| Concept: | Calefaction. |
| Category: | 2. Sensation; special sensation; heat |
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-nouns
increase of temperature; heating; calefaction, tepefaction, torrefaction; melting, fusion; liquefaction; burning; ambustion, combustion; incension, accension; concremation, cremation; scorification; cautery, cauterization; ustulation, calcination; incineration, cineration; carbonization; cupellation., ignition, inflammation, adustion, flagration ; deflagration, conflagration; empyrosis, incendiarism; arson; auto da fe., boiling; coction, ebullition, estuation, elixation, decoction; ebullioscope; geyser., furnace; blanket, flannel, fur; wadding (lining); clothing., match (fuel); incendiary; petroleuse;, [substances causing a burning sensation and damage on skin or tissue] cauterizer; caustic, lunar caustic, apozem, moxa; aqua fortis, aqua regia; catheretic, nitric acid, nitrochloro-hydric acid, nitromuriatic acid; radium., [biological effects resembling the effects of heat] sunstroke, coup de soleil; insolation., [artifacts requiring heat in their manufacture] pottery, ceramics, crockery, porcelain, china; earthenware, stoneware; pot, mug, terra cotta, brick, clinker., [products of combustion] cinder, ash, scoriae, embers; slag., [products of heating organic materials] coke, carbon, charcoal; wood alcohol, turpentine, tea tree oil; gasoline, kerosene, naptha, fuel oil (fuel) [more]; wax, parafin; residue, tar., inflammability, combustibility., [Transmission of heat] diathermancy, transcalency.
-verbs
heat, warm, chafe, stive, foment; make hot; sun oneself., fire; set fire to, set on fire; kindle, enkindle, light, ignite, strike a light; apply the match to, apply the torch to; rekindle, relume; fan the flame, add fuel to the flame; poke the fire, stir the fire, blow the fire; make a bonfire of., melt, thaw, fuse; liquefy., burn, inflame, roast, toast, fry, grill, singe, parch, bake, torrefy, scorch; brand, cauterize, sear, burn in; corrode, char, calcine, incinerate; smelt, scorify; reduce to ashes; burn to a cinder; commit to the flames, consign to the flames., boil, digest, stew, cook, seethe, scald, parboil, simmer; do to rags., take fire, catch fire; blaze (flame).
-adjectives
heated; molten, sodden; réchauffé; heating; adust., inflammable, combustible; diathermal, diathermanous; burnt; volcanic, radioactive.
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Antonyms: |
refrigeration |
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| Main Entry: | heat |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | high temperature |
Synonyms: |
calefaction, calidity, dog days, fever, fieriness, greenhouse effect, heatwave, hot spell, hot weather, hotness, incalescence, incandescence, sultriness, swelter, torridity, torridness, warmness, warmth |
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cold, cool |
| Main Entry: | temperature |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | hotness, coldness of some degree |
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body heat, calefaction, climate, cold, condition, degrees, febricity, feverishness, heat, incalescence, pyrexia, thermal reading, warmth |
| Main Entry: | hotness |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | heat |
Synonyms: |
calefaction, calidity, dog days, fervor, fever, fieriness, heatwave, hot spell, hot weather, incalescence, incandescence, sultriness, swelter, torridity, torridness, warmness, warmth |
| Main Entry: | torridity |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | heat |
Synonyms: |
calefaction, calidity, dog days, fervor, fever, fieriness, heatwave, hot spell, hot weather, hotness, incalescence, incandescence, sultriness, swelter, torridness, warmness, warmth |
| Main Entry: | torridness |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | heat |
Synonyms: |
calefaction, calidity, dog days, fervor, fever, fieriness, heatwave, hot spell, hot weather, hotness, incalescence, incandescence, sultriness, swelter, torridity, warmness, warmth |
| Main Entry: | heat |
| Part of Speech: | noun, verb |
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Adjectives: |
combustible, ablaze, adiaphoretic, afire, alight, anhidrotic, ardent, baking, blazing, blood-hot, blood-warm, buldering, burning-hot, burnt, calefacient, calorific, candent, canicular, close, coctile, deflagrable, diaphoretic, diathermal, diathermanous, ebullient, estiferous, estival, euthermic, fervent, fervid, fiery, genial, glowing, heated, heating, hidrotic, hot, hot as fire, hot as pepper, hot enough to roast an ox, igneous, ignescent, in a blaze, in a fever, in a glow, in a heat, in a perspiration, in a sweat, in flames, incalescent, incandescent, inflamed, inflammable, isotheral, isothermal, isothermic, kindling, like a furnace, like an oven, lukewarm, mild, molten, on fire, oppressive, piping-hot, plutonic, pyretic, red-hot, reeking, scumfished, semiustulate, smoking, smoking-hot, smoldering, sodden, stifling, stuffy, sudoriferous, sudorific, suffocating, sultry, sunny, sweltered, sweltering, sweltry, swullocking, tepid, thalpotic, thermal, thermic, torrid, tropical, unextinguished, unfrozen, unquenched, ustulated, volcanic, warm, warm as toast, warm as wool, white-hot
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| Concept: | Heat. |
| Category: | 2. Sensation; special sensation; heat |
Synonyms: |
-nouns
heat, caloric; temperature, warmth, fervor, calidity; incalescence, incandescence; glow, flush; fever, hectic., phlogiston; fire, spark, scintillation, flash, flame, blaze; bonfire; firework, pyrotechny; wildfire; sheet of fire, lambent flame; devouring element; adiathermancy; recalescence., summer, dog days; canicular days; baking heat, white heat, tropical heat, African heat, Bengal heat, summer heat, blood heat; sirocco, simoom; broiling sun; insolation; warming., sun (luminary)., [Science of heat] pyrology; thermology, thermotics; thermometer.
-verbs
be hot; glow, flush, sweat, swelter, bask, smoke, reek, stew, simmer, seethe, boil, burn, broil, blaze, flame; smolder; parch, fume, pant., heat (make hot); recalesce; thaw, give.
-adjectives
hot, warm, mild, genial, tepid, lukewarm, unfrozen; thermal, thermic; calorific; fervent, fervid; ardent; aglow., sunny, torrid, tropical, estival, canicular; close, sultry, stifling, stuffy, suffocating, oppressive; reeking; baking., red hot, white hot, smoking hot, burning hot, piping hot; like a furnace, like an oven; hot as fire, hot as pepper; hot enough to roast an ox., fiery; incandescent, incalescent; candent, ebullient, glowing, smoking; live; on fire; dazzling; in flames, in a blaze; alight, afire, ablaze; unquenched, unextinguished; smoldering; in a heat, in a glow, in a fever, in a perspiration, in a sweat; sudorific; sweltering, sweltered; blood hot, blood warm; warm as a toast, warm as wool., volcanic, plutonic, igneous; isothermal, isothermic, isotheral.
-phrases
not a breath of air; "whirlwinds of tempestuous fire" [Paradise Lost].
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Antonyms: |
cold |
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