The difference between Beck and Burn
When used as nouns, beck means a stream or small river, whereas burn means a physical injury caused by heat, cold, electricity, radiation or caustic chemicals.
When used as verbs, beck means to nod or motion with the head, whereas burn means to cause to be consumed by fire.
check bellow for the other definitions of Beck and Burn
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Beck as a noun (Norfolk, Northern English dialect):
A stream or small river.
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Beck as a noun:
A significant nod, or motion of the head or hand, especially as a call or command.
Examples:
"To be at the beck and call of someone."
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Beck as a verb (archaic):
To nod or motion with the head.
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Beck as a noun:
A vat.
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Beck as a noun:
Examples:
"rfquotek Spenser"
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Burn as a noun:
A physical injury caused by heat, cold, electricity, radiation or caustic chemicals.
Examples:
"She had second-degree burns from falling in the bonfire."
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Burn as a noun:
A sensation resembling such an injury.
Examples:
"chili burn from eating hot peppers"
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Burn as a noun:
The act of burning something.
Examples:
"They're doing a controlled burn of the fields."
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Burn as a noun (slang):
An intense non-physical sting, as left by shame or an effective insult.
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Burn as a noun (slang):
An effective insult, often in the expression sick burn .
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Burn as a noun:
Physical sensation in the muscles following strenuous exercise, caused by build-up of lactic acid.
Examples:
"One and, two and, keep moving; feel the burn!"
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Burn as a noun (UK, chiefly, prison, _, slang):
tobacco
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Burn as a noun:
The operation or result of burning or baking, as in brickmaking.
Examples:
"They have a good burn."
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Burn as a noun:
A disease in vegetables; brand.
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Burn as a verb (transitive):
To cause to be consumed by fire.
Examples:
"He burned his manuscript in the fireplace."
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Burn as a verb (intransitive):
To be consumed by fire, or in flames.
Examples:
"He watched the house burn."
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Burn as a verb (transitive):
To overheat so as to make unusable.
Examples:
"He burned the toast. The blacksmith burned the steel."
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Burn as a verb (intransitive):
To become overheated to the point of being unusable.
Examples:
"The grill was too hot and the steak burned."
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Burn as a verb (transitive):
To make or produce by the application of fire or burning heat.
Examples:
"to burn a hole;  to burn letters into a block"
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Burn as a verb (transitive):
To injure (a person or animal) with heat or chemicals that produce similar damage.
Examples:
"She burned the child with an iron, and was jailed for ten years."
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Burn as a verb (transitive, surgery):
To cauterize.
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Burn as a verb (ambitransitive):
To sunburn.
Examples:
"She forgot to put on sunscreen and burned."
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Burn as a verb (transitive):
To consume, injure, or change the condition of, as if by action of fire or heat; to affect as fire or heat does.
Examples:
"to burn the mouth with pepper"
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Burn as a verb (intransitive):
To be hot, e.g. due to embarrassment.
Examples:
"The child's forehead was burning with fever.  Her cheeks burned with shame."
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Burn as a verb (chemistry, transitive):
To cause to combine with oxygen or other active agent, with evolution of heat; to consume; to oxidize.
Examples:
"A human being burns a certain amount of carbon at each respiration.  nowrap to burn iron in oxygen"
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Burn as a verb (chemistry, dated):
To combine energetically, with evolution of heat.
Examples:
"Copper burns in chlorine."
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Burn as a verb (transitive, computing):
To write data to a permanent storage medium like a compact disc or a ROM chip.
Examples:
"We’ll burn this program onto an EEPROM one hour before the demo begins."
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Burn as a verb (transitive, slang):
To betray.
Examples:
"The informant burned him."
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Burn as a verb (transitive, slang):
To insult or defeat.
Examples:
"I just burned you again."
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Burn as a verb (transitive):
To waste (time); to waste money or other resources.
Examples:
"We have an hour to burn."
"The company has burned more than a million dollars a month this year."
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Burn as a verb:
In certain games, to approach near to a concealed object which is sought.
Examples:
"You're cold... warm... hot... you're burning!"
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Burn as a verb (intransitive, curling):
To accidentally touch a moving stone.
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Burn as a verb (transitive, cards):
In pontoon, to swap a pair of cards for another pair, or to deal a dead card.
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Burn as a verb (photography):
To increase the exposure for certain areas of a print in order to make them lighter (compare ).
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Burn as a verb (intransitive, physics, of an element):
To be converted to another element in a nuclear fusion reaction, especially in a star
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Burn as a verb (intransitive, slang, card games, gambling):
To discard.
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Burn as a noun (Scotland, northern England):
A stream.