'Heating' definitions:

Definition of 'heating'

From: WordNet
noun
The process of becoming warmer; a rising temperature [syn: heating, warming]
noun
Utility to warm a building; "the heating system wasn't working"; "they have radiant heating" [syn: heating system, heating plant, heating, heat]

Definition of 'Heating'

From: GCIDE
  • Heat \Heat\ (h[=e]t), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Heated; p. pr. & vb. n. Heating.] [OE. heten, AS. h[=ae]tan, fr. h[=a]t hot. See Hot.]
  • 1. To make hot; to communicate heat to, or cause to grow warm; as, to heat an oven or furnace, an iron, or the like. [1913 Webster]
  • Heat me these irons hot. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
  • 2. To excite or make hot by action or emotion; to make feverish. [1913 Webster]
  • Pray, walk softly; do not heat your blood. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
  • 3. To excite ardor in; to rouse to action; to excite to excess; to inflame, as the passions. [1913 Webster]
  • A noble emulation heats your breast. --Dryden. [1913 Webster]

Definition of 'Heating'

From: GCIDE
  • Heating \Heat"ing\ (h[=e]t"[i^]ng), a. That heats or imparts heat; promoting warmth or heat; exciting action; stimulating; as, heating medicines or applications. [1913 Webster]
  • Heating surface (Steam Boilers), the aggregate surface exposed to fire or to the heated products of combustion, esp. of all the plates or sheets that are exposed to water on their opposite surfaces; -- called also fire surface. [1913 Webster]

Synonyms of 'heating'

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