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Definition: Heater |
HeaterNoun1. Device that heats water or supplies warmth to a room. 2. (baseball) a pitch thrown with maximum velocity; "he swung late on the fastball"; "he showed batters nothing but smoke". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "heater" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1903. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Electrical Engineering | An electrically heated element for supplying heat to an indirectly heated cathode. Source: European Union. (references) |
| An assembly incorporating one or more heating elements. Source: European Union. (references) | |
Engineering & Technology | A stove, furnace, radiator, or other devise for giving off heat. Source: European Union. (references) |
Food & Agriculture | An appliance used for raising the temperature, e. g. of air(in all accommodation space), of water(used for washing), of fuel oil(preparatory to burning), etc. Source: European Union. (references) |
Mechanical Engineering | A device which adds heat to the working medium. Source: European Union. (references) |
Mining | In the coke products industry, one who regulates the temperature of heating flues and combustion of fuel gas used to heat coal in a byproductcoke oven. (references) |
Occupations | Controls oil, gas, or electrical furnace to heat stock, such as billets, bars, plates and rods, preparatory to forging, following work order specifications: Reads dials and gauges, and turns knobs to regulate flow of fuel or electric current to verify and maintain specified temperature within furnace. Positions stock in furnace, using tongs or chain hoist. Observes color of metal or reads pyrometer to determine when stock reaches forging temperature. Pulls stock from furnace and delivers it to forging press or hammer, using tongs or chain hoist. Usually works as member of hammer, press, or upsetter crew. May place heated workpiece on conveyor for transporting to work area. May turn knobs to synchronize speed of feed and takeoff conveyors of automatic furnace. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Synonyms: HeaterSynonyms: bullet (n), fastball (n), hummer (n), smoke (n), warmer (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. | |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | A bedside heater. (Wild Wild West; writing credit: Jim Thomas; John Thomas) Rita'll need a bedside heater. (Wild Wild West; writing credit: Jim Thomas; John Thomas) Forget about the curve ball Ricky, give him the heater. (Major League; writing credit: David S. Ward) | |
Lyrics | And the heater don't work and it's oh so cold (Once Bitten Twice Shy; performing artist: Great White) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Heater (1999) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | ||
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Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
 | Float plane delivering parts for a heater. Credit: America's Coastlines. |  | Chicks under canopy heater. Credit: USDA. |
 | U. S. Army Hospital Number 30, Royat, France. : Bathroom and latrine, showing hot water heater and shower baths. Credit: National Library of Medicine. |  | Physical therapy. : Water heater made from two fifty gallon drums. Credit: National Library of Medicine. |
 | Scene in the Supply Officer's stateroom, 18 January 1938. The officer writing at the desk may be Lieutenant Commander Matthew T. Betton, USN(SC), who was Brooklyn's Supply Officer at the time. Note safe, with combination lock, installed as part of the desk; fan, electric heater, officer's sword and .45 caliber M1911 pistol on the bulkhead above the sofa. Credit: NAVY. |  | Detroit City Gas Company office, heater, Detroit, Mich. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Production. New Tennessee Valley Authority synthetic ammonia plant. Erection of a heater stack in the TVA's new synthetic ammonia plant in the Muscle Shoals area. Ammonia is made here by high-pressure synthesis of nitrogen and hydrogen and converted at Mu. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Heater in home of William Huravitch, farmer near Wheelock, North Dakota. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Model house, Orange, New Jersey. View to heater and boiler. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Long Island Lighting Co., Hicksville. Heater with Mr. Pappas. Credit: Library of Congress. |
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits. | |||
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| "Heater closeUp" by Sébastien SCHNABEL Commentary: "With Milota Dimage7i." | "Heater texture" by Luis Alves Commentary: "A heater picture." |
Source: photographs selected by the editor, with permission from the photographers. | |
| Play | Caption |
 | 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. | |
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | If possible, do not use a wood-burning stove, kerosene heater, or fireplace. (references) | |
