thermostatther‧mo‧stat /ˈθɜːməstæt $ ˈθɜːr-/ noun [countable] 
WORD ORIGINthermostat
Origin:
1800-1900 thermo- + -stat ‘instrument for keeping something steady’ (from Greek -states, from histanei ‘to cause to stand’)EXAMPLES FROM THE CORPUS
- An hour later, when the house begins to feel like the Mekong Delta, I check the thermostat.
- Buy a programmable thermostat that will turn your heating system on and off according to your schedule.
- If the temperature of the heating system seems erratic, the fault may lie with the boiler thermostat.
- It would differ very greatly in degree from the simple algorithm of the thermostat, but need not differ in principle.
- Like thermostats, they constantly adjust such things as neurotransmitter release and receptor sensitivity to compensate for perturbations from the environment.
- The thermostat goes under the water, with the heater.
- The remedy is to renew the thermostat.
- Try altering the setting on the thermostat dial; if nothing changes the thermostat is probably faulty.
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COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a thermostat (=for controlling temperature)COLLOCATIONS FROM THE CORPUSVERB
an instrument used for keeping a room or a machine at a particular temperature a thermostat (=for controlling temperature)· The room was hot when he entered, and he turned down the thermostat on the wall.· The way it works is this: I leave the room, she turns the thermostat up to 80.· Jane found it cold, but her visitors found it freezing, so she turned up the thermostat to seventy.· Cheryl Bradshaw finds herself turning down the thermostat more often this week.· Paul used to turn the thermostat down when John was not looking.· He got up and turned the thermostat to sixty and Dooley stomped back to bed.