Crossword-Solution: HEAT
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Heat | n. | A force in nature which is recognized in various effects, but especially in the phenomena of fusion and evaporation, and which, as manifested in fire, the sun's rays, mechanical action, chemical combination, etc., becomes directly known to us through the sense of feeling. In its nature heat is a mode if motion, being in general a form of molecular disturbance or vibration. It was formerly supposed to be a subtile, imponderable fluid, to which was given the name caloric. |
| Heat | n. | The sensation caused by the force or influence of heat when excessive, or above that which is normal to the human body; the bodily feeling experienced on exposure to fire, the sun's rays, etc.; the reverse of cold. |
| Heat | n. | High temperature, as distinguished from low temperature, or cold; as, the heat of summer and the cold of winter; heat of the skin or body in fever, etc. |
| Heat | n. | Indication of high temperature; appearance, condition, or color of a body, as indicating its temperature; redness; high color; flush; degree of temperature to which something is heated, as indicated by appearance, condition, or otherwise. |
| Heat | n. | A single complete operation of heating, as at a forge or in a furnace; as, to make a horseshoe in a certain number of heats. |
| Heat | n. | A violent action unintermitted; a single effort; a single course in a race that consists of two or more courses; as, he won two heats out of three. |
| Heat | n. | Utmost violence; rage; vehemence; as, the heat of battle or party. |
| Heat | n. | Agitation of mind; inflammation or excitement; exasperation. |
| Heat | n. | Animation, as in discourse; ardor; fervency. |
| Heat | n. | Sexual excitement in animals. |
| Heat | n. | Fermentation. |
| Heat | v. t. | To make hot; to communicate heat to, or cause to grow warm; as, to heat an oven or furnace, an iron, or the like. |
| Heat | v. t. | To excite or make hot by action or emotion; to make feverish. |
| Heat | v. t. | To excite ardor in; to rouse to action; to excite to excess; to inflame, as the passions. |
| Heat | v. i. | To grow warm or hot by the action of fire or friction, etc., or the communication of heat; as, the iron or the water heats slowly. |
| Heat | v. i. | To grow warm or hot by fermentation, or the development of heat by chemical action; as, green hay heats in a mow, and manure in the dunghill. |
| Heat | imp. & p. p. | Heated; as, the iron though heat red-hot. |
Anagrams
| Word | Anagrams | |
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| HEAT | anagram | AHET, ATHE, EATH, ETAH, HAET, HATE, HETA, TAHE, THAE, THEA |
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Hint 1 meaning
The superficial contents of any figure; the surface included
within any given lines; superficial extent; as, the area of a square or
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CERTAIN BRAIN SIZE
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Sentences with HEAT (5)
Till at last he rose defeated, Could not bear the heat and laughter, Could not bear the merry singing, But rushed headlong through the door-way, Stamped upon the crusted snow-drifts, Stamped upon the lakes and rivers, Made the snow upon them harder, Made the ice upon them thicker, Challenged Shingebis, the diver, To come forth and wrestle with him, To come forth and wrestle naked On the frozen fens and moorlands.
Our purer essence then will overcome Thir noxious vapour, or enur’d not feel, Or chang’d at length, and to the place conformd In temper and in nature, will receive Familiar the fierce heat, and void of pain; This horror will grow milde, this darkness light, Besides what hope the never-ending flight Of future days may bring, what chance, what change Worth waiting, since our present lot appeers For happy though but ill, for ill not worst, If we procure not to our selves more woe.
The Lion, the Mouse, and the Fox A LION, fatigued by the heat of a summer’s day, fell fast asleep in his den.
Individual straws in the foreground were consumed in a creeping movement of ruddy heat, as if they were knots of red worms, and above shone imaginary fiery faces, tongues hanging from lips, glaring eyes, and other impish forms, from which at intervals sparks flew in clusters like birds from a nest.
The heat that had formerly pervaded his nature, and which was not yet extinct, was never of the kind that flashes and flickers in a blaze; but rather a deep red glow, as of iron in a furnace.
Quotes with HEAT (3)
Write while the heat is in you. The writer who postpones the recording of his thoughts uses an iron which has cooled to burn a hole with. He cannot inflame the minds of his audience.
I have learnt through bitter experience the one supreme lesson to conserve my anger, and as heat conserved is transmuted into energy, even so our anger controlled can be transmuted into a power which can move the world.
In the heat of the battle, all internal barriers break down; the puppet bourgeoisie of businessmen and shopkeepers, the urban proletariat, which is always in a privileged position, the lumpen-proletariat of the shanty towns - all fall into line with the stand made by the rural masses, that veritable reservoir of a national revolutionary army; for in those countries where colonialism has deliberately held up development, the peasantry, when it rises, quickly stands out as the …
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Appears in: AARP, Boston Globe, Chronicle, Crossroads, CrosSynergy, Daily Beast, LAT, Newsday, New Yorker, NY Sun, NYT, Onion, Rock & Roll, S&S, Slate, The Atlantic, Three Across, TIME, Universal, USA TODAY, WP, WSJ.
Used 635 times in crossword archives (1943–2025).