Early data for MPEC and heater probe suggest no delay in ulcer healing in treated patients. (references) | ||
Heater probe and multipolar electrocoagulation (also known as bipolar) are the most promising modalities for endoscopic hemostatic therapy. (references) | ||
Business | The water heater market, estimated at $27 million in 1998, excludes water heaters (boilers) used at industrial facilities where growth is also consistently upward. (references) | |
Travel | Netherlands | The tenant often must provide electric fixtures, stove, refrigerator, water heater, wardrobes, etc. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Heater" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 99.04% of the time. "Heater" is used about 521 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) | 99.04% | 516 | 11,767 |
| Noun (proper) | 0.96% | 5 | 157,705 |
| Total | 100.00% | 521 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following table summarizes the usage of "heater" based on a population census conducted in the United States. Ranks and frequencies are based on all names reported and classified. |
| Name | Usage/Gender | Usage per 100 million Persons | Rank in USA |
| Heater | Last name | 1,000 | 9,561 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits. | |||
Expressions using "heater": air heater ♦ electric heater ♦ electric water heater ♦ fan heater ♦ Feed heater ♦ gas heater ♦ immersion heater ♦ instataneous water heater ♦ kerosene heater ♦ kerosine heater ♦ oil heater ♦ recuperative heater ♦ solar heater ♦ solar water heater ♦ solid fuel heater ♦ space heater ♦ steam heater ♦ storage heater ♦ storage water heater of the pressure type ♦ vented recessed heater ♦ water heater. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "heater": heater-cloak, heater-type. | |
Ending with "heater": after-heater, blow-heater, engine pre-heater, mini-heater, oil-heater, pre-heater, room-heater, towel-heater, water-heater. | |
| 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 |
pool heater | 1,907 | above ground pool heater | 140 |
water heater | 1,880 | radiant heater | 139 |
heater | 1,097 | spa heater | 138 |
tankless water heater | 1,058 | kerosene heater | 122 |
hot water heater | 891 | baseboard heater | 121 |
swimming pool heater | 692 | rheem water heater | 117 |
solar pool heater | 572 | demand water heater | 114 |
patio heater | 407 | solar heater | 113 |
space heater | 287 | outdoor heater | 103 |
electric heater | 267 | gas hot water heater | 99 |
electric water heater | 231 | electric hot water heater | 96 |
solar water heater | 230 | electric pool heater | 96 |
propane heater | 227 | water bed heater | 92 |
hayward pool heater | 213 | heater core | 92 |
tankless hot water heater | 202 | infrared heater | 87 |
gas heater | 200 | hot tub heater | 87 |
gas water heater | 190 | swimming pool solar heater | 85 |
dealer heater unit wholesale | 177 | wall heater | 82 |
portable heater | 165 | unit heater | 82 |
state water heater | 152 | rv water heater | 79 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Language | Translations for "heater"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | pajisje ngrohëse, ngrohës. (various references) | |
Arabic | موقد (bonfire, fireplace, grate, hearth, hotplate, stove), مدفأة (fireplace, hearth), سخان (furnace), جهاز التسخين, المحمى. (various references) | |
Bulgarian | револвер (pistol, repeater, repeating rifle, revolver, rod), радиатор (radiator), грейка (hot-water-bottle, warmer), отоплитлен уред, огняр (coal trimmer, fireman), нагревател (water heater), печка (fire, stove). (various references) | |
Chinese | 加热器 (Heaters), 暖氣機 (radiator), 暖氣 . (various references) | |
Czech | topné tìleso (heating element), topítko (electric fire), ohřívaè (economizer, hotplate, warmer), kamínka (stove). (various references) | |
Danish | varmer, varmeovn (fire basket, fire devil, oven, sweating stove), varmelegeme, varmeapparat (fire basket, fire devil, oven), varmeaggregat, radiator (electric fire, radiator), ovn (furnace, kiln, oven, stove), kaminstole, gloedetraad, forvarmer (drier), førerhusopvarmning (heating, tractor cab heating). (various references) | |
Dutch | verwarming (heating), kachel (furnace, kiln, oven, stove). (various references) | |
Esperanto | hejtilo. (various references) | |
Farsi | متصدی گرم کردن , چراغ خوراک پزی (Cooker, Primus), دستگاه تولیدگرما, بخاری (Chimney, Gaseous, Stove). (various references) | |
Finnish | hehkulanka (filament), lämmityslaite, lämmitin (fire basket, fire devil, oven), kamiina (stove). (various references) | |
French | réchauffeur, chauffage (heating). (various references) | |
German | heizkörper (heaters, heating element, radiator, radiators), heizung (firing, heat, heating, radiator). (various references) | |
Greek | κλιβανιστής φρεατοκλιβάνου, κλιβανιστής, προθερμαντήρας (hot bulb), χαμηλή αναπαυτική πολυθρόνα, αυτόσ που θερμαίνει, θέρμανση καμπίνας τράκτορα (heating, tractor cab heating), θερμάστρα (stove), θερμαντικό σώμα, θερμαντήρας (fire basket, fire devil, oven), θερμαίνων (warmer). (various references) | |
