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front burner
Informal. a condition or position of top priority: Put the project on the front burner and finish it as soon as possible. -
back burner
If you put an issue on the back burner, you leave it in order to deal with it later because you now consider it to have become less urgent or important. -
meker burner
a gas burner similar to the Bunsen burner but producing a hotter flame by virtue of having at its mouth a metal screen to allow a more intimate mixture of air and gas. -
argand burner
a gas or oil burner designed to let air flow inside and outside a cylindrical wick -
baseburner
a stove into which coal is automatically fed from a hopper above the fire chamber -
bunsen burner
a gas burner, widely used in scientific laboratories, consisting of a metal tube with an adjustable air valve at the base