The difference between Burn and Stream
When used as nouns, burn means a physical injury caused by heat, cold, electricity, radiation or caustic chemicals, whereas stream means a small river.
When used as verbs, burn means to cause to be consumed by fire, whereas stream means to flow in a continuous or steady manner, like a liquid.
check bellow for the other definitions of Burn and Stream
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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.
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Stream as a noun:
A small river; a large creek; a body of moving water confined by banks.
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Stream as a noun:
A thin connected passing of a liquid through a lighter gas (e.g. air).
Examples:
"He poured the milk in a thin stream from the jug to the glass."
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Stream as a noun:
Any steady flow or succession of material, such as water, air, radio signal or words.
Examples:
"Her constant nagging was to him a stream of abuse."
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Stream as a noun (sciences, [[umbrella term]]):
All moving waters.
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Stream as a noun (computing):
A source or repository of data that can be read or written only sequentially.
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Stream as a noun (figurative):
A particular path, channel, division, or way of proceeding.
Examples:
"Haredi Judaism is a stream of Orthodox Judaism characterized by rejection of modern secular culture."
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Stream as a noun (UK, education):
A division of a school year by perceived ability.
Examples:
"All of the bright kids went into the A stream, but I was in the B stream."
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Stream as a verb (intransitive):
To flow in a continuous or steady manner, like a liquid.
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Stream as a verb:
To extend; to stretch out with a wavy motion; to float in the wind.
Examples:
"A flag streams in the wind."
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Stream as a verb (Internet):
To push continuous data (e.g. music) from a server to a client computer while it is being used (played) on the client.