Difference between Burn and Sunburn

What is the difference between Burn and Sunburn?

Burn as a noun is a physical injury caused by heat or cold or electricity or radiation or caustic chemicals. while Sunburn as a noun is a burn caused by the sun's harmful rays.

Burn

Part of speech: noun

Definition: A physical injury caused by heat or cold or electricity or radiation or caustic chemicals. The act of burning something. Physical sensation in the muscles following strenuous exercise, caused by build-up of lactic acid. An intense non-physical sting, as left by an effective insult. A stream.

Part of speech: verb

Definition: To be consumed by fire, or at least in flames. To become overheated so as to make unusable. To feel hot, e.g. due to embarrassment. To sunburn. To accidentally touch a moving stone. To cause to be consumed by fire. To overheat so as to make unusable. To injure (a person or animal) with heat or caustic chemicals. To betray. To write data to a permanent storage medium like a compact disc or a ROM chip. To waste (time). To insult or defeat. In pontoon, to swap a pair of cards for another pair. Also to deal a dead card.

Example sentence: I do not write for this generation. I am writing for other ages. If this could read me, they would burn my books, the work of my whole life. On the other hand, the generation which interprets these writings will be an educated generation; they will understand me and say: 'Not all were asleep in the nighttime of our grandparents.'

Sunburn

Part of speech: noun

Definition: A burn caused by the sun's harmful rays.

Part of speech: verb

Definition: To receive a sunburn.

We hope you now know whether to use Burn or Sunburn in your sentence.

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