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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
radiator
noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
central
▪ It has full gas fired central heating to radiators and has a lovely west facing secluded garden.
▪ Luckily, central heating radiators ran around the room, so I was able to position the cable off the floor.
▪ Perhaps, instead, the first step was via a central-heating radiator.
new
▪ There is a range of five colours available in Homestyle's new spray-on radiator enamels, which includes a special primer.
▪ Milcey came with a new radiator hose and jugs of coolant.
▪ Select a new radiator that is the closest possible match to the existing one in terms of height and length.
▪ The six new radiators in Mrs Garazhenko's flat were flown from Moscow at considerable expense.
▪ Start at the new radiator position and work back towards the point at which you will connect into the existing pipework.
■ NOUN
heating
▪ Luckily, central heating radiators ran around the room, so I was able to position the cable off the floor.
■ VERB
fit
▪ The oil cooler was by Radiatore Cohini and was fitted under the radiator.
▪ Pivotilt is childproof, meets all major requirements for strength and safety, and fits all Stelrad Accord radiators from 18in upwards.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ A direct system has only one water circuit which supplies both the taps and the radiators.
▪ All the engine needed was a little highway speed, let the radiator do its work.
▪ He paused by one of the radiators to warm his hands before approaching the doors that led into the infirmary.
▪ Let it touch the radiator - it won't leave its hand there when it discovers it is hot.
▪ Savanna animals cool off with a kind of organic radiator by evaporating water from the moist linings of the nasal chambers.
▪ Select a new radiator that is the closest possible match to the existing one in terms of height and length.
▪ There were spoons hidden all over the factory, on rafters, in drawers, behind radiators, and so on.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Radiator

Radiator \Ra"di*a`tor\ (r[=a]"d[i^]*[=a]`t[~e]r), n.

  1. That which radiates or emits rays, whether of light or heat; especially, that part of a heating apparatus from which the heat is radiated or diffused; as, a steam radiator.

  2. Any of various devices for cooling an internal substance by radiation, as a system of rings on a gun barrel for cooling it, or a nest of tubes with large radiating surface for cooling circulating water, as in an automobile.

  3. (Wireless Teleg.) An oscillator.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
radiator

1836, "any thing that radiates," agent noun in Latin form from radiate. Meaning "heater" is from 1851; sense of "cooling device in internal combustion engine" is 1900.

Wiktionary
radiator

n. 1 Anything which radiates or emits rays. 2 (context automotive English) A device that lowers engine coolant temperature by conducting heat to the air, through metal fins. 3 (context of buildings English) A finned metal fixture that carries hot water or steam in order to heat a room. 4 (context electronics English) A type of antenna.

WordNet
radiator
  1. n. any object that radiates energy

  2. heater consisting of a series of pipes for circulating steam or hot water to heat rooms or buildings

  3. a mechanism consisting of a metal honeycomb through which hot fluids circulate; heat is transferred from the fluid through the honeycomb to the airstream that is created either by the motion of the vehicle or by a fan

Wikipedia
Radiator

Radiators are heat exchangers used to transfer thermal energy from one medium to another for the purpose of cooling and heating. The majority of radiators are constructed to function in automobiles, buildings, and electronics. The radiator is always a source of heat to its environment, although this may be for either the purpose of heating this environment, or for cooling the fluid or coolant supplied to it, as for engine cooling. Despite the name, most radiators transfer the bulk of their heat via convection instead of thermal radiation (the main exception to this rule being the radiators on spacecraft, see spacecraft radiators below), though the term "convector" is used more narrowly; see radiation and convection, below.

The Roman hypocaust, a type of radiator for building space heating, was described in 15 AD. The heating radiator was invented by Franz San Galli, a Prussian-born Russian businessman living in St. Petersburg, between 1855 and 1857.

Radiator (heating)

Radiators and convectors are heat exchangers designed to transfer thermal energy from one medium to another for the purpose of space heating. The heating radiator was invented by Franz San Galli in 1855, a Prussian-born Russian businessman living in St. Petersburg.

Radiator (film)

Radiator is a 2014 British drama film directed by Tom Browne and co-written with Daniel Cerqueira, who also stars in the film.

Radiator (album)

Radiator is the second album by Super Furry Animals. It was released in August 1997 by Creation Records, and later the same year in the United States under Flydaddy Records. It peaked at number eight on the UK Albums Chart. In 2005, it was reissued with a bonus disc of other tracks from the time.

Singer Gruff Rhys has described Radiator as "more interesting" than the band's debut Fuzzy Logic with the group taking advantage of producer Gorwel Owen's " Atari computers, and banks of old vintage synths" to create an album which was "musically ... much more adventurous".

