heater
/ˈhiːtə
/noun
1A device for warming the air or water: a wall-mounted electric heater a gas water heater...
- Since then they have had just a couple of electric heaters to warm the house and no hot water.
- ‘We don't have a heater or warm water,’ she told me, looking down.
- He made swift movements to turn on a Shard heater to warm the water in his tub.
Synonyms
warmer, radiator, convector, fire, brazier;
electric heater, gas heater, convector heater, fan heater, storage heater, water heater, geyser, immersion heater, block heater;
Australian/New Zealand chip heater
1.1 Electronics A conductor used for indirect heating of the cathode of a thermionic valve.
2 Baseball A fastball: he drove the next pitch, another heater, over the left-field fence...
- He had an amazing fastball; his heater was something I had never seen, and don't get me started on his curve.
- On a first pitch fastball, Andy LaRoche smacked a 93 mph heater right back up the middle, nearly hitting Nieve in the process.
- He then popped up a well-placed heater on the 3-2 pitch, ending the threat.
3North American informal, dated A gun: we lined up with our right hands on our heaters in our side pockets...
- Rusty sometimes carried a heater, but it rarely had any bullets in it.
- When we reached Gus's hangout we lined up, ready for hell, with our right hands on our heaters in our side pockets.
- I tell Louie to open up his glove compartment and I get the heater out of it and put it in my pocket.
Rhymes
- program girl
- programist
- program junction
- program library
- program line
- programma
- programmability
- programmable
- programmable logic controller
- programmatic
- programmatical
- programmatically
- programmatist
- programme
- programme boy
- programme builder
- programme-building
- programme card
- programme chair
- programme chairman
- programme company
- programme contracting
- programme contractor
- programmed cell death
- programmed learning