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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Heat \Heat\ (h[=e]t), verb (used with an object) [imp. & p. p. {Heated}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Heating}.] [OE. heten, AS. h[=ae]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.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Heating \Heat"ing\ (h[=e]t"[i^]ng), adjective 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}.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
heating
adjective: serving to heat; "a heating pad is calefactory" [syn: {calefactory}, {calefactive}]
noun
1: the process of becoming warmer; a rising temperature [syn: {warming}]
2: utility to warm a building; "the heating system wasn't working"; "they have radiant heating" [syn: {heating system}, {heating plant}, {heat}]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
36 Moby Thesaurus words for "heating": 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
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