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Definition heat

Etymology 1

From Middle English hete, from Old English h?te, h?tu (“heat, warmth; fervor, ardor”), from Proto-Germanic *hait?? (“heat”), from Proto-Indo-European *kayd-, a derived form of *kay- (“heat; hot”). Cognate with Scots hete (“heat”), North Frisian hiet (“heat”), Old High German heiz? (“heat”). Related also to Dutch hitte (“heat”), German Hitze (“heat”), Swedish hetta (“heat”), Icelandic hiti (“heat”).

Noun

heat (countable and uncountable, plural heats)

1. (uncountable) Thermal energy.
2. (uncountable) The condition or quality of being hot.
3. (uncountable) An attribute of a spice that causes a burning sensation in the mouth.
4. (uncountable) A period of intensity, particularly of emotion.
5. (uncountable) An undesirable amount of attention.
6. (uncountable, slang) The police.
7. (uncountable, slang) One or more firearms.
8. (countable, baseball) A fastball.
9. (uncountable) A condition where a mammal is aroused sexually or where it is especially fertile and therefore eager to mate.
10. (countable) A preliminary race, used to determine the participants in a final race
11. (countable) One cycle of bringing metal to maximum temperature and working it until it is too cool to work further.
12. (countable) A hot spell.
13. (uncountable) Heating system; a system that raises the temperature of a room or building.
14. (uncountable) The output of a heating system.

Etymology 2

From Middle English heten, from Old English h?tan (“to heat; become hot”), from Proto-Germanic *haitijan? (“to heat, make hot”).

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").
2. (intransitive) To become hotter.
3. (transitive, figuratively) To excite or make hot by action or emotion; to make feverish.
4. (transitive, figuratively) 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).

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