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heater

[ hee-ter ]

noun

  1. any of various apparatus for heating, especially for heating water or the air in a room.
  2. Electronics. the element of a vacuum tube that carries the current for heating a cathode.
  3. Slang. a pistol, revolver, or other firearm.


heater

/ ˈhiːtə /

noun

  1. any device for supplying heat, such as a hot-air blower, radiator, convector, etc
  2. slang.
    a pistol
  3. electronics a conductor carrying a current that indirectly heats the cathode in some types of valve


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Word History and Origins

Origin of heater1

First recorded in 1490–1500; heat + -er 1

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Example Sentences

When I do, I can see an electric light, a Dyson vacuum cleaner, a laptop computer, a blow-heater and a mobile phone.

An absence of natural gas for the water heater led her to innovate.

The two were sitting in front of a heater one November afternoon when Apple had a eureka moment.

"We had bedbugs before they were cool, before they were hip," says Heater.

Back in 2006, Brian Heater was living in an apartment in Astoria, Queens, when he began noticing welts on his skin.

Behind this stairway on the lower floor was a fireplace (m) with a water heater.

There was no fire in the great heater, and the tables and chairs were black with dust.

The bottom of the tank and the bottom of the heater are connected.

The top of the heater and the top of the boiler are connected.

Upon the primus heater, alone, did we rely for cooking the meals on sledging journeys.

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