heater : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: heater	by the DICT Development Group
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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
heater n device that heats water or supplies warmth to a room [syn: heater, warmer] (baseball) a pitch thrown with maximum velocity; "he swung late on the fastball"; "he showed batters nothing but smoke" Synonym(s): fastball, heater, smoke, hummer, bullet
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Heater \Heat"er\, n. 1. One who, or that which, heats. 2. 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. {Feed heater}. See under {Feed}.