Blower vs. Heater — What's the Difference?

One that blows, especially a mechanical device, such as a fan, that produces a current of air.

An apparatus that heats or provides heat.

(Slang) A braggart.

One who heats something or tends a heating apparatus.

Chiefly British Slang A telephone.

(Slang) A pistol.

A person who blows.

(Baseball) A fastball.

Any device that blows.

A device that produces and radiates heat, typically to raise the temperature of a room or building.

Telephone.

A person who heats something, for example in metalworking.

A telephone service providing betting odds and commentary, relayed to customers in a bookmaker's shop via loudspeaker.

A gun.

A ducted fan, usually part of a heating, ventilation, and/or air conditioning system.

A fastball, especially one thrown at high velocity.

(dated) A braggart, or loud talker.

An extended winning streak.

The whale; so called by seamen, from its habit of spouting up a column of water.

(historical) A medieval European shield having a rounded triangle shape like a clothes iron.

A small fish of the Atlantic coast, Sphoeroides maculatus; the puffer.

(horse racing) A dead heat; a race in which two or more competitors reach the finish line simultaneously.

One who, or that which, blows.

One who, or that which, heats.

A device for producing a current of air; as: (a) A metal plate temporarily placed before the upper part of a grate or open fire. (b) A machine for producing an artificial blast or current of air by pressure, as for increasing the draft of a furnace, ventilating a building or shaft, cleansing gram, etc.

Any contrivance or implement, as a furnace, stove, or other heated body or vessel, etc., used to impart heat to something, or to contain something to be heated.

A blowing out or excessive discharge of gas from a hole or fissure in a mine.

A pistol or other carryable firearm; as, gunmen with their heaters bulging in their pockets.

The whale; - so called by seamen, from the circumstance of its spouting up a column of water.

Device that heats water or supplies warmth to a room

A small fish of the Atlantic coast (Tetrodon turgidus); the puffer.

(baseball) a pitch thrown with maximum velocity;

A braggart, or loud talker.

A device that produces a current of air

A fan run by an electric motor

A mechanical device that blows air onto a fire to make it burn more fiercely

Large aquatic carnivorous mammal with fin-like forelimbs no hind limbs, including: whales; dolphins; porpoises; narwhals