Radiator (disambiguation)

A radiator is any of several types of heat exchangers designed to transfer thermal energy from one medium to another for the purpose of cooling or heating.

Radiator can also refer to:

  • Radiator (heating), the conventional heating of a building
  • Radiator (engine cooling)
  • Black body, an object with perfect radiation absorption and emission
  • Information radiator, a display of information posted on a wall where passers-by can see it, typically used in software development
  • Radiator (album), a 1997 album by the Super Furry Animals
  • Radiator (band), or their self-titled 1999 album
  • Radiator RADIUS server software
  • Radiator (film), a 2014 film
Radiator (band)

Radiator were a British alternative rock band, formed in 1996 by Jack Cooke, Janne Jarvis and Chris Rose. They released one album, also titled Radiator, which received 4 out of 5 when reviewed by Kerrang!, and their music appeared in the first Gran Turismo game (and on the commercially available soundtrack album) as well as in the film A Kind of Hush.

In September 1998 the band opened for the Backyard Babies and The Yo-Yos on their UK tours, while in February 1999 they promoting their "Make It Real" single by touring the UK with Tribute To Nothing and Pitchshifter before opening for Space Age Playboys in Europe. The band also toured the UK supporting Motörhead and Queens Of The Stone Age.

The band's single, "Black Shine" which was released in 1998, and included a remix of the track by Nine Inch Nails member Charlie Clouser.

Radiator's first single, "Resistor", released on 16 March 1998 was mixed by Chris Sheldon.

The band's debut album Radiator was engineered, mixed and produced by the band themselves. Tracks 1,2,3,4 & 11 on the album were mixed by David Bascombe.

In 2001 Jarvis formed a new band Elevation with ex- 3 Colours Red members Pete Vuckovic and Keith Baxter.

Usage examples of "radiator".

The sun glittered off the silver radiator and off the engine-turned aluminium shield below the high perpendicular glass cliff of the windscreen.

His photographs of sexual acts, of sections of automobile radiator grilles and instrument panels, conjunctions between elbow and chromium window-sill, vulva and instrument binnacle, summed up the possibilities of a new logic created by these multiplying artefacts, the codes of a new marriage of sensation and possibility.

But then, lying sidewise with one hand cuffed, could I lift the radiator enough to separate the two pipe segments and let me slip the cuff through the gap?

Viv had never stopped sucking, even years after she ran off with Ooze, television in one hand, fifth of scotch in the other, leaving Frank with a gnawing hunger that would consume him like a slow fire and would not be satisfied by pizza, and he would retire out of boredom and curiosity to a Nursing Camp with a TV set, a cybersex unit and a Hollywood radiator, until one day when he would escape and journey through furrowed tunnels to the foul nightmare worlds of his imagination realized and manifested, to the uncharted lands beneath the shopping malls, and he would work his way back to thls place, the here and now, wherever that might be, and he would die, in a room filled with hyperactive children and thinking appliances with the cold taste of rubberish pizza still on his lips.

The propellers and radiators on both starboard engines were also damaged but not seriously.

Pulling away in sudden consternation, Goldy followed the opposite direction, and the microphone behind the radiator snapped suddenly into view.

The Coastal Republic checkpoints at the intersections of the roads were gray and fuzzy, like house-size clots of bread mold, so dense was the fractal defense grid, and staring through the cloud of macro- and microscopic aerostats, Hackworth could barely make out the hoplites in the center, heat waves rising from the radiators on their backs and stirring the airborne soup.

When he had finished, he stepped back toward the radiator and spoke in a low, hushed voice.

Leo Kritzky to a radiator as a bicycle bell reverberated through a dilapidated wooden hulk of a building to remind everyone that coffee and doughnuts were available in the hallway.

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.

He shot Suttle a grin, then returned to the car, concentrating on the bumpers and radiator grille.

She described the damage to the car with the persistence of a voyeur, almost nagging me with her lurid picture of the crushed radiator grille and the blood spattered across the bonnet.

Only now did Parvis appreciate the advantage given him by the radiator.

An enforced halt to let the radiator cool finally turned the journey into an ordeal and it was not until the afternoon had taken its first turn towards dusk that he reached Strete Barton through a switchback of high-hedged lanes halfway between Dartmouth and Kingsbridge.

With the soft inner lining of his glove he dabbed the sweat that hung on his eyebrows, and saw the giant paw of the strider, magnifying this involuntary gesture, lift, block the window of the cabin with the whole width of the forearm, and with a thud hit the radiator that was secured atop the headless shoulders.