fastball, heater, smoke, hummer, bullet
(noun) (baseball) a pitch thrown with maximum velocity; “he swung late on the fastball”; “he showed batters nothing but smoke”
heater, warmer
(noun) device that heats water or supplies warmth to a room
Source: WordNet® 3.1
heater (plural heaters)
A device that produces and radiates heat, typically to raise the temperature of a room or building.
A person who heats something, for example in metalworking.
(dated, slang) A gun.
(baseball, slang) A fastball, especially one thrown at high velocity.
(gambling, slang) An extended winning streak.
(historical) A medieval European shield having a rounded triangle shape like a clothes iron.
• Aether, aether, eather, hearte, hereat, reheat, æther
Heater (plural Heaters)
A surname.
• According to the 2010 United States Census, Heater is the 9001st most common surname in the United States, belonging to 3634 individuals. Heater is most common among White (94.8%) individuals.
• Aether, aether, eather, hearte, hereat, reheat, æther
Source: Wiktionary
Heat"er, n.
1. One who, or that which, heats.
2. Any contrivance or implement, as a furnace, stove, or other heated body or vessel, etc., used to impart heat to something, or to contain something to be heated. Feed heater. See under Feed.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
24 December 2024
(adverb) in an intuitive manner; “inventors seem to have chosen intuitively a combination of explosive and aggressive sounds as warning signals to be used on automobiles”
According to Guinness World Records, on 25 September 2016, the Birla Institute of Management Technology (India) in Uttar Pradesh, India, constructed the largest coffee cups pyramid consisting of 23,821 cups. They used paper takeaway coffee cups to build the pyramid.
