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
The new thermal management module from MAHLE resolves the key challenge of e-mobility – the loss of range caused by heating at low temperatures.
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Prabhat Ranjan Mishra, Interesting Engineering, 20 Sep. 2025
Climate change, largely caused by the burning of planet-heating fossil fuels, is making heat waves more common, intense and long-lasting.
—Jessie Yeung, CNN Money, 19 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
The main risk is that these batteries can overheat and go into thermal runaway, a chain reaction that occurs when a lithium-ion cell enters an uncontrollable, self-heating state—resulting in extremely high temperature, smoke and, ultimately, a fire that is notoriously difficult to put out.
—Suzanne Rowan Kelleher, Forbes.com, 10 Sep. 2025
The gravitational influence of the black hole generates incredible tidal forces in the accretion disk, causing friction and heating its matter to temperatures as great as 18 million degrees Fahrenheit (around 10 million degrees Celsius).
—Robert Lea, Space.com, 9 Sep. 2025
Diesel, meanwhile, will see a price hike in the fall and winter, as demand for heating oil spikes in the colder months.
—Maia Pandey, jsonline.com, 4 Sep. 2025
This is simply heating milk to kill off bacteria.
—Angie Leventis Lourgos, Chicago Tribune, 31 Aug. 2025
Hieronymus Bock, in his Kreüter Buch, puts both heating and cooling effects in context by building finer distinctions between types of pomegranates.
—Demir Alp, JSTOR Daily, 29 Aug. 2025
Prabhat Ranjan Mishra, Interesting Engineering, 20 Sep. 2025
Climate change, largely caused by the burning of planet-heating fossil fuels, is making heat waves more common, intense and long-lasting.
—Jessie Yeung, CNN Money, 19 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
The main risk is that these batteries can overheat and go into thermal runaway, a chain reaction that occurs when a lithium-ion cell enters an uncontrollable, self-heating state—resulting in extremely high temperature, smoke and, ultimately, a fire that is notoriously difficult to put out.
—Suzanne Rowan Kelleher, Forbes.com, 10 Sep. 2025
The gravitational influence of the black hole generates incredible tidal forces in the accretion disk, causing friction and heating its matter to temperatures as great as 18 million degrees Fahrenheit (around 10 million degrees Celsius).
—Robert Lea, Space.com, 9 Sep. 2025
Diesel, meanwhile, will see a price hike in the fall and winter, as demand for heating oil spikes in the colder months.
—Maia Pandey, jsonline.com, 4 Sep. 2025
This is simply heating milk to kill off bacteria.
—Angie Leventis Lourgos, Chicago Tribune, 31 Aug. 2025
Hieronymus Bock, in his Kreüter Buch, puts both heating and cooling effects in context by building finer distinctions between types of pomegranates.
—Demir Alp, JSTOR Daily, 29 Aug. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for heating
warming
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The state's temperature is also warming at a rate two to three times the global average, putting Alaska at the forefront of climate change concerns.—
Jasmine Laws,
MSNBC Newsweek,
19 Sep. 2025
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The clock is ticking for Japan to find solutions, with the impact from its demographic crisis expected to last decades – and Asia warming nearly twice as quickly as the rest of the world, according to the World Meteorological Organization.—
Jessie Yeung,
CNN Money,
19 Sep. 2025
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“Heating.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/heating. Accessed 22 Sep. 2025.
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