electric fire

Glowing room warmer

An electric fire is a British term for a portable electric heater, especially one designed to resemble a traditional fireplace with artificial flames or glowing elements.

Unlike actual fires, it produces heat through electrical resistance rather than combustion: She switched on the electric fire to warm the sitting room.

Related

heat lamp · portable heater · plug in · wall socket · grate · furnace · infrared lamp · firebox · element · lightning bolt · boiler · incinerator · forge · kiln · convector · thermal runaway · heater · filament

Opposites
heating source/authenticity

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Begin discharging weapons

wood fire · coal fire · wood-burning stove · wood burner · gas fire

temperature effect

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Mechanical cooling system

air conditioning · electric fan · cooling unit · cold air

authenticity of flame

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Shallow reverberatory steelmaking furnace

live fire

Family

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Top 500,000
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Timeless · Concrete · Everyday, not technical · Rated G