heat

Meaning

1. Thermal energy.
2. The condition or quality of being hot.
3. An attribute of a spice that causes a burning sensation in the mouth.
4. A period of intensity, particularly of emotion.
5. An undesirable amount of attention.
6. A fastball.
7. A condition where a mammal is aroused sexually or where it is especially fertile and therefore eager to mate; oestrus.
8. (slang) A condition where a mammal is aroused sexually or where it is especially fertile and therefore eager to mate; oestrus.
9. A preliminary race, used to determine the participants in a final race.
10. A stage in a competition, not necessarily a sporting one; a round.
11. One cycle of bringing metal to maximum temperature and working it until it is too cool to work further.
12. A hot spell.
13. Heating system; a system that raises the temperature of a room or building.
14. The output of a heating system.
15. A violent action unintermitted; a single effort.
16. (slang) The police.
17. (slang) One or more firearms.
18. (slang) Stylish and valuable sneakers.
19. (slang) A negative reaction from the audience, especially as a heel (or bad character), or in general.

warmth

warm

make hot

become hot

hot weather

high temperature

make warm

be hot

heating plant

heating system

heat energy

keep warm

make red-hot

thermo

air temperature

get warm

have fever

intense heat

lighthouse light

oestrum

pep up

terraforming

very hot

sacred fire

burning sensation

febris

great heat

bodily mortification

devout meditation

religious austerity

cause to glow

irradiate with heat

scorched by

estruation

heat period

radiate heat

make fire

coming into heat

being in season

coming in heat

estrous period

pilot balloon observation

keep a fire

be in heat

Frequency

Pronounced as (IPA)

/hiːt/

From Middle English hete, from Old English hǣtu, from Proto-West Germanic *haitī, from Proto-Germanic *haitį̄ (“heat”), from Proto-Indo-European *keHy- (“heat; hot”). Cognate with Scots hete (“heat”), North Frisian hiet (“heat”), Old High German heizī (“heat”). Related also to Dutch hitte (“heat”), German Hitze (“heat”), Swedish hetta (“heat”), Icelandic hiti (“heat”).