heat

IPA: hˈit

noun

  • (uncountable) Thermal energy.
  • (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.
  • (countable, baseball) A fastball.
  • (uncountable) A condition where a mammal is aroused sexually or where it is especially fertile and therefore eager to mate; oestrus.
  • (countable, fandom slang) In omegaverse fiction, a cyclical period in which omegas experience an intense, sometimes irresistible biological urge to mate.
  • (countable) A preliminary race, used to determine the participants in a final race
  • (countable, by extension) A stage in a competition, not necessarily a sporting one; a round.
  • (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.
  • (countable) A violent action unintermitted; a single effort.
  • (uncountable, slang) The police.
  • (uncountable, slang) One or more firearms.
  • (uncountable, slang) Stylish and valuable sneakers.
  • (professional wrestling slang) A negative reaction from the audience, especially as a heel (or bad character), or in general.
  • (military) Acronym of high explosive antitank: a munition using a high explosive shaped charge to breach armour.

verb

  • (transitive) To cause an increase in temperature of (an object or space); to cause to become hot (often with "up").
  • (intransitive) To become hotter.
  • (transitive, figurative) To excite or make hot by action or emotion; to make feverish.
  • (transitive, figurative) To excite ardour in; to rouse to action; to excite to excess; to inflame, as the passions.
  • (transitive, slang) To arouse, to excite (sexually).
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