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HEATING
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Utility to warm a building
Example:
they have radiant heating
Synonyms:
heat; heating; heating plant; heating system
Classified under:
Nouns denoting man-made objects
Hypernyms ("heating" is a kind of...):
utility (a facility composed of one or more pieces of equipment connected to or part of a structure and designed to provide a service such as heat or electricity or water or sewage disposal)
Meronyms (parts of "heating"):
boiler; steam boiler (sealed vessel where water is converted to steam)
radiator (heater consisting of a series of pipes for circulating steam or hot water to heat rooms or buildings)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "heating"):
central heating (a heating system in which air or water is heated at a central furnace and sent through the building via vents or pipes and radiators)
gas heat (heating system that burns natural gas)
panel heating (heating system consisting of wall or floor or baseboard or ceiling panels containing electric conductors or heating pipes)
steam heat; steam heating (a heating system in which steam is generated in boilers and piped to radiators)
Holonyms ("heating" is a part of...):
building; edifice (a structure that has a roof and walls and stands more or less permanently in one place)
Derivation:
heat (provide with heat)
Sense 2
Meaning:
The process of becoming warmer; a rising temperature
Synonyms:
heating; warming
Classified under:
Nouns denoting natural processes
Hypernyms ("heating" is a kind of...):
temperature change (a process whereby the degree of hotness of a body (or medium) changes)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "heating"):
boiling (the application of heat to change something from a liquid to a gas)
global warming (an increase in the average temperature of the earth's atmosphere (especially a sustained increase that causes climatic changes))
induction heating (the heating of a conducting material caused by an electric current induced in it)
overheating (excessive heating)
radiant heating (heating a building by radiation from panels containing hot water or electrical heaters)
melt; melting; thaw; thawing (the process whereby heat changes something from a solid to a liquid)
Derivation:
heat (gain heat or get hot)
II. (verb)
Sense 1
-ing form of the verb heat
Context examples:
The uneven heating and cooling of Bennu as it rotates in sunlight is causing the asteroid to increase its rotation speed.
(NASA Mission Reveals Asteroid Has Big Surprises, NASA)
Such heating and chemical reactions may tell us something about other planets with harsh environments, and even early Earth, said Yasumasa Kasaba of Tohoku University, who worked on the observing team.
(Jupiter's Atmosphere Heats up under Solar Wind, NASA)
This acid fast staining technique does not require heating during the primary staining step involving the carbol fuchsin.
(Kinyoun Staining Method, NCI Thesaurus)
Heating and cooling account for a significant proportion of energy use in buildings.
(Wind more effective than cold air at cooling rooms naturally, University of Cambridge)
By the afternoon, one feeding and one, stacking up, they were running socks and stockings through the mangle while the irons were heating.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
A dark green colored, crystalline, inorganic compound that produces toxic gases upon heating.
(Nickelocene, NCI Thesaurus)
A green to black colored, inorganic compound that turns yellow and produces toxic gases upon heating.
(Nickel Monoxide, NCI Thesaurus)
A dark green to black colored, crystalline inorganic compound that produces toxic gases upon heating.
(Nickel Sulfide, NCI Thesaurus)
A green, crystalline, inorganic compound that produces toxic gases upon heating.
(Nickel Hydroxide, NCI Thesaurus)
A green or yellow colored, crystalline inorganic compound that produces toxic gases upon heating.
(Nickel Chloride, NCI Thesaurus)
