heat
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noun (English)
1. (uncountable) Thermal energy.Examples: "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°."; "Heat limits the length and intensity of ship-to-ship combat. Starships generate enormous s'heat' when they fire high-energy weapons, perform maneuvering burns, and run on-board combat electronics. In combat, warships produce heat more quickly than they can disperse it. As heat builds within a vessel, the crewed spaces become increasingly uncomfortable. Before the heat reaches lethal levels, a ship must win or retreat by entering FTL. After an FTL run, the ships halts, shuts down non-essential systems, and activates the heat radiation gear."; "Energy has seldom been found where we need it when we want it. Ancient nomads, wishing to ward off the evening chill and enjoy a meal around a campfire, had to collect wood and then spend time and effort coaxing the heat of friction out from between sticks to kindle a flame."uncountable
2. (uncountable) The condition or quality of being hot.Examples: "Stay out of the heat of the sun!"uncountable
3. (uncountable) An attribute of a spice that causes a burning sensation in the mouth.Examples: "The chili sauce gave the dish heat."uncountable
4. (uncountable) A period of intensity, particularly of emotion.Examples: "It's easy to make bad decisions in the heat of the moment."Synonyms: passion, vehemenceuncountable
5. (uncountable) An undesirable amount of attention.Examples: "The heat from her family after her DUI arrest was unbearable."uncountable
6. (countable, baseball) A fastball.Examples: "The catcher called for the heat, high and tight."countable
verb (English)
1. (transitive) To cause an increase in temperature of (an object or space); to cause to become hot (often with "up").Examples: "I'll heat up the water."transitive
2. (intransitive) To become hotter.Examples: "There's a pot of soup heating on the stove."intransitive
3. (transitive, figurative) To excite or make hot by action or emotion; to make feverish.Examples: "Ile leaue you my ſweete Ladie, for a while, pray walke ſoftly, doe not heate your bloud, what, I muſt haue care of you."figurativelytransitive
4. (transitive, figurative) To excite ardour in; to rouse to action; to excite to excess; to inflame, as the passions.Examples: "A noble emulation heats your breaſt, / And your own fame now robs you of your reſt."figurativelytransitive
5. (transitive, slang) To arouse, to excite (sexually).Examples: "The massage heated her up."slangtransitive
verb (English)
1. (dialectal or obsolete) simple past and past participle of heatExamples: "Then was Nebuchad-nezzár ful of rage, and the forme of his viſage was changed againſt Shadrách, Meſhach, & Abednegó: therefore he charged and commanded that they ſhulde heate the fornace at once ſeuen ⁱtimes more then it was wonte to be heate."; "The Iron of it ſelfe, though heate red hot, / Approaching neere theſe eyes, would drinke my teares, / And quench this fierie indignation, / Euen in the matter of mine innocence."; "HEAT, for heated, is in popular use and pronounced het; but it is not elegant."dialectalform-ofobsoleteparticiplepast
noun (English)
1. (military) Acronym of high explosive antitank, a munition using a high explosive shaped charge to breach armour.abbreviationacronymalt-of
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