heating
heating is defined in Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913) with 1 sense, and appears in Roget's Thesaurus (1911) with 40 related terms. The full text of each entry is reproduced verbatim below.
Definitions
- 1.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.
Source: Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
Synonyms
Related terms (Roget's 1911)
- air
- alembic
- andiron
- area
- athanor
- backlog
- bakehouse
- bath
- boiler
- brasier
- burner
- caboose
- caldron
- camboose
- central
- chamber
- coal
- combustion
- conservatory
- convective
- cracker
- crucible
- electric
- fiery
- fire
- fireplace
- focus
- forced
- forge
- furnace
- gas
- grate
- gridiron
- hearth
- heat
- heater
- hob
- hot
- hothouse
- hypocaust
Source: Roget's Thesaurus, 1911 edition (public domain, via Project Gutenberg eBook #10681).
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Sources
- Definitions: Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
- Synonyms & antonyms: Roget's Thesaurus, 1911 edition (public domain, via Project Gutenberg eBook #10681).
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