heat

Pronunciation

• enPR: hēt, IPA: /hiːt/
• (General American) IPA: /hit/, [çit]

Noun

heat (countable and uncountable, plural heats)

1. (uncountable) Thermal energy.
   • 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. (uncountable) The condition or quality of being hot.
   • Stay out of the heat of the sun!
3. (uncountable) An attribute of a spice that causes a burning sensation in the mouth.
   • The chili sauce gave the dish heat.
4. (uncountable) A period of intensity, particularly of emotion.
   • Synonyms: passion, vehemence
   • It's easy to make bad decisions in the heat of the moment.
5. (uncountable) An undesirable amount of attention.
   • The heat from her family after her DUI arrest was unbearable.
6. (uncountable, slang) The police.
   • The heat! Scram!
7. (uncountable, slang) One or more firearms.
8. (countable, baseball) A fastball.
   • The catcher called for the heat, high and tight.
9. (uncountable) A condition where a mammal is aroused sexually or where it is especially fertile and therefore eager to mate; oestrus.
   • The male canines were attracted by the female in heat.
   1. (countable, fandom slang) In omegaverse fiction, a cyclical period in which omegas experience an intense, sometimes irresistible biological urge to mate.
10. (countable) A preliminary race, used to determine the participants in a final race
    • The runner had high hopes, but was out of contention after the first heat.
11. (countable, by extension) A stage in a competition, not necessarily a sporting one; a round.
12. (countable) One cycle of bringing metal to maximum temperature and working it until it is too cool to work further.
    • I can make a scroll like that in a single heat.
13. (countable) A hot spell.
    • The children stayed indoors during this year's summer heat.
14. (uncountable) Heating system; a system that raises the temperature of a room or building.
    • I'm freezing; could you turn on the heat?
15. (uncountable) The output of a heating system.
    • During the power outage we had no heat because the controls are electric.   Older folks like more heat than the young.
16. (countable) A violent action unintermitted; a single effort.
17. (professional wrestling slang) To get a negative reaction from the audience, especially as a heel (or bad character).

Verb

heat (third-person singular simple present heats, present participle heating, simple past and past participle heated or (dialectal) het)

1. (transitive) To cause an increase in temperature of (an object or space); to cause to become hot (often with "up").
   • I'll heat up the water.
2. (intransitive) To become hotter.
   • There's a pot of soup heating on the stove.
3. (transitive, figurative) To excite or make hot by action or emotion; to make feverish.
4. (transitive, figurative) To excite ardour in; to rouse to action; to excite to excess; to inflame, as the passions.
5. (transitive, slang) To arouse, to excite (sexually).
   • The massage heated her up.

Anagrams

• Thea, eath, haet, hate, heta

Pronunciation

• IPA: /ˈhiːt/
• Homophone: hit

Noun

heat n

1. (sports) A heat, a preliminary race, used to determine the participants in a final race
   • Johansson och Skoog går vidare från det första heatet.

     • Johansson and Skoog are through from the first heat.

Anagrams

• Thea, heta