heating
heating — noun
1. the equipment and pipes inside a house, office, or other building that produce a
the equipment and pipes inside a house, office, or other building that produce and send warm air or hot water through the rooms so people feel comfortable indoors
The heating in our apartment broke down last winter, so the landlord called a repair team.
the + heating + break down — describing system failure
Élise turned the heating up because the temperature dropped below zero outside.
turn the heating up / down — controlling the system
Before installing new heating, the Watanabe family compared prices from three different companies.
Felix set the heating to come on at six every morning during the cold months.
- central heating
a specific type of heating system with a single boiler that sends hot water through pipes to radiators in every room
- heating system
a more explicit and formal way to refer to the same thing, often used in technical contexts
- air conditioning
a system that cools a building rather than warming it
- cooling system
any system designed to lower indoor temperature, the functional opposite of heating
文法句型
the + heating
possessive + heating
heating + verb (breaks down / comes on / goes off)
用法筆記
Heating is an uncountable noun — you cannot say 'a heating' or 'heatings'. It refers to the entire system in a building. A single device that produces heat is called a heater (e.g., an electric heater in one room). A specific type of whole-building system is central heating, which uses one main heat source (a boiler) to warm the entire building.