Burner
A burner may refer to any of the following:
1. The term burner describes a CD-R (compact disc recordable), CD-RW (compact disc re-writable), or DVD-R (digital versatile disc recordable) drive capable of writing data to a CD (compact disc) or DVD (digital versatile disc).
The picture shows a CD-RW drive and a CD-RW disc in the drive tray. With this drive, disc, and software, a user could save (burn) files to the disc.
A burner drive is required to burn a disc. However, once a disc is burned, it works in almost all optical disc players capable of reading discs. For example, a burned CD-R can be read in a CD-ROM (compact disc read-only memory) drive.
2. A burner or burner phone describes a cell phone used temporarily and discarded. Burner phones are used for people who don't want or cannot afford a cell phone contract or don't want to be tracked.