Heating
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Heat \Heat\ (h[=e]t), v. t. [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.
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Heat me these irons hot. --Shak.
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2. To excite or make hot by action or emotion; to make
feverish.
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Pray, walk softly; do not heat your blood. --Shak.
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3. To excite ardor in; to rouse to action; to excite to
excess; to inflame, as the passions.
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A noble emulation heats your breast. --Dryden.
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from
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Heating \Heat"ing\ (h[=e]t"[i^]ng), a.
That heats or imparts heat; promoting warmth or heat;
exciting action; stimulating; as, heating medicines or
applications.
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{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}.
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Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
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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