heat

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n.

warmth

1) to generate, produce; radiate heat

2) to alleviate the heat

3) blistering, extreme, great, intense, oppressive, scorching, stifling, sweltering, unbearable heat

4) dry; penetrating; radiant; red; white heat

5) animal; body heat

6) heat emanates from (an oven)

excitement

7) in the heat (of battle)

estrus, sexual excitement

8) in (AE), on (BE) heat (the bitch was in heat)

heating system

9) to turn on the heat

10) to turn off the heat

11) electric; gas; steam heat

preliminary race, race

12) to run a dead heat

13) a qualifying heat

pressure

(colloq.)

14) to put the heat on (the police were putting the heat on him)

II

v.

1) (C) heat some water for me; or: heat me some water

2) (D; tr.) to heat to (she heated the oven to two hundred degrees)

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[hiːt]

body heat

extreme

gas

great

intense

oppressive

or: heat me some water

penetrating

produce

radiant

radiate heat

red

scorching

steam heat

stifling

sweltering

unbearable heat

white heat

on (BE) heat (the bitch was in heat)

(C) heat some water for me

['heating system'] to turn on the heat

['preliminary race, race'] to run a dead heat

['warmth'] to generate

a qualifying heat

animal

blistering

dry

electric

to alleviate the heat

to turn off the heat

['estrus, sexual excitement'] in (AE)

heat emanates from (an oven)

['excitement'] in the heat (of battle)

(D; tr.) to heat to (she heated the oven to two hundred degrees)

['pressure'] (colloq.) to put the heat on (the police were putting the heat on him)