Heating
['hiːtɪŋ] or ['hitɪŋ]
Definition
(noun.) the process of becoming warmer; a rising temperature.
Typed by Carlyle--From WordNet
Definition
(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Heat
(a.) That heats or imparts heat; promoting warmth or heat; exciting action; stimulating; as, heating medicines or applications.
Typist: Ronald
Synonyms and Synonymous
a. Calorific, heat-producing.
Inputed by Errol
Examples
- Heating by the circulation of hot water through pipes was also originated or revived during the 18th century, and a short time before Watt's circulation of steam. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- The open fireplace as an early method of heating. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- It is modernly used as a luxury by those who are able to combine with it other means for heating. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- The shrewd prophecy is made that gas will be manufactured less for lighting, as the result of electrical competition, and more and more for heating, etc. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- The heating furnace and oil tank are served by a sixty-ton traveling crane and forty-ton jib crane. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- They smelted iron by blowing up a charcoal fire, and wrought it by heating and hammering. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- The principle of hot-water heating. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- The thought, taken up by electrical engineers, brought out an electric toaster, rectangular in shape, with handsome frame, nickel supports and wire heating element. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- Watt saw that the alternate heating and cooling of the cylinder made the engine work slowly and caused an excessive consumption of steam. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- Water gas has neither the illuminating nor the heating qualities of coal gas, and it is also much more poisonous. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- The boiler house, which furnishes the steam for heating the entire plant, is located in the rear of these buildings. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- Trifling variations in the ingredients, in the proportion and in the heating, made it either pliable as kid, tougher than ox hide, as elastic as whalebone, or as rigid as flint. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- If we represent a boiler by _B_, a radiator by the coiled tube, and a safety tank by _C_, we shall have a very fair illustration of the principle of a hot-water heating system. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- Hanging over the top of the board are several cores on which the resistance wire has been wound, showing the V-shaped heating element. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- In heating appliances, steam and water heating systems, base burning and Latrobe stoves, hot air furnaces, gas and oil stoves. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
Typist: Psyche