HEAT

noun heats

1. uncountable Thermal energy. 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 cha
2. countable, 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. 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. countable A fastball. The catcher called for the heat, high and tight.
7. uncountable A condition in which a mammal is aroused sexually or where it is especially fertile and therefore eager to mate. The male canines were attracted by the female in heat.
8. countable, slang In omegaverse fiction, a cyclical period in which omegas experience an intense, sometimes irresistible biological urge to mate. Some stories engage in dub-con scenarios where one or both partners are out of their minds with heat lust and lose all reasoning and inhibitions.
9. countable, endearing, slang, uncountable The sexual arousal of a person, likened to that of a mammal.
10. countable, slang, uncountable Semi-softcore NSFW art, primarily when posted to video-sharing websites.
11. 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.
12. broadly, countable A stage in a competition, not necessarily a sporting one; a round. The first heat of the Rotary Young Chef Competition went underway on Monday 16th December…
13. 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.
14. countable A hot spell. The children stayed indoors during this year's summer heat.
15. uncountable Heating system; a system that raises the temperature of a room or building. I'm freezing; could you turn on the heat?
16. 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.
17. countable A violent action unintermitted; a single effort. …many pauses are required for refreshment betwixt the heats….
18. slang, uncountable The police. The heat! Scram!
19. slang, uncountable One or more firearms. You carrying heat?" "You saw me unload the pistol," Hugo said. "It's in the waistband. And the kitchen knife. I need that for eating.
20. slang, uncountable Stylish and valuable sneakers. Whoa, that guy is rocking some serious heat.
21. countable, slang, uncountable A negative reaction from the audience, especially as a heel (or bad character), or in general.

verb heats · heating · heated · heat

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. figuratively, transitive To excite or make hot by action or emotion; to make feverish. 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. figuratively, transitive To excite ardour in; to rouse to action; to excite to excess; to inflame, as the passions. A noble emulation heats your breaſt, / And your own fame now robs you of your reſt.
5. slang, transitive To arouse, to excite (sexually). The massage heated her up.

Similar: stoke, warm up, heat up, hot up, hot

verb

1. dialectal, obsolete, participle, past simple past and past participle of heat Then was Nebuchad-nezzár ful of rage, and the forme of his viſage was changed againſt Shadrách, Meſhach, & Abednegó: therefore he charged and commanded that they ſhulde heate the fornace at once ſeuen ⁱtimes more then it was wonte to be heate.

noun

1. abbreviation, acronym Acronym of high explosive antitank, a munition using a high explosive shaped charge to breach armour.high explosive antitank