Heater

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. An apparatus that heats or provides heat.
  • n. One who heats something or tends a heating apparatus.
  • n. Slang A pistol.
  • n. Baseball A fastball.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. A device that produces and radiates heat, typically to raise the temperature of a room or building.
  • n. A gun.
  • n. (slang) A fastball.
  • n. (slang) An extended winning streak.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. One who, or that which, heats.
  • n. 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.
  • n. A pistol or other carryable firearm.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. One who or that which heats.
  • n. Specifically— A furnace, stove, or other device for heating, drying, or warning buildings, rooms, drying-houses, fruit-evaporators, or parts of machines, as the calendering-rolls of a paper-mill.
  • n. A small mass of cast-iron designed to be heated and then placed in a hollow fiat-iron or in a coffee-pot, to heat the iron or keep the coffee hot.
  • n. In a sugar-making plant, a pan used for the first heating of the cane-juice or syrup; a heating-pan.
  • n. In electricity, that part of the Nernst lamp which, in starting, is heated by the electric current and by its heat starts the glower. See Nernst lamp.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • n. device that heats water or supplies warmth to a room
  • n. (baseball) a pitch thrown with maximum velocity
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    Rhyme
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