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Bunsen burner
noun as in laboratory gas burner
Example Sentences
With India coach Rahul Dravid saying the pitch "may turn" - possibly code for it being a raging Bunsen burner - England have gone for the latter.
My heart lit up like a Bunsen burner.
Ian Fenn, who has since retired from Burnage Academy for Boys in Manchester, said Abedi could "barely light a Bunsen burner" while a pupil at his school.
"He wouldn't have known how to make a bomb -he could barely light a Bunsen burner," said Mr Fenn.
“Unless,” Jake quickly countered, “revealing them could hurt somebody. For instance, if you knew that someone, say, had created a revolutionary new secret recipe for, I don’t know, bubbling purple goop over a Bunsen burner, and they shared that secret with you, it’d be bad to blab about it to anybody.”
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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