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Heating   /hˈitɪŋ/   Listen
Heating

noun
1.
The process of becoming warmer; a rising temperature.  Synonym: warming.
2.
Utility to warm a building.  Synonyms: heat, heating plant, heating system.  "They have radiant heating"



Heat

verb
(past & past part. heated; pres. part. heating)
1.
Make hot or hotter.  Synonym: heat up.  "Heat the water on the stove"
2.
Provide with heat.
3.
Arouse or excite feelings and passions.  Synonyms: fire up, ignite, inflame, stir up, wake.  "The refugees' fate stirred up compassion around the world" , "Wake old feelings of hatred"
4.
Gain heat or get hot.  Synonyms: heat up, hot up.



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"Heating" Quotes from Famous Books



... say, and a pair of nutcrackers, and some salt into which I could dip the ivory-white corrugated scraps when I had peeled them, and possibly then a glass of fine old port wine, making together—the one indigestible, the other heating—about as bad a mixture as a weak convalescent could partake ...
— Gil the Gunner - The Youngest Officer in the East • George Manville Fenn

... off smiling. It is easier said than done. It is not a pleasant moment when a man first recognizes that he is out of place in the football field, that he cannot stoop with the old agility to pick up a skimming stroke to cover-point, that dancing is rather too heating to be decorous, that he cannot walk all day without undue somnolence after dinner, or rush off after a heavy meal without indigestion. These are sad moments which we all of us reach, but which are better laughed over ...
— From a College Window • Arthur Christopher Benson

... expedient to suppress this mode of heating, which must be very inconvenient," Saniel said; "and my 'confrere' and myself will consider the question whether it will not be possible to give you the heat you need with this chimney, without fatiguing your servants, and without waking you ...
— Conscience, Complete • Hector Malot

... heating an oven for baking pastry. If you can hold your hand in the heated oven while you count twenty, the oven has just the proper temperature and it should be kept at this temperature as long as the ...
— The Whitehouse Cookbook (1887) - The Whole Comprising A Comprehensive Cyclopedia Of Information For - The Home • Mrs. F.L. Gillette

... continue to arrive in such bad order as not to be worth shipping. For the past two years its culture for the Northern market has been mainly confined to Florida. Coming so much earlier there, it is not exposed to heating in transit. The best varieties are Extra Early Dwarf Erfurt, the Snowball, and the very large growing Algiers. It should be marketable in March and April. The seed therefore should be sown in the latitude of Savannah about ...
— The Cauliflower • A. A. Crozier


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