as in warming
to cause to have or give off heat to a moderate degree
heat water for tea heat the oven to 350 degrees before you put the cake in
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Recent Examples of heating
To facilitate even heating, let food rest for a few minutes after cooking.
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Janet Loehrke, USA Today, 3 Oct. 2025
Air-to-water heat pumps still take heat from outside air, but instead of heating the air in a home, it’s fed into a wet central heating system which works kind of like gas central heating.
—Sara Kiley Watson, Popular Science, 2 Oct. 2025
No parent should choose between feeding a child and heating a home.
—Derrick Hollie, Boston Herald, 26 Sep. 2025
Prepare grill for indirect grilling, heating one side to high and leaving one side unheated.
—Ann Taylor Pittman, Southern Living, 25 Sep. 2025
These experiments have to be done in a vacuum, to prevent the surrounding environment from heating the atoms.
—IEEE Spectrum, 24 Sep. 2025
Nearly three-quarters of drought-prone regions, including those with major reservoirs, face a high risk of severe and persistent droughts by the end of the century if humans keep burning planet-heating fossil fuels, the study found.
—Laura Paddison, CNN Money, 23 Sep. 2025
The new thermal management module from MAHLE resolves the key challenge of e-mobility – the loss of range caused by heating at low temperatures.
—Prabhat Ranjan Mishra, Interesting Engineering, 20 Sep. 2025
In a future defined by climate change and its consequences, some experts say Arizona will need copper mines for the wires in solar panels, desalination plants for reclaiming salty groundwater, and ways to capture globe-heating carbon emissions and trap them underground.
—Austin Corona, AZCentral.com, 15 Sep. 2025
Janet Loehrke, USA Today, 3 Oct. 2025
Air-to-water heat pumps still take heat from outside air, but instead of heating the air in a home, it’s fed into a wet central heating system which works kind of like gas central heating.
—Sara Kiley Watson, Popular Science, 2 Oct. 2025
No parent should choose between feeding a child and heating a home.
—Derrick Hollie, Boston Herald, 26 Sep. 2025
Prepare grill for indirect grilling, heating one side to high and leaving one side unheated.
—Ann Taylor Pittman, Southern Living, 25 Sep. 2025
These experiments have to be done in a vacuum, to prevent the surrounding environment from heating the atoms.
—IEEE Spectrum, 24 Sep. 2025
Nearly three-quarters of drought-prone regions, including those with major reservoirs, face a high risk of severe and persistent droughts by the end of the century if humans keep burning planet-heating fossil fuels, the study found.
—Laura Paddison, CNN Money, 23 Sep. 2025
The new thermal management module from MAHLE resolves the key challenge of e-mobility – the loss of range caused by heating at low temperatures.
—Prabhat Ranjan Mishra, Interesting Engineering, 20 Sep. 2025
In a future defined by climate change and its consequences, some experts say Arizona will need copper mines for the wires in solar panels, desalination plants for reclaiming salty groundwater, and ways to capture globe-heating carbon emissions and trap them underground.
—Austin Corona, AZCentral.com, 15 Sep. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for heating
warming
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Burning the coal from the two leases being sold in coming days would generate more than 1 billion tons of planet-warming carbon dioxide, according to a Department of Energy formula.—
Jordan Blum,
Fortune,
4 Oct. 2025
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Swap the pineapple for Honeycrisps and add a warming dose of spices to make this retro-style cake a bit more autumnal and cozy.—
Kimberly Holland,
Southern Living,
4 Oct. 2025
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“Heating.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/heating. Accessed 8 Oct. 2025.
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