heatern.

Brit.

/ˈhiːtə/, U.S.

/ˈhidər/

Etymology: < heat v. + -er suffix¹.

a. A person or thing that heats; a heating agent.

ΘΚΠ

the world > matter > properties of materials > temperature > heat > heating or making hot > that which or one who heats > [noun]

heatera1500

calefactor1605

a1500 Medulla Gram. Ciniflo, a fyre blower, an yryn heter.

1638 W. Rawley tr. F. Bacon Hist. Nat. & Exper. Life & Death 429 Heaters from without, during the Assimilation after Sleepe.

a1691 R. Boyle Wks. (1772) V. 104 (R.) Camphire..is..a great heater of the blood.

1691 J. Evelyn Kalendarium Hortense (ed. 8) 152 Common Stoves, Pans of Charcoal, and other included Heaters.

1803 in Naval Chron. (1806) 15 56 Cabin keepers, oakum boys, and pitch heaters.

1894 Daily News 28 Dec. 2/6 The electric current..in its various capacities of a chemist, a heater, an illuminator, a messenger, and a power.

b. slang. A gun. Cf. heat n. 12b.

ΘΚΠ

society > armed hostility > military equipment > weapon > device for discharging missiles > firearm > small-arm > [noun]

handgun1411

piece1575

small arms1685

popper1751

shooting-iron1775

pelter1827

squib1839

shooter1840

shooting-stick1845

Betsy1856

smoke-wagon1891

rod1903

gat1904

belt gun1905

roscoe1914

smoke-stick1927

heat1928

heater1929

smoke-pole1929

John Roscoe1932

1929 Detective Fiction Weekly 9 Nov. 651/2 Aw, put up your heaters. If you bump me you don't git anywheres.

1932 W. R. Burnett Silver Eagle i. 7 ‘He don't even pack a heater.’ ‘Don't what?’ ‘He don't carry a gun.’

1944 W. R. Burnett Nobody lives Forever xvii. 137 Jim..took out his gun..and..tossed it down a manhole-grating... ‘I was hoping that I'd never have to use that heater.’

1972 P. G. Wodehouse Pearls, Girls, & Monty Bodkin xi. 178 And Dolly, drop the heater and leave that jewel case where it is, I don't want any unpleasantness.

2. spec. The name of various contrivances for imparting heat.

a. A piece of iron, which is made hot and placed in a cavity in a box-iron, smoothing-iron, tea-urn, etc.

b. An instrument used in encaustic painting for burning in the wax.

Thesaurus »

c. A stove used for heating a room, lobby, or office. Also, a usual name for a domestic electric or gas fire.

d. A vessel or other contrivance in which something is placed to be heated.

e. A pan in which cane or maple juice is heated as part of the process in sugar manufacture.

ΚΠ

1666 in Essex Inst. Hist. Coll. (1888) XXV. 147 It. boxe Iron & heaters.

1744 B. Franklin Acct. Pennsylvanian Fire-places 27 You..may..warm the Flat-Irons, heat Heaters [etc.].

1755–73 S. Johnson Dict. Eng. Lang. Heater, an iron made hot, and put into a box-iron, to smooth and plait linen.

1760 J. Colebrooke in Philos. Trans. 1759 (Royal Soc.) 51 44 An ironing box, charged with an hot heater.

1819 S. Cooper First Lines Pract. Surg. (ed. 4) I. i. xxx. 381 An apparatus, consisting of a stand, an iron heater on which the mercurial powder is..thrown, and a tube for conducting the smoke to the part affected.

1848 R. N. Wornum Lect. on Painting 221 (note) Burning in with a heater (cauterium) the ordinary wax colours.

1880 Girl's Own Paper 13 Nov. 108/1 A box-iron with three heaters.

1883 Harper's Mag. Dec. 45/2 A great heater, with its ample rotundity and glowing heart..stood there.

f. A triangular structure resembling in form the heater of a box-iron.

ΘΚΠ

the world > space > shape > angularity > specific angular shape > [noun] > triangle > triangular object or formation

pyramid1589

triangle1615

heater1797

1797 J. A. Graham Descriptive Sketch Vermont 119 There are two arches..with a pier in the centre..with the addition of a heater, or triangular front.

1899 E. W. Prevost Dickinson's Gloss. Words & Phrases Cumberland (new ed.) 379 Heater bit is the triangular piece of ground, generally grass-grown, at the junction of three roads; so called because of resemblance to the iron heater in a box-iron.

g. A device used for the indirect heating of the cathode of a thermionic valve.

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the world > matter > physics > electromagnetic radiation > electronics > electronic devices or components > thermionic valve > [noun] > device used for indirect heating of

heater1940

1940 Chambers's Techn. Dict. 407/2 Heater, the conductor carrying the current for heating an equipotential cathode, generally enclosed by the cathode.

1945 Electronic Engin. 17 454 Radio receivers and other electronic devices may have the valve heaters connected in series.

h. A device used for heating the interior of a motor car. Also attributive and in other combinations, as heater-demister, heater-fan.

