different between burnt vs snaste

English

Alternative forms

• burned

Etymology

From burn +? -t

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?b??nt/
• (US) IPA^(key): /?b??nt/

Verb

burnt

1. (chiefly Commonwealth of Nations, Britain) simple past tense and past participle of burn

Adjective

burnt (comparative more burnt, superlative most burnt)

1. Damaged or injured by fire or heat.
2. (of food) Carbonised.

   The toast was too burnt to eat.

3. (of a person) Having a sunburn.
4. (of a colour) Being darker than standard, especially browner.

Usage notes

The word burnt as the simple past and past participle of burn is largely a UK usage, but its use as an adjective is more widespread.

Derived terms

• Burnt Oak
• burnt offering

Translations

Anagrams

• Brunt, brunt

English

Alternative forms

• snast, snaist, snaast, sneeste, sneest, snace, snaice, sneeze, snaich

Etymology

Perhaps related to snite (verb), or perhaps related to gnast.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /snæst/, (dialectally also) /sne?st/

Noun

snaste (plural snastes)

1. (obsolete, dialectal) The burnt or burning part of the wick of a candle; the snuff.
   • 1626, Francis Bacon, Natural History, page 127:

     Till some part of the candle was consumed, and the dust gathered about the snaste; but then it made the snaste big, and long, and to burn duskishly.

   • 1865, Edward FitzGerald, Works, page 426:

     A coming letter is foretold by a projecting spark on the snaste.

   • 1899, Fison, Merry Suf., page 62:

     As that snaste of that candle, goos out.

Verb

snaste (third-person singular simple present snastes, present participle snasting, simple past and past participle snasted)

1. (transitive, obsolete, dialectal) To snuff a candle.

References

Anagrams

• antses, assent, sanest, stanes, steans