heater

Meaning

1. A device that produces and radiates heat, typically to raise the temperature of a room or building.
2. A person who heats something, for example in metalworking.
3. (slang) A gun.
4. (slang) A fastball, especially one thrown at high velocity.
5. (slang) An extended winning streak.
6. A medieval European shield having a rounded triangle shape like a clothes iron.
7. A dead heat; a race in which two or more competitors reach the finish line simultaneously.

Synonyms

stove

warmer

furnace

smoke

hummer

bullet

fastball

boiler-man

heating apparatus

heating unit

vulcanizer

radiator

oven

stoker

burner port

fire box

furnace room

hot wire

fire-pot

firing box

firing chamber

thermal source

heat reservoir

heat installation

source of heat

mill furnace

reheating funace

heating-furnace

combustion space

thermal resource

heat producer

blast chamber

fire chamber

burning chamber

fuel chamber

vulcanizing machine

battery

🔋

vulcanizing boiler

boiler

brazier

burner

calorifier

combustion chamber

combustor

electric fire

gun

🔫

heat

heating element

heat source

radiant

Pronounced as (IPA)

/ˈhitɚ/

Etymology

From heat + -er.