heater
part of speech
noun (a heater, heaters)
meaning for a pupil
1) A heater is a machine that makes a room, a car, water or something else warm. tree →
2) It often works with electricity, gas or oil. tree →
sense in the lessons
In everyday life and safety heaters keep homes warm in winter, but they can be dangerous: keep clothes, curtains and paper away from them, never cover them, and do not touch hot ones. In science it links to energy and heat transfer. Phrases: «turn on the heater», «electric heater», «water heater», «space heater», «patio heater».
examples
- Can you turn on the heater? It is freezing. tree →
- Do not put your wet socks on the heater. tree →
- The heater in the car takes a few minutes to warm up. tree →
- Keep the curtains away from the heater because they could catch fire. tree →
- Our water heater broke, so we had cold showers. tree →
- The classroom heater makes a clicking noise. tree →
- An electric heater uses a lot of power. tree →
- Grandma sits by the heater with her knitting. tree →
note
Countable: «a heater», «heaters». It comes from «heat» plus «-er» (a thing that does something). In the UK a fixed heater filled with hot water is usually called a «radiator». Safety: never dry clothes on a portable heater and never leave it on when no one is home.
In the corpora
- Radiators and heaters can burn skin, so you do not lean or sit on them.
- A portable heater must be kept away from curtains and bedding and never covered, or it can start a fire.
- A boy in Leeds put a towel over a heater to dry it; it started to burn and filled the room with smoke.
- Clothes or towels on heaters can catch fire.
- Electric heaters, hair dryers and plugged-in things must never be near a bath or sink of water.
Trees and pragmatics
Every meaning and example of «heater» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.