Hebrew | מחמם, מסיק (fireman), תנור חמום. (various references) | |
Hungarian | hõsugárzó (radiator), fûtõkészülék, fűtés (firing), fűtőszál (filament, heating wire, hot electrode). (various references) | |
Indonesian | alat pemanas. (various references) | |
Italian | riscaldatore. (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 熱器具 , 加熱器 (heating apparatus), パ行 (Classification for Japanese verb with the dictionary form ending in "pu", heal, heap, hear, hearing, heat, heat pipe, heat pump, heel, heel out, hero, hero package, hymen, interview, listening comprehension, public hearing), 暖房器 (heating unit), ストークスの法則 (stock, stock car, stock car race, stock control, stockbroker, stocker, Stockholm, stockings, Stoic, Stoicism, Stokes' law, stole, stone, stone circle, stone crab, stone wash, store, store brand, store concept, storm, story, story teller, storyboard, stove, stove league). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | ヒーター , ヒータ , ねつきぐ, かねつき (bell ringer, heating apparatus, ringing of a bell, superheater), ストーブ , だんぼうき (heating unit). (various references) | |
Korean | 히이터 (Heaters). (various references) | |
Manx | chiowder, chiasseyder (radiator, warmer). (various references) | |
Norwegian | varmeapparat. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | eaterhay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | aquecedor (calefactor, heating, warmer). (various references) | |
Romanian | radiator (radiator). (various references) | |
Russian | нагревательный прибор (heating apparatus), нагреватель;печка, нагреватель, подогреватель (economizer). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | grejalica (calorifier), grejač (warmer). (various references) | |
Spanish | calentador (case worm). (various references) | |
Swedish | hed (downland, heath, moor, moorland), värmare (warmer), motståndsvärmare, glödtråd för indirekt upphetad katod. (various references) | |
Turkish | tabanca (colt, equalizer, gat, gun, peashooter, persuader, pistol, pop, revolver, rod), kalorifer (central heating, radiator), ısıtıcı (fire, space heater, warmer). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | радіатор (cooler, radiator), обігрівач, пічний, піч (cooker, fire, furnace, oven, stove). (various references) | |
Vietnamese | bếp lò (cooking range, cook-stove), đun nước. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "heater": heaters. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "heater": amphitheater, cheater, preheater, pretheater, reheater, superheater, theater. (additional references) | |
Words containing "heater": amphitheaters, cheaters, preheaters, reheaters, superheaters, theatergoer, theatergoers, theatergoing, theatergoings, theaters. (additional references) | |
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"Heater" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Healter, heate, heaten, heates, heatter, hecter, hefter, Heiner, heister, heite, Heitler, Heizer, Herter, hester, heter, hetter, heuchter, heurter, hiate, hiatel, hiatr, hiatur, Hitae, Hobaiter, Hoetger, Hoetker, hotair, Huatay, Hubauer, Huxter, peater, wheater. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "heater" (pronounced hē"ter) |
| 3 | -ē" t er | eater, beater, cheater, Dieter, liter, meter, neater, Peter, praetor, repeater, seater, Skeeter, sweeter, teeter, treater. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: aether, hereat, reheat. | |
| Words within the letters "a-e-e-h-r-t" | |
-1 letter: arete, earth, eater, ether, hater, heart, rathe, there, three. | |
-2 letters: eath, haet, hare, hart, hate, hear, heat, here, rate, rath, rete, rhea, tahr, tare, tear, thae, thee, tree. | |
-3 letters: are, art, ate, ear, eat, era, ere, eta, eth, hae, hat, her, het, rah, rat, ree, ret, tae, tar, tea, tee, the. | |
-4 letters: ae, ah. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-e-e-h-r-t" | |
+1 letter: aethers, breathe, cheater, earthed, earthen, feather, haltere, hearted, hearten, heaters, heather, hectare, hektare, hetaera, leather, preheat, recheat, reheats, reteach, teacher, terefah, theater, theatre, thereat, thermae, weather, whereat, wreathe. | |
+2 letters: adherent, aetheric, aweather, breathed, breather, breathes, catheter, cheaters, detacher, earthier, earthmen, earthpea, earthset, ephorate, erythema, ethereal, fathered, feathers, feathery, gathered, gatherer, haltered, halteres, hastener, headrest, heartens, heartier, hearties, heathers, heathery, heathier, hectares, hektares, heritage, herniate, hetaerae, hetaeras, hetaeric, lathered, latherer, leathern, leathers, leathery, neatherd, overhate, overheat, preheats, recheats, regather, reheated, reheater, rethread, sheather, teachers, theaters, theatres, threaded, threader, threaped, threaper, threated, threaten, tracheae, urethane, urethrae, weathers, whatever, wheatear, wreathed, wreathen, wreathes. | |
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