oil burner
oil burner · oil burners
A heating device which burns fuel oilA heating device which burns fuel oil; an oil furnace.
» We are cooking on the coal stove and on the oil burners.
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3 sensesA heating device which burns fuel oil; an oil furnace.
a furnace that burns oil
A machine that uses oil as its fuel.
(idiomatic)A device whose operation causes apparent combustion of lubricating oil.
Examples
1 sentencesWe are cooking on the coal stove and on the oil burners.
Forms
plural: oil burners| Singular | oil burner |
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regular
Synonyms
1 synonymsClose in meaning
- a furnace that burns oil:oil furnace
Word family
1 related wordsRelatedoil-burning
See also
neighbours in the dictionaryDictionary text adapted from Wiktionary (Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Open English WordNet / Princeton WordNet (CC BY 4.0, WordNet License); shared under CC BY-SA 4.0. Example sentences and recordings are credited where they appear.