to heat up
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- phrasal verb
- /hiːt ʌp/
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calentar
- I need to heat up my lunch in the microwave.
- sun heats up
- process heats up
Apparently heated floors don't actually heat up the room that much.
- Apparently heated floors don't actually heat up the room that much.
- If you're just heating up leftovers, you're good.
- I've had it with people using a shared microwave to heat up food that stinks.
- As you'll see, things that heat up use a lot of energy.
- And when you block airflow, your computer heats up, heats up, heats up.
- You can see it heat up pink when it starts to get warm.
- Small amount is then going to melt ice or heat up the land.
- The verb meaning how our body heats up from both the outside and the inside.
- This is because water heats up and cools down much more slowly than land.
- So the water will heat up and begin to boil.
Examples
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Machine tools tend to heat up after they've been running several hours.
Academic text (2007) -
If you're just heating up leftovers, you're good.
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Here, let me heat this up for you.
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You can heat those up?
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I thought you were gonna heat up the pizza.
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I'm gonna heat this up.
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- Not yet, it takes a long time for the oven to heat up.
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Sumida-san, I made you some curry, so remember to heat it up later, okay?
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I've had it with people using a shared microwave to heat up food that stinks.
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Electromagnetic waves of radio frequency can make molecules vibrate and heat up, like microwaves heat food.
Academic text (2003)
Synonyms
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To make or become less cold
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To make something hot or warmer
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Become or make something less cold
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2.1
To heat an oven or pan to the right temperature before you cook
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To make a room or car warm by switching on a machine that warms it
To heat cooked food again until it is hot
Antonyms
How Hot
Surface Forms
Morphology
The components 'heat' (make hotter/intense) and 'up' (increase) transparently signal an increase in intensity, so a learner who knows both words can infer a general meaning of making something more intense. However, the extension to abstract domains (e.g., 'heat up the party' = make it more exciting) relies on a metaphorical mapping rather than a strictly literal composition, so the relation is partially but not fully predictable.
Etymology
Heat up comes from the simple act of putting a cold dish on a stove or in a microwave so it becomes warm, with heat meaning warmth and up showing it goes higher. So, it means 'to make something hot' or 'become hot'.