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HEATING PLANT
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Utility to warm a building
Example:
they have radiant heating
Synonyms:
heat; heating; heating plant; heating system
Classified under:
Nouns denoting man-made objects
Hypernyms ("heating plant" is a kind of...):
utility (a facility composed of one or more pieces of equipment connected to or part of a structure and designed to provide a service such as heat or electricity or water or sewage disposal)
Meronyms (parts of "heating plant"):
boiler; steam boiler (sealed vessel where water is converted to steam)
radiator (heater consisting of a series of pipes for circulating steam or hot water to heat rooms or buildings)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "heating plant"):
central heating (a heating system in which air or water is heated at a central furnace and sent through the building via vents or pipes and radiators)
gas heat (heating system that burns natural gas)
panel heating (heating system consisting of wall or floor or baseboard or ceiling panels containing electric conductors or heating pipes)
steam heat; steam heating (a heating system in which steam is generated in boilers and piped to radiators)
Holonyms ("heating plant" is a part of...):
building; edifice (a structure that has a roof and walls and stands more or less permanently in one place)
