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radiator

[ rey-dee-ey-ter ]

noun

  1. a person or thing that radiates.
  2. any of various heating devices, as a series or coil of pipes through which steam or hot water passes.
  3. a device constructed from thin-walled tubes and metal fins, used for cooling circulating water, as in an automobile engine.
  4. Radio. a transmitting antenna.


radiator

/ ˈreɪdɪˌeɪtə /

noun

  1. a device for heating a room, building, etc, consisting of a series of pipes through which hot water or steam passes
  2. a device for cooling an internal-combustion engine, consisting of thin-walled tubes through which water passes. Heat is transferred from the water through the walls of the tubes to the airstream, which is created either by the motion of the vehicle or by a fan
  3. an electric fire
  4. electronics the part of an aerial or transmission line that radiates electromagnetic waves
  5. an electric space heater
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

radiator

/ dē-ā′tər /

  1. A body that emits radiation. Radiators are commonly designed to transfer heat energy from one place to another, as in an automobile, in which the radiator cools the engine by transferring heat energy from the engine to the air, or in buildings, where radiators transfer heat energy from a furnace to the air and objects in the surrounding room.
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Word History and Origins

Origin of radiator1

First recorded in 1830–40; radiate + -or 2
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Example Sentences

Upstairs, we surveyed our new home — bare walls, hissing radiator, mattress propped against the floor like a 1920s bohemian.

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Mr Blackwell had flu symptoms for a few days before he was found "slumped over a radiator" by a work colleague on New Year's Eve in 2019.

From BBC

For example, it co-ordinated a mock campaign to get Africans to send radiators to Norwegians who were supposedly suffering in the cold.

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When the plant is up and running, 132,000 litres of seawater a second will be sucked in to a system that works like a huge car radiator.

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They further claim that, once in the home, the men were told to undress in the kitchen, and then to warm their hands with hot water or on a radiator.

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