Boiler
noun
A large container where water is heated to produce steam or hot water for heating a building.
The heating system in our house has a boiler in the basement.
Often appears as...
- central heating boiler
- gas boiler
noun
A type of chicken that is suitable for cooking in boiling water.
She used a boiler chicken to prepare the soup.
Often appears as...
- boiler chicken soup
- older boiler
noun
In a steam engine, the part where water is heated to create steam.
The steam engine's boiler needs to be checked for any leaks.
Often appears as...
- steam engine boiler
- boiler pressure
Usage tips
Technical
noun
A large container where water is heated to produce steam or hot water for heating a building.
The heating system in our house has a boiler in the basement.
Often appears as...
- central heating boiler
- gas boiler
noun
A type of chicken that is suitable for cooking in boiling water.
She used a boiler chicken to prepare the soup.
Often appears as...
- boiler chicken soup
- older boiler
noun
In a steam engine, the part where water is heated to create steam.
The steam engine's boiler needs to be checked for any leaks.
Often appears as...
- steam engine boiler
- boiler pressure
Usage tips
Technical
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Pro Tip 1/3Heat Source
Remember that a boiler's primary function is to heat a space or liquid.
Our new boiler can quickly heat the entire pool.
Pro Tip 2/3Home Context
Boilers are often found in homes, making it a familiar household term.
We had to call a technician to fix our home boiler.
Pro Tip 3/3Energy Types
Boilers can be powered by gas, electricity or other fuels.
Switching to an electric boiler can reduce carbon emissions.
Pro Tip 1/3Heat Source
Remember that a boiler's primary function is to heat a space or liquid.
Our new boiler can quickly heat the entire pool.
Pro Tip 2/3Home Context
Boilers are often found in homes, making it a familiar household term.
We had to call a technician to fix our home boiler.
Pro Tip 3/3Energy Types
Boilers can be powered by gas, electricity or other fuels.
Switching to an electric boiler can reduce carbon emissions.
Pro Tip 1/3Heat Source
Remember that a boiler's primary function is to heat a space or liquid.
Our new boiler can quickly heat the entire pool.
Pro Tip 2/3Home Context
Boilers are often found in homes, making it a familiar household term.
We had to call a technician to fix our home boiler.
Pro Tip 3/3Energy Types
Boilers can be powered by gas, electricity or other fuels.
Switching to an electric boiler can reduce carbon emissions.
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Tal Golesworthy: How I...
I haven't got to worry about it, which is a rebirth for me. Back to the theme of the presentation, multidisciplinary research, how on earth does a process engineer used to working with boilers end up producing a medical device which transforms his own life? Well, the answer to that is, a multidisciplinary team.
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Titanic's Graveyard PIPE...
for our expedition was when we you know when you're down there and you're photographing the bow and you're photographing the stern and you're photographing the boilers and everything is gigantic a gigantic eye gigantic but then when you go across the debris field you come across these pairs of shoes and
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A plant's-eye view -...
boilers a thousand turkeys a thousand rabbits an immense amount of food you know you here can organic feed the world well look how much food can produce on 100 acres if you do this kind of again give each species what it want let it really realize its desires its physiological distinctiveness put
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How centuries of sci-fi...
no way of thinking about overcoming this. And so, for well over a century, the idea of a voyage to the Moon made very little intellectual progress until the rise of the Industrial Revolution and the development of steam engines and boilers and most importantly, pressure vessels.
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How a fleet of...
And pressure gradients create surface wind, which moves the moisture through the atmosphere. Some of the heat radiates down into the deep ocean and gets stored in different layers, the ocean acting as some kind of planetary-scale boiler to store all that energy,
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The surprisingly long...
Typically relying on gas-powered boilers, these could drive as far as you wanted— provided you also wanted to lug around extra water to refuel and didn’t mind waiting 30 minutes for your engine to heat up. Alternatively, you could buy a car powered by gasoline.
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Managing the New York...
largely been around energy conservation and I've done everything from the ground up really helping supers in boiler rooms try to figure out how to run their heating systems more efficiently so this boiler room is clearly in disrepair and
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Titanic: A Remembrance PIPE...
how I got down those six decks without breaking my neck because I was sliding and sliding and just as I came into the control van we went over the boiler
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Dive with Giant Manta...
your dive buddies okay take a look around this place is known as a boiler let's go down check it out we are descending to 10 meters below
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Finding the Titanic PIPE...
Did you find it? somebody.. And I went in, and there it was. I mean, the boiler was on the screen. Oh, I love it I love it. I'll be.
Video examples
Tal Golesworthy: How I...
I haven't got to worry about it, which is a rebirth for me. Back to the theme of the presentation, multidisciplinary research, how on earth does a process engineer used to working with boilers end up producing a medical device which transforms his own life? Well, the answer to that is, a multidisciplinary team.
Video examples
Titanic's Graveyard PIPE...
for our expedition was when we you know when you're down there and you're photographing the bow and you're photographing the stern and you're photographing the boilers and everything is gigantic a gigantic eye gigantic but then when you go across the debris field you come across these pairs of shoes and
Video examples
A plant's-eye view -...
boilers a thousand turkeys a thousand rabbits an immense amount of food you know you here can organic feed the world well look how much food can produce on 100 acres if you do this kind of again give each species what it want let it really realize its desires its physiological distinctiveness put
Video examples
How centuries of sci-fi...
no way of thinking about overcoming this. And so, for well over a century, the idea of a voyage to the Moon made very little intellectual progress until the rise of the Industrial Revolution and the development of steam engines and boilers and most importantly, pressure vessels.
