Heating

The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • Promoting warmth or heat; having the quality of imparting heat; stimulating: as, a heating medicine or diet.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • adjective. That heats or imparts heat; promoting warmth or heat; exciting action; stimulating.
  • adjective. 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.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • noun. A system that raises the temperature of a room or building. Confer heater.
  • adjective. Causing heat.
  • verb. Present participle of heat.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • noun. the process of becoming warmer; a rising temperature
  • noun. utility to warm a building
  • Word Usage
    "Those of you planning to rent at Lake Chapala should make sure heating is adequate in any house you rent and also check for ceiling fans and adequate fresh air ventilation."
    Antonyms
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    cooling  
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    verb-stem
    heat