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# radiator

«radiator» in Mova's school dictionary: **a flat metal heater, usually under a window, that warms a…** — 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 radiator, radiators)

### meaning for a pupil

1) A radiator is a flat metal heater, usually under a window, that warms a room when hot water or steam flows through it. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/radiator/#m1)

2) A radiator is also the part at the front of a car engine that keeps the engine cool. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/radiator/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

In everyday life radiators heat homes and classrooms in the UK, Ireland and other cold places; people dry gloves on them and children are warned they can be hot. In science radiators show heat transfer: they warm the air by convection and radiation. Phrases: «turn up the radiator», «bleed the radiator», «car radiator».

### examples

- Put your wet gloves on the radiator to dry. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/radiator/#x1)
- The radiator in our classroom is very hot, so don't lean on it. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/radiator/#x2)
- Dad bled the radiator because it was cold at the top. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/radiator/#x3)
- Warm air rises from the radiator and moves round the room. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/radiator/#x4)
- The car stopped because the radiator leaked. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/radiator/#x5)
- Turn the radiator down; it's boiling in here. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/radiator/#x6)
- The cat loves sleeping on the radiator shelf. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/radiator/#x7)
- Our old house has big iron radiators. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/radiator/#x8)

### note

Countable: «a radiator». From «radiate» (to send out heat or light). Despite the name, most of a home radiator's heat moves by convection, not radiation. In American English a «heater» is often used for room heaters.

### In the corpora

- [The boiler heats the water and the radiators, and "packed in" means it has stopped working.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/11-when-things-break/5/)
- [Mum leaves a bowl of bread dough by the radiator, and an hour later it has puffed up to twice its size.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chemistry/21-bread-rising-yeast-at-work/0/)
- [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/)
- [You do not lean or sit on hot radiators and heaters, because they can burn skin.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/219-fire-fireworks-tools-and-the-bathroom/13/)
- [An elephant's big thin ears are full of blood vessels and give off heat like radiators when it flaps them.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/physics/25-keeping-warm-and-keeping-cool/15/)

### Trees and pragmatics

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