different between rave vs burn

English

Pronunciation

• enPR: r?v, IPA^(key): /?e?v/
• Rhymes: -e?v

Etymology 1

From Middle English raven (“to rave; talk like a madman”), from Old French raver, variant of resver, of uncertain origin. Compare rove.

Noun

rave (countable and uncountable, plural raves)

1. An enthusiastic review (such as of a play).
   • 1989, The New York Times Theater Reviews, 1920- (volume 18, page 167)

     The first-night audience, yes. The first-night reviewers, not exactly. The notices have so far been mixed, only The Financial Times having delivered itself of an unequivocal rave.

2. An all-night dance party with electronic dance music (techno, trance, drum and bass etc.) and possibly drug use.
3. (music, uncountable) The genres of electronic dance music usually associated with rave parties.
   • 2009, Chrysalis Experiential Academy, Mind Harvesting (page 109)

     Maybe I wear baggies / And white socks with flip-flops / Maybe I don't like listening to rave / And I'm not on the social mountaintops

Translations

Verb

rave (third-person singular simple present raves, present participle raving, simple past and past participle raved)

1. To wander in mind or intellect; to be delirious; to talk or act irrationally; to be wild, furious, or raging.
2. To speak or write wildly or incoherently.
3. To talk with unreasonable enthusiasm or excessive passion or excitement; followed by about, of, or (formerly) on.
4. (obsolete) To rush wildly or furiously.
5. To attend a rave (dance party).

Translations

See also

• rant

Etymology 2

English dialect raves, or rathes (“a frame laid on a wagon, for carrying hay, etc.”).

Noun

rave (plural raves)

1. One of the upper side pieces of the frame of a wagon body or a sleigh.

Etymology 3

Verb

rave

1. (obsolete) simple past tense of rive

Anagrams

• AVRE, Vera, aver, evar, vare, vera

Catalan

Etymology

From Latin raph?nus, from Ancient Greek ??????? (rháphanos). Cf. also French rave.

Pronunciation

• (Balearic) IPA^(key): /?ra.v?/
• (Central) IPA^(key): /?ra.b?/
• (Valencian) IPA^(key): /?ra.ve/

Noun

rave m (plural raves)

1. radish
2. (figuratively) trifle (thing of little importance or worth)

Derived terms

• ravenera
• ravenissa

Further reading

• “rave” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “rave” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “rave” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

References

Danish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ra?v?/, [????w?]

Verb

rave (imperative rav, infinitive at rave, present tense raver, past tense ravede, perfect tense har ravet)

1. reel
2. stagger, totter, lurch

Dutch

Pronunciation

Verb

rave

1. first-person singular present indicative of raven
2. (archaic) singular present subjunctive of raven
3. imperative of raven

Anagrams

• vare

French

Etymology 1

From Old French, from Latin rapa, plural of r?pum, used instead as a feminine singular. Ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *rap-. Compare Italian rapa and Venetian rava.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?av/

Noun

rave m (plural raves)

1. beet, turnip

Etymology 2

Borrowed from English rave.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??v/

Noun

rave m (plural raves)

1. rave party

   Synonym: rave party

Anagrams

• rêva

Further reading

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

Latin

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /?ra?.u?e/, [?rä?u??]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /?ra.ve/, [?r??v?]

Adjective

r?ve

1. vocative masculine singular of r?vus

References

• rave in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)

Middle English

Noun

rave

1. Alternative form of reif

Spanish

Etymology

From English rave.

Noun

rave f (plural raves)

1. rave (party)

Venetian

Noun

rave

1. plural of rava

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.