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Definition: Boiler |
BoilerNoun1. Sealed vessel where water is converted to steam. 2. A metal pot for stewing or boiling; usually has a lid. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "boiler" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1776. (references) |
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Dream Interpretation | To dream of seeing a boiler out of repair, signifies you will suffer from bad management or disappointment. For a woman to dream that she goes into a cellar to see about a boiler foretells that sickness and losses will surround her. Source: Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted .... |
Electrical Engineering | An installation whose function is to vaporise water under pressure to superheat and, in some cases, reheat the steam. Source: European Union. (references) |
Energy | A vessel or tank where heat produced from the combustion of fuels such as natural gas, fuel oil, or coal is used to generate hot water or steam for applications ranging from building space heating to electric power production or industrial process heat. (references) |
| A closed vessel in which water is converted to pressurized steam. (references) | |
Environment | A vessel designed to transfer heat produced by combustion or electric resistance to water. Boilers may provide hot water or steam. (references) |
Food & Agriculture | Steam generating unit used aboard ship to provide steam for propulsion, by reciprocating engines or turbines, or for auxiliary purposes, such as heating, or for both. Source: European Union. (references) |
Mechanical Engineering | That part of an absorption machine in which the refrigerant vapour is driven off by heat. Source: European Union. (references) |
| The combined boiler body-burner unit, designed to transmit to water the heat released from burning. Source: European Union. (references) | |
Occupations | Mixes and cooks candy ingredients by following, modifying, or formulating recipes to produce product of specified flavor, texture, and color: Cooks ingredients [CONFECTIONERY COOKER (sugar & conf.)] at specified temperatures in open-fire or steam-jacketed kettles or in batch or continuous pressure cookers. Casts candy by hand, using molds and funnel, or tends machine that casts candy in starch or rubber molds [DEPOSITING-MACHINE OPERATOR (sugar & conf.)]. Spreads candy onto cooling and heating slabs. Kneads and machine-pulls candy [CANDY PULLER (sugar & conf.)]. Spins or rolls candy into strips ready for cutting [SPINNER (sugar & conf.)]. Examines, feels, and tastes product to evaluate color, texture, and flavor. Adds ingredients or modifies cooking and forming operations as needed. May direct CANDY-MAKER HELPERS (sugar & conf.). May be designated according to type of candy produced as Caramel-Candy Maker (sugar & conf.); Coconut-Candy Maker (sugar & conf.); Fudge-Candy Maker (sugar & conf.); Hard-Candy Maker (sugar & conf.); Nougat-Candy Maker (sugar & conf.); Taffy-Candy Maker (sugar & conf.). (references) |
| Controls kettles to boil soap ingredients, such as lye, resin, palm oil, and tallow, to specified consistency: Opens valves to fill kettle with ingredients in specified amounts, and weighs and dumps ingredients in kettle, using scale. Opens steam valve to heat kettle to specified temperature. Observes boiling rate, reads temperature gauges, and turns valves to maintain temperature within critical limits. Boils ingredient for specified time and draws and tests sample for consistency, specific gravity, and chemical content, using laboratory equipment, such as hydrometer. Starts pumps and opens valves to transfer mixture to storage tanks. May stir ingredients with paddle. (references) | |
Public Administration | An enclosed, riveted heavy-duty vessel in which water is boiled for the purpose of making steam in engine. Source: European Union. (references) |
Slang | Ugly woman. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
A boiler is a closed vessel in which water or another liquid is heated under pressure. The steam or hot liquid is then circulated out of the boiler for use in various process or heating applications.
Construction of boilers is mainly limited to steel and cast iron.
Sources of heat for the boiler can be the combustion of fuels such as oil, wood or natural gas. Electric boilers use resistance-type heating elements. Waste-heat boilers use the heat rejected from other processes such as gas turbines.
A boiler (colloquial) is also an old hen whose flesh is too tough to eat roasted or grilled, and is therefore only suitable to be boiled in a stew.
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Boiler."
