hot
- adjective
- /hɑt/
- Specialized
- Biologist Norman Myers has pioneered the concept of hot spots of biodiversity at risk.
- a hot zone
- hot spots
Remember, the hot lead goes right to the master switch.
- Remember, the hot lead goes right to the master switch.
- It's all the X-rays and all this nasty gamma, all the stuff that's been it radiated from all this hot material around it.
Examples
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A strange star is a ball of hot plasma that isn't just weird, it contains strange quarks.
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Remember, the hot lead goes right to the master switch.
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And he said that it looks like a kind of random radiation, hot radiation at some temperature.
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And this is all hot plasma following those magnetic field lines.
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We're really seeing the sort of hot gas and dