different between rage vs burn

English

Etymology

Old French rage (French: rage), from Vulgar Latin *rabia, from Latin rabies (“anger, fury”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?e?d?/
• Rhymes: -e?d?

Noun

rage (countable and uncountable, plural rages)

1. Violent uncontrolled anger.
2. A current fashion or fad.
3. (obsolete) Any vehement passion.
   • convulsed with a rage of grief

   • 1609, William Shakespeare, Sonnet XVII (1609 Quarto)

     And your true rights be termed a poet's rage

Synonyms

• fury
• ire

Derived terms

Translations

Verb

rage (third-person singular simple present rages, present participle raging, simple past and past participle raged)

1. (intransitive) To act or speak in heightened anger.
2. (intransitive, sometimes figuratively) To move with great violence, as a storm etc.
   • 1922, Virginia Woolf, Jacob's Room Chapter 1

     "The two women murmured over the spirit-lamp, plotting the eternal conspiracy of hush and clean bottles while the wind raged and gave a sudden wrench at the cheap fastenings.

   • 2012 October 31, David M. Halbfinger, "[1]," New York Times (retrieved 31 October 2012):

     Though the storm raged up the East Coast, it has become increasingly apparent that New Jersey took the brunt of it.
3. (obsolete) To enrage.

Translations

Anagrams

• Ager, GRAE, Gear, Gera, Rega, ager, areg, gare, gear

Danish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ra???/, [?????]

Etymology 1

From Old Norse raka, from Proto-Germanic *rak?n?, cognate with Swedish raka, English rake. Related to *rekan? (“to pile”) and *rakjan? (“to stretch”).

Verb

rage (past tense ragede, past participle raget)

1. to scrape
2. (dated) to shave

   Synonym: barbere

Inflection

Derived terms

References

• “rage,1” in Den Danske Ordbog

Etymology 2

From Middle Low German r?ken (“to hit, reach”), from Proto-Germanic *rak?n?, cognate with Dutch raken (Swedish råka is also borrowed from Low German). Probably related ot the previous verb.

Verb

rage (past tense ragede, past participle raget)

1. (transitive, usually negated) to concern, to be of (someone's) business
2. (transitive) to not concern, to not be any of (someone's) business
   • 1967, Christian Kampmann, Sammen, Gyldendal A/S (?ISBN)

     Men det rager mig, hvad folk siger .

   • 2007, Jonas T. Bengtsson, Submarino, Art People (?ISBN)

     “Det rager mig, hvad hun har lyst til.”

Inflection

References

• “rage,2” in Den Danske Ordbog

Etymology 3

From German ragen (“to jut, stick out”), from Proto-Germanic *hrag?n?, cognate with Old English oferhragan.

Verb

rage (past tense ragede, past participle raget)

1. to jut, stick out, stand out

Inflection

Derived terms

References

• “rage,3” in Den Danske Ordbog

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from Middle French rage, from Old French rage, from Vulgar Latin *rabia.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?ra?.??/
• Hyphenation: ra?ge
• Rhymes: -a???

Noun

rage f or m (plural rages)

1. craze, fad, fashion.

Synonyms

• hype, modegril

Derived terms

• Pokémonrage

French

Etymology

From Old French rage, from Vulgar Latin *rabia, from Latin rabies.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?a?/

Noun

rage f (plural rages)

1. rage (fury, anger)
   • 1813, Les Attraits de la Morale, Ou la Vertu Parée de Tous Ses Charmes, et l'Art de rendre Heureux ceux qui nous entourent, page 179.

2. rabies (disease)
   • 1935, Revista da produção animal, Instituto de Biologia Animal, page 47.

Derived terms

• enrager
• fou de rage
• faire rage
• rage de dents
• rage au volant
• vert de rage

Further reading

• “rage” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Anagrams

• gare, garé, géra

German

Verb

rage

1. inflection of ragen:
   1. first-person singular present
   2. first/third-person singular subjunctive I
   3. singular imperative

Norman

Etymology

From Old French rage, from Vulgar Latin *rabia, from Latin rabi?s (“anger, fury”).

Noun

rage f (plural rages)

1. (Jersey) rabies

Old French

Alternative forms

• raige (uncommon)

Noun

rage f (oblique plural rages, nominative singular rage, nominative plural rages)

1. rage; ire; fury

Romanian

Etymology

From Vulgar Latin, Late Latin ragere. Compare French raire, réer; cf. also French railler, Italian ragliare.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?rad??e]

Verb

a rage (third-person singular present rage, past participle not used) 3rd conj.

1. (of animals) to roar, howl, bellow

Conjugation

Derived terms

• r?get

See also

• urla, mugi, ?ipa, zbiera

English

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /b?n/, enPR: bûrn
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /b??n/, enPR: bûn
• Rhymes: -??(?)n
• Homophone: Bern

Etymology 1

From Middle English bernen, birnen, from Old English birnan (“to burn”), metathesis from Proto-West Germanic *brinnan, from Proto-Germanic *brinnan? (“to burn”), from Proto-Indo-European *b?renw- (compare Middle Irish brennim (“drink up”), bruinnim (“bubble up”)), present stem from *b?rewh?-, *b?ru- (compare Middle Irish bréo (“flame”), Albanian burth (“Cyclamen hederifolium, mouth burning”), Sanskrit ????? (bhurati, “moves quickly, twitches, fidgets”)). More at brew.

Noun

burn (countable and uncountable, plural burns)

1. A physical injury caused by heat, cold, electricity, radiation or caustic chemicals.

   She had second-degree burns from falling in the bonfire.

2. A sensation resembling such an injury.

   chili burn from eating hot peppers

3. The act of burning something with fire.

   They're doing a controlled burn of the fields.
5. (slang) An intense non-physical sting, as left by shame or an effective insult.
6. (slang) An effective insult, often in the expression sick burn (excellent or badass insult).
7. Physical sensation in the muscles following strenuous exercise, caused by build-up of lactic acid.

   One and, two and, keep moving; feel the burn!

8. (uncountable, Britain, chiefly prison slang) Tobacco.
9. (computing) The writing of data to a permanent storage medium like a compact disc or a ROM chip.
   • 2003, Maria Langer, Mac OS X 10.2 Advanced (page 248)

     Allow additional burns enables you to create a multisession CD, which can be used again to write more data.

10. The operation or result of burning or baking, as in brickmaking.

    They have a good burn.

11. (uncountable) A disease in vegetables; brand.
12. (aerospace) The firing of a spacecraft's rockets in order to change its course.
    • 2004, David Baker, Jane's Space Directory (page 529)

      On 4 March 1999, the MCO performed its second course correction manoeuvre with a burn involving its four thrusters […]

Derived terms

Translations

Verb

burn (third-person singular simple present burns, present participle burning, simple past and past participle burned or (mostly Commonwealth) burnt)

1. (transitive) To cause to be consumed by fire.
2. (intransitive) To be consumed by fire, or in flames.
3. (transitive) To overheat so as to make unusable.

4. (intransitive) To become overheated to the point of being unusable.

5. (transitive) To make or produce by the application of fire or burning heat.
6. (transitive) To injure (a person or animal) with heat or chemicals that produce similar damage.

7. (transitive, surgery) To cauterize.
8. (transitive, intransitive) To sunburn.

9. (transitive) To consume, injure, or change the condition of, as if by action of fire or heat; to affect as fire or heat does.
   • This dry sorrow burns up all my tears.

   • 1965, Amplified Bible, James 4:2

     You are jealous and covet [what others have] and your desires go unfulfilled; [so] you become murderers. [To hate is to murder as far as your hearts are concerned.] You burn with envy and anger and are not able to obtain [the gratification, the contentment, and the happiness that you seek], so you fight and war. You do not have, because you do not ask.

10. (intransitive) To be hot, e.g. due to embarrassment.

11. (chemistry, transitive) To cause to combine with oxygen or other active agent, with evolution of heat; to consume; to oxidize.

12. (chemistry, dated) To combine energetically, with evolution of heat.

13. (transitive, computing) To write data to a permanent storage medium like a compact disc or a ROM chip.

14. (transitive, slang) To betray.

15. (transitive, slang) To insult or defeat.

16. (transitive) To waste (time); to waste money or other resources.

17. In certain games, to approach near to a concealed object which is sought.

18. (intransitive, curling) To accidentally touch a moving stone.
19. (transitive, card games) In pontoon, to swap a pair of cards for another pair, or to deal a dead card.
20. (photography) To increase the exposure for certain areas of a print in order to make them lighter (compare dodge).
21. (intransitive, physics, of an element) To be converted to another element in a nuclear fusion reaction, especially in a star
22. (intransitive, slang, card games, gambling) To discard.
23. (transitive, slang) To shoot someone with a firearm.
24. (transitive, espionage) To compromise (an agent's cover story).
    • 2011, Thomas H. Cook, Night Secrets

      He had already burned his cover with Mrs. Phillips, and it was not a mistake he intended to make again.

    • 2013, Vanessa Kier, Vengeance: The SSU Book 1

      Eventually they'd report back to Ryker, and he still didn't know if Ryker had personally burned his cover and sent assassins after him, or if the SSU had a mole. Until he knew for certain, he had to play this safe.

25. (transitive, espionage) To blackmail.
    • 1979, John le Carré, Smiley's People

      "How does Leipzig burn him precisely?" Enderby insisted. "What's the pressure? Dirty pix—well, okay. Karla's a puritan, so's Kirov. But I mean, Christ, this isn't the fifties, is it? […]

Derived terms

Related terms

• combust

Translations

Etymology 2

From Middle English burn, bourne, from Old English burne, burna (“spring, fountain”), Proto-West Germanic *brunn?, from Proto-Germanic *brunnô, *brun?. Cognate with West Frisian boarne, Dutch bron, German Brunnen; also Albanian burim (“spring, fountain”), Ancient Greek ????? (phréar, “well, reservoir”), Old Armenian ?????? (a?biwr, “fount”). Doublet of bourn. More at brew.

Noun

burn (plural burns)

1. (Northern England, Scotland) A stream.
   • 1881, Robert Louis Stevenson, Virginibus Puerisque:

     He may pitch on some tuft of lilacs over a burn, and smoke innumerable pipes to the tune of the water on the stones.

   • 2008, James Kelman, Kieron Smith, Boy, Penguin 2009, page 105:

     When it was too heavy rain the burn ran very high and wide and ye could never jump it.

Derived terms

• Burnmouth

Related terms

• bourn

Translations

References

• Douglas Harper (2001–2021) , “burn”, in Online Etymology Dictionary
• Webster's Seventh New Collegiate Dictionary, Springfield, Massachusetts, G.&C. Merriam Co., 1967
• Northumberland Words, English Dialect Society, R. Oliver Heslop, 1893–4

Nyunga

Noun

burn

1. wood

References

• 1886, C. F. Armstrong (Edward Micklethwaite Curr, ed.), The Australian Race: Its Origins, Languages, Customs, Place of Landing in Australia, and the routes by which it spread itself over that continent

Scots

Etymology

Middle English bourne, from Old English burne, burna (“spring, fountain”).

Cognate with West Frisian boarne, Dutch bron, German Brunnen; also Albanian burim (“spring, fountain”), Ancient Greek ????? (phréar, “well, reservoir”), Old Armenian ?????? (a?biwr, “fount”).

Noun

burn (plural burns)

1. A small river.

References

“burn” in the Dictionary of the Scots Language, Edinburgh: Scottish Language Dictionaries.