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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

HE'ATING, ppr. Making warm or hot; inflaming; rousing the passions; exasperating.
1. Tending to impart heat to; promoting warmth or heat; exciting action; stimulating; as heating medicines or applications.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

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

Oxford Reference Dictionary

n. 1 the imparting or generation of heat. 2 equipment or devices used to provide heat, esp. to a building.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

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.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

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.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

1. Heating is the process of heating a building or room, considered especially from the point of view of how much this costs. You can still find cottages for £150 a week, including heating. ...heating bills. 2. Heating is the system and equipment that is used to heat a building. I wish I knew how to turn on the heating. see also central heating

Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

a. 1. Calorific, heat-producing, warming. 2. Stimulating, exciting. See heady, 3.

Moby Thesaurus

animal heat, blood heat, body heat, burning, calefacient, calefactive, calefactory, calidity, caloric, cauterant, chafing, coal heat, convected heat, electric heat, fever, fever heat, gas heat, heat, heatedness, hot-air heat, hotness, hypothermia, incalescence, induction heat, molecular heat, oil heat, radiant heat, solar heat, steam heat, superheat, superheatedness, thermal radiation, ultraviolet heat, warming, warmness, warmth