Definition, Meaning & Anagrams | English word BURTON

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Definitions of BURTON

1. A number of places in the United States:
2. A number of places in England and Wales:
3. (archaic) An arrangement of blocks and pulleys, especially for tightening rigging on a ship.
4. (archaic) Storage of cargo athwartships.
5. A English habitational surname from Old English for someone who lived in any of several places with that name.
6. A male given name

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Examples of Using BURTON in a Sentence

• In collaboration with Frederick Loewe, and later Burton Lane, he created some of the world's most popular and enduring works of musical theatre both for the stage and on film.
• Batman Returns is a 1992 American superhero film directed by Tim Burton and written by Daniel Waters.
• ' initial Batman film series, a sequel to Batman Forever (1995), and the only film in the series made without the involvement of Tim Burton in any capacity.
• Directed by Joel Schumacher and produced by Tim Burton and Peter MacGregor-Scott, it stars Val Kilmer as Bruce Wayne / Batman, replacing Michael Keaton, alongside Tommy Lee Jones, Jim Carrey, Nicole Kidman, and Chris O'Donnell.
• The act was proposed by Representative Francis Burton Harrison of New York and was approved on December 17, 1914.
• The university includes seven regional campuses in Northeast Ohio located in Ashtabula, Burton, East Liverpool, Jackson Township, New Philadelphia, Salem, and Warren, along with additional regional and international facilities in Cleveland, Independence, and Twinsburg, Ohio; New York City; and Florence, Italy.
• Recorded in Copenhagen, Denmark, at Sweet Silence Studios with producer Flemming Rasmussen, it is the band's final album to feature bassist Cliff Burton.
• Portrayed by LeVar Burton, he served as helmsman of the USS Enterprise-D in the first season of The Next Generation, then occupied the role of the chief engineer for the rest of the series and in the films before appearing as a commodore in Picard.
• Timothy Walter Burton (born August 25, 1958) is an American animator, director, producer, writer and illustrator.
• Films he directed included the Shakespearean adaptations The Taming of the Shrew (1967), starring Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton; Romeo and Juliet (1968), for which he received a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Director; and Hamlet (1990), starring Mel Gibson and Glenn Close.
• Noted for his mellifluous baritone voice, Burton established himself as a formidable Shakespearean actor in the 1950s and gave a memorable performance as Hamlet in 1964.
• He is portrayed by Christopher Lee in both films, and is voiced by Corey Burton in most of the video games and animated productions in which he appears.
• Born in Torquay, Devon, Burton joined the Bombay Army as an officer in 1842, beginning an eighteen-year military career which including a brief stint in the Crimean War.
• The club was established in 1901 by a merger of Burton Swifts and Burton Wanderers, and played their last competitive season in 1910.
• Homer Burton Adkins (1892–1949), American chemist, known for work in hydrogenation of organic compounds.
• Burton received 12 Daytime Emmy Awards and a Peabody Award as host and executive producer of Reading Rainbow.
• Folkestone expanded further west after the arrival of the railway in 1843 as an elegant coastal resort, thanks to the investment of the Earl of Radnor under the urban plan of Decimus Burton.
• In his study of Edgefield County, South Carolina, Orville Vernon Burton classified white society as comprising the poor, the yeoman middle class, and the elite planters.
• Bloomsbury began to be developed in the 17th century under the Earls of Southampton, but it was primarily in the 19th century, under the Duke of Bedford, that the district was planned and built as an affluent Regency era residential area by famed developer James Burton.
• Cabin Boy is a 1994 American fantasy comedy film directed by Adam Resnick, co-produced by Tim Burton, and starring comedian Chris Elliott.
• His designs were financed by the Prince Regent and by the era's most successful property developer, James Burton.
• As of 2023, the current mayor of Sumiton is Petey Ellis, and the city council members are Floyd Burton, Jimmy Dodd, Bill Fowler, Micah Harrison, and Ken Russell.
• To date, Randy Bachman and Burton Cummings are the only artists to be inducted twice, once for their work with The Guess Who and again for Bachman's work with Bachman–Turner Overdrive and Cummings for his solo work.
• They could not count on the city of Piedmont to protect them from violent threats against their lives—the chief of police at the time, Burton Becker, was an active member of the Ku Klux Klan.
• Carnelian Bay is on the north side, Tahoe City to the south, and Tahoe National Forest and Burton Creek State Park extends along the entire east side.

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