ΘΚΠ

society > travel > means of travel > a conveyance > vehicle > powered vehicle > parts and equipment of motor vehicles > [noun] > device used for heating the interior

heater1939

1939–40 Army & Navy Stores Catal. 266/1 Car heater... A robust and reliable heater.

1948 Motor Manual (ed. 33) xii. 232 (heading) Car heaters. The use of car heaters has spread in recent months, largely owing to the spur of the export trade.

1961 Which? (Reports on Cars) 14 Heater efficiency is measured and compared, and the results analysed for average interior temperatures and effective distribution of heat.

1962 Which? Reports on Cars Oct. 310/2 Most modern cars can have a built-in heater-demister which blows warmed air into the car.

1969 S. Hyland Top Bloody Secret ii. 163 The [car] engine was silent, but the heater-fan was still humming.

Compounds

C1. attributive and in other combinations, as heater-shape, heater-shaped adjs.

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the world > space > shape > angularity > specific angular shape > [adjective] > triangular

three-corneredc1400

three-squaredc1400

three-squarec1450

triangle1474

triangled1486

triangular?1541

three-corner1548

trilater1570

trigonal1571

three-corned1584

three-sided1601

triangulated1610

triangulate1611

triform1621

triangulary1622

triquetrous1658

trilateral1660

triagonal1665

trigonic1788

cocked hat1846

heater-shaped1847

1847 C. Boutell Monumental Brasses 37 The shield is small, flat, and heater-shaped.

1863 G. Seton Law Heraldry in Scotl. v. 192 About the middle of the thirteenth century, when the heater-shape was almost universally adopted.

1869 C. Boutell tr. J. P. Lacombe Arms & Armour x. 193 The shield assumed the ‘heater’ form.

1917 A. C. Fryer in Trans. Bristol & Gloucs. Archaeol. Soc. 40 41 A half angel vested in alb and holding a heater-shaped shield.

C2.

heater-piece n. U.S. a gore or triangular piece of land.

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the world > the earth > land > tract > [noun] > triangle

haleOE

nookc1450

cantle1524

gusset1650

heater-piece1859

1859 J. R. Bartlett Dict. Americanisms (ed. 2) Heater piece, a gore or triangular piece of land, so called probably, from a flat iron, the form of which it resembles.

1863 D. G. Mitchell My Farm of Edgewood 243 Waal—kinder like to have a little ‘heater’ piece, the boys, you see, hoe it out in odd spells.

heater-shield n. a triangular shield with curved sides, like the shape of a flat iron heater.

