different between warming vs calefaction

English

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -??(?)m??

Etymology 1

From Middle English warminge, warmynge, from Old English wærmi?ende, wermende, wyrmende, present participle of Old English wyrman, wirman (“to warm”), equivalent to warm +? -ing.

Verb

warming

1. present participle of warm

Etymology 2

From Middle English warmyng, warmynge, from Old English wærming, wirming, equivalent to warm +? -ing.

Noun

warming (plural warmings)

1. A small rise in temperature.
2. (slang) A beating; a thrashing.
   • 2017, Harry Goulding, A Grimsby Life - Part 1: Henry the Ninth (page 193)

     More than once had he caught me in the act and given me, as he put it, “a good warming,” with his hard hand so, however much I was tempted so to do, I steadfastly refrained.

Related terms

• global warming
• heart-warming
• warming pan
• warming up

Translations

References

• warming at OneLook Dictionary Search

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin calefacti?, calefacti?nem.

Noun

calefaction (countable and uncountable, plural calefactions)

1. The act of warming or heating.
2. The state or condition of being heated.

Quotations

• 1922, James Joyce, Ulysses, episode 17:

  What advantages were possessed by an occupied, as distinct from an unoccupied bed? The removal of nocturnal solitude, the superior quality of human (mature female) to inhuman (hotwaterjar) calefaction.

References

• Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd ed., 1989.
• Random House Webster's Unabridged Electronic Dictionary, 1987-1996.

Old French

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin calefacti?, calefacti?nem.

Noun

calefaction f (oblique plural calefactions, nominative singular calefaction, nominative plural calefactions)

1. calefaction (production of heat)

Related terms

• chaufer
• chalor
• chaloir / chaleir
• eschalfer

Descendants

• French: caléfaction