water heater

noun

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

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These changes would force residents and businesses in Los Angeles, Orange, Riverside, and San Bernardino Counties to shift from natural gas to all-electric furnaces and water heaters. Rosilicie Ochoa Bogh, Oc Register, 30 May 2025 Other live roaches were spotted inside water inlets on top of the water heater (five), inside a drip pan on the floor near the water heater (another five) and under a reach-in cooler (seven). David J. Neal, Miami Herald, 9 May 2025 Three of the Biden administration regulations overturned by Trump had sought to improve efficiency for household water heaters, walk in freezers and commercial refrigerators and freezers. Rachel Frazin, The Hill, 9 May 2025 It was tucked in the corner of the larger bedroom, and half of it was taken up with a copper water heater. Matthew Sedacca, Curbed, 19 Mar. 2025 See All Example Sentences for water heater

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 20 Jun. 2025.

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