English Dictionary

heat

/hiːt/

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.

The heat from the sun warmed the room.

意味（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 change in the aluminum would be only 48 C°.

意味（2）

(uncountable) The condition or quality of being hot.

Stay out of the heat of the sun!

意味（3）

(uncountable) An attribute of a spice that causes a burning sensation in the mouth.

The chili sauce gave the dish heat.

意味（4）

(uncountable) A period of intensity, particularly of emotion.

It's easy to make bad decisions in the heat of the moment.

意味（5）

(uncountable) An undesirable amount of attention.

The heat from her family after her DUI arrest was unbearable.

意味（6）

(uncountable, slang) The police.

The heat! Scram!

意味（7）

(uncountable, slang) 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.

意味（8）

(countable, baseball) A fastball.

The catcher called for the heat, high and tight.

意味（9）

(uncountable) A condition where a mammal is aroused sexually or where it is especially fertile and therefore eager to mate; oestrus.

The male canines were attracted by the female in heat.

意味（10）

(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.

意味（11）

(countable) (by extension) 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…

意味（12）

(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.

意味（13）

(countable) A hot spell.

The children stayed indoors during this year's summer heat.

意味（14）

(uncountable) Heating system; a system that raises the temperature of a room or building.

I'm freezing; could you turn on the heat?

意味（15）

(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.

意味（16）

(countable) A violent action unintermitted; a single effort.

…many pauses are required for refreshment betwixt the heats….

意味（17）

(countable, fandom 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.