Heat vs Heath - What's the difference?
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(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).
A tract of level uncultivated land with sandy soil and scrubby vegetation; heathland.
* ~1602 , William Shakespeare, Macbeth , Act I, scene I:
*:1. Where the place?/2. Vpon the Heath /3. There to meet with Macbeth
Any small evergreen shrub of the family Ericaceae .
* 1974 , (GB Edwards), The Book of Ebenezer Le Page , New York 2007, p. 258:
# Many of the species in the genus Erica
# Many of the species in the genus Cassiope
# Both species in the genus
# Any of the species in the genus
# Any of the species in the genus
# Any of the species in the genus
(label) Certain butterflies and moths
# The palaearctic species of Coenonympha , a genus of brush-footed butterfly
## , native to Europe, Asia except tropical India and Indochina, and Northern Africa, the small heath
## , native to Europe, Asia except tropical India and Indochina, and North America, the large heath
# , the heath fritillary
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In countable terms the difference between heat and heath
is that heat is a hot spell while heath is certain butterflies and moths.As nouns the difference between heat and heath
is that heat is thermal energy while heath is a tract of level uncultivated land with sandy soil and scrubby vegetation; heathland.As a verb heat
is to cause an increase in temperature of an object or space; to cause something to become hot often with "up".As a proper noun Heath is
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English
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 verbsheath
English
(wikipedia heath)Noun
- There was nobody living in Jim's old house, and some of the windows was broken; but there was heath growing back and front.