ΚΠ

1821 W. Scott Let. 20 July (1934) VI. 499 A three-corner’d, or heater shield.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1898; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	heater
释义	heatern. Brit. /ˈhiːtə/, U.S. /ˈhidər/ Etymology: < heat v. + -er suffix¹. 1. a. A person or thing that heats; a heating agent. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > properties of materials > temperature > heat > heating or making hot > that which or one who heats > [noun] heatera1500 calefactor1605 a1500 Medulla Gram. Ciniflo, a fyre blower, an yryn heter. 1638 W. Rawley tr. F. Bacon Hist. Nat. & Exper. Life & Death 429 Heaters from without, during the Assimilation after Sleepe. a1691 R. Boyle Wks. (1772) V. 104 (R.) Camphire..is..a great heater of the blood. 1691 J. Evelyn Kalendarium Hortense (ed. 8) 152 Common Stoves, Pans of Charcoal, and other included Heaters. 1803 in Naval Chron. (1806) 15 56 Cabin keepers, oakum boys, and pitch heaters. 1894 Daily News 28 Dec. 2/6 The electric current..in its various capacities of a chemist, a heater, an illuminator, a messenger, and a power. b. slang. A gun. Cf. heat n. 12b. ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > military equipment > weapon > device for discharging missiles > firearm > small-arm > [noun] handgun1411 piece1575 small arms1685 popper1751 shooting-iron1775 pelter1827 squib1839 shooter1840 shooting-stick1845 Betsy1856 smoke-wagon1891 rod1903 gat1904 belt gun1905 roscoe1914 smoke-stick1927 heat1928 heater1929 smoke-pole1929 John Roscoe1932 1929 Detective Fiction Weekly 9 Nov. 651/2 Aw, put up your heaters. If you bump me you don't git anywheres. 1932 W. R. Burnett Silver Eagle i. 7 ‘He don't even pack a heater.’ ‘Don't what?’ ‘He don't carry a gun.’ 1944 W. R. Burnett Nobody lives Forever xvii. 137 Jim..took out his gun..and..tossed it down a manhole-grating... ‘I was hoping that I'd never have to use that heater.’ 1972 P. G. Wodehouse Pearls, Girls, & Monty Bodkin xi. 178 And Dolly, drop the heater and leave that jewel case where it is, I don't want any unpleasantness. 2. spec. The name of various contrivances for imparting heat. a. A piece of iron, which is made hot and placed in a cavity in a box-iron, smoothing-iron, tea-urn, etc. b. An instrument used in encaustic painting for burning in the wax. Thesaurus » c. A stove used for heating a room, lobby, or office. Also, a usual name for a domestic electric or gas fire. d. A vessel or other contrivance in which something is placed to be heated. e. A pan in which cane or maple juice is heated as part of the process in sugar manufacture. ΚΠ 1666 in Essex Inst. Hist. Coll. (1888) XXV. 147 It. boxe Iron & heaters. 1744 B. Franklin Acct. Pennsylvanian Fire-places 27 You..may..warm the Flat-Irons, heat Heaters [etc.]. 1755–73 S. Johnson Dict. Eng. Lang. Heater, an iron made hot, and put into a box-iron, to smooth and plait linen. 1760 J. Colebrooke in Philos. Trans. 1759 (Royal Soc.) 51 44 An ironing box, charged with an hot heater. 1819 S. Cooper First Lines Pract. Surg. (ed. 4) I. i. xxx. 381 An apparatus, consisting of a stand, an iron heater on which the mercurial powder is..thrown, and a tube for conducting the smoke to the part affected. 1848 R. N. Wornum Lect. on Painting 221 (note) Burning in with a heater (cauterium) the ordinary wax colours. 1880 Girl's Own Paper 13 Nov. 108/1 A box-iron with three heaters. 1883 Harper's Mag. Dec. 45/2 A great heater, with its ample rotundity and glowing heart..stood there. f. A triangular structure resembling in form the heater of a box-iron. ΘΚΠ the world > space > shape > angularity > specific angular shape > [noun] > triangle > triangular object or formation pyramid1589 triangle1615 heater1797 1797 J. A. Graham Descriptive Sketch Vermont 119 There are two arches..with a pier in the centre..with the addition of a heater, or triangular front. 1899 E. W. Prevost Dickinson's Gloss. Words & Phrases Cumberland (new ed.) 379 Heater bit is the triangular piece of ground, generally grass-grown, at the junction of three roads; so called because of resemblance to the iron heater in a box-iron. g. A device used for the indirect heating of the cathode of a thermionic valve. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > physics > electromagnetic radiation > electronics > electronic devices or components > thermionic valve > [noun] > device used for indirect heating of heater1940 1940 Chambers's Techn. Dict. 407/2 Heater, the conductor carrying the current for heating an equipotential cathode, generally enclosed by the cathode. 1945 Electronic Engin. 17 454 Radio receivers and other electronic devices may have the valve heaters connected in series. h. A device used for heating the interior of a motor car. Also attributive and in other combinations, as heater-demister, heater-fan. ΘΚΠ society > travel > means of travel > a conveyance > vehicle > powered vehicle > parts and equipment of motor vehicles > [noun] > device used for heating the interior heater1939 1939–40 Army & Navy Stores Catal. 266/1 Car heater... A robust and reliable heater. 1948 Motor Manual (ed. 33) xii. 232 (heading) Car heaters. The use of car heaters has spread in recent months, largely owing to the spur of the export trade. 1961 Which? (Reports on Cars) 14 Heater efficiency is measured and compared, and the results analysed for average interior temperatures and effective distribution of heat. 1962 Which? Reports on Cars Oct. 310/2 Most modern cars can have a built-in heater-demister which blows warmed air into the car. 1969 S. Hyland Top Bloody Secret ii. 163 The [car] engine was silent, but the heater-fan was still humming. Compounds C1. attributive and in other combinations, as heater-shape, heater-shaped adjs. ΘΚΠ the world > space > shape > angularity > specific angular shape > [adjective] > triangular three-corneredc1400 three-squaredc1400 three-squarec1450 triangle1474 triangled1486 triangular?1541 three-corner1548 trilater1570 trigonal1571 three-corned1584 three-sided1601 triangulated1610 triangulate1611 triform1621 triangulary1622 triquetrous1658 trilateral1660 triagonal1665 trigonic1788 cocked hat1846 heater-shaped1847 1847 C. Boutell Monumental Brasses 37 The shield is small, flat, and heater-shaped. 1863 G. Seton Law Heraldry in Scotl. v. 192 About the middle of the thirteenth century, when the heater-shape was almost universally adopted. 1869 C. Boutell tr. J. P. Lacombe Arms & Armour x. 193 The shield assumed the ‘heater’ form. 1917 A. C. Fryer in Trans. Bristol & Gloucs. Archaeol. Soc. 40 41 A half angel vested in alb and holding a heater-shaped shield. C2. heater-piece n. U.S. a gore or triangular piece of land. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > land > tract > [noun] > triangle haleOE nookc1450 cantle1524 gusset1650 heater-piece1859 1859 J. R. Bartlett Dict. Americanisms (ed. 2) Heater piece, a gore or triangular piece of land, so called probably, from a flat iron, the form of which it resembles. 1863 D. G. Mitchell My Farm of Edgewood 243 Waal—kinder like to have a little ‘heater’ piece, the boys, you see, hoe it out in odd spells. heater-shield n. a triangular shield with curved sides, like the shape of a flat iron heater. ΚΠ 1821 W. Scott Let. 20 July (1934) VI. 499 A three-corner’d, or heater shield. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1898; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.a1500
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