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Definition of space heater in English: space heaternoun A self-contained appliance for heating an enclosed space within a building. (建筑物中安装在一定范围的)小型取暖器 Example sentencesExamples - The family huddled with blankets in their living room, trying to stay warm with a space heater.
- Allow three feet between a space heater and anything flammable.
- Anyhow, it's about ten below in here (give or take a few for the wind chill factor) and the space heater isn't really helping.
- Let's assume that nothing else in the house is on, so the meter is measuring only the electricity used by the space heater.
- I walk over to our little space heater and warm my hands by it.
- A space heater in an enclosed area can provide the needed heat for curing.
- It was freezing cold outside and there was no heat in the garage, so he had a little space heater over by his side and I had a blanket that he graciously gave me to drape around my shoulders like a Navajo Indian.
- Hopefully the heat situation will somehow work out in my favour; it's a little nippy in here with me having left the space heater off all day, but it's not really bad.
- When she received an astronomical bill several months ago - the result of heating her home with a space heater - she nearly fainted.
- Check your local and state building codes and fire ordinances to see if you can use an unvented space heater, if you consider purchasing one.
- Still, I have a space heater, and it never gets too cold here, not like in the old days - never below 60, anyway.
- Air conditioning means sixty degree offices, and until I move my computers outdoors I'll be enjoying the benefits of the space heater.
- Even with the newly-installed space heater, the air in there wouldn't rise above forty degrees.
- I'll also need a space heater because it's always chilly in the basement.
- Plastic sheets temporarily hung from the rafters until a new door arrives don't succeed in blocking the wind, but a space heater helps.
- In a separate incident, a woman died when her attempts to fight off the cold with a space heater and candles set her New York City apartment ablaze.
- The falling table knocked over a space heater and set fire to the store.
- He had only been in his tiny apartment for two days and the only furnishings he could afford were a lamp, a pillow, a space heater, and an insulated sleeping bag.
- Today I am forcing myself to leave my room and get dressed and buy a space heater.
- The fire department is looking into whether a space heater started that fire.
PhrasesExample sentencesExamples - Solar thermal panels heat the water and a geothermal system provides space heating and air conditioning.
- It features solar panels used to generate electricity, passive solar space heating, solar water heating, and a water catchment system (which collects and filters rain-water for household use).
- Since use of electricity for space heating has shown a general decline, ‘lights and appliances’ explain much of the increase in share and overall use.
- Under the standard, a building's annual demand for space heating should not exceed 15 kilowatt hours per square metre, per year.
- 75% of household energy use goes on water and space heating, and due to the poor quality of our housing stock, most of this is simply wasted.
Derivativesadjective Garages all over America could be converted to space-heated cabins large enough to accommodate six.
noun 75% of household energy use goes on water and space heating, and due to the poor quality of our housing stock, most of this is simply wasted. Example sentencesExamples - Under the standard, a building's annual demand for space heating should not exceed 15 kilowatt hours per square metre, per year.
- It features solar panels used to generate electricity, passive solar space heating, solar water heating, and a water catchment system (which collects and filters rain-water for household use).
- Solar thermal panels heat the water and a geothermal system provides space heating and air conditioning.
- Since use of electricity for space heating has shown a general decline, ‘lights and appliances’ explain much of the increase in share and overall use.
Definition of space heater in US English: space heaternounˈspās ˌhēdərˈspeɪs ˌhidər A self-contained appliance, usually electric, for heating an enclosed room. (建筑物中安装在一定范围的)小型取暖器 Example sentencesExamples - I'll also need a space heater because it's always chilly in the basement.
- Plastic sheets temporarily hung from the rafters until a new door arrives don't succeed in blocking the wind, but a space heater helps.
- Still, I have a space heater, and it never gets too cold here, not like in the old days - never below 60, anyway.
- The family huddled with blankets in their living room, trying to stay warm with a space heater.
- It was freezing cold outside and there was no heat in the garage, so he had a little space heater over by his side and I had a blanket that he graciously gave me to drape around my shoulders like a Navajo Indian.
- Even with the newly-installed space heater, the air in there wouldn't rise above forty degrees.
- Today I am forcing myself to leave my room and get dressed and buy a space heater.
- Allow three feet between a space heater and anything flammable.
- Hopefully the heat situation will somehow work out in my favour; it's a little nippy in here with me having left the space heater off all day, but it's not really bad.
- The falling table knocked over a space heater and set fire to the store.
- He had only been in his tiny apartment for two days and the only furnishings he could afford were a lamp, a pillow, a space heater, and an insulated sleeping bag.
- Air conditioning means sixty degree offices, and until I move my computers outdoors I'll be enjoying the benefits of the space heater.
- I walk over to our little space heater and warm my hands by it.
- A space heater in an enclosed area can provide the needed heat for curing.
- The fire department is looking into whether a space heater started that fire.
- Let's assume that nothing else in the house is on, so the meter is measuring only the electricity used by the space heater.
- Anyhow, it's about ten below in here (give or take a few for the wind chill factor) and the space heater isn't really helping.
- When she received an astronomical bill several months ago - the result of heating her home with a space heater - she nearly fainted.
- Check your local and state building codes and fire ordinances to see if you can use an unvented space heater, if you consider purchasing one.
- In a separate incident, a woman died when her attempts to fight off the cold with a space heater and candles set her New York City apartment ablaze.
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