Heating is the system that keeps a house warm in winter. Turn on the heating, central heating, the heating broke.
Insulating first and heating second is the order that saves money, since a warm house losing heat fast costs more to run than a cooler one that holds it. Heating with a heat pump moves heat rather than making it, which is why it delivers more energy than it uses.
1nounheatingThe system that keeps a building warm.
“It's freezing in here; can you turn the heating on?”
heating is a system.
Also accepted in games: heater
Proto-Indo-European
*keHy- — heat; hot
Proto-Germanic
*haitį̄ — heat
Proto-West Germanic
*haitī
Old English
hǣtu
Middle English
hete
English
heat
English, today
heating
From heat + -ing. heat comes from Middle English hete, from Old English hǣtu, from Proto-West Germanic haitī, from Proto-Germanic haitį̄ (“heat”), from Proto-Indo-European keHy- (“heat; hot”). Cognate with Scots hete (“heat”), stq Hatte (“heat”), Old High German heizī (“heat”). Related also to Dutch hitte (“heat”), German Hitze (“heat”), Swedish hetta (“heat”), Faroese and Icelandic hiti (“heat”). Related to hot.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA