"burner" is correct and usable in written English.
It is primarily used to refer to a stovetop or cooking surface, but it can also be used in more figurative ways. For example: "She's got a lot of energy, she's a real burner."
That role made women who'd just retired and felt they'd been put on the back burner realise they had a lot of life left to live".
The commander of the US war against the Islamic State (Isis) placed the Syria side of his cross-border campaign on the back burner on Friday and could not predict when Iraqi forces will recapture territory from the jihadist army.
Family finances put the idea on the back burner while Tim changed jobs and Louise got her business, Plant and Tool Solutions, sorted, but now they are likely to go ahead.
Katie, Leeds 2. Keeping the lid on pans when cooking can make a difference "Choose the right-size burner or ring for the pan and put lids on pans to keep in the heat.
They've got a gas burner, a few pots and a couple of crude but deceptively sharp knives; they use a windowsill as a chopping board.
At the hotel, only one heavy crane was operating, only one pneumatic drill, only one bulldozer and only on oxyacetylene burner.
And the open-plan sitting room below has its original sandstone flags and stone spiral staircase along with a log-burner by which to curl up and recite romantic lines.
"If that doesn't happen then, in effect, what we're doing is a slow-burner food poisoning through all of this sugar that goes on to cause cancer, diabetes, heart disease".
A Great Big World, Passenger, Hozier and Sam Smith – whose breakout slow-burner Stay With Me became an unconventional pop phenomenon – each contributed to a markedly more downbeat, moody year in music.
In February this year, the Financial Times reported that one individual who had been in meetings in which the report was discussed said it had been put on "the back-burner of the back-burner".
But as he admitted later, in penitent memoirs and interviews, he had not understood the variables of war itself.The limits of reasonAt the height of the conflict, he was called a baby-burner.
