'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'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- animal heat,
- blood heat,
- body heat,
- burning,
- calefacient,
- calefactive,
- calefactory,
- calidity,
- caloric,
- cauterant,
- chafing,
- coal heat,
- convected heat,
- electric heat,
- fever,
- fever heat,
- gas heat,
- heat,
- heatedness,
- hot-air heat,
- hotness,
- hypothermia,
- incalescence,
- induction heat,
- molecular heat,
- oil heat,
- radiant heat,
- solar heat,
- steam heat,
- superheat,
- superheatedness,
- thermal radiation,
- ultraviolet heat,
- warming,
- warmness,
- warmth
Words containing 'Heating'
- Heat,
- Heated,
- Heatingly,
- heat up,
- heated up,
- heatedly,
- Animal heat,
- Atomic heat,
- Blood heat,
- Capacity for heat,
- Dead heat,
- Heat engine,
- Heat lightning,
- Heat producers,
- Heat rays,
- Heat weight,
- Heating surface,
- Latent heat,
- Prickly heat,
- Radiant heat,
- Specific heat,
- Unit of heat,
- White heat,
- central heating,
- dielectric heating,
- gas heat,
- heat barrier,
- heat content,
- heat dissipation,
- heat energy,
- heat exchanger,
- heat exhaustion,
- heat flash,
- heat hyperpyrexia,
- heat lamp,
- heat of condensation,
- heat of dissociation,
- heat of formation,
- heat of fusion,
- heat of solidification,
- heat of solution,
- heat of sublimation,
- heat of transformation,
- heat of vaporisation,
- heat of vaporization,
- heat prostration,
- heat pump,
- heat rash,
- heat ray,
- heat shield,
- heat sink,
- heat unit,
- heat wave,
- heating element,
- heating oil,
- heating pad,
- heating plant,
- heating system,
- induction heating,
- panel heating,
- radiant heating,
- red heat,
- steam heat,
- steam heating,
- take the heat,
- total heat,
- turn up the heat,
- Dynamical theory of heat,
- Mechanical equivalent of heat,
- efficiency of a heat engine,
- heat-absorbing,
- heat-releasing,
- kinetic theory of heat,
- steam-heat,
- Specific heat of a substance at any temperature,
- heat-seeking missile