HEATER - 9 definitions found
heater n 1: device that heats water or supplies warmth to a room [syn: heater, warmer] 2: (baseball) a pitch thrown with maximum velocity; "he swung late on the fastball"; "he showed batters nothing but smoke" [syn: fastball, heater, smoke, hummer, bullet] heater aether hereat reheat Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary, 11th Edition (2003) heater noun Date: 15th century 1. one that heats; especially a device that imparts heat or holds something to be heated 2. fastball Oxford English Reference Dictionary
Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner\'s English Dictionary heater (heaters) A heater is a piece of equipment or a machine which is used to raise the temperature of something, especially of the air inside a room or a car. N-COUNT English Explanatory Dictionary heater ˈhi:tə n. 1 a device for supplying heat to its environment. 2 a container with an element etc. for heating the contents (water-heater). 3 sl. a gun. Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) Heater \Heat"er\, n. 1. One who, or that which, heats. 2. Any contrivance or implement, as a furnace, stove, or other heated body or vessel, etc., used to impart heat to something, or to contain something to be heated. Feed heater. See under Feed. Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 74 Moby Thesaurus words for "heater": Bunsen burner, Dutch oven, automatic, bedpan, bloom heater, blowgun, blowpipe, brazier, brick oven, burner, calefactory, caliduct, car heater, cooker, cookery, defroster, dielectric heater, dielectric preheater, electric blanket, electric heater, electronic heater, element, firearm, fireless heater, flamethrower, foot warmer, forge, furnace, gas jet, gas log, gat, geyser, gun, handgun, heat lamp, heating duct, high-frequency heater, hot-water bag, hot-water bottle, hot-water heater, induction heater, infrared heater, infrared lamp, ingot heater, iron heater, jet, kerosene heater, kiln, musket, orchard heater, oven, peashooter, piece, pilot light, pistol, preheater, radiator, radio-frequency heater, register, repeater, revolver, rifle, rod, sawed-off shotgun, shooting iron, shotgun, six-gun, six-shooter, steam pipe, stove, sun lamp, tewel, tuyere, warmer |
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