Synonyms: BoilerSynonyms: kettle (n), steam boiler (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Furnace | Noun: furnace, stove, kiln, oven; cracker; hearth, focus, combustion chamber; athanor, hypocaust, reverberatory; volcano; forge, fiery furnace; limekiln; Dutch oven; tuyere, brasier, salamander, heater, warming pan; boiler, caldron, seething caldron, pot; urn, kettle; chafing-dish; retort, crucible, alembic, still; waffle irons; muffle furnace, induction furnace; electric heater, electric furnace, electric resistance heat. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
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Screenplays | And this consists mainly of running the boiler, heating different parts of the hotel on a daily, rotating basis, repair damage as it occurs, and doing repairs so that the elements can't get a foothold (The Shining; writing credit: Stanley Kubrick) She was seen in the boiler room the other night with Balto (Balto; writing credit: David Cohen; Elana Lesser) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Boiler Maker (2003) | |
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 | Using a boiler to melt the permafrost for setting a triangulation marker. Credit: Paths Less Taken - NOAA at the Ends of the Earth. |  | Small White Boiler Onions in the produce section of Giant Foods in Dumfries, VA. Credit: USDA. |
 | Caption: Tower Containing Magnetic Ore Separators at Ogden Mine. Stone Building Is Power House or Boiler House. Corliss Engine in Frame Building- Extreme Left; Ogdensburg, NJ; 1895; {26.111/10} (jpg). |  | U. S. Army Camp Hospital No. 45, Aix-les-Bains, France. : Boiler room and steam heating plant. Credit: National Library of Medicine. |
 | U.S. Army, Fitzsimons General Hospital, Denver, CO. : Boiler room of Heating Plant. Credit: National Library of Medicine. |  | Underway at sea, circa 1926-1931, as refitted for service as Asiatic Fleet flagship. Note the dense smoke from her boiler fires. Credit: NAVY. |
 | Under construction at the Philadelphia Navy Yard, Pennsylvania, 14 July 1921. Photographed by Replugle, looking aft with the bulkhead at Frame 75 at the bottom. This view shows the ship's arrangement amidships, with two very long centerline machinery spaces, each with four boiler rooms to each side and torpedo protection bulkheads outboard of the boiler rooms. The after machinery space bulkhead and the aftermost four boiler rooms have not yet been installed. Construction of this ship was halted by the Naval Limitations Treaty in February 1922. Credit: NAVY. |  | Glazier Stove Company, boiler room, Chelsea, Mich. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Sheffield Car Co., engine & dynamo, and boiler room. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Production. Locomotives. The massive size of this locomotive boiler dwarfs the husky worker inside it. In addition to locomotives, the plant doing this work also turns out tanks and ship propellers. Baldwin Locomotive Works. Credit: Library of Congress. |
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 | Furnace; heat; heater; boiler; calefactor; cinerator; cremator; forge; heating system; incinerator; kiln; oil burner; smithy; stove. |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
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Business | The country, through PDVSA subsidiary Bitumens Orinoco SA (Bitor), is marketing the boiler fuel world wide as a low-cost alternative to regular fuel oils for power generation. (references) | |
Players in the boiler market include Babcock-Wilcox (US and Spain) 15-20 percent, Marelli (Italy) 20 percent, and other participants including Skoda (Czech Republic), Parsons Peebles (UK), Mecanica La Pena (Spain), Knooter Erickson (new entry from the US), and some very small local firms. (references) | ||
In the Czech Republic, biomass presents the most cost effective renewable energy source, with relatively low CO2 emission abatement investment costs (2-9 USD/t of CO2) as well as high reduction potential of 4.3 Mt of CO2 per year. The most cost efficient individual measures are small wood-fired CHP plants, gas boilers with wood gasification and wood-fired boiler plants. (references) | ||
Economic History | Netherlands | Per year, a solar boiler saves about 200 cubic meters of natural gas. (references) |
Netherlands | A new development is a solar boiler integrated in a central heating installation. (references) | |
