heater
UK/ˈhiːtə//ˈhitɚ/
heater noun: a device that produces and radiates heat, typically to raise the temperature of a room or building.
Noun
heater (plural heaters)
- A device that produces and radiates heat, typically to raise the temperature of a room or building.
- Turn on the heater; I'm cold.
- “First you've got to sit up and go into the tackroom, because you are soaking wet. And shivering.” […] The tackroom was cold, so Sam turned on the kerosene heater and found a wool cooler and wrapped her in it.2001, Jane Smiley, Horse Heaven, New York, NY: Ballantine Books, →ISBN, page 61
- A person who heats something, for example in metalworking.
- A handgun.
- The thug pumped two rounds from his heater into her.
- A fastball, especially one thrown at high velocity.
- Jones threw a heater under his chin.
- An extended winning streak.
- Emmy went on a heater in Las Vegas and came back six thousand dollars richer.
- A medieval European shield having a rounded triangle shape like a clothes iron.
- It can be assumed that as the earlier kite shield transformed into the heater shape, there must have been versions in between the two styles. Indeed, in artwork of the Medieval period, shields are rarely present after 1450 and even then are quite small. The development of flattop heaters from...1998, John Clements, Medieval Swordsmanship: Illustrated Methods and Techniques
- A dead heat; a race in which two or more competitors reach the finish line simultaneously.
- Synonym of banger (“a powerfully energetic or exceptional song”).
- Synonyms:
- banger
Proper noun capitalized: Heater
Heater (plural Heaters)
- A surname.
heater meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Bengali and Malayalam
heater in Hindi
- device that produces and radiates heat
- हीटर hīṭar, तापक tāpak
heater in Tamil
- சூடேற்றி, சூடாக்கி, சூடாக்கும் கருவி, வெப்பமாக்கி, வெப்பமூட்டி, வெப்பப்படுத்தி
heater in Bengali
- উনান
heater in Malayalam
- radiator, convector, fire
- ഹീറ്റർ, തീ, തീക്കുണ്ഡം, അഗ്നികുണ്ഡം, വെള്ളംതിളപ്പിക്കാനുപയോഗിക്കുന്നഉപകരണം, വെെദ്യുതതീക്കുണ്ഡം
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- heater in Kannada
- ಒಲೆ, ಕುಲುಮೆ, ಕಾಯ್ಗೆ
- heater in Nepali
- हीटर hīṭar
- heater in Arabic
- مِدْفَأَة midfaʔa
- heater in Thai
- เครื่องทำความร้อน
- heater in Vietnamese
- bếp lò, lò
Examples of heater in a sentence
- You have to push the switch hard to get the heater to kick in.
- That heater will start a fire if you don't fix it.
- I'm putting in a new water heater in the spring.
Synonyms of heater
Forms of heater
| Noun | |
|---|---|
| plural | heaters |
| Proper noun | |
| plural | Heaters |
Origin of heater
From heat + -er.
Words formed from heater
- air heater
- baseboard heater
- block heater
- closed feedwater heater
- dry heater
- fan heater
- feed heater
- feedwater heater
- foot heater
- headbolt heater
- head-bolt heater
- head bolt heater
- heaterless
- hot water heater
- immersion heater
- induction heater
- iron heater
- masonry heater
- microheater
- nanoheater
- oil heater
- open feedwater heater
- orchard heater
- point heater
- quartz heater
- space heater
- steam heater
- wet heater
Phrases with heater
Words that rhyme with heater
Questions about heater
- What does heater mean?
- Heater means a device that produces and radiates heat, typically to raise the temperature of a room or building.
- What is heater in Hindi?
- Heater in Hindi is हीटर (hīṭar), तापक (tāpak). See Heater meaning in Hindi.
- What part of speech is heater?
- Heater can be a noun or a proper noun.
- How do you pronounce heater?
- Heater is pronounced /ˈhitɚ/ (US).
- What is the plural of heater?
- The plural of heater is heaters.
Words near heater in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: heater (page history and authors); Heater (page history and authors); heater (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); heater (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors); heater (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license); heater (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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