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verb

Heat v. t. (past & past part. heated; pres. part. heating)

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."

To excite or make hot by action or emotion; to make feverish. "Pray, walk softly; do not heat your blood."

To excite ardor in; to rouse to action; to excite to excess; to inflame, as the passions. "A noble emulation heats your breast."

Heat v. i.

To grow warm or hot by the action of fire or friction, etc., or the communication of heat; as, the iron or the water heats slowly.

To grow warm or hot by fermentation, or the development of heat by chemical action; as, green hay heats in a mow, and manure in the dunghill.

adjective

Heating adj. 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.

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Etymology of 'Heating'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Heating" Quotes from Famous Books

... however, in their demeanour when the young men entered the apartment and walked up to the fireplace, in which a small fire of wood burned on the hearth, more as a convenient means of rekindling the pipes of the Indians when they went out than as a means of heating the place. Jacques and Redfeather stood leaning against the wall near to it, engaged in a whispered conversation. Glancing round as he entered, Charley observed Misconna sitting a little apart by himself, and apparently ...

— The Young Fur Traders • R.M. Ballantyne

... black walnut? This nut will come to the front and be popular for baking purposes and candy-making, for it is the only one that holds its flavor after heating. But its competition will be against the thin-shelled English walnut. It will not be extremely popular until we get one with a shell equally thin. At present we do ...

— Northern Nut Growers Association Report of the Proceedings at the Fifteenth Annual Meeting • Various

... experience and discretion. Even in these days of scientific management it remains as much an art as a science. It is conducted in revolving drums to ensure constant agitation, the drums being heated either over coke fires or by gas. Less frequently the heating is effected by a hot blast of air or by having inside the drum a number of ...

— Cocoa and Chocolate - Their History from Plantation to Consumer • Arthur W. Knapp

... I had left it. The heating element under the network of coils and pressure chambers still glowed with white heat, and the Moon Glow was dripping with musical ...

— B-12's Moon Glow • Charles A. Stearns

... universe. Thou art without decay, the guardian of eternal virtue. I regard thee to be the eternal (male) Being. I behold thee to be without beginning, mean, end, to be of infinite prowess, of innumerable arms, having the Sun and the Moon for thy eyes, the blazing fire for thy mouth, and heating this universe with energy of thy own. For the space betwixt heaven and earth is pervaded by Thee alone, as also all the points of the horizon. At sight of this marvellous and fierce form of thine, O Supreme Soul, the triple world trembleth. For these hosts of gods are entering thee. Some, ...

— The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 2 • Kisari Mohan Ganguli

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