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121 words match “HEATER”

HEATER n. 2 definitions
essel, etc., used to impart heat to something, or to contain something to be heated. Feed heater. See under Feed.
AMPHITHEATER; AMPHITHEATRE n. 2 definitions
Anything resembling an amphitheater in form; as, a level surrounded by rising slopes or hills, or a rising gallery in a theater.
CHEATER n. 2 definitions
One who cheats.
SUPERHEATER n.
An apparatus for superheating steam.
THEATER; THEATRE n. 5 definitions
That which resembles a theater in form, use, or the like; a place rising by steps or gradations, like the seats of a theater. Burns. Shade above shade, a woody theater Of stateliest view. Milton.
ACCORD n.
suit. Blackstone. With one accord, with unanimity. They rushed with one accord into the theater. Acts xix. 29.
ACOUSTIC a.
hone. -- Acoustic vessels, brazen tubes or vessels, shaped like a bell, used in ancient theaters to propel the voices of the actors, so as to render them audible to a great distance.
ADVENTURE v.
To risk, or hazard; jeopard; to venture. He would not adventure himself into the theater. Acts xix. 31.
ALLOWANCE n.
Acknowledgment. The censure of the which one must in your allowance o'erweigh a whole theater of others. Shak.
AMPHITHEATRAL a.
Amphitheatrical; resembling an amphitheater.
AMPHITHEATRIC; AMPHITHEATRICAL a.
Of, pertaining to, exhibited in, or resembling, an amphitheater.
AMPHITHEATRICALLY adv.
In the form or manner of an amphitheater.
AREA n.
an open space in a building. The Alban lake . . . looks like the area of some vast amphitheater. Addison.
ARENA n.
The area in the central part of an amphitheater, in which the gladiators fought and other shows were exhibited; -- so called because it was covered with sand.
AUDITORIUM n.
The part of a church, theater, or other public building, assigned to the audience.
BAIGNOIRE n.
A box of the lowest tier in a theater. Du Maurier.
BALCONY n.
ont of a window. Also, a projecting gallery in places of amusement; as, the balcony in a theater.
BENCH v.
To furnish with benches. 'T was benched with turf. Dryden. Stately theaters benched crescentwise. Tennyson.
BENEFIT n.
erformance, a concert, or the like, the proceeds of which do not go to the lessee of the theater or to the company, but to some individual actor, or to some charitable use.
BOARD n.
The stage in a theater; as, to go upon the boards, to enter upon the theatrical profession.
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