinking followed by a burst of generalized hypersynchronous theta to start his seizures.
  • (18) To test this hypothesis 30 Wistar rats were subjected to laparotomy and colonic resection and treated with 5-Fluorouracil or Mitomycin C. The bursting strength of the abdominal scars and the colonic anastomotic bursting pressure revealed some interference in the rats treated with 5-Fluorouracil (Student's t test P less than 0.05) but none in the case of Mitomycin C. This preliminary study deserves to be followed up.
  • (19) For now however, what’s left of their fan base are enjoying a rare burst of sunshine.
  • (20) Similar responses were obtained with gated noise bursts and by pauses in a series of clicks.