HEATER

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does heater mean? 

• HEATER (noun)
  The noun HEATER has 2 senses:

1. device that heats water or supplies warmth to a room

2. (baseball) a pitch thrown with maximum velocity

  Familiarity information: HEATER used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• HEATER (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Device that heats water or supplies warmth to a room

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Synonyms:

heater; warmer

Hypernyms ("heater" is a kind of...):

device (an instrumentality invented for a particular purpose)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "heater"):

brasier; brazier (large metal container in which coal or charcoal is burned; warms people who must stay outside for long times)

convector (a space heater that transfers heat to the surrounding air by convection)

defroster; deicer (heater that removes ice or frost (as from a windshield or a refrigerator or the wings of an airplane))

demister (heater that removes mist from the windshield of a car)

gas heater (a heater that burns gas for heat)

heating pad; hot pad (heater consisting of electrical heating elements contained in a flexible pad)

kerosene heater; kerosine heater; oil heater; oilstove (heater that burns oil (as kerosine) for heating or cooking)

radiator (heater consisting of a series of pipes for circulating steam or hot water to heat rooms or buildings)

solar heater (a heater that makes direct use of solar energy)

space heater (heater consisting of a self-contained (usually portable) unit to warm a room)

stove (any heating apparatus)

hot-water heater; hot-water tank; water heater (a heater and storage tank to supply heated water)

Derivation:

heat (make hot or hotter)

heat (provide with heat)

Sense 2

Meaning:

(baseball) a pitch thrown with maximum velocity

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

bullet; fastball; heater; hummer; smoke

Context example:

he showed batters nothing but smoke

Hypernyms ("heater" is a kind of...):

delivery; pitch ((baseball) the act of throwing a baseball by a pitcher to a batter)

Domain category:

ball; baseball; baseball game (a ball game played with a bat and ball between two teams of nine players; teams take turns at bat trying to score runs)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "heater"):

slider (a fastball that curves slightly away from the side from which it was thrown)

 Context examples 

The rod-like part of certain heaters from which the radiant energy is released.

(Heater Rod Device Component, NCI Thesaurus)

It is given off by burning fuel (as in exhaust from cars or household heaters) and tobacco products.

(Carbon monoxide, NCI Dictionary)

If his silver razor-heater had taken to evil ways he could not have been more astounded.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)