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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)

  1. (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°.
  2. (uncountable) The condition or quality of being hot.
  3. (uncountable) An attribute of a spice that causes a burning sensation in the mouth.
  4. (uncountable) A period of intensity, particularly of emotion.
    Synonyms: passion, vehemence
  5. (uncountable) An undesirable amount of attention.
  6. (uncountable, slang) The police.
  7. (uncountable, slang) One or more firearms.
  8. (countable, baseball) A fastball.
  9. (uncountable) A condition where a mammal is aroused sexually or where it is especially fertile and therefore eager to mate.
  10. (countable) A preliminary race, used to determine the participants in a final race
  11. (countable) One cycle of bringing metal to maximum temperature and working it until it is too cool to work further.
  12. (countable) A hot spell.
  13. (uncountable) Heating system; a system that raises the temperature of a room or building.
  14. (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)

  1. (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.
  2. (intransitive) To become hotter.
    There's a pot of soup heating on the stove.
  3. (transitive, figuratively) To excite or make hot by action or emotion; to make feverish.
  4. (transitive, figuratively) To excite ardour in; to rouse to action; to excite to excess; to inflame, as the passions.
  5. (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

  1. (sports) A heat, a preliminary race, used to determine the participants in a final race

Declension

Anagrams

  • Thea, heta

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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)

  1. Relating to calories.
  2. Containing calories.
  3. Synonym of calorific (high in calories and thus likely fattening).
  4. 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)

  1. (historical) The hypothetical medium of heat.
    • 1799, William Henry, Elements of Experimental Chemistry
      Caloric expands all bodies.

Interlingua

Adjective

caloric (not comparable)

  1. 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)

  1. caloric

Declension

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