thaw vs heating

thaw and heating both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
thaw	Yes	No	Yes	No
heating	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, heating is a hypernym of thaw; that is, heating is a word with a broader meaning than thaw:

Other hypernyms of thaw include warming, phase change, phase transition, physical change, state change.

thaw (noun)	heating (noun)
a relaxation or slackening of tensions or reserve; becoming less hostile	utility to warm a building
warm weather following a freeze; snow and ice melt	the process of becoming warmer; a rising temperature
the process whereby heat changes something from a solid to a liquid

thaw (verb)	heating (verb)
become or cause to become soft or liquid