(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.
Pipkin
Definition:
(n.) A small earthen boiler.
Example Sentences:
(1) Thirteen patients had had a posterior dislocation with an associated fracture of the femoral head located either caudad or cephalad to the fovea centralis (Pipkin Type-I or Type-II injury), one had had a posterior dislocation with associated fractures of the femoral head and neck (Pipkin Type III), two had had a posterior dislocation with associated fractures of the femoral head and the acetabular rim (Pipkin Type IV), and three had had a fracture-dislocation that we could not categorize according to the Pipkin classification.
(2) The outcome of these relatively uncommon fractures after 14 months of followup is fair for the Pipkin Type I and II lesions and good for the Pipkin Type IV one.
(3) When Pipkins ended in 1981 Plaskitt needed a break from puppets.
(4) "In between filming Pipkins I did acting jobs, including a commercial for Vicks nasal spray, which got the craving for fame out of my system," he says.
(5) Because of the greater ease of access to the fracture, the anterior approach is recommended when operative reduction of a displaced Pipkin type I or II is indicated, but newer methods of minimizing heterotopic ossification must be developed.
(6) Oats were all there was to eat, and the only drink was lukewarm drinking chocolate in a chipped mug with a picture of the pig from Pipkins on it.
(7) Three patients with posterior dislocation of the hip associated with Pipkin type II fracture of the femoral head were treated surgically by removal of the cephalic fragment, as closed reduction had not been satisfactory.
(8) Eighty posterior dislocations of the hip were studied; there were nine 'Pipkin' injuries, seven of which are reported.
(9) (London) 323, 415-422] and Broughton Pipkin and Wallace (1986, Brit.
(10) The 'Pipkin' fracture-dislocation of the hip is an injury that is easily missed and is associated with serious sequelae.
(11) Twenty-six of the 43 fractures were Pipkin types I and II, and were managed operatively.
(12) We present 3 cases with Pipkin's fracture of the femoral head, a rare and complicated fracture.
(13) Arteries were considered to belong to the class of viscoelastic materials with fading memory and the first order term of the integral polynomial constitutive equations of Pipkin and Rogers satisfying the nonlinear superposition principle was modified to handle responses to increasing and decreasing loads independently.
(14) "I left school to become an actor, but in my second year with a touring theatre I was asked by ATV if I could do character voices because they were casting for a new pre-school TV series, Pipkins," says the 63-year-old.
(15) On the basis of the work done by Broughton Pipkin et al.
(16) An unusual bilateral hip dislocation in a 19-year-old female is presented, with a left Type III posterior fracture-dislocation (Thompson and Epstein) and a right Type V posterior dislocation (Thompson and Epstein's classification as modified by Pipkin's criteria).
(17) and Andy Pipkin's "Yeah, I know" all rolled into one.
(18) One transplant was in a hip with a Pipkin II fracture-dislocation.
(19) An unusual case of bilateral posterior fracture-dislocation of the hip (Pipkin Type IV) occurred in a 63-year-old man with Paget's disease of the pelvis.