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Definition of Burn off
1. Verb. Use up (energy). "Burn off calories through vigorous exercise"
Generic synonyms: Consume, Deplete, Eat, Eat Up, Exhaust, Run Through, Use Up, Wipe Out
2. Verb. Clear land of its vegetation by burning it off.
Definition of Burn off
1. Verb. (intransitive) To dissipate as the result of heat. ¹
2. Verb. (transitive) To cause to dissipate by applying heat. ¹
3. Verb. (transitive intransitive oil) To dispose of unusable explosive natural gas from an oil well by burning it as it emerges from the well. ¹
4. Verb. (transitive intransitive television) To fill low value air time with programming not suitable for its original purpose. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Burn Off
Literary usage of Burn off
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Basic Studies in the Field of High-Temperature Engineering: Second by Nea, Nihon Genshiryoku Kenkyūjo, Nuclear Energy Agency (2002)
"Burn-off dependent reactivities and effective diffusivities Data on burn-off
dependent reactivities of nuclear carbon are mainly available for oxidation in ..."
2. The Chemical News and Journal of Industrial Science (1897)
"burn off and weigh nickel oxide, cupric oxide, and ferric oxide. ... burn off
the residue in a porcelain crucible, crush it in a Wedgwood mortar, ..."
3. Report of Proceedings of the Annual Meeting by American Gas Light Association, Australian Council of Local Government Associations (1881)
""That the Dieterich bench will burn off 225-pound charges in three hours, or
10800 pounds of coal in the 24 hours, just as readily as the ordinary bench ..."
4. International Library of Technology: A Series of Textbooks for Persons by International Textbook Company (1906)
"Weigh out 10 grams of the powdered sample in a platinum crucible, and burn off
the carbon. This may be done as in the determination of fixed carbon, or, ..."
5. American History by Jacob Abbott (1860)
"The next was to burn off the stem of the tree at the right length for the proposed
canoe. In burning it off thus the workmen took care to manage the fire in ..."
6. Transactions of the American Institute of Electrical Engineers by American Institute of Electrical Engineers (1905)
"It seems important that the netting should have at least as great carrying capacity
as the transmission wire itself, otherwise the netting would burn off by ..."
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