to heat
- verb
- /hiːt/
- To what epoch the Kneales' coffee table belongs is a topic of heated debate these days.
- a heated debate
- a heated discussion
- a heated argument
Examples
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Well, I actually need you to get your butt back here because things are really heating up with this whole wine madness.
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Things were heating up in Jungle Village.
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Things are just beginning to heat up between the couple inside the car.
Fiction book (1993) -
Things are really heating up at the castle tonight.
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Looks like things are heating up quite nicely.
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The claims have given rise to controversy, sometimes heated, but existing empirical evidence does not provide a resolution.
Academic text (1999) -
Yellowstone was at the center of a heated debate over various proposals to manage the park's grizzlies.
Academic text (2012) -
Okay, let's just, okay, no, we don't need to get heated here.
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Writing under pseudonyms, they maintain anonymity while discussing the most heated issues of the day without fear of retribution.
Academic text (2011) -
The debate about climate change really heated up as more people began to voice their strong opinions.
Synonyms
To make someone feel strong emotions or remember something
Make people feel excited and ready to act
To cause strong feeling or excitement in someone
To make people feel strong emotions like anger or fear
To cause strong feelings in someone
To make people's feelings stronger, especially anger or hate
To make a feeling like anger or hate grow stronger
Make someone feel very excited and interested in something
To make someone feel a strong emotion
To make someone feel strong excitement or deep emotion
Antonyms
Idioms
Phrasal Verbs
Compounds
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A layer or device that protects a spacecraft from very hot air when it returns to the atmosphere
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A condition when you feel dizzy, sick, and weak after being very hot and not drinking enough water
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A weapon that follows the heat from a plane's engine to hit it
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A machine that moves heat from outside air or the ground into a building to warm it
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The total energy in a system, including energy from pressure and volume
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A machine that moves heat between two liquids or gases without mixing them
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Heat taken in or given out when a material changes state, such as melting and boiling
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A metal part that takes heat away from electronic parts so they do not get too hot
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Amount of heat needed to raise one gram of a material by one degree Celsius
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The release of heat from a machine or device to prevent overheating
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A condition of dizziness, feeling sick, and weakness from losing fluids in hot weather, also called heat exhaustion
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The amount of heat needed to change a solid directly into a gas without becoming liquid
Bright flashes in the far sky at night with no nearby thunder, often on hot evenings
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The amount of energy inside a system plus its pressure times its volume
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The amount of heat needed to change one kilogram of solid to liquid at its melting point without changing temperature
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Amount of energy given off for each kilogram when a liquid becomes solid, for example when water freezes
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Heat released or taken in when a substance dissolves in a large amount of liquid like water
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Amount of energy absorbed or released when a substance changes state like ice melting
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Amount of heat needed to turn a liquid into steam without raising its temperature
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A very short, strong burst of heat from an explosion that can burn things nearby
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A dangerous rise in body temperature after being in very hot conditions
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Energy needed to break molecules into smaller parts in a hot gas or liquid
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The heat released or absorbed per mole when a compound forms from its elements under standard conditions
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The number showing how much more heat a material needs at constant pressure than at constant volume
How Heated
Surface Forms
Etymology
Heat as a verb meaning to stir up strong feelings comes from the old English hāt meaning 'hot', so to heat a crowd is to make them 'hot' with emotion.