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heat | pressure |

As a noun heat

is (military) high explosive antitank: a munition using a high explosive shaped charge to breach armour.

As a verb pressure is

.

As an adjective pressure is

squeezed.

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)
  • , title= Geothermal Energy , volume=101, issue=4, magazine=(American Scientist) , passage=Energy has seldom been found where we need it when we want it. Ancient nomads, wishing to ward off the evening chill and enjoy a meal around a campfire, had to collect wood and then spend time and effort coaxing the heat of friction out from between sticks to kindle a flame.}}
  • (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.
  • 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,

    pressure

    English

    Noun

  • A pressing; a force applied to a surface.
  • Apply pressure to the wound to stop the bleeding.
  • A contrasting force or impulse of any kind
  • the pressure''' of poverty; the '''pressure''' of taxes; the '''pressure''' of motives on the mind; the ' pressure of civilization.
  • * (rfdate) (Macaulay)
  • Where the pressure of danger was not felt.
  • Distress.
  • She has felt pressure lately because her boss expects her to get the job done by the first.
  • * 1649 , (Eikon Basilike)
  • My people's pressures are grievous.
  • * (rfdate) (Atterbury)
  • In the midst of his great troubles and pressures .
  • Urgency
  • the pressure of business
  • (obsolete) Impression; stamp; character impressed.
  • * (rfdate) (Shakespeare)
  • All saws of books, all forms, all pressures past.
  • (physics) The amount of force that is applied over a given area divided by the size of this area.
  • Synonyms

    * (distress) affliction, grievance * (urgency)

    Derived terms

    * blood pressure * negative pressure * intraocular pressure * peer pressure * pressurize, pressurise * pressure altimeter * pressure altitude * pressure angle * pressure area * pressure atrophy * pressure bag * pressure bandage * pressure bar * pressure block * pressure cabin * pressure cable * pressure casting * pressure cell * pressure centre, pressure center * pressure chamber * pressure coefficient * pressure contour * pressure cooker * pressure decline * pressure deflection * pressure depth * pressure distillate * pressure distribution * pressure effect * pressure element * pressure epiphysis * pressure fan * pressure field * pressure flaking * pressure flip * pressure force * pressure gauge * pressure gradient * pressure group * pressure head * pressure hull * pressure hydrophone * pressure ice * pressure interface * pressure ionization * pressure jump * pressure line * pressure maintenance * pressure mark * pressure melting * pressure microphone * pressure mine * pressure naphtha * pressure of speech and pressured speech * pressure pad * pressure paralysis * pressure pattern * pressure penitente * pressure pickup * pressure pillow * pressure pipe * pressure point * pressure radius * pressure rating * pressure regulator * pressure ridge * pressure ring * pressure roll * pressure seal * pressure sense * pressure sensibility * pressure-sensitive * pressure solution * pressure sore * pressure suit * pressure survey * pressure tank * pressure tap * pressure tendency * pressure tube * pressure tunnel * pressure ulcer * pressure vector * pressure vessel * pressure viscosity * pressure washer * pressure wave * pressure welding * pressure zone * under pressure

    See also

    * (units of pressure) pascal (Pa); bar, barye (Ba); pounds per square inch (psi, lbf/in2, lb/in2), torr, mmHg, atmosphere (atm)

    Verb

    (pressur)
  • To encourage or heavily exert force or influence.
  • Do not let anyone pressure you into buying something you do not want.

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