(n.) A strong metallic vessel, usually of wrought iron plates riveted together, or a composite structure variously formed, in which steam is generated for driving engines, or for heating, cooking, or other purposes.
Example Sentences:
(1) The scheme is available to those who have one or more of the following technologies: solar PV panels (roof-mounted or stand alone), wind turbines (building mounted or free standing), hydroelectricity, anaerobic digestion (generating electricity from food waste), and micro combined heat and power (through the use of new types of boilers , for example).
(2) It found that on average, loft insulation decreases home gas consumption by 1.7%, cavity wall insulation by 7.8% and a new boiler by 9.2% (median figures were slightly higher).
(3) His enthusiasm for domestic combined heat and power (CHP) plants is disappointing for another reason: the likely carbon savings produced by replacing your boiler with a heat and power plant top out at around 15%.
(4) It also says the increase was higher because the Rayners had made an earlier claim that required a new part for their boiler.
(5) Figures released two weeks ago from the regulator Ofgem showed that companies had achieved as little as 3% of the solid and cavity wall insulation targets, while they had achieved a quarter of their targets on measures including new boilers.
(6) There are also a range of products on the market such as gas-condensing boilers, long-life lightbulbs, and schemes to insulate people's homes, which save a lot of electricity.
(7) "I'm spending £10 a day on electricity, with no boiler," she said in clipped, middle-class tones.
(8) In April 2007 he was back before the courts, this time for punching the son of a landlord following a row over a boiler.
(9) Kalinski has decided to go public as a warning to others, and his story is a blueprint of boiler-room fraud.
(10) But given the continued acceleration not just in fossil fuel extraction but in the production of cars, boilers, furnaces and power plants that need oil, coal and gas to function, there is zero prospect of that happening of its own accord any time soon.
(11) but he is not about to do a rock star stunt and throw his boiler suit into the crowd.
(12) survey reveals top two boilers If the worst happens and you're forced to buy a new boiler, go for one of two brands, according to the first-ever consumer study on boiler reliability.
(13) Our old boiler packed up a couple of years ago and the new condensing boiler we installed has cut our gas use by about a quarter.
(14) ''If you were to wear your jacket to the killing, and be ready to go: to leave the widowmaker here, and pick up your empty bag, and walk out like a boiler man, the way you came in?''
(15) Until last autumn, HomeCare agreements were one-price products, meaning most customers paid the same regardless of what type of boiler they had and how many times they needed it repaired.
(16) The proposals include: · New powers to force people to improve the energy efficiency of their homes when they renovate them; · A 30-fold increase in offshore wind power generation; · New loans, grants and incentives for businesses and households; · An area the size of Essex to be planted with trees and other crops to produce biomass energy; · Forcing people to replace inefficient appliances such as oil-fired boilers.
(17) When I add this to the £2,500 savings I was previously paying for oil to run my expensive and very inefficient oil-fired boiler, I am saving at least £3,500 a year," he says, although he will see increased electricity costs of £980.
(18) A spiral unit is somewhat superior to a boiler in this respect.
(19) "We are also looking into methods of improving the building's energy efficiency, such as introducing additional motion and daylight sensors, upgrading downlighters and fluorescent tubes, and upgrading the fans system and boiler sequencing system," the spokesman added.
(20) Woolhope Woodheat plans to install its first boiler at Canon Frome Court , a community of about 50 people living in a Georgian manor and 40-acre organic farm in Herefordshire.
Boilerplate
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Example Sentences:
(1) Maybe it's left him knackered, but when we talk in the backroom of an ad hoc campaign office in the small agricultural town of Thrapston, he answers most questions using standard-issue candidate's boilerplate.
(2) He answered a series of boilerplate queries from the thin media corps at ringside, delivering a blend of straight talk and curious bon mots.
(3) There was also criticism of the media who gave rolling coverage to Trump’s rally in Florida on Saturday, which Oliver called “pointless” and filled with “boilerplate Trump: the media is fake, Chicago is a nightmare, I’m the greatest.” Facebook Twitter Pinterest Last week, Oliver called Trump a “ pathological liar ” in a scalding episode which marked the start of the show’s fourth season.
(4) Witness the impact of an otherwise boilerplate broadcast by the Prince of Wales last December that made headlines : “Prince Charles warns of return to the ‘dark days of the 1930s’ in Thought for the Day message.” Or consider the reflex response to reports that Donald Trump was to maintain his own private security force even once he had reached the White House.
(5) Rudd talks cheerfully but steadily, as if he's neither reciting boilerplate nor overly impressed by his career.
(6) For once, the grand parliamentary boilerplate appeared apt.
(7) During part of the talks open to media, Xi and Lew spoke in boilerplate diplomatic language about drawing on shared strengths to bolster bilateral ties.
(8) He lied about opposing the Iraq war , criticized Obama’s 2011 withdrawal and repeated his now-boilerplate advocacy of stealing Iraq’s oil – a measure that he evidently believes would require a minimal force presence, despite the certainty that the well-armed locals might have a problem with their principal source of wealth being plundered by a foreign power.
(9) The public boilerplate, as it so often does, hides a difficult and often acrimonious relationship.
(10) Every presidential aspirant issues that boilerplate – as it elides an explanation of what the candidate thinks is worth fighting for – but Clinton’s long public record, which she uses as a selling point against Trump, gives reason to doubt it.
(11) Indeed, in the boilerplate language of financial prospectuses, past results are no guarantee of future results; and there are already investment models showing that non-FFC funds deliver better proceeds.
(12) Instead, for months, we’ve heard almost nothing from the administration beyond a couple boilerplate, lukewarm expressions of “concern” as the death toll has mounted over a year and a half.
(13) There was lots of New Labour boilerplate about "the values of the mainstream majority", but I don't think Brown manage to meld this into a vision of the future that will resonate with the public.
(14) And, too, because no matter how much practice you have at blathering and how much boilerplate you can regurgitate, unscripted moments can be as rough on cable heads as on politicians.
(15) A 50-minute meeting might have produced little of substance – Modi reiterated India's longstanding complaints about terrorists launched from Pakistani soil to wreak havoc on its interests and citizens, Sharif uttered platitudes about an "historic opportunity" – but even the banality of the diplomatic boilerplate could not hide an unexpected sense of optimism.
(16) It introduces the biography of the candidate, striking the usual boilerplate themes of a middle class yet aspirational childhood, a love of baseball and a close knit neighbourhood where Weiner's parents worked hard and raised their kids.
(17) After three weeks of campaigning, she appears to have passed the point where she can answer questions with much more than awkward boilerplate, but I have to ask: are Diane James and the Farage army a worry?
(18) A lawyer he consulted provided him with a boilerplate employee handbook, which didn’t have much to say about diversity, and told him that he could write a more extensive handbook when the company was bigger.
(19) For instance, a boilerplate attack on the Home Secretary ended with a passage that could have come from a Daily Express leader: "Michael Howard said he was building six tough new prisons.