The difference between Burn and Consume

When used as verbs, burn means to cause to be consumed by fire, whereas consume means to use up.

Burn is also noun with the meaning: a physical injury caused by heat, cold, electricity, radiation or caustic chemicals.

check bellow for the other definitions of Burn and Consume

  1. 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."

  2. Burn as a noun:

    A sensation resembling such an injury.

    Examples:

    "chili burn from eating hot peppers"

  3. Burn as a noun:

    The act of burning something.

    Examples:

    "They're doing a controlled burn of the fields."

  4. Burn as a noun (slang):

    An intense non-physical sting, as left by shame or an effective insult.

  5. Burn as a noun (slang):

    An effective insult, often in the expression sick burn .

  6. 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!"

  7. Burn as a noun (UK, chiefly, prison, _, slang):

    tobacco

  8. Burn as a noun:

    The operation or result of burning or baking, as in brickmaking.

    Examples:

    "They have a good burn."

  9. Burn as a noun:

    A disease in vegetables; brand.

  1. Burn as a verb (transitive):

    To cause to be consumed by fire.

    Examples:

    "He burned his manuscript in the fireplace."

  2. Burn as a verb (intransitive):

    To be consumed by fire, or in flames.

    Examples:

    "He watched the house burn."

  3. Burn as a verb (transitive):

    To overheat so as to make unusable.

    Examples:

    "He burned the toast. The blacksmith burned the steel."

  4. Burn as a verb (intransitive):

    To become overheated to the point of being unusable.

    Examples:

    "The grill was too hot and the steak burned."

  5. 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"

  6. 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."

  7. Burn as a verb (transitive, surgery):

    To cauterize.

  8. Burn as a verb (ambitransitive):

    To sunburn.

    Examples:

    "She forgot to put on sunscreen and burned."

  9. 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"

  10. 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."

  11. 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"

  12. Burn as a verb (chemistry, dated):

    To combine energetically, with evolution of heat.

    Examples:

    "Copper burns in chlorine."

  13. 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."

  14. Burn as a verb (transitive, slang):

    To betray.

    Examples:

    "The informant burned him."

  15. Burn as a verb (transitive, slang):

    To insult or defeat.

    Examples:

    "I just burned you again."

  16. 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."

  17. 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!"

  18. Burn as a verb (intransitive, curling):

    To accidentally touch a moving stone.

  19. Burn as a verb (transitive, cards):

    In pontoon, to swap a pair of cards for another pair, or to deal a dead card.

  20. Burn as a verb (photography):

    To increase the exposure for certain areas of a print in order to make them lighter (compare ).

  21. Burn as a verb (intransitive, physics, of an element):

    To be converted to another element in a nuclear fusion reaction, especially in a star

  22. Burn as a verb (intransitive, slang, card games, gambling):

    To discard.

  1. Burn as a noun (Scotland, northern England):

    A stream.

  1. Consume as a verb (transitive):

    To use up.

    Examples:

    "The power plant consumes 30 tons of coal per hour."

  2. Consume as a verb (transitive):

    To eat.

    Examples:

    "Baby birds consume their own weight in food each day."

  3. Consume as a verb (transitive):

    To completely occupy the thoughts or attention of.

    Examples:

    "Desire consumed him."

  4. Consume as a verb (transitive):

    To destroy completely.

    Examples:

    "The building was consumed by fire."

  5. Consume as a verb (intransitive, obsolete):

    To waste away slowly.

  6. Consume as a verb (economics, transitive, intransitive):

    To trade money for good or services as an individual.

    Examples:

    "In a materialistic society, individuals are taught to consume, consume, consume."

    "If you consume this product while in Japan, you may be subject to consumption tax."

  7. Consume as a verb (transitive):

    To absorb information, especially through the mass media.

    Examples:

    "The Internet has changed the way we consume news."

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