Video examples
How a fleet of...
And pressure gradients create surface wind, which moves the moisture through the atmosphere. Some of the heat radiates down into the deep ocean and gets stored in different layers, the ocean acting as some kind of planetary-scale boiler to store all that energy,
Video examples
The surprisingly long...
Typically relying on gas-powered boilers, these could drive as far as you wanted— provided you also wanted to lug around extra water to refuel and didn’t mind waiting 30 minutes for your engine to heat up. Alternatively, you could buy a car powered by gasoline.
Video examples
Managing the New York...
largely been around energy conservation and I've done everything from the ground up really helping supers in boiler rooms try to figure out how to run their heating systems more efficiently so this boiler room is clearly in disrepair and
Video examples
Titanic: A Remembrance PIPE...
how I got down those six decks without breaking my neck because I was sliding and sliding and just as I came into the control van we went over the boiler
Video examples
Dive with Giant Manta...
your dive buddies okay take a look around this place is known as a boiler let's go down check it out we are descending to 10 meters below
Video examples
Finding the Titanic PIPE...
Did you find it? somebody.. And I went in, and there it was. I mean, the boiler was on the screen. Oh, I love it I love it. I'll be.
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Owen Paterson
British Politician
I was perhaps about 10 years old when a local farmer rang us up to say he had found a young badger and would we take it in. So we did; it was a female called Bessy and she lived in the boiler room. She was extremely intelligent, had a very low opinion of cats but loved the dogs. She was pretty well trained; she went in the car.
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Edmund Phelps
American Economist
If you rent, that's it. You don't have to pay any interest to anybody. You don't have to pay any maintenance costs to anybody. You don't have to worry about whether the boiler is going to break down. While if you own your own home, you have a hundred aggravations.
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Jack Monroe
British Journalist
I eventually turned the fridge and freezer off - they were empty anyway - and the boiler, desperate to save money, shocking myself awake in the morning with the shortest, coldest showers, and boiling a kettle of water twice a week to bath my young son.
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Sarah Millican
I was shy at school, but not at home. We had a boiler that had tiles around it, so if my sister and I got new shoes we'd do a little tap dance on the tiles. I also wrote poems but would read them from behind a curtain.
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Mona Simpson
American Author
Writers collect stories of rituals: John Cheever putting on a jacket and tie to go down to the basement, where he kept a desk near the boiler room. Keats buttoning up his clean white shirt to write in, after work.
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Hedy Lamarr
Austrian Actress
I don't believe in life after death. But I do believe in some grinding destiny that watches over us on earth. If I didn't, the safety valve would give and the boiler would explode.
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Giovanni Ribisi
American Actor
We went to - I guess it was a legitimate boiler room, and I sat in front of this guy who literally was on the phone with two people at once. They call it double fisting.
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Martin Naughton
Irish Businessman
We cannot rely on imported fuels forever, and we aim to replace traditional oil and gas boiler systems with products which are much more efficient.
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Kevin Kwan
Singaporean Novelist
If you're the water boiler king of China, you're selling a billion water boilers.
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Glenn Close
American Actress
Bunny boiler is now part of our language, and I'm proud of that.
Quote examples
Owen Paterson
British Politician
I was perhaps about 10 years old when a local farmer rang us up to say he had found a young badger and would we take it in. So we did; it was a female called Bessy and she lived in the boiler room. She was extremely intelligent, had a very low opinion of cats but loved the dogs. She was pretty well trained; she went in the car.
Quote examples
Edmund Phelps
American Economist
If you rent, that's it. You don't have to pay any interest to anybody. You don't have to pay any maintenance costs to anybody. You don't have to worry about whether the boiler is going to break down. While if you own your own home, you have a hundred aggravations.
Quote examples
Jack Monroe
British Journalist
I eventually turned the fridge and freezer off - they were empty anyway - and the boiler, desperate to save money, shocking myself awake in the morning with the shortest, coldest showers, and boiling a kettle of water twice a week to bath my young son.
Quote examples
Sarah Millican
I was shy at school, but not at home. We had a boiler that had tiles around it, so if my sister and I got new shoes we'd do a little tap dance on the tiles. I also wrote poems but would read them from behind a curtain.
Quote examples
Mona Simpson
American Author
Writers collect stories of rituals: John Cheever putting on a jacket and tie to go down to the basement, where he kept a desk near the boiler room. Keats buttoning up his clean white shirt to write in, after work.
Quote examples
Hedy Lamarr
Austrian Actress
I don't believe in life after death. But I do believe in some grinding destiny that watches over us on earth. If I didn't, the safety valve would give and the boiler would explode.
Quote examples
Giovanni Ribisi
American Actor
We went to - I guess it was a legitimate boiler room, and I sat in front of this guy who literally was on the phone with two people at once. They call it double fisting.
Quote examples
Martin Naughton
Irish Businessman
We cannot rely on imported fuels forever, and we aim to replace traditional oil and gas boiler systems with products which are much more efficient.
Quote examples
Kevin Kwan
Singaporean Novelist
If you're the water boiler king of China, you're selling a billion water boilers.
Quote examples
Glenn Close
American Actress
Bunny boiler is now part of our language, and I'm proud of that.
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