Heat vs Insulated - What's the difference?

As verbs the difference between heat and insulated

is that heat is to cause an increase in temperature of an object or space; to cause something to become hot (often with "up") while insulated is (insulate).

As a noun heat

is (uncountable) thermal energy.

As a adjective insulated is

protected from heat, cold, noise etc, by being surrounded with an insulating material.

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

insulated

English

Adjective

(en adjective)

Protected from heat, cold, noise etc, by being surrounded with an insulating material.

Placed or set apart.

an insulated house or column

* De Quincey

the special and insulated situation of the Jews

(of an electrically conducting material) Isolated or separated from other conducting materials, or sources of electricity.

Early insulated wires were covered in silk rather than plastic.

(astronomy, dated) Situated at so great a distance as to be beyond the effect of gravitation; said of stars supposed to be so far apart that the effect of their mutual attraction is undetectable.

Verb

(head)

(insulate)