Burn rubber - If you burn rubber, you drive very fast to get somewhere.
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Burn the candle at both ends - Someone who burns the candle at both ends lives life at a hectic pace, doing things which are likely to affect their health badly.
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Burn the midnight oil - If you stay up very late working or studying, you burn the midnight oil.
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Burn your bridges - If you burn your bridges, you do something that makes it impossible to go back from the position you have taken.
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Burn your fingers - If you burn your fingers, you suffer a loss or something unpleasant as the result of something you did, making you less likely to do it again.
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Burning daylight - Burning daylight is wasting time.
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Burning question - A burning question is something we all want to know about.
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Fiddle while Rome burns - If people are fiddling while Rome burns, they are wasting their time on futile things while problems threaten to destroy them.
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Make bets in a burning house - (USA) If people are making bets in a burning house, they are engaged in futile activity while serious problems around them are getting worse.
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Money burns a hole in your pocket - If someone has money burning a hole in their pocket, they are eager to spend it, normally in a wasteful manner.
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Money to burn - If someone is very rich, they have money to burn.
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Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
OE. bernen, brennen, v. t., early confused with beornen, birnen, v. i., AS. bærnan, bernan, v. t., birnan, v. i.; akin to OS. brinnan, OFries. barna, berna, OHG. brinnan, brennan, G. brennen, OD. bernen, D. branden, Dan. brænde, Sw. bränna, brinna, Icel. brenna, Goth. brinnan, brannjan,in comp.), and possibly to E. fervent,
In literature:
Some five minutes later, Henry Burns and Harvey stood looking in at the very same shop window, whither Henry Burns had conducted his companion.
"The Rival Campers Ashore" by Ruel Perley Smith
It burns out impurities.
"The Saracen: The Holy War" by Robert Shea
A lamp was burning on the table; a Hebrew Bible and a copy of Homer lay beside it.
"The Bridge of the Gods" by Frederic Homer Balch
In the morning, however, the love was there again, burning, burning.
"The Rainbow" by D. H. (David Herbert) Lawrence
His eyes would be burned out of his head.
"Shaman" by Robert Shea
If the latter, put in a spoonful or two of water, to prevent burning.
"The Cook and Housekeeper's Complete and Universal Dictionary; Including a System of Modern Cookery, in all Its Various Branches," by Mary Eaton
It couldn't burn the line, though it might burn the posts.
"Partners of the Out-Trail" by Harold Bindloss
This is also true of burned on terminals, and in either case, the connections should be drilled off, cleaned and re-burned.
"The Automobile Storage Battery" by O. A. Witte
The burning wharfs faced south.
"The Harbor of Doubt" by Frank Williams
Nitrogen will not burn and it will not help anything else to burn.
"Common Science" by Carleton W. Washburne
Burning, reeking of sulphur and burned leather, the Petrolia vanished before him.
"Astounding Stories of Super-Science, June, 1930" by Various
And from far away people streamed to it to burn incense in his honor.
"The Chinese Fairy Book" by Various
Her eyes were blinded with great, burning tears.
"The Shepherd of the North" by Richard Aumerle Maher
Savonarola had burned with this same selfless desire to reform the Church from within.
"Carmen Ariza" by Charles Francis Stocking
She stared at the Venn, at the bare, treeless, tortuous path with burning impatient eyes.
"The Son of His Mother" by Clara Viebig
She only hoped that nobody would come home too soon, before the house was really burning, was burning like mad!
"The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries" by Various
Perhaps they are to burn the tobacco, cotton, etc., if indeed anything is to be burned.
"A Rebel War Clerk's Diary at the Confederate States Capital" by John Beauchamp Jones
Therefore the Indians had burned the left bank, and now proceeded to burn the right.
"Cedar Creek" by Elizabeth Hely Walshe
But they had feared, by reason of the burning houses, that Fort Henry had been taken.
"Boys' Book of Frontier Fighters" by Edwin L. Sabin
The sun was burning us up, and the water reflected the heat, so that we lay between two fires.
"Black Diamonds" by Mór Jókai
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In poetry:
Where I walk out
to meet you on the
cloth of burning
fields
"Song" by Yvor Winters
How it burns and flames
And showers,
Lusts and laughs, flowers
And deflowers.
"Summer Songs" by Richard Le Gallienne
For its burning fruitage I
Do climb the tree o' the sky;
Do prize
Some human eyes.
"To The Dead Cardinal Of Westminster" by Francis Thompson
Love in the yellowing,
Love at the turn,
Love o' the cooing lip—
how should he burn?
"In the Dim Counties" by John Shaw Neilson
To the East are burning
Roses in a garden,
Roses in a rosy field,
Hesper for their warden.
"Winter Sunset" by Katharine Tynan
As I mused by the hearthside,
Puss said to me;
"there burns the fire , man,
and here sit we.
