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Heating   /hˈitɪŋ/   Listen
verb
Heat  v. t.  (past & past part. heated; pres. part. heating)  
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."
2.
To excite or make hot by action or emotion; to make feverish. "Pray, walk softly; do not heat your blood."
3.
To excite ardor in; to rouse to action; to excite to excess; to inflame, as the passions. "A noble emulation heats your breast."



Heat  v. i.  
1.
To grow warm or hot by the action of fire or friction, etc., or the communication of heat; as, the iron or the water heats slowly.
2.
To grow warm or hot by fermentation, or the development of heat by chemical action; as, green hay heats in a mow, and manure in the dunghill.



adjective
Heating  adj.  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.






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"Heating" Quotes from Famous Books



... the Big Soprano's room. She flung the brush on the bed and closed the door. She held her shabby wrapper about her and listened just inside the door. There were no footsteps, only the banging of the gate in the wind. She turned to the Big Soprano, heating a curling iron in the flame of a candle, and held ...
— The Street of Seven Stars • Mary Roberts Rinehart

... petroleum, as she did in Paris of late, and set the whole palace on fire. And more, the very dirt is in itself inflammable, and capable, as it festers, of spontaneous combustion. How many a stately house has been burnt down ere now, simply by the heating of greasy rags, thrust away in some neglected closet. Let the owner of the house beware. He is living, voluntarily, over a volcano of ...
— All Saints' Day and Other Sermons • Charles Kingsley

... engaged in erecting an apparatus of his own invention for heating the water for the baths at Leamington, a ponderous cast-iron plate fell upon his leg above his ankle, and severely injured him. He remained a long while at Leamington, and when it was thought safe to remove him, the Birmingham Canal ...
— Men of Invention and Industry • Samuel Smiles

... Yes, an indispensable point is it, that whatsoever a man may have done, whether good or evil, should be recorded. For example, suppose he has manufactured a stove specially good for heating purposes; record the fact. Or suppose he has killed a mad dog; record the fact. Or suppose he has built a school, or cleansed a dirty street, or been a pioneer in the teaching of sound farming, or striven, by word and deed, his life long, to combat official irregularities... record ...
— Through Russia • Maxim Gorky

... aspect as regards sun and heat, I may observe that it is impossible to exaggerate the importance of taking into account the immense variation in temperature on the different exposures. For the effect that the sun's rays have on certain aspects in heating the soil and drying up the plant, are such as would be extremely difficult to believe, had the facts not been verified by competent observers, and with the aid of the thermometer. And as regards ...
— Gold, Sport, And Coffee Planting In Mysore • Robert H. Elliot


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