(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.
Geezer
Definition:
Example Sentences:
(1) I know Richard, I know Tony, we are all old geezers, but I swear I haven’t talked once to them about it,” he told the Guardian while campaigning for the Lib Dems in the Richmond byelection.
(2) Ozzy Osbourne joined fellow sexagenarians Tony Iommi, Geezer Butler and Bill Ward at the venue where the band made their Los Angeles debut in 1970, to address a large, black-t-shirt-clad crowd.
(3) In a way, the Falkirk row became so prominent because it fitted a narrative the press already likes to push when it comes to trade unions: they're full of dodgy geezers.
(4) Once you’ve decided, you believe in it strongly, you tell your friends and family, and you’re more likely to go out and vote.” By contrast, the remain line he hears from “blokes in the bar – local businessmen, geezers running building companies, doing quite well” is: “‘Nigel, we kind of get the stuff about sovereignty and controlling our borders.
(5) "He's amazing, that geezer," he says, his voice betraying his Cornish roots as well as traces of cockney.
(6) As the tagline – "May the best man live" – suggests, it's basically the same old flick with the same old schtick: the Stath tops baddies, boffs toffs (he's a one-man manifesto for geezer supremacy), and cops off with a blondie.
(7) There is a word that people overuse – authentic – but he is a straight geezer.
(8) The new members Corbyn attracted to the party helped him win the candidacy and he does not want to turn his back on them – or Corbyn – who he describes as “a straight geezer”.
(9) What a geezer.” The former pupil at the Somerset boarding school, which charges fees of £30,000 a year, said: “They were ... only about four or five people but they made themselves heard.
(10) Instead of Terry's Old Geezers and Gals, his audience has now been labelled Wogan's Ageing Sunday Participants, or Wasps.
(11) "I look at what Jamie Oliver did; Jamie Oliver does not need to be trawling round schools in Britain - the geezer's a multi-millionnaire.
(12) And here he is again diving in to Tiote's cross from the left to head for goal and the full back Coentrao gets his fluffed blond 1980s pop-geezer highlights to the ball and bouffants it clear.
(13) What a geezer.” Parsons has since taken down his Instagram account, as well as his Facebook and Twitter profiles, after he was named by a number of sources as appearing in the video published by the Guardian on Tuesday .
(14) You ain’t a fat bald geezer with a chain!” A schoolchild shouted: 'You ain’t no mayor!
(15) As it turns out, the God of Fuck and post-Britpop’s most famous crack smoker had very little on some of our booked-for-lolz, avuncular old geezers in terms of genuine evil.
(16) Did he ever think of himself as a dodgy geezer, a bit of an Arthur Daley ?
(17) The jubilation of topless, pear-shaped West Ham geezers running on the pitch as we win in extra time against our ultimate rival – Millwall .
(18) Wogan's fans, known as Togs – Terry's Old Geezers and Gals – have been particularly vociferous against Evans since he took over the show in January.
(19) They came out to support him and didn’t care if he knocked out some fat geezer who never stood a chance.
(20) And the entire framing device – as Tonto recalls the Lone Ranger in old age in 1933 San Francisco – is a straight lift from Little Big Man's 121-year-old Jack Crabb, right down to the geezer makeup.