"Comfort" by Walter de la Mare
In news:
Firefighters say Grayson County is still under a burn ban and that outside burning is a violation.
To burn or not to burn .
He said the city, on average, issues two to three burn permits each week, and they've seen no problems with those who are burning .
Not only did the severe burns change his appearance, the facial burns were so debilitating Kraushaar could barely open his eyes or mouth.
A facial mask that heals facial burns and helps burned skin to look more natural.
A firefighter uses his ax to open the door of a burning home in Detroit in the doucmentary " Burn ".
The Thousand Oaks family hosting 11-year-old Adolf Baguma took the Ugandan boy Friday to the Grossman Burn Center in West Hills so Dr Peter Grossman could look at the burns and determine a treatment plan.
Burn Intensive Care Unit Nurse / Burn ICU RN.
Burning muscle tissue would give a bird about five times as much water as would burning fat.
Fisker hybrids burn in Hurricane Sandy fire fire, company, fisker, port, facility, new, burned, loan, see, submerged.
It's burning on land burned a decade ago by the Missionary Ridge fire.
The fire burning deep below Centralia, Pa. Is just one of numerous coal fires burning in at least 20 states today, with thousands more worldwide.
DeLong, PhD, points out that medical directors are high performers and that they burn out the way high performers in most professions burn out .
Fire officials say the teacher was burning rubbing alcohol when the demonstration went out of control, burning five students and sending two others to hospitals for exposure to smoke.
They burned an extra 200 calories over the course of the day, not including the calories burned during the workout itself.
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In science:
We show that, as suggested by Strohmayer and colleagues, the frequency changes of 1 –2 Hz observed during bursts are consistent with angular momentum conservation as the burning shell hydrostatically expands and contracts during the burst.
Rotational Evolution During Type I X-Ray Bursts
We show that the evolution and coherence of the rotational pro file depends strongly on whether th e burning layers are composed of pure helium or mixed hydrogen/helium.
Rotational Evolution During Type I X-Ray Bursts
The simplest interpretation is that the burning is not spherically symmetric, providing a temporary asymmetry on the neutron star that allows for a direct measurement of rotation.
Rotational Evolution During Type I X-Ray Bursts
It is expected theoretically that the burning should not be spherically symmetric.
Rotational Evolution During Type I X-Ray Bursts
The slight hydrostatic radial expansion (contraction) of the burning layers as the temperature increases (decreases) results in spin down (spin up) if angular momentum is conserved.
Rotational Evolution During Type I X-Ray Bursts
The time for radial heat transport from the burning layers to the photosphere is about one second, which means that the layers are puffed up and spun down by the time the observer sees the burst.
Rotational Evolution During Type I X-Ray Bursts
As the burning layers cool during the tail of the burst, they contract and spin up.
Rotational Evolution During Type I X-Ray Bursts
They find that, in the evolving frame of the burning shell, the oscillations are coherent, as expected if they are due to rotation.
Rotational Evolution During Type I X-Ray Bursts
We do not consider the complex question of how the burning front spreads around the star during the burst rise, what determines the number of hotspots on the surface, or what causes the asymmetry at late times during the cooling tail of the burst.
Rotational Evolution During Type I X-Ray Bursts
For ˙m ∼> 0.03 ˙mEdd, the helium burning becomes unstable before all the hydrogen is burned and the helium ignites and burns in a hydrogen rich environment.
Rotational Evolution During Type I X-Ray Bursts
As described above, the hydrogen burning rate is a constant so that the change of X with column depth y is dX /d y = -ǫH / ˙mEH , where we take EH ≡ 6.4 × 1018 erg g-1 (we have neglected the ≈ 0.5 MeV/proton lost as neutrinos in the hot CNO cycle, see Wallace & Woosley 1981).
Rotational Evolution During Type I X-Ray Bursts
In comparison, the hot CNO cycle hydrogen burning gives ≈ 7X0 MeV per accreted nucleon for pure helium ignition, or ≈ 7X0 (yb/yd ) MeV for mixed H/He ignition, where yb is the column depth at the base.
Rotational Evolution During Type I X-Ray Bursts
The flux at the top Ft is set by the energy release from hot CNO burning in the atmosphere and the flux at the base, giving Ft = Fb + ǫH yb or Ft = Fb + ǫH yd , whichever is smaller2 .
Rotational Evolution During Type I X-Ray Bursts
Slight differences arise because at higher accretion rates less helium is made from hydrogen burning, requiring a higher density and temperature for ignition.
Rotational Evolution During Type I X-Ray Bursts
The ignition temperature is lowered with increasing metallicity because the hydrogen runs out at a smaller column, giving a smaller temperature at the base of the hydrogen burning shell.
Rotational Evolution During Type I X-Ray Bursts
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