water heater

noun

: an apparatus for heating and usually storing hot water (as for domestic use)

Examples of water heater in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web Sacramento County health inspectors shut down a local middle school cafeteria due to a broken water heater. Jacqueline Pinedo, Sacramento Bee, 24 May 2024 Tightening Efficiency Rules: The Department of Energy adopted stricter energy-efficiency standards for water heaters, the most consequential move in a flurry of changes designed to reduce the energy used by many common appliances. Brad Plumer, New York Times, 13 May 2024 The combustion of gas inside of homes and businesses to power things like furnaces, water heaters and stoves accounts for 9% of California’s emissions, or 33 million metric tons of heat-trapping gases per year, equivalent to the entire climate footprint of Hong Kong. Bloomberg, The Mercury News, 13 May 2024 Armed with a key, coin and magnet — the materials needed to conduct the test — Exum donned a headlamp and climbed behind the water heater. Angela Roberts, Baltimore Sun, 7 Mar. 2024 Someone entered a residence under construction and stole two water heaters valued at $5,000 and one double oven valued at $4,000. Anne Gelhaus, The Mercury News, 9 Apr. 2024 Our first foray into discarding gas was installing a heat pump water heater. Tik Root, WIRED, 30 Mar. 2024 Installation took less than a day and the water heater is now humming happily in our basement. Tik Root, Grist, Quartz, 29 Mar. 2024 The company’s Hot Water Conservation Kit includes a massage shower head, a kitchen swivel faucet aerator, a bathroom faucet aerator, pipe insulation, a shower timer and a hot water temperature card for your water heater. Laura Daily, Washington Post, 9 Mar. 2024

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Word History

First Known Use

1824, in the meaning defined above

Time Traveler
The first known use of water heater was in 1824

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“Water heater.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/water%20heater. Accessed 28 May. 2024.

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