heater

See also: Heater

English

Heater (device that produces and radiates heat).

Heater (gun).

Etymology

heat +‎ -er

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈhitɚ/
• 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.

Derived terms

• fan heater
• feedwater heater

Translations

device that produces and radiates heat

• Albanian: please add this translation if you can
• Arabic: مِدْفٰأَة f (midfāʔa)

  Hijazi Arabic: دَفَّاية f (daffāya)

• Armenian: please add this translation if you can
• Bulgarian: нагревател (bg) m (nagrevatel)
• Chinese:

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

• Esperanto: hejtilo
• Estonian: please add this translation if you can
• Finnish: lämmitin (fi), patteri (fi)
• French: radiateur (fr) m
• Georgian: please add this translation if you can
• German: Heizgerät n
• Hebrew: please add this translation if you can
• Hungarian: hősugárzó (hu), fűtőkészülék, kályha (hu)
• Italian: riscaldatore m, radiatore (it) m
• Japanese: ヒーター (hītā), ストーブ (ja) (sutōbu), 加熱器 (かねつき, kanetsuki)
• Khmer: please add this translation if you can
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• Korean: 히터 (hiteo), 난방기 (nanbanggi), 가열기 (gayeolgi)
• Latvian: please add this translation if you can
• Lithuanian: please add this translation if you can
• Mongolian: please add this translation if you can
• Nepali: please add this translation if you can
• Polish: grzejnik (pl) m, ogrzewacz m
• Portuguese: aquecedor (pt) m
• Romanian: please add this translation if you can
• Russian: обогрева́тель (ru) m (obogrevátelʹ), печь (ru) f (pečʹ), нагрева́тельный прибо́р m (nagrevátelʹnyj pribór), (heat sink) батаре́я (ru) f (bataréja), (heat sink) радиа́тор (ru) m (radiátor)
• Scottish Gaelic: teasadair m
• Spanish: calefactor (es) m
• Thai: เครื่องทำความร้อน
• Tibetan: ཚ་གློག (tsha glog)
• Turkish: ısıtıcı (tr)
• Vietnamese: bếp lò, lò (vi)
• Volapük: hitöm

a gun

• Bulgarian: револвер m (revolver)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: please add this translation if you can

• Finnish: paukkurauta (fi)
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• French: calibre (fr) m, gun (fr) m, pétard (fr) m
• Hungarian: pisztoly (hu), stukker (hu)
• Russian: (archaic) револьве́р (ru) m (revolʹvér), пистоле́т (ru) m (pistolét)
• Spanish: please add this translation if you can

See also

• heating

Anagrams

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

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Middle English

Noun

heater

1. Alternative form of hater