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heating

heating

23 1.0
The process of something becoming or being made warm
  • noun
  • /ˈhiːtɪŋ/
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  • A temperature of 36 degrees Celsius was chosen to produce moderate heating of the skin.
  • heating thresholds
  • self-heating
  • heating rate

Examples

  • Used oil is frequently burned as heating fuel and thus produces air pollution.

    Academic text (1992)
  • Once we have clean electricity, we can begin to electrify many processes from steel-making to heating that now require fossil fuels.

  • Good news, I may have a solution to my heating problem.

  • - Can you ask them to turn the heating up?

  • Because the gas pressure is low, the layer remains flat and heating is not observed.

    Academic text (1995)
  • For example, money for heating your house and feeding the babies.

  • Not so long ago, she hadn't known the first thing about heating with a wood stove.

    Fiction book (2002)
  • We could demonstrate the optimal techniques to produce heating of 2-3 cm zones of tissue.

    Academic text (2017)
  • Moscow woke today to the forgotten sensation of warmth, as millions of gallons of heating oil flowed from a storage depot discovered beneath Tretiak's riverside mansion.

  • The heating in my house is not working, so it's very cold inside.

Synonyms

warming
vsheating
354 1.8

A rise in temperature that makes something hotter

also covers causing something to become warm rather than only passive temperature rise

Antonyms

60 2.1

A drop in temperature that makes something colder

Compounds

15 3.3

Fuel made from oil used to heat homes and other buildings

A system that warms a building by moving hot air or water

6 2.7

A soft pad with electric heat you put on the body for warmth or pain relief

A system that warms a building by making hot water or air in one place and sending it to rooms

heating element
  • Specialized
2 3.4

A metal part inside a kettle, oven, or heater that gets hot to make things warm

heating plant
  • Specialized
1 3.7

A system in a building that makes warm air and sends it to rooms

steam heating
  • Specialized
1 3.5

A system that makes hot vapor in a heater to warm rooms through pipes and radiators

dielectric heating
  • Specialized
8.2

Heating an insulating material with a high-frequency electric field that makes molecules move and heat up

heating efficiency
  • Specialized
3.8

How well a heater uses energy to make a room warm

induction heating
  • Specialized
6.1

To heat metal by making electric currents inside it using magnetic fields

radiant heating
  • Specialized
4.4

A way to make a building warm by using panels in floors, walls, or ceilings that give out warmth

panel heating
  • Specialized
5.1

A system that warms rooms with hot wires or pipes inside walls, floors and ceilings

How Warm

heating
23 1.0
warming
1.3
heatless
1 6.0

Surface Forms

heating singular
heatings plural

Morphology

heating = heat (transparent) = heat + ing

A direct deverbal nominalization/gerund from 'heat' describing the process of becoming warm, which is predictable from 'heat' + '-ing'.

Etymology

The word heating comes from the word heat ('hot') and the ending -ing, which shows a change or action. So, heating is the process of becoming warm or of causing something to get warmer.