Heat vs Glow - What's the difference?

Heat is a related term of glow.

As nouns the difference between heat and glow

is that heat is (military) high explosive antitank: a munition using a high explosive shaped charge to breach armour while glow is the state of a glowing object.

As a verb glow is

to give off light from heat or to emit light as if heated.

heat

English

Etymology 1

From (etyl) hete, from (etyl) .

Noun

(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°.

* {{quote-magazine, year=2013, month=July-August, author=(Henry Petroski)

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(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.

(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

* 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 heat

Etymology 2

From (etyl) heten, from (etyl) .

Verb

(en verb)

To cause an increase in temperature of an object or space; to cause something to become hot (often with "up").

I'll heat up the water.

To excite or make hot by action or emotion; to make feverish.

* Shakespeare:

Pray, walk softly; do not heat your blood.

To excite ardour in; to rouse to action; to excite to excess; to inflame, as the passions.

* Dryden:

A noble emulation heats your breast.

To arouse, to excite (sexually).

The massage heated her up.

Synonyms

* stoke * warm up * heat up; hot up,

Anagrams

* English causative verbs

glow

English

Verb

(en verb)

To give off light from heat or to emit light as if heated.

To radiate some emotional quality like light.

* Dryden

With pride it mounts, and with revenge it glows .

* Alexander Pope

Burns with one love, with one resentment glows .

To gaze especially passionately at something.

To radiate thermal heat.

To shine brightly and steadily.

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, title= The Mirror and the Lamp , passage=Here, in the transept and choir, where the service was being held, one was conscious every moment of an increasing brightness; colours glowing vividly beneath the circular chandeliers, and the rows of small lights on the choristers' desks flashed and sparkled in front of the boys' faces, deep linen collars, and red neckbands.}}

To make hot; to flush.

* Shakespeare

Fans, whose wind did seem / To glow the delicate cheeks which they did cool.

To feel hot; to have a burning sensation, as of the skin, from friction, exercise, etc.; to burn.

* Addison

Did not his temples glow / In the same sultry winds and scorching heats?

* John Gay

The cord slides swiftly through his glowing hands.

Noun

(-)

The state of a glowing object.

* 1994 , (Stephen Fry), (The Hippopotamus) Chapter 2

The door of the twins' room opposite was open; a twenty-watt night-light threw a weak yellow glow into the passageway. David could hear the twins breathing in time with each other.

The condition of being passionate or having warm feelings.

The brilliance or warmth of color in an environment or on a person (especially one's face).

He had a bright red glow on his face.