"oil burner" meaning in English

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Noun

Audio: En-au-oil burner.ogg [Australia] Forms: oil burners [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun}} oil burner (plural oil burners)
  1. A heating device which burns fuel oil; an oil furnace. Translations (heating device): öljypoltin (Finnish)
    Sense id: en-oil_burner-en-noun-ZN1HfGRw Disambiguation of 'heating device': 72 1 27
  2. A machine that uses oil as its fuel.
    Sense id: en-oil_burner-en-noun-GtTVPfkS
  3. (idiomatic) A device whose operation causes apparent combustion of lubricating oil. Tags: idiomatic
    Sense id: en-oil_burner-en-noun-G5p2rBa6 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 9 4 87
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Related terms: oil-burning, oil burner route

Inflected forms

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