Synonyms:
heating, warming
Meaning: the process of becoming warmer; a rising temperature
Usage examples
Most ovens require heating an hour and a half for bread.
Pine and ash, mixed together, or birch-wood, is the best for heating an oven.
Potatoes are also good, and although not so nutritious, or easy of digestion, as oatmeal, are less heating.
--Keep an adequate supply of heating fuel on hand and use it sparingly, as your regular supplies may be curtailed by storm conditions.
This meal should, however, never be given in the hunting season, as it is too heating, and occasions the dogs to be perpetually drinking.
On our small heating stove stands a cylindrical ice melter which keeps up the supply of water necessary for the dark room and other scientific instruments.
The main object in using the soap in hardening is that it may form a scale upon the blank, and if the heating is effected gradually the soap will melt and form a practically air-tight case around the blank.
Firstly, in its most strict sense, when from a thing is taken something which belongs to it by virtue either of its nature, or of its proper inclination: as when water loses coolness by heating, and as when a man becomes ill or sad.
Whereas the act of intellect remains in the agent, and does not pass into something else, as does the action of heating. Therefore the action of understanding cannot be attributed to Socrates for the reason that he is moved by his intellect.
The exclusionists' explanation at that time was that stones do not fall from the sky: that luminous objects may seem to fall, and that hot stones may be picked up where a luminous object seemingly had landed--only lightning striking a stone, heating, even melting it.