Crossword clues for boiler
boiler
- Home heater
- Basement fixture
- Source of steam
- Steam generator
- Part of a central heating system
- Heating component
- Vessel in a steam vessel
- Steam maker
- Sealed vessel
- Plate leader?
- Part of a steam engine
- It may be gas- or oil-fired
- Hot-water tank
- Hot-water heater
- High-pressure room
- Heating system component
- Basement fixture, for many
- Heat maker
- Water heater
- Sealed vessel where water is converted to steam
- Heating tank
- Plate preceder
- Tank for heating water
- Basement installation
- Sight in many a cellar
- Pot or double follower
- Kind of plate or room
- Water-heating device
- Heat source
- Heating unit
- Steam source
- Steam producer
- Part of an old heating system
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Boiler \Boil"er\, n. A sunken reef; esp., a coral reef on which the sea breaks heavily.
Boiler \Boil"er\, n.
One who boils.
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A vessel in which any thing is boiled.
Note: The word boiler is a generic term covering a great variety of kettles, saucepans, clothes boilers, evaporators, coppers, retorts, etc.
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(Mech.) A strong metallic vessel, usually of wrought iron plates riveted together, or a composite structure variously formed, in which steam is generated for driving engines, or for heating, cooking, or other purposes.
Note: The earliest steam boilers were usually spheres or sections of spheres, heated wholly from the outside. Watt used the wagon boiler (shaped like the top of a covered wagon) which is still used with low pressures. Most of the boilers in present use may be classified as plain cylinder boilers, flue boilers, sectional and tubular boilers.
Barrel of a boiler, the cylindrical part containing the flues.
Boiler plate, Boiler iron, plate or rolled iron of about a quarter to a half inch in thickness, used for making boilers and tanks, for covering ships, etc.
Cylinder boiler, one which consists of a single iron cylinder.
Flue boilers are usually single shells containing a small number of large flues, through which the heat either passes from the fire or returns to the chimney, and sometimes containing a fire box inclosed by water.
Locomotive boiler, a boiler which contains an inclosed fire box and a large number of small flues leading to the chimney.
Multiflue boiler. Same as Tubular boiler, below.
Sectional boiler, a boiler composed of a number of sections, which are usually of small capacity and similar to, and connected with, each other. By multiplication of the sections a boiler of any desired capacity can be built up.
Tubular boiler, a boiler containing tubes which form flues, and are surrounded by the water contained in the boiler. See Illust. of Steam boiler, under Steam.
Tubulous boiler. See under Tubulous. See Tube, n., 6, and 1st Flue.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1540s, agent noun from boil (v.). Meaning "vessel for boiling" is from 1725; steam engine sense is from 1757.
Wiktionary
Etymology 1 n. 1 An apparatus that generates heat (usually by burning fuel) and uses it to heat circulate water (or sometimes another liquid) in a closed system that is then used for space heating, swimming pool heating, or domestic hot water or industrial processes. 2 ''Less commonly'', a hot water heater.
WordNet
n. sealed vessel where water is converted to steam [syn: steam boiler]
a metal pot for stewing or boiling; usually has a lid [syn: kettle]
Wikipedia
A boiler is a closed vessel in which water or other fluid is heated. The fluid does not necessarily boil. (In North America, the term " furnace" is normally used if the purpose is not to actually boil the fluid.) The heated or vaporized fluid exits the boiler for use in various processes or heating applications, including water heating, central heating, boiler-based power generation, cooking, and sanitation.
"Boiler" is a song by the American nu metal band Limp Bizkit. It was released in November 2001 as the fifth and final single from their third studio album Chocolate Starfish and the Hot Dog Flavored Water. Guitar World described the song as "an old-school, L.L. Cool J.-style rap ballad".
There was a limited edition Gold numbered version of this single that includes DVD music videos from the band. The music video was directed by Dave Meyers and Fred Durst, and filmed in Portugal.
The song peaked at 30 on Modern Rock charts.
A boiler or steam generator is a device used to create steam by applying heat energy to water. Although the definitions are somewhat flexible, it can be said that older steam generators were commonly termed boilers and worked at low to medium pressure but, at pressures above this, it is more usual to speak of a steam generator.
A boiler or steam generator is used wherever a source of steam is required. The form and size depends on the application: mobile steam engines such as steam locomotives, portable engines and steam-powered road vehicles typically use a smaller boiler that forms an integral part of the vehicle; stationary steam engines, industrial installations and power stations will usually have a larger separate steam generating facility connected to the point-of-use by piping. A notable exception is the steam-powered fireless locomotive, where separately-generated steam is transferred to a receiver (tank) on the locomotive.
The term boiler can refer to:
- Boiler, a device for heating, but not necessarily boiling, water
- Boiler (power generation), a device that boils liquid to generate power
- Boiler (water heating), a device for heating water
- Boiler (song), a song by Limp Bizkit
- The Boiler (song), a song by Rhoda Dakar and the Specials
The term Boiler may refer to an appliance for heating water. Applications include water heating and central heating.
Usage examples of "boiler".
The fireball also blew the aft stack apart, and with it the number-two boiler, which caused a steam explosion from the idling high-pressure steam drum.
A little pipe coiled away behind the hutches and disappeared over the railings into the boiler below.
If they lost power now there would be no main coolant pumps circulating hot water to the boilers, no steam and no turbine generators.
Those prisoners with boilers hexed to them are issued enough culm and low-grade coke to work.
Tech Area: physicists from the cyclotron shack, soldiers from the boiler house, doctors from the medical labs, office clerks and, in front, the Indians who swept every building.
Right now they were too interested in eviscerating rats in the boiler room to install a new pane anyway.
A baffle wall has been built in the combustion chamber, which compels the gases to pass downward and to divide through two openings before they reach the boiler shell.
For sampling the gases in the smokebox of the horizontal return-tubular boiler, a special flue-gas sampler was designed, in order to obtain a composite sample of the gases escaping from the boiler.
Once more we felt truly grateful to the Viceroy and the Prince who so promptly and so considerately had supplied all our wants, and whose kindness would convert our southern cruise into a holiday gite, without the imminent deadly risk of a burst boiler.
If the pillar of smoke were visible at sunrise, and Walker could possibly manage to fire the boilers, Boyle suggested that some sailors in the jolly-boat should sound a channel along which the vessel itself might steam slowly towards Guanaco Hill.
Even a double boiler, which Keely had always secretly wanted, yet never purchased for herself.
The steam, in turn, rotated a turbine generator wbich-along with other boilers and turbines at Cberokee-supplied almost three quarters of a million kilowatts to power-hungry Denver and environs.
The ridiculously low total would make more than one land speculator moan, curse and cry in his beer, for along with the abandoned rendering plant went fifty acres of land bordering the Intracoastal Waterway, a sturdy pier built to hold a hundred and fifty foot pogy boat in winds up to near hurricane force, three large buildings, two small houses, assorted boilers and pipes and other odds and ends of rusting machinery, a loft filled with rotting nets and bags of used net floats, three beached purse boats with gasoline motors still mounted and usable after overhaul and six huge storage tanks which had been erected to store the rendered menhaden oil pending shipment to fertilizer and pet food plants further inland.
Someone with an inventive turn of mind had rigged a gadget, powered by a float bobbing in the water, which at irregular intervals jerked a clanging sheet of metal against the main boiler to discourage fishingbirds from perching there and smutching the reflectors with their droppings.
They work constantly, they are often camouflaged against being sighted from the air, they have low-pressure boilers to force steam through the mash, they use car mufflers and truck radiators soldered together and buried in dammed-up stream beds for condensers, and since everything is haste, they make the sorriest liquor.