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# heater

«heater» in Mova's school dictionary: **a machine that makes a room, a car, water or something…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### 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 →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/heater/#m1)

2) It often works with electricity, gas or oil. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/heater/#m2)

### 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 →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/heater/#x1)
- Do not put your wet socks on the heater. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/heater/#x2)
- The heater in the car takes a few minutes to warm up. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/heater/#x3)
- Keep the curtains away from the heater because they could catch fire. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/heater/#x4)
- Our water heater broke, so we had cold showers. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/heater/#x5)
- The classroom heater makes a clicking noise. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/heater/#x6)
- An electric heater uses a lot of power. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/heater/#x7)
- Grandma sits by the heater with her knitting. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/heater/#x8)

### 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.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/117-neighbours-deliveries-and-heating/13/)
- [A portable heater must be kept away from curtains and bedding and never covered, or it can start a fire.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/117-neighbours-deliveries-and-heating/14/)
- [A boy in Leeds put a towel over a heater to dry it; it started to burn and filled the room with smoke.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/117-neighbours-deliveries-and-heating/17/)
- [Clothes or towels on heaters can catch fire.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/117-neighbours-deliveries-and-heating/21/)
- [Electric heaters, hair dryers and plugged-in things must never be near a bath or sink of water.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/118-energy-pets-and-bathroom/20/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «heater» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/heater/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.