Heats vs Hears - What's the difference?
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(heat)
(uncountable) Thermal energy.
* 2007 , James Shipman, Jerry Wilson, Aaron Todd, An Introduction to Physical Science: Twelfth Edition , pages 106–108:
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, title= (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.
(uncountable) An undesirable amount of attention.
(uncountable, slang) The police.
(uncountable, slang) One or more firearms.
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(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.
To cause an increase in temperature of an object or space; to cause something to become hot (often with "up").
To excite or make hot by action or emotion; to make feverish.
* Shakespeare:
To excite ardour in; to rouse to action; to excite to excess; to inflame, as the passions.
* Dryden:
To arouse, to excite (sexually).
(hear)
(label) To perceive sounds through the ear.
(label) To perceive (a sound, or something producing a sound) with the ear, to recognize (something) in an auditory way.
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, title=(The Celebrity), chapter=4
, passage=Mr. Cooke at once began a tirade against the residents of Asquith for permitting a sandy and generally disgraceful condition of the roads. So roundly did he vituperate the inn management in particular, and with such a loud flow of words, that I trembled lest he should be heard on the veranda.}}
(label) To exercise this faculty intentionally; to listen to.
* 1526 , (William Tyndale), trans. Bible , (w) X:
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, passage=It had been his intention to go to Wimbledon, but as he himself said: “Why be blooming well frizzled when you can hear all the results over the wireless. And results are all that concern me. […]”}}
(label) To listen favourably to; to grant (a request etc.).
(label) To receive information about; to come to learn of.
* 1667 , (John Milton), (Paradise Lost) :
(label) To listen to (a person, case) in a court of law; to try.
To sympathize with; to share the feeling or opinion of.
As verbs the difference between heats and hears
is that heats is (heat) while hears is (hear).heats
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(head)Anagrams
*heat
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Etymology 1
From (etyl) hete, from (etyl) .Noun
- 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°.
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Derived terms
* heat capacity * heat death * heat engine * heat exchanger * heat lamp * heatproof * heat pump * heat rash * heat-resistant * heat-seeking * heat shield * heat sink * heatstroke * heat treatment * heatwave * in heat * on heatEtymology 2
From (etyl) heten, from (etyl) .Verb
(en verb)- I'll heat up the water.
- Pray, walk softly; do not heat your blood.
- A noble emulation heats your breast.
- The massage heated her up.
Synonyms
* stoke * warm up * heat up; hot up,Anagrams
* English causative verbshears
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*hear
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(wikipedia hear)Verb
- Agayne there was dissencion amonge the iewes for these sayinges, and many of them sayd: He hath the devyll, and is madde: why heare ye hym?
George Goodchild
- Adam, soon as he heard / The fatal Trespass don by Eve, amaz'd, / Astonied stood and Blank [...].
