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English

Pronunciation

  • An audio transcript can be found at en-us-heater.ogg



Etymology

Noun

  1. A device that produces and radiates heat, typically to raise the temperature of a room or building.
  2. : Turn on the heater; I'm cold.
  3. In the Context of A gun.
  4. : The thug pumped two rounds from his heater into her.
  5. A fastball.
  6. : Jones threw a heater under his chin.


Translations

See also


Category:English agent nouns

fa:heater fr:heater it:heater ja:heater ru:heater fi:heater ta:heater te:heater vi:heater zh:heater

GNU Project's publication of CIDE, the Collaborative International Dictionary of English Heater \Heat"er\ (h[=e]t"[~e]r), n.
1. One who, or that which, heats.
[1913 Webster]

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.
[1913 Webster]

3. A pistol or other carryable firearm; as, gunmen with their
heaters bulging in their pockets. [slang]
[PJC]

Feed heater. See under Feed.
[1913 Webster]
WordNet heater
n 1: device that heats water or supplies warmth to a room [syn: warmer]
2: (baseball) a pitch thrown with maximum velocity; "he swung
late on the fastball"; "he showed batters nothing but
smoke" [syn: fastball, smoke, hummer, bullet]
Moby Dictionary
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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