Netherlands | In the solar thermal energy sector, the solar boiler is now playing a major role for domestic purposes. (references) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Boiler" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 99.70% of the time. "Boiler" is used about 676 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 99.7% | 674 | 9,792 |
| Noun (proper) | 0.3% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Total | 100.00% | 676 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "boiler": auxiliary boiler ♦ back boiler ♦ Barrel of a boiler ♦ Boiler deck ♦ boiler house ♦ Boiler iron ♦ boiler maker ♦ Boiler plate ♦ boiler pressure ♦ boiler room ♦ boiler suit ♦ central heating boiler ♦ Cylinder boiler ♦ donkey boiler ♦ double boiler ♦ electric boiler ♦ Flash boiler ♦ Flue boiler ♦ fluidized bed boiler ♦ Lacashire boiler ♦ Lancashire boiler ♦ Locomotive boiler ♦ Multiflue boiler ♦ pulverised fuel boiler ♦ pulverized fuel boiler ♦ range boiler ♦ sectional boiler ♦ shell of a boiler ♦ steam boiler ♦ sun heated boiler ♦ tubular boiler ♦ Tubulous boiler ♦ wagon boiler. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "boiler": boiler-check, boiler-house, boiler-maker, boiler-makers, boiler-making, boiler-man, boiler-plant, boiler-plate, boiler-room, boiler-rooms, boiler-stoker, boiler-suit, boiler-suits. | |
Ending with "boiler": egg-boiler, head-boiler, long-boiler, pot-boiler, soap-boiler, steam-boiler, wash-boiler. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day | Expression | Frequency per Day |
boiler | 899 | central boiler | 34 |
boiler room | 405 | condensing boiler | 33 |
boiler design small steam | 241 | boiler room soundtrack | 33 |
steam boiler | 164 | oil boiler | 33 |
wood boiler | 78 | boiler munchkin | 33 |
hot water boiler | 77 | weil mclain boiler | 32 |
gas boiler | 73 | boiler part | 32 |
burnham boiler | 72 | wood burning boiler | 31 |
double boiler | 63 | industrial boiler | 31 |
peerless boiler | 49 | boiler manufacturer | 30 |
boiler room movie | 48 | outdoor wood boiler | 29 |
hartford steam boiler | 47 | boiler tube | 29 |
combi boiler | 46 | cleaver brook boiler | 28 |
residential boiler | 44 | rental boiler | 28 |
fulton boiler | 40 | boiler water treatment | 28 |
boiler control | 40 | used boiler | 28 |
water boiler | 39 | central heating boiler | 27 |
boiler room quote | 37 | utica boiler | 27 |
electric boiler | 37 | boiler bryan | 27 |
gas fired boiler | 35 | boiler plate | 27 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Language | Translations for "boiler"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | pulë për zierje, ngrohës uji (geyser), kazan avulli (steam boiler), kazan (caldron, cauldron, copper, fleshpot, kettle, tub). (various references) | |
Arabic | مرجل (caldron, cauldron, copper, generator, water heater), غلاية (billy, kettle). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | котел (caldron, cauldron, kettle), локомотив (engine, locomotive), бойлер. (various references) | |
Chinese | 鍋爐 , 鍋 (pan, pot), "炉. (various references) | |
Czech | bojler, kotel (cresset, kettledrum). (various references) | |
Danish | tjærekoger, solkedel (solar boiler, solar cooker, solar oven), koger (digester, generator), kedel (kettle), dampkedel (ship's steam generator). (various references) | |
Dutch | stoomketel (steam-boiler), ketel (cauldron, kettle, steam-boiler). (various references) | |
Esperanto | kaldrono (cauldron, kettle), kaldronego (steam-boiler). (various references) | |
Faeroese | ketil (cauldron, kettle). (various references) | |
Farsi | دیگ بخار. (various references) | |
Finnish | kattila (fish-kettle, jam pot, pot), höyrykattila (ship's steam generator). (various references) | |
French | chaudron, chaudière. (various references) | |
German | kessel (basin, caldron, cauldron, cauldrons, copper, encircled area, kettle, kettles, pot, sinkhole, tank, urn, vat), Kocher (cooker, hotplate, kettle, stove), heizkessel, Erhitzer (heater), Dampfkessel (steam boiler, steamer). (various references) | |
Greek | καζάνι (caldron, cauldron). (various references) | |
Hebrew | "ו" (kettle, pot, tank, uncle, vat). (various references) | |
Hungarian | kazán (express boiler, french boiler, furnace). (various references) | |
Indonesian | ketel uap. (various references) | |
