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Definition: Sunburn |
SunburnNoun1. A browning of the skin resulting from exposure to the rays of the sun. 2. Redness of the skin caused by exposure to the rays of the sun. Verb1. Get a sunburn by overexposure to the sun. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "sunburn" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1862. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Food & Agriculture | A localized injury to bark and cambium caused by a sudden increase in exposure of a stem or branch to intense sunlight(insolation)and high temperatures. Source: European Union. (references) |
Health | An injury to the skin causing erythema, tenderness, and sometimes blistering and resulting from excessive exposure to the sun. The reaction is produced by the ultraviolet radiation in sunlight. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
A sunburn is a radiation burn to the skin produced usually by overexposure to the ultraviolet (UV) radiation from the sun. A similar burn can be produced by overexposure from other sources of UV, such as tanning lamps and welding arcs.
Minor sunburns typically cause nothing more harmful than a slight redness and perhaps tenderness to the affected area, though skin damage that is invisible to the naked eye remains even after the burn has healed. Furthermore, this damage is cumulative, so it is best to avoid getting even a minor sunburn. In more serious cases blistering can occur. Extreme sunburns can be quite debilitating as well as producing a lifelong increase in one's susceptibility to skin cancer, in particular melanoma. The effects of a sunburn
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Sunburn."
Synonyms: SunburnSynonyms: erythema solare (n), suntan (n), tan (n), burn (v). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Sunburn |
| English words defined with "sunburn": burn ♦ erythema ♦ sunblock, sunblocker, Sunburning, sunscreen. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "sunburn": Photosensitivity Disorders, progenitalis ♦ SPF, sun protection factor, Sunscreening Agents ♦ Ultraviolet Therapy. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | She could talk her way out of a sunburn. (Heist; writing credit: David Mamet) | |
Lyrics | She's like a sunburn (Never Let You Go; performing artist: Third Eye Blind) That girl is like a sunburn (Never Let You Go; performing artist: Third Eye Blind) The girl is like a sunburn (Never Let You Go; performing artist: Third Eye Blind) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Sunburn (1999) | |
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Elizabeth Barrett Browning | He, in his developed manhood, stood, a little sunburn by the glare of life. |
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Grapes of Wrath | Steinbeck, John | Their faces were shining with sunburn they could not escape. |
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Health | Taking doxycycline may cause children to sunburn faster than normal. (references) | |
Sunburn is UVR-induced erythema of the skin caused by vasodilatation of dermal vessels. (references) | ||
Acute effects include sunburn, and chronic effects include, among others, the development of certain forms of skin cancer. (references) | ||
Travel | Cote D'ivoire | Sunburn will occur rapidly. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Sunburn" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 90.57% of the time. "Sunburn" is used about 53 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 90.57% | 48 | 49,194 |
| Lexical Verb (infinitive) | 3.77% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Lexical Verb (base form) | 3.77% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Noun (common) | 1.89% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 53 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day | Expression | Frequency per Day |
sunburn | 1,742 | poison sun sunburn | 17 |
sunburn remedy | 390 | healing sunburn | 17 |
sunburn treatment | 370 | sunburn pain | 17 |
sunburn relief | 339 | sunburn symptom | 16 |
sunburn home remedy | 159 | pregnancy sunburn | 16 |
sunburn cure | 137 | home sunburn treatment | 16 |
treat a sunburn | 77 | sunburn swelling | 15 |
sunburn blister | 66 | sunburn pain relief | 12 |
severe sunburn | 63 | natural sunburn remedy | 12 |
sunburn care | 59 | itchy sunburn | 12 |
treating sunburn | 58 | degree second sunburn | 12 |
picture sunburn | 48 | child sunburn | 11 |
sunburn itch | 33 | relieve sunburn | 11 |
sunburn vinegar | 32 | severe sunburn treatment | 11 |
sunburn itching | 30 | picture sunburn sunburn | 11 |
sunburn first aid | 25 | best sunburn treatment | 11 |
