heating pad
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- noun
- /ˈhiːtɪŋ pæd/
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- Just yesterday, Hubby bought a new heating pad for me that allows you to turn off the two-hour turn-off safety switch.
- an electric heating pad
- put a heating pad
- use a heating pad
Examples
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My back pain is acting up, but my heating pad is looking rather scorched.
Blog text (18) -
Use heating pads, soak in a warm tub, take ibuprofen.
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This is a heating pad that you wear.
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I was going to need a heating pad for a week.
Fiction book (1993) -
Can I have the heating pad for my stomach?
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As I am writing this, I am sitting in the recliner with a heating pad on my back.
Blog text (31) -
The simplest method is to use a heating pad or hot water bottle.
Blog text (29) -
After a long day at work, she lay on the couch with a heating pad on her back for relief.
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He decided to use a heating pad to soothe his sore muscles after exercising.
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I often apply a heating pad to my abdomen when I have menstrual cramps.
Synonyms
An electric pad that warms parts of your body to ease pain
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Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning 'a pad that provides heat' is directly derivable from combining 'heating' (causing temperature to rise) with 'pad' (a flat, soft protective piece). This straightforward noun–noun compound follows common compositional patterns in English and other languages, so a B1 learner who knows both constituents will readily infer the MWE's meaning.
Etymology
The noun heating pad comes from the simple image of a soft pad that gives heating to a sore spot on the body. People put a warm pad—first a hot-water bag, later an electric pad—on a painful area for 'warmth' and 'pain relief', so the name now means a flexible pad used to warm or comfort the body.