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soul | heat |

As an adjective soul

is .

As a noun heat is

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

soul

English

(wikipedia soul)

Etymology 1

From (etyl), from (etyl) (the Scandinavian forms are borrowings from the Old English).

Alternative forms

* sowl (archaic)

Noun

(en noun)
  • (religion, folklore) The spirit or essence of a person usually thought to consist of one's thoughts and personality. Often believed to live on after the person's death.
  • * 1836 , (Hans Christian Andersen) (translated into English by Mrs. H. B. Paull in 1872), (The Little Mermaid)
  • "Among the daughters of the air," answered one of them. "A mermaid has not an immortal soul', nor can she obtain one unless she wins the love of a human being. On the power of another hangs her eternal destiny. But the daughters of the air, although they do not possess an immortal ' soul , can, by their good deeds, procure one for themselves.
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  • The spirit or essence of anything.
  • * , chapter=22
  • , title= The Mirror and the Lamp , passage=From another point of view, it was a place without a soul . The well-to-do had hearts of stone; the rich were brutally bumptious; the Press, the Municipality, all the public men, were ridiculously, vaingloriously self-satisfied.}}
  • Life, energy, vigor.
  • * Young
  • That he wants algebra he must confess; / But not a soul to give our arms success.
  • (music) Soul music.
  • A person, especially as one among many.
  • An individual life.
  • Fifty souls were lost when the ship sank.
    * (English Citations of "soul")
    Derived terms
    * All Souls' Day * bare one's soul * body and soul * brevity is the soul of wit * dead soul * heart and soul * neo soul * sell one's soul * soul brother * soul-destroying * soul food * soul kiss * soul mate/soulmate * soul-searching * soul-strring * souled * soulful * soulfully * soulfulness * soul music * soul patch * soul searching * soul sister * world soul (soul)

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • (obsolete) To endue with a soul; to furnish with a soul or mind.
  • (Chaucer)

    Etymology 2

    From (etyl) .

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • (obsolete) To afford suitable sustenance.
  • (Warner)
    (Webster 1913) ----

    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°.
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  • , 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,