heater

See also: Heater

English

Heater (device that produces and radiates heat).

Heater (gun).

Etymology

From heat +‎ -er.

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈhitɚ/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈhiːtə/

• Audio (US):

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• Rhymes: -iːtə(ɹ)

Noun

heater (plural heaters)

1. A device that produces and radiates heat, typically to raise the temperature of a room or building.

   Turn on the heater; I'm cold.

2. A person who heats something, for example in metalworking.
3. (dated, slang) A gun.

   The thug pumped two rounds from his heater into her.

4. (baseball, slang) A fastball, especially one thrown at high velocity.

   Jones threw a heater under his chin.

5. (gambling, slang) An extended winning streak.

   Emmy went on a heater in Las Vegas and came back six thousand dollars richer.

6. (historical) A medieval European shield having a rounded triangle shape like a clothes iron.
   • 1998, John Clements, Medieval Swordsmanship: Illustrated Methods and Techniques:

     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 larger kite shields is likely the result of increased fighting on horseback and the use of improved armor.

7. (horse racing) A dead heat; a race in which two or more competitors reach the finish line simultaneously.

Derived terms

• block heater
• closed feedwater heater
• dry heater
• fan heater
• feed heater
• feedwater heater
• foot heater
• headbolt heater
• head bolt heater
• head-bolt heater
• hot water heater
• immersion heater
• induction heater
• iron heater
• masonry heater
• oil heaterpoint heater
• open feedwater heater
• orchard heater
• point heater
• quartz heater
• space heater
• steam heater
• storage heater
• water heater
• wet heater

 

Descendants

• → Japanese: ヒーター (hītā)

Translations

device that produces and radiates heat

• Albanian: ngrohës (sq) m
• Arabic: مِدْفَأَة f (midfaʔa)

  Hijazi Arabic: دَفَّاية f (daffāya)

• Armenian: ջեռուցիչ (hy) (ǰeṙucʻičʻ)
• Azerbaijani: qızdırıcı
• Belarusian: абаграва́льнік m (abahraválʹnik)
• Bulgarian: нагрева́тел (bg) m (nagrevátel)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 加熱器／加热器 (zh) (jiārèqì), 暖氣／暖气 (zh) (nuǎnqì)

• Czech: ohřívač m
• Esperanto: hejtilo
• Estonian: soojendi, küttekeha
• Finnish: lämmitin (fi), patteri (fi)
• French: radiateur (fr) m
• Galician: calefactor m
• Georgian: გამათბობელი (gamatbobeli), სახურებელი (saxurebeli), ღუმელი (ka) (ɣumeli), რადიატორი (radiaṭori)
• German: Heizgerät (de) n, Heizapparat m
• Hebrew: תנור חימום m (tanúr khimúm)
• Hindi: हीटर m (hīṭar), तापक (hi) m (tāpak)
• Hungarian: hősugárzó (hu), fűtőkészülék (hu), kályha (hu), fűtőtest (hu), radiátor (hu)
• Ingrian: pecka
• Italian: riscaldatore m, radiatore (it) m
• Japanese: ヒーター (ja) (hītā), ストーブ (ja) (sutōbu), 加熱器 (かねつき, kanetsuki)
• Kazakh: жылытқыш (jylytqyş), қыздырғыш (qyzdyrğyş)
• Khmer: ម៉ាស៊ីន​កំ​ដៅ (maasɨn-kɑm-daw)
• Korean: 히터 (hiteo), 난방기(暖房機) (nanbanggi), 가열기(加熱器) (gayeolgi)
• Latvian: sildītājs m
• Lithuanian: šildytuvas m
• Macedonian: грејач m (grejač)
• Mongolian:

  Cyrillic: дулаацуулга (mn) (dulaacuulga), тээн (teen)

  Mongolian: ᠳᠤᠯᠠᠭᠠᠴᠠᠭᠤᠯᠭ᠎ᠠ (dulaɣačaɣulg-a)

• Nepali: हीटर (hīṭar)
• Plautdietsch: Hieter m
• Polish: grzejnik (pl) m, ogrzewacz m
• Portuguese: aquecedor (pt) m
• Romanian: încălzitor (ro) n
• Russian: обогрева́тель (ru) m (obogrevátelʹ), печь (ru) f (pečʹ), нагрева́тельный прибо́р m (nagrevátelʹnyj pribór), батаре́я (ru) f (bataréja) (heat sink), радиа́тор (ru) m (radiátor) (heat sink)
• Scottish Gaelic: teasadair m
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: грѝја̄ч m

  Roman: grìjāč (sh) m

• Slovak: ohrievač m
• Slovene: grelec m, grelnik (sl) m
• Spanish: calefactor (es) m
• Tajik: гармкунак (tg) (garmkunak)
• Thai: เครื่องทำความร้อน
• Tibetan: ཚ་གློག (tsha glog)
• Turkish: ısıtıcı (tr)
• Ukrainian: обігріва́ч m (obihriváč), огрівни́к m (ohrivnýk)
• Uzbek: isitgich, qizdirgich (uz)
• Vietnamese: bếp lò, lò (vi)
• Volapük: hitöm

slang: a gun

• Bulgarian: револве́р m (revolvér)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: please add this translation if you can

• Finnish: paukkurauta (fi)
• French: calibre (fr) m, gun (fr) m, pétard (fr) m, pétard (fr) m
• Hungarian: ^{(please verify)} stukker (hu)
• Spanish: please add this translation if you can

See also

• heating

Anagrams

• Aether, aether, eather, hearte, hereat, reheat, æther

Middle English

Noun

heater

1. Alternative form of hater