Hypertext Webster Gateway: "heating"

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)

Heat \Heat\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Heated}; p. pr. & vb. n.
{Heating}.] [OE. heten, AS. h?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.

Heat me these irons hot. --Shak.

2. To excite or make hot by action or emotion; to make
feverish.

Pray, walk softly; do not heat your blood. --Shak.

3. To excite ardor in; to rouse to action; to excite to
excess; to inflame, as the passions.

A noble emulation heats your breast. --Dryden.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)

Heating \Heat"ing\, a.
That heats or imparts heat; promoting warmth or heat;
exciting action; stimulating; as, heating medicines or
applications.

{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}.

From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)

heating
adj : serving to heat; "a heating pad is calefactory" [syn: {calefactory},
{calefactive}]
n 1: the process of becoming warmer; a rising temperature [syn: {warming}]
2: utility to warm a building; "the heating system wasn't
working"; "they have radiant heating" [syn: {heating
system}, {heating plant}, {heat}]


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