(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.
Synonymous
Definition:
(a.) Having the character of a synonym; expressing the same thing; conveying the same, or approximately the same, idea.
Example Sentences:
(1) NNG codons are preferred over the synonymous NNA codons 5' to the positions of lysine in the genes.
(2) Aeromonas caviae is a later and illegitimate synonym of Aeromonas punctata.
(3) It has come to mean the objective description of the symptoms and signs of psychiatric illness, a synonym for clinical psychopathology as opposed to that other psychopathology which derives from psychoanalytic theory.
(4) I've seen DJs in clubs with beards that make them look more like Charles Manson on a scruffy day than the cutting edge of cool, but, apparently, the two are synonymous these days.
(5) Ribosomes programmed by different synonymous codons also differ in discriminating among near-cognate aminoacylated tRNAs.
(6) It is not synonymous, however, with increased intracranial pressure (ICP).
(7) Comparison of the two estimates suggests that during the course of evolution synonymous codon changes have accumulated in the alpha-chain-structural genes.
(8) A key for the determination, synonymes and diagnoses of the metacercariae of the 4 Ichthyocotylurus species are presented.
(9) The show discovered Susan Boyle and Paul Potts, but more recently has become synonymous with dancing dogs (controversially so last year, when it emerged the winner had used a stunt double ).
(10) Follicular mucinosis is not synonymous with alopecia mucinosa but is analogous to other histologic reaction patterns of cutaneous epithelium such as epidermolytic hyperkeratosis, focal acantholytic dyskeratosis, and cornoid lamellation.
(11) The ratio of the number of nucleotide substitutions in the rodent lineage to that in the human lineage since their divergence is 2.0 for synonymous substitutions and 1.3 for nonsynonymous substitutions.
(12) Syrian peace talks break up after making only 'incremental progress' Read more “The child Omran is a victim of Assad’s barrel bombs and not the terrorism of Daesh,” wrote Kutaiba Yassin, a Syrian writer, using a synonym for Islamic State.
(13) Age differences in absolute decision time were greater for the synonyms than for the other word pairs, but the proportional slowing of decision time exhibited by the older adults was constant across word-pair type.
(14) An alternative process leads to the surprising conclusion that each non-synonymous site has accumulated as many as 2.6 substitutions, on the average, in the two lineages leading to humans and mice.
(15) Biocarbazin (DTIC synonym) is an anticancer drug acting as a purine analogue, as an alkylating agent, as a SH-group blocker.
(16) In addition, four synonymous substitutions with no amino-acid replacements were found at codons 51, 119, 163 and 175 in the LDH-A gene from the patient.
(17) "Corticoids" should not be used as a synonym for corticosteroids.
(18) Both the number of synonymous substitutions and the number of nonsynonymous substitutions in the CDR were found to exceed the corresponding numbers in the FR.
(19) Human P1 protein, which is the homolog of the 60- to 65-kD heat shock "common" antigenic protein of numerous pathogenic organisms (synonyms: HSP60, GroEL homolog, or chaperonin), has been expressed to high level in Escherichia coli cells.
(20) The atpB gene differed by two synonymous base substitutions, whereas the other two genes were identical in the two Aegilops cytoplasms.