From en.wiktionary.org:
[Boiler]
** English
[wp]
*** Pronunciation
- [en]
- [en]
- [en]
- [en]
- [en]
*** Etymology 1
From [en].
**** Noun
[en-noun]
1. A person who boils something.
2. A steam boiler .
3. An apparatus for heating circulating water or other heat transferring liquid.
4. A device consisting of a heat source and a tank for storing hot water, typically for space heating , domestic hot water etc., disregarding the source of heat.
5. A kitchen vessel for steaming , boiling or heating food .
6. A sunken reef , especially a coral reef , on which the sea breaks heavily.
7. A tough old chicken only suitable for cooking by boiling.
8. [en] An old woman .
***** Derived terms
[en]
***** Related terms
{{col|en |boilery }}
***** Descendants
- [nl]
- [ja]
***** Translations
[steam boiler]
[device for heating circulating water]
- Albanian: [sq]
- Arabic: [ar]
- Belarusian: [be]
- Bulgarian: [bg]
- Burmese: [my] , [my]
- Chinese:
- Czech: [cs]
- Dutch: [nl]
- Estonian: [et]
- Finnish: [fi]
- French: [fr]
- Gallurese: [sdn]
- Georgian: [ka]
- German: [de] , [de]
- Greek: [el] , [el]
- Hebrew: [he]
- Hungarian: [hu] , [hu]
- Italian: [it] , [it] , [it]
- Japanese: [ja]
- Korean: [ko]
- Kurdish:
- Latin: [la]
- Low German: [nds]
- Macedonian: [mk]
- Malay: [ms]
- Maori: [mi]
- Marathi: [mr]
- Mongolian:
- Polish: [pl]
- Portuguese: [pt]
- Russian: [ru] , [ru] , [ru]
- Sardinian:
- Sicilian: [scn] , [scn] , [scn] , [scn]
- Slovak: [sk]
- Spanish: [es] , [es]
- Swedish: [sv] , [sv]
- Turkish: [tr]
- Ukrainian: [uk]
- Urdu: [ur]
- Venetan: [vec]
[trans-bottom]
[hot water heater with storage]
- Bulgarian: [bg]
- Czech: [cs]
- Dutch: [nl]
- Estonian: [et]
- Finnish: [fi] , [fi]
- French: [fr]
- German: [de] , [de]
- Greek: [el]
- Hebrew: [he]
- Italian: [it]
- Japanese: [ja]
- Korean: [ko]
- Maori: [mi]
- Norwegian:
- Polish: [pl]
- Portuguese: [pt]
- Russian: [ru]
- Scottish Gaelic: [gd]
- Spanish: [es] , [es] [Mexico] , [es] [Argentina] , [es] [Peru] , [es] [Argentina]
- Swedish: [sv]
- Turkish: [tr]
[trans-bottom]
[vessel for steaming or boiling food]
- Finnish: [fi] [for boiling] , [fi] [for steaming] ; [fi] [any cooking vessel]
- Malay: [ms]
- Maori: [mi]
[trans-bottom]
[sunken reef on which the sea breaks heavily]
- Finnish: [fi]
[trans-bottom]
[tough old chicken]
- Finnish: [fi]
[trans-bottom]
**** See also
- [en]
- [en]
*** Etymology 2
Shortening of [en]
**** Noun
[!]
1. [en] Boilerplate .
2. * {{ quote-newsgroup | en | date=May 4 1994 | author=Glenn Nicholas | url=http://groups.google.com/group/comp.databases.oracle/msg/27d96412881d2d63?q=boiler | title=Re: Forms4 boilerplate accessible? | newsgroup=comp.databases.oracle
|passage=While it appears the FRM40_TEXT table is the answer, saving a form
with BOILER text does not seem to insert into this table.}}
1. * 2003 December 7, Tom Potter, " Re: Why don't more people hate Bush? (see http://groups.google.com/group/alt.politics.clinton/msg/011ed5e6e33edf87?q=boiler) ", in [alt.politics.democrats] and other newsgroups, _Usenet_ :
2. *: Note that Stuart Grey makes the assertion: "I think rationally on all subjects.", and then proceeds to use the standard BOILER tactics and phrases of the people WHO instigate conflict and war.
3. * {{ quote-newsgroup | en | year=2007 | author=Jim Casey | url=http://groups.google.com/group/tx.guns/msg/4a78bd8bf0141913?q=boiler | title=Re: NRA vs Bar Assoc over guns in cars | newsgroup=tx.guns
|passage=Nearly every employer in my field has similar terms (they all come
out of a legal BOILER mill somewhere).}}
1. * {{ quote-newsgroup | en | date=March 30 2009 | author=hughess7 | url=http://groups.google.com/group/microsoft.public.access/msg/a953053cc34cf02d?q=boiler | title=Re: Mail merge to PDF | newsgroup=microsoft.public.access
|passage=Just aligning all the paragraphs of ' BOILER text' is tedious but
trying to insert values in alignment is impossible!}}
*** Anagrams
- [en]
** Dutch
*** Etymology
Borrowed from [nl].
*** Pronunciation
- [nl]
- [nl]
- [nl]
*** Noun
[m]
1. water heater
**** Related terms
- [nl]
*** Anagrams
- [nl]
** French
*** Etymology
[fr].
*** Pronunciation
- [boillleur]
- [boilèr]
- [fr]
*** Noun
[m]
1. water heater
2. [en]
** Italian
*** Etymology
[it].
*** Pronunciation
[^ò]
*** Noun
[m]
1. [en] (liquid-boiling device)
1. [it] milk -boiler
2. water heater
3. water tank (water container for places that don't have access to running water , like camper s or boat s)
*** Further reading
- [R:it:Treccani]
- [R:it:Olivetti]
** Romanian
*** Etymology
[ro].
*** Noun
[n]
1. water heater
**** Declension
[ro-noun-n]
** Scots
*** Etymology
From the English.
*** Noun
[sco]
1. [en]