heat

1. 1

   Thermal energy.uncountable

   • This furnace puts out 5000 BTUs of heat. That engine is really throwing off some heat. Removal of heat from the liquid caused it to turn into a solid.
2. 2

   Heating system; a system that raises the temperature of a room or building.uncountable

   • I'm freezing; could you turn on the heat?
3. 3

   The output of a heating system.uncountable

   • During the power outage we had no heat because the controls are electric. Older folks like more heat than the young.
4. 4

   The condition or quality of being hot.countableuncountable

   • Stay out of the heat of the sun!
5. 5

   A hot spell.countable

   • The children stayed indoors during this year's summer heat.
6. 6

   An attribute of a spice that causes a burning sensation in the mouth.uncountable

   • The chili sauce gave the dish heat.
7. 7

   A period of intensity, particularly of emotion.uncountable

   • It's easy to make bad decisions in the heat of the moment.
8. 8

   An undesirable amount of attention.uncountable

   • The heat from her family after her DUI arrest was unbearable.
9. 9

   A fastball.countable

   • The catcher called for the heat, high and tight.
10. 10

    A condition in which a mammal is aroused sexually or where it is especially fertile and therefore eager to mate.uncountable

    • The male canines were attracted by the female in heat.

1. 1

   To cause an increase in temperature of (an object or space); to cause to become hot (often with "up").transitive

   • I'll heat up the water.
2. 2

   To become hotter.intransitive

   • There's a pot of soup heating on the stove.
3. 3

   To excite or make hot by action or emotion; to make feverish.figurativelytransitive

   • Ile leaue you my ſweete Ladie, for a while, pray walke ſoftly, doe not heate your bloud, what, I muſt haue care of you.
4. 4

   To excite ardour in; to rouse to action; to excite to excess; to inflame, as the passions.figurativelytransitive

   • A noble emulation heats your breaſt, / And your own fame now robs you of your reſt.
5. 5

   To arouse, to excite (sexually).slangtransitive

   • The massage heated her up.

syn. stoke · warm up · heat up · hot up · hot

1. 1

   simple past and past participle of heatdialectalform-ofobsolete

   • The Iron of it ſelfe, though heate red hot, / Approaching neere theſe eyes, would drinke my teares, / And quench this fierie indignation, / Euen in the matter of mine innocence.
   • HEAT, for heated, is in popular use and pronounced het; but it is not elegant.