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.}}
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(uncountable) The condition or quality of being hot.
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(uncountable) An attribute of a spice that causes a burning sensation in the mouth.
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(uncountable) A period of intensity, particularly of emotion.
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(uncountable) An undesirable amount of attention.
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(uncountable, slang) The police.
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(uncountable, slang) One or more firearms.
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(countable, baseball) A fastball.
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(uncountable) A condition where a mammal is aroused sexually or where it is especially fertile and therefore eager to mate.
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(countable) A preliminary race, used to determine the participants in a final race
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(countable) One cycle of bringing metal to maximum temperature and working it until it is too cool to work further.
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(countable) A hot spell.
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(uncountable) Heating system; a system that raises the temperature of a room or building.
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(uncountable) The output of a heating system.
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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 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,
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warm English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) (m), (m), from (etyl) (m), from (etyl) , with different proposed origins:
(etyl) .
(etyl) .
The dispute is due to differing opinions on how initial Proto-Indo-European *g??- evolved in Germanic: some think that *g?? would have turned to *b, and that the root *g??er- would instead have given rise to burn etc. Some have also proposed a merger of the two roots.
The term is cognate with (etyl) (m), (etyl)/(etyl)/(etyl) (m), (etyl)/(etyl)/(etyl) (m) and (etyl)/(etyl) (m).
Adjective
( er)
Having a temperature slightly higher than usual, but still pleasant; mildly hot.
- The tea is still warm .
- This is a very warm room.
* Longfellow
- Warm and still is the summer night.
* 1985 , Robert Ferro, Blue Star
- It seemed I was too excited for sleep, too warm , too young.
Caring and friendly, of relations to another person.
- We have a warm friendship .
Having a color in the red-orange-yellow part of the visible electromagnetic spectrum.
Close, often used in the context of a game in which "warm" and "cold" are used to indicate nearness to the goal.
* Black
- Here, indeed, young Mr. Dowse was getting "warm ", as children say at blindman's buff.
(archaic) Ardent, zealous.
- a warm debate, with strong words exchanged
* Milton
- Mirth, and youth, and warm desire!
* Alexander Pope
- Each warm wish springs mutual from the heart.
* Addison
- They say he's a warm man and does not care to be made mouths at.
* Hawthorne
- I had been none of the warmest of partisans.
* 1776 , Edward Gibbon, The History of The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire , Chapter 1
- To the strength and fierceness of barbarians they added a contempt for life, which was derived from a warm persuasion of the immortality and transmigration of the soul.
(archaic) Being well off as to property, or in good circumstances; rich.
* Washington Irving
- warm householders, every one of them
* Goldsmith
- You shall have a draft upon him, payable at sight: and let me tell you he as warm a man as any within five miles round him.
Synonyms
* See also
* See also
Antonyms
* (mild temperature) arctic, cold, cool, frozen
* (caring) arctic, cold, cool, frozen
Derived terms
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* lukewarm
* warmhearted/warm-hearted
* warmish
* warmly
* warm up / warm-up
See also
* heated
* hot
* steamy
* temperature
* tepid
Etymology 2
From (etyl) (m).
Verb
( en verb)
To make or keep .
* Bible, Isaiah xliv. 15
- Then shall it [an ash tree] be for a man to burn; for he will take thereof and warm himself.
* Longfellow
- enough to warm , but not enough to burn
To become warm, to heat up.
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- The earth soon warms on a clear summer day.
To favour increasingly.
* {{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham), title=(The China Governess)
, chapter=5 citation
, passage=Mr. Campion appeared suitably impressed and she warmed to him. He was very easy to talk to with those long clown lines in his pale face, a natural goon, born rather too early she suspected.}}
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To become ardent or animated.
- The speaker warms as he proceeds.
To make engaged or earnest; to interest; to engage; to excite ardor or zeal; to enliven.
* Alexander Pope
- I formerly warmed my head with reading controversial writings.
* Keble
- Bright hopes, that erst bosom warmed .
Derived terms
* like death warmed over
Noun
( en noun)
(colloquial) The act of warming, or the state of being warmed; a heating.
- (Dickens)
- Shall I give your coffee a warm in the microwave?
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