How to pronounce “heat”

Meaning

• [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.
• (uncountable) A period of intensity, particularly of emotion.
• (uncountable) An undesirable amount of attention.
• (countable, baseball) A fastball.
• (uncountable) A condition in which a mammal is aroused sexually or where it is especially fertile and therefore eager to mate.
• (countable) A preliminary race, used to determine the participants in a final race.
• (countable, by extension) A stage in a competition, not necessarily a sporting one; a round.
• (countable) One cycle of bringing metal to maximum temperature and working it until it is too cool to work further.
• (countable) A hot spell.
• (uncountable) Heating system; a system that raises the temperature of a room or building.
• (uncountable) The output of a heating system.
• (countable) A violent action unintermitted; a single effort.
• (uncountable, slang) The police.
• (uncountable, slang) One or more firearms.
• (uncountable, slang) Stylish and valuable sneakers.
• (professional wrestling slang) A negative reaction from the audience, especially as a heel (or bad character), or in general.
• [Verb]
• (transitive) To cause an increase in temperature of (an object or space); to cause to become hot (often with "up").
• (intransitive) To become hotter.
• (transitive, figurative) To excite or make hot by action or emotion; to make feverish.
• (transitive, figurative) To excite ardour in; to rouse to action; to excite to excess; to inflame, as the passions.
• (transitive, slang) To arouse, to excite (sexually).

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