Italian | calderotto (cauldron, kettle), caldaia (caldron, furnace, steam-boiler). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 火炉 (furnace), ボール螺子 (ball screw, baud rate, boa, boar, bolo, bonehead, bore, born, boyar, boycott, voice, voice mail box, voice recorder, voyager), 汽罐 , 汽缶 . (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | ボイラー , きか" (already published, engine, facility, feedback, flagship, gauge, hunger and cold, instrument, key, mainstay, mechanism, mirror, nucleus, organ, paragon, pattern, period, quarterly, repatriation, return, returning to one'sship, term, trachea, wonderful sight, your letter), かろ (furnace). (various references) | |
Korean | 보일러. (various references) | |
Manx | broieder (boiler person), coirrey (cauldron, corrie, fanny, hollow in hills, maelstrom, pothole, vent of volcano). (various references) | |
Norwegian | kjele (cauldron, kettle). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | oilerbay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | caldeira (kettle, steam-boiler). (various references) | |
Romanian | boiler, cazan (alembic, caldron, cauldron, copper, kettle), cãldare (cauldron). (various references) | |
Russian | куб (cube), котел (caldron, cauldron, copper, pot, still), бойлер, бак для кипячения. (various references) | |
Scottish | coire (a cauldron, blame, cauldron, fault, guilt, harm, kettle, kettle; corrie, pot). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | bojler (water heater), parni kotao (steam boiler), kazan (caldron, kettle). (various references) | |
Spanish | caldera (caldera, caldron, cauldron, copper). (various references) | |
Swedish | ångpanna (steam boiler, steam-boiler). (various references) | |
Turkish | su ısıtıcısı, kazan (caldron, cauldron), kaynatan kimse, haşlanan kümes hayvanı. (various references) | |
Turkmen | semawar (r) (samovar, water boiler). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | реторта (cucurbit, retort), кип'ятильник (water heater), бойлер, паровий котел. (various references) | |
Vietnamese | người đun n"i cất, n"i đun, nối chưng, gặp tai hoạ đẩy ai v o cảnh khổ cực. (various references) | |
Welsh | berwedydd, pair (cauldron, furnace), crochan (cauldron, pot). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "boiler": boilermaker, boilermakers, boilerplate, boilerplates, boilers, boilersuit, boilersuits. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "boiler": potboiler. (additional references) | |
Words containing "boiler": potboilers. (additional references) | |
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"Boiler" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: baoiler, Bilivert, biller, bioalarm, Bioalert, biofilter, bioherm, bioner, bioplex, Bixler, Boaler, bocier, bogler, boilee, boilered, boilier, boler, Bolier, boller, booler, Boozler, Botiller, Boualem, bouer, Bouille, Bouley, Boulmer, Boville, boyla, boyles, Boylil, Boyter, bueller, buile, Buliver, goiler, joiler, obiliary, Obler, Rouiller. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "boiler" (pronounced boy"ler) |
| 3 | -oy" l er | broiler, oiler, spoiler. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: reboil. | |
| Words within the letters "b-e-i-l-o-r" | |
-1 letter: birle, broil, liber, obeli, oiler, oriel, reoil, roble. | |
-2 letters: bier, bile, birl, boil, bole, bore, brie, brio, lier, lire, lobe, lore, orle, riel, rile, robe, roil, role. | |
-3 letters: bel, bio, bro, ire, lei, lib, lie, lob, obe, obi, oil, ole, orb, ore, reb, rei, rib, rob, roe. | |
-4 letters: be, bi, bo, el, er, li. | |
| Words containing the letters "b-e-i-l-o-r" | |
+1 letter: blowier, boilers, bricole, broiled, broiler, corbeil, embroil, obliger, preboil, reboils. | |
+2 letters: albicore, beliquor, blockier, bloodier, bloomier, blottier, blousier, blowsier, blowzier, braciole, bricoles, broilers, brollies, bromelin, cabriole, corbeils, embroils, erodible, erosible, forcible, forelimb, globbier, horrible, laborite, libretto, lovebird, obligers, overbill, overboil, preboils, reboiled, slobbier, strobile, trilobed, wobblier. | |
+3 letters: abolisher, airmobile, albicores, bandolier, beliquors, bicolored, billowier, blotchier, boardlike, bolivares, bracioles, bricolage, briolette, bromelain, bromeliad, bromelins, cabrioles, cabriolet, coercible, colubrine, corbeille, corbeling, embroiled, forelimbs, horribles, ignorable, knobblier, laborites, liberator, librettos, lovebirds, overbills, overboils, overbuild, overbuilt, parboiled, possibler, potboiler, preboiled, rebellion, reboiling, soilborne, strobilae, strobiles, subsoiler, trilobate, trilobite. | |
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