| 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 |
Antonyms: |
cold, cool |
| Main Entry: | heat |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | anger, passion |
Synonyms: |
agitation, ardor, desire, earnestness, excitement, ferocity, fervor, fever, fury, impetuosity, intensity, rage, vehemence, violence, warmth, zeal |
Antonyms: |
coolness, disinterest, frigidity |
| Main Entry: | heat |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | make or become hot |
Synonyms: |
bake, bask, blaze, boil, broil, calorify, chafe, char, enflame, enkindle, fire, flame, flush, frizzle, fry, glow, grill, grow hot, grow warm, ignite, incandesce, incinerate, inflame, kindle, melt, oxidate, oxidize, perspire, raise the temperature, reheat, roast, scald, scorch, sear, seethe, set on fire, singe, smelt, steam, sun, swelter, tepefy, thaw, toast, warm, warm up |
Antonyms: |
cool, freeze |
| 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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| Main Entry: | ardor |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | enthusiasm |
Synonyms: |
avidity, devotion, eagerness, earnestness, feeling, fervor, fierceness, fire, gusto, heat, intensity, jazz, keenness, oomph, passion, pep talk, spirit, turn on, vehemence, verve, warmth, weakness*, zeal, zest, zing |
Antonyms: |
coldness, coolness, frigidity, indifference |
| Main Entry: | armament(s) |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | weapon(s) |
Synonyms: |
ammunition, arms, defense, gun, hardware, heat*, material, materiel, munitions, ordnance, protection, security, weaponry |
| Main Entry: | arrest |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | taking into custody |
Synonyms: |
accommodation, apprehension, appropriation, bag*, booby trap, bust, captivity, capture, collar, commitment, confinement, constraint, crimp, detention, drop*, fall*, gaff, glom, grab*, heat*, hook*, imprisonment, incarceration, jailing, mitt, nab, nail, nick, nip, pick up*, pickle, pinch*, preventive custody, protective custody, pull in, pull*, restraining, run in, sequestering, snare, sweep* |
| Main Entry: | bake |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | cook in oven |
Synonyms: |
heat, melt, scorch, simmer, stew, warm |
| Notes: | bake is the term used for cooking foods such as bread, potatoes, apples, etc. in dry heat in an oven, and roast refers to cooking meat in an oven or before a fire |
| Main Entry: | burn |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | be on fire; set on fire |
Synonyms: |
bake, be ablaze, blaze, brand, broil, calcine, cauterize, char, combust, conflagrate, cook, cremate, enkindle, flame, flare, flash, flicker, glow, heat, ignite, incinerate, kindle, light, melt, parch, reduce to ashes, rekindle, roast, scald, scorch, sear, set a match to, singe, smoke, smolder, toast, torch, wither |
Antonyms: |
cool, extinguish, put out, quench, smother, wet |