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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
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heaf
English
Noun
heaf
- (Northern England) A piece of mountain pasture to which a farm animal has become hefted; a heft.
Verb
heaf (third-person singular simple present heafs, present participle heafing, simple past and past participle heafed)
- (Northern England) (of farm animals, especially a flock of sheep) To become accustomed to and attached to an area of mountain pasture, seldom straying from it.
Anagrams
- HFEA, hafe
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