Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A nest or collection of iron pipes in ranks or coils, through which steam is passed to heat a room, etc. See cuts under
radiator .
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Examples
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But when, as probably developed at this point, Mr. Cuyler was advised that his remarks bore convincing traces of the proximity of an active steam-radiator and that the broker knew perfectly well that the
White Ashes Alden Charles Noble
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The steam-radiator had proved a farce, anyway -- there was never any steam, and they had had to use gas-heaters.
Love's Pilgrimage Upton Sinclair 1923
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The rooms were the smallest they had ever seen, but they were clean, and the price was only fifty cents a day -- a dollar and a half a week for Thyrsis 'and two dollars for Corydon's, because there was a steam-radiator in it.
Love's Pilgrimage Upton Sinclair 1923
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They had this melancholy retreat to themselves, and seated on the divan enclosing the central steam-radiator, they were staring silently at the glass cabinets mounted in ebonised wood which contained the recovered fragments of Ilium.
XXXI. Book II 1920
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They had this melancholy retreat to themselves, and seated on the divan enclosing the central steam-radiator, they were staring silently at the glass cabinets mounted in ebonised wood which contained the recovered fragments of Ilium.
The Age of Innocence 1920
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She cried a little, far back in her throat with the small hissing noise of a steam-radiator, and tried a poor futile scheme for easing her head in the crotch of her elbow.
The Best Short Stories of 1921 and the Yearbook of the American Short Story Various 1915
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Mr. Flint's office bore all the conventional signs of business -- commissions of authority from insurance companies, state licenses in oak frames, an oil-painting of Thomas Sawyer Flint, the founder of the firm, over a fireplace that maintained its useless dignity in spite of the steam-radiator near the window.
The Blood Red Dawn Charles Caldwell Dobie 1912
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I'm just about ready to settle down by the old steam-radiator.
The Blood Red Dawn Charles Caldwell Dobie 1912
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They had this melancholy retreat to themselves, and seated on the divan enclosing the central steam-radiator, they were staring silently at the glass cabinets mounted in ebonised wood which contained the recovered fragments of Ilium.
The Age of Innocence Edith Wharton 1899
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The panels will heat the water used by the the building's steam-radiator heating system.
Smoky Mountain News 2010
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