English Explanatory Dictionary

heat

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. Thermal energy.
  2. The condition or quality of being hot.
  3. An attribute of a spice that causes a burning sensation in the mouth.
  4. A period of intensity, particularly of emotion.
  5. An undesirable amount of attention.
  6. A fastball.
  7. A condition in which a mammal is aroused sexually or where it is especially fertile and therefore eager to mate.
  8. In omegaverse fiction, a cyclical period in which omegas experience an intense, sometimes irresistible biological urge to mate.
  9. The arousal or horniness of a person, likened to that of a mammal.
  10. A preliminary race, used to determine the participants in a final race.
  11. A stage in a competition, not necessarily a sporting one; a round.
  12. One cycle of bringing metal to maximum temperature and working it until it is too cool to work further.
verb
  1. To cause an increase in temperature of (an object or space); to cause to become hot (often with "up").
  2. To become hotter.
  3. To excite or make hot by action or emotion; to make feverish.
  4. To excite ardour in; to rouse to action; to excite to excess; to inflame, as the passions.
  5. To arouse, to excite (sexually).
verb
  1. simple past and past participle of heat
noun
  1. Acronym of high explosive antitank, a munition using a high explosive shaped charge to breach armour.

Pronunciation

/ˈhiːt/ [ˈhɪi̯t] en-us-heat.ogg hēt /hiːt/ /hit/ hĕt /hɛt/

Word forms

heat heats heating heated het

Etymology

From Middle English hete, from Old English hǣtu, from Proto-West Germanic *haitī, from Proto-Germanic *haitį̄ (“heat”), from Proto-Indo-European *keHy- (“heat; hot”). Cognate with Scots hete (“heat”), Saterland Frisian Hatte (“heat”), Old High German heizī (“heat”). Related also to Dutch hitte (“heat”), German Hitze (“heat”), Swedish hetta (“heat”), Icelandic hiti (“heat”). Related to hot.

Synonyms

passion vehemence rut stoke warm up heat up hot up hot

Related words

mul:q

Derived words

afterheat animal heat bioheat bloodheat body heat bottom heat canned heat catch heat dead heat feel the heat heat alarm heat apoplexy heat bank heat barrier heat capacity heat check heat checker heat conductance heat conductivity heat day heat death heat death of the universe heat detector heat dome heat dump heaten heat engine heat exchange heat exchanger heat exhaustion heatful heat gun heat haze heat index heat intolerance heat island heat labile heat lamp heatless heat lightning heat map heatmapping heat of fusion heat of passion heat of reaction heat of transformation heat of vaporization heat paste heat plot heat-proof heatproof heat pump heat rash heat-ray heat-resistant heat resistant heatronic heat rub heatscore heat-seal

Translations

Afrikaans: op hitte Bulgarian: разгоненост Cimbrian: brissinghe Czech: říje Danish: løbetid Danish: brunst Dutch: loops Dutch: krols Dutch: tochtig Dutch: broeds Esperanto: oestro Finnish: kiima Finnish: juoksuaika French: chaleur French: rut Galician: celo Galician: estro Galician: sazón German: Brunst German: Hitze German: Rolligkeit German: Läufigkeit German: Brunft Hebrew: יִחוּם Hungarian: tüzelés Ingrian: jooksuaika Irish: adhall Irish: catachas Irish: clíth Irish: dáir Irish: eachmairt Irish: reithíocht Italian: calore Italian: estro Latin: oestrus Latvian: meklēšanās Lithuanian: ruja Middle English: hete Norwegian: brunst Polish: ruja Polish: cieczka Portuguese: cio Portuguese: estro Romanian: căldură Romanian: rut Russian: те́чка Russian: гон Russian: охо́та Sindhi: وَڙُ Spanish: celo Spanish: estro Spanish: brama Spanish: cachondez Spanish: berrea Swedish: brunst Swedish: löptid Ottoman Turkish: قیزغینلق
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