heater
US /ˈhitɚ/
Definition
device that heats water or supplies warmth to a room
Tested in TOEIC business and workplace contexts.
Examples
Please turn off the heater before you leave the office tonight.
Word Family
Synonyms
- radiatorany object that radiates energy
- warmerdevice that heats water or supplies warmth to a room
Collocations
- Easy electric space heaterdescribing electric space heater (a car that is powered by electricity)
- Medium water heater malfunctionto water heater malfunction, meaning to supply with water, as with channels or ditches or streams
- Hard industrial radiant heaterdescribing industrial radiant heater (of or relating to or resulting from industry)
- Very Hard huddled around a sputtering kerosene heaterto huddled around a sputtering kerosene heater, meaning to crowd or draw together
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