say it: BUR-nur
burner is a noun meaning "an apparatus for burning fuel (or refuse)". It carries 2 recorded senses.
an apparatus for burning fuel (or refuse)
“a diesel engine is an oil burner”
the heating elements of a stove or range on which pots and pans are placed for cooking
“the electric range had one large burner and three smaller one”
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for burner come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.