(agriculture) A building, often found on a farm, used for storage or keeping animals such as cattle.
(dialect, parts of Northern England) A child.
(informal, basketball, ice hockey) An arena.
(nuclear physics) A unit of surface area equal to 10⁻²⁸ square metres.
(slang) A warm and cozy place, especially a bedroom; a roost.
verb
(transitive) To lay up in a barn.
bern
birn
born
born
adj
Having from birth (or as if from birth) a certain quality or character; innate; inherited.
noun
(Tyneside) Alternative spelling of burn (a stream)
verb
(Tyneside) Alternative spelling of burn (with fire etc.)
(obsolete) past participle of bear in other senses.
past participle of bear; given birth to.
bran
bran
noun
(ornithology) The European carrion crow.
The broken coat of the seed of wheat, rye, or other cereal grain, separated from the flour or meal by sifting or bolting; the coarse, chaffy part of ground grain.
bren
bren
verb
(obsolete, transitive) To burn (to set ablaze).
brin
brin
noun
A single silkworm thread extruded from the gland, before it has formed a bave.
One of the radiating sticks of a fan. The outermost are larger and longer, and are called panaches.
brno
brno
Proper noun
a city in the south of the Czech Republic
bron
bryn
burn
burn
noun
(Northern England, Scotland) A stream.
(aerospace) The firing of a spacecraft's rockets in order to change its course.
(computing) The writing of data to a permanent storage medium like a compact disc or a ROM chip.
(slang) An effective insult, often in the expression sick burn (excellent or badass insult).
(slang) An intense non-physical sting, as left by shame or an effective insult.
(uncountable) A disease in vegetables; brand.
(uncountable, UK, chiefly prison slang) Tobacco.
A physical injury caused by heat, cold, electricity, radiation or caustic chemicals.
A sensation resembling such an injury.
Physical sensation in the muscles following strenuous exercise, caused by build-up of lactic acid.
The act of burning something with fire.
The operation or result of burning or baking, as in brickmaking.
verb
(chemistry, dated) To combine energetically, with evolution of heat.
(chemistry, transitive) To cause to combine with oxygen or other active agent, with evolution of heat; to consume; to oxidize.
(intransitive) To be consumed by fire, or in flames.
(intransitive) To be hot, e.g. due to embarrassment.
(intransitive) To become overheated to the point of being unusable.
(intransitive, curling) To accidentally touch a moving stone.
(intransitive, physics, of an element) To be converted to another element in a nuclear fusion reaction, especially in a star.
(intransitive, slang, card games, gambling) To discard.
(photography) To increase the exposure for certain areas of a print in order to make them lighter (compare dodge).
(transitive) To cause to be consumed by fire.
(transitive) To consume, injure, or change the condition of, as if by action of fire or heat; to affect as fire or heat does.
(transitive) To injure (a person or animal) with heat or chemicals that produce similar damage.
(transitive) To make or produce by the application of fire or burning heat.
(transitive) To overheat so as to make unusable.
(transitive) To waste (time); to waste money or other resources.
(transitive, card games) In pontoon, to swap a pair of cards for another pair, or to deal a dead card.
(transitive, computing) To write data to a permanent storage medium like a compact disc or a ROM chip.
(transitive, computing, by extension) To render subtitles into a video's content while transcoding it, making the subtitles part of the image.
(transitive, espionage) To blackmail.
(transitive, espionage) To compromise (an agent's cover story).
(transitive, intransitive) To sunburn.
(transitive, slang) To betray.
(transitive, slang) To insult or defeat.
(transitive, slang) To shoot someone with a firearm.
(transitive, surgery) To cauterize.
In certain games, to approach near to a concealed object which is sought.