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/ˈhitɚ/ · noun
A device that produces and radiates heat, typically to raise the temperature of a room or building..
Turn on the heater; I'm cold.
“First you've got to sit up and go into the tackroom, because you are soaking wet. And shivering.” […] The tackroom was cold, so Sam turned on the kerosene heater and found a wool cooler and wrapped her in it.
The thug pumped two rounds from his heater into her.
Jones threw a heater under his chin.
Emmy went on a heater in Las Vegas and came back six thousand dollars richer.
It can be assumed that as the earlier kite shield transformed into the heater shape, there must have been versions in between the two styles. Indeed, in artwork of the Medieval period, shields are rarely present after 1450 and even then are quite small. The development of flattop heaters from larger kite shields is likely the result of increased fighting on horseback and the use of improved armor.
Use heater when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Heater means A device that produces and radiates heat, typically to raise the temperature of a room or building..
Common synonyms include banger, hummer, bullet, fastball.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
Turn on the heater; I'm cold.
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