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heat
English
Pronunciation
- enPR: h?t, IPA(key): /hi?t/
- (General American) IPA(key): /hit/, [çit]
- Rhymes: -i?t
Etymology 1
From Middle English hete, from Old English h?te, h?tu (“heat, warmth; fervor, ardor”), from Proto-Germanic *hait?? (“heat”), from Proto-Indo-European *kayd-, a derived form of *kay- (“heat; hot”).
Cognate with Scots hete (“heat”), North Frisian hiet (“heat”), Old High German heiz? (“heat”). Related also to Dutch hitte (“heat”), German Hitze (“heat”), Swedish hetta (“heat”), Icelandic hiti (“heat”).
Noun
heat (countable and uncountable, plural heats)
- (uncountable) Thermal energy.
- 2007, James Shipman, Jerry Wilson, Aaron Todd, An Introduction to Physical Science: Twelfth Edition, pages 106–108:
- Heat and temperature, although different, are intimately related. [...] For example, suppose you added equal amounts of heat to equal masses of iron and aluminum. How do you think their temperatures would change? […] if the temperature of the iron increased by 100 C°, the corresponding temperature change in the aluminum would be only 48 C°.
- 2007, James Shipman, Jerry Wilson, Aaron Todd, An Introduction to Physical Science: Twelfth Edition, pages 106–108:
- (uncountable) The condition or quality of being hot.
- (uncountable) An attribute of a spice that causes a burning sensation in the mouth.
- (uncountable) A period of intensity, particularly of emotion.
- Synonyms: passion, vehemence
- (uncountable) An undesirable amount of attention.
- (uncountable, slang) The police.
- (uncountable, slang) One or more firearms.
- (countable, baseball) A fastball.
- (uncountable) A condition where a mammal is aroused sexually or where it is especially fertile and therefore eager to mate.
- (countable) A preliminary race, used to determine the participants in a final race
- (countable) One cycle of bringing metal to maximum temperature and working it until it is too cool to work further.
- (countable) A hot spell.
- (uncountable) Heating system; a system that raises the temperature of a room or building.
- (uncountable) The output of a heating system.
Derived terms
Translations
Etymology 2
From Middle English heten, from Old English h?tan (“to heat; become hot”), from Proto-Germanic *haitijan? (“to heat, make hot”).
Verb
heat (third-person singular simple present heats, present participle heating, simple past and past participle heated or (dialectal) het)
- (transitive) To cause an increase in temperature of (an object or space); to cause to become hot (often with "up").
- I'll heat up the water.
- (intransitive) To become hotter.
- There's a pot of soup heating on the stove.
- (transitive, figuratively) To excite or make hot by action or emotion; to make feverish.
- (transitive, figuratively) To excite ardour in; to rouse to action; to excite to excess; to inflame, as the passions.
- (transitive, slang) To arouse, to excite (sexually).
- The massage heated her up.
Derived terms
Synonyms
- stoke
- warm up
- heat up; hot up, hot
Translations
Anagrams
- Thea, eath, haet, hate, heta
Swedish
Etymology
From English heat.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?hi?t/
- Homophone: hit
Noun
heat n
- (sports) A heat, a preliminary race, used to determine the participants in a final race
Declension
Anagrams
- Thea, heta
heat From the web:
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- what heat is simmer
- what heats earth's interior
- what heat to cook pancakes
- what heat to cook bacon
- what heat to cook steak
- what heat transfer is boiling water
- what heat to cook eggs
caloric
English
Etymology
From French calorique, coined by French chemist Antoine Lavoisier, from Latin calor (“heat”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /k??l???k/
- Rhymes: -???k
Adjective
caloric (comparative more caloric, superlative most caloric)
- Relating to calories.
- Containing calories.
- Synonym of calorific (“high in calories and thus likely fattening”).
- Synonym of calorific (“relating to or producing heat or other energy”).
Usage notes
- For the senses "relating to calories" and "relating to or producing heat", caloric is the usual form in the US, and calorific is the usual form in the UK.
Synonyms
- calorific (UK)
Antonyms
- noncaloric
Derived terms
- calorically
- calorific value
Noun
caloric (uncountable)
- (historical) The hypothetical medium of heat.
- 1799, William Henry, Elements of Experimental Chemistry
- Caloric expands all bodies.
- 1799, William Henry, Elements of Experimental Chemistry
Interlingua
Adjective
caloric (not comparable)
- caloric
Related terms
- caloria
Romanian
Etymology
From French calorique
Adjective
caloric m or n (feminine singular caloric?, masculine plural calorici, feminine and neuter plural calorice)
- caloric
Declension
caloric From the web:
- what calorie deficit
- what calories
- what calorie deficit is recommended for weight loss
- what calorie deficit should i be in
- what calories should i eat
- what calorie deficit is safe
- what calories mean
- what calorie deficit to lose 1 pound a week
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