Roget's Thesaurus eBook

Peter Roget
This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 925 pages of information about Roget's Thesaurus.

Roget's Thesaurus eBook

Peter Roget
This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 925 pages of information about Roget's Thesaurus.
electric heater, electric furnace, electric resistance heat.
     [steel-making furnace] open-hearth furnace.
     fireplace, gas fireplace; coal fire, wood fire; fire-dog, fire-irons;
grate, range, kitchener; caboose, camboose[obs3]; poker, tongs, shovel, ashpan, hob, trivet; andiron, gridiron; ashdrop; frying-pan, stew-pan, backlog.
     [area near a fireplace] hearth, inglenook.
     [residential heating methods] oil burner, gas burner, Franklin stove,
pot-bellied stove; wood-burning stove; central heating, steam heat, hot water heat, gas heat, forced hot air, electric heat, heat pump; solar heat, convective heat.
     hothouse, bakehouse[obs3], washhouse[obs3]; laundry; conservatory;
     sudatory[obs3]; Turkish bath, Russian bath, vapor bath, steam bath,
sauna, warm bath; vaporarium[obs3].

     #387.  Refrigerator. —­ N. refrigerator, refrigeratory[obs3];
frigidarium[obs3]; cold storage, cold room, cold laboratory; icehouse, icepail, icebag, icebox; cooler, damper, polyurethane cooler; wine cooler.
     freezer, deep freeze, dry ice freezer, liquid nitrogen freezer,
refigerator-freezer.
      freezing mixture[refrigerating substances], ice, ice cubes, blocks of
ice, chipped ice; liquid nitrogen, dry ice, dry ice-acetone, liquid helium.

     #388.  Fuel. —­ N. fuel, firing, combustible.
     [solid fuels] coal, wallsend[obs3], anthracite, culm[obs3], coke,
carbon, charcoal, bituminous coal, tar shale; turf, peat, firewood, bobbing, faggot, log; cinder &c. (products of combustion) 384; ingle, tinder, touchwood; sulphur, brimstone; incense; port-fire; fire-barrel, fireball, brand; amadou[obs3], bavin[obs3]; blind coal, glance coal; German tinder, pyrotechnic sponge, punk, smudge [U.  S.]; solid fueled rocket.
     [fuels for candles and lamps] wax, paraffin wax, paraffin oil; lamp
oil, whale oil.
     [liquid fuels] oil, petroleum, gasoline, high octane gasoline,
nitromethane[ISA:CHEMSUB@fuel], petrol, gas, juice [coll.], gasohol, alcohol, ethanol, methanol, fuel oil, kerosene, jet fuel, heating oil, number 2 oil, number 4 oil, naphtha; rocket fuel, high specific impulse fuel, liquid hydrogen, liquid oxygen, lox.
     [gaseous fuels] natural gas, synthetic gas, synthesis gas, propane,
butane, hydrogen.
     brand, torch, fuse; wick; spill, match, light, lucifer,
congreve[obs3], vesuvian, vesta[obs3], fusee, locofoco[obs3]; linstock[obs3].
     candle &c. (luminary) 423; oil &c. (grease) 356. 
     Adj. carbonaceous; combustible, inflammable; high octane, high
specific impulse; heat of combustion,.

     #388a.  Insulation, Fire extinction. {ant. of 388} —­ insulation,
incombustible material, noncombustible material; fire retardant, flame retardant; fire wall, fire door.
     incombustibility, incombustibleness &c. adj.
     extincteur[Fr]; fire annihilator; amianth[obs3], amianthus[obs3];

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