heat

heat is a 4-letter English word with 28 senses as noun, transitive verb, intransitive verb, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: 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. Face value is 7 in Scrabble and 6 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

4 letters · Scrabble 7 · Words With Friends 6 · 28 senses

Definitions

1. noun. 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.
2. noun. 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.
3. noun. 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.
4. noun. 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.
5. noun. 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.
6. noun. 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.
7. noun. Utmost violence; rage; vehemence; as, the heat of battle or party.
8. noun. Agitation of mind; inflammation or excitement; exasperation.
9. noun. Animation, as in discourse; ardor; fervency.
10. noun. Sexual excitement in animals.
11. noun. Fermentation.
12. transitive verb. To make hot; to communicate heat to, or cause to grow warm; as, to heat an oven or furnace, an iron, or the like.
13. transitive verb. To excite or make hot by action or emotion; to make feverish.
14. transitive verb. To excite ardor in; to rouse to action; to excite to excess; to inflame, as the passions.
15. intransitive verb. 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.
16. intransitive verb. 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.
17. past tense & past participle. Heated; as, the iron though heat red-hot.
18. noun. utility to warm a building

    "the heating system wasn't working"

    "they have radiant heating"

    Synonyms: heating

19. noun. the trait of being intensely emotional

    Synonyms: passion, warmth

20. noun. the presence of heat

    Synonyms: hotness

21. noun. the sensation caused by heat energy

    Synonyms: warmth

22. noun. a preliminary race in which the winner advances to a more important race
23. noun. a form of energy that is transferred by a difference in temperature
24. noun. applies to nonhuman mammals: a state or period of heightened sexual arousal and activity

    Synonyms: estrus, oestrus, rut

25. verb. make hot or hotter

    "the sun heats the oceans"

    "heat the water on the stove"

26. verb. gain heat or get hot

    "The room heated up quickly"

27. verb. arouse or excite feelings and passions

    "The ostentatious way of living of the rich ignites the hatred of the poor"

    "The refugees' fate stirred up compassion around the world"

    Synonyms: ignite, inflame, wake

28. verb. provide with heat

    "heat the house"

Synonyms

heating, passion, warmth, hotness, estrus, oestrus, rut, ignite, inflame, wake

Anagrams

Other playable words that use exactly the letters in heat:

ahet, eath, haet, hate, thae, thea

Common word forms

heats, heated, heaten, heater, heatful, heating, heatable, heatless

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