1. The process of becoming warmer; a rising temperature
   - warming 
2. Utility to warm a building
   "the heating system wasn't working"; "they have radiant heating"
   - heating system, heating plant, heat

1. Make hot or hotter
   "the sun heats the oceans"; "heat the water on the stove"
   - heat up 
2. Provide with heat
   "heat the house" 
3. Arouse or excite feelings and passions
   - inflame, stir up, wake, ignite, fire up 
4. Gain heat or get hot
   "The room heated up quickly"
   - hot up [Brit], heat up

Derived forms: heatings

See also: heatable, heater

Type of: alter, arouse, change, change state, elicit, enkindle, evoke, fire, furnish, kindle, modify, provide, provoke, raise, render, supply, temperature change, turn, utility

Antonym: cool

Part of: building, edifice

Encyclopedia: Heat Heat, Dust And Dreams Heat, Dust and Dreams

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