Heat vs Quinicine - 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).
(organic compound, archaic) An uncrystallizable alkaloid obtained by the action of heat from quinine, with which it is isomeric.
As nouns the difference between heat and quinicine
is that heat is (military) high explosive antitank: a munition using a high explosive shaped charge to breach armour while quinicine is (organic compound|archaic) an uncrystallizable alkaloid obtained by the action of heat from quinine, with which it is isomeric.heat
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°.
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.}}
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.