Why do we use the term air conditioner to refer a machine for cooling air, when we use the word heater to describe a mechanism for heating air? The term air conditioning was borrowed from the textile industry, where it referred to filtering and...
Preheat, as in preheat the oven, doesn’t mean “heat before heating.” It’s a single word with a concrete idea, akin to “prepay.” It’s perfectly acceptable to use. This is part of a complete episode. Transcript of “Preheating” Hi, you have A Way with...
Does turn up the A.C. mean make the room cooler or raise the thermostat and make it warmer? Kirsten from Tucson, Arizona, asks about the tricky little word up, because with heat, the machine’s effort and the temperature both rise, while with air...
wraparound adj.— «He has also developed what he calls wraparound service, wherein Brooklyn Union owns the gas-fueled heating and cooling facilities in large installations and sells their outpupt.» —“‘We Had To Get More Sophisticated'” by James...