sunburn peeling | 25 | tip sunburn | 10 |
sunburn help | 24 | blister sunburn treatment | 10 |
get rid sunburn | 21 | bad sunburn | 10 |
heal sunburn | 18 | rash sunburn | 9 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Language | Translations for "sunburn"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | nxirje nga dielli (tan), djegie nga dielli. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | سفعة الشمس, سفعة (singe), ضربة شمس (heatstroke, sunstroke). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | почервеняване от слънце, почервенявам от слънце, почерняване от слънце, изгаряне от слънце, изгарям от слънце, довивам загар. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | '斑. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | spálit se na slunci, opálit se na slunci, opálení (sun tan, suntan, tan). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | svidning (bark scorch, scorch, scorched, searing, sunscald, white spot), solskoldning (dermatitis solaris, solar dermatitis, solar dermitis, sunshine dermatitis), solerythem (dermatitis solaris, solar dermatitis, sunshine dermatitis). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | dermatitis solaris (dermatitis solaris, solar dermatitis, sunshine dermatitis). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Farsi | افتاب سوخته کردن (Parch), افتاب زدگی . (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | poltevika (bark scorch, scorch, sunscald, white spot), kuoripolte (bark scorch, scorch, sunscald, white spot), kuorenpolte (bark scorch, scorch, sunscald, white spot), auringonpolte (bark scorch, scorch, sunscald, white spot). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | se bronzer, insolation (sunstroke), héliodermite (sunshine dermatitis), coup de soleil (sunstroke). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | sonnenbrand (dermatitis solaris, solar dermatitis, solar dermitis, sunshine dermatitis). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | ηλιακό έγκαυμα, ηλιοκαίω (tan). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hebrew | שזפון (sunstroke, tan), שזף (tan), כלף, כוית שמש (sun burn), "שתזפות (sun bathing, sun burn, sun tanning, suntan, tanning). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | lesülés (suntan, sun-tan), leégés (burning, wash-out), leég (become sunburnt, burn down, to burn itself out). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | scottatura (burn, scald, scalding, scorch). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | 日焼け , 日焼 , サンドイッチ構 (samba, sampler, sampling, San Francisco, San Jose, sand bath, sand buggy, sand skiing, sand wedge, sandbag, sandpaper, sandwich structure, Sanforized, sun visor, sunbeam). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | ひやけ, サンバーン . (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | daah ny greiney (tan), daah greiney (suntan). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | unburnsay queimadura de sol, golpe de sol (bark scorch, scorch, sunscald, white spot), dermatite solar (dermatitis solaris, solar dermatitis, sunshine dermatitis). (various references) insolaţie (heat stroke, insolation, sunstroke). (various references) загар (suntan, suntans, tan). (various references) opekotina od sunca. (various references) quemadura del sol. (various references) solbränna (suntan, tan). (various references) ผิวเกรียมจากการถูกแ""มากเกินไป, ถูกแสงแ""จนผิวหนังอักเสบ. (various references) güneşten yanma, güneş yanığı (touch of the sun), bronzlaşma (suntanning, tanning). (various references) gьneюlemek. (various references) сонячний опік, обпікатися на сонці, загоряти (blacken, burn, sun, sun oneself, tan), загар (suntan). (various references) sự rám nắng. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "sunburn": sunburned, sunburning, sunburns, sunburnt. (additional references) | |
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"Sunburn" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Guiburn, Isenburg, Nurnburg, Sandbourne, Senebron, Sensuron, Seyburn, silburn, stuburn. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "sunburn" (pronounced su"nber'n) |
| 3 | -b er' n | heartburn. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "b-n-n-r-s-u-u" | |
-2 letters: bunns, burns, rubus. | |
-3 letters: bunn, buns, burn, burs, nubs, nuns, rubs, runs, snub, sunn, urbs, urns, urus. | |
-4 letters: bun, bur, bus, nub, nun, nus, rub, run, sub, sun, uns, urb, urn. | |
-5 letters: nu, un, us. | |
| Words containing the letters "b-n-n-r-s-u-u" | |
+1 letter: sunburns, sunburnt. | |
+2 letters: sunburned, unburdens. | |
+3 letters: sunburning. | |
+4 letters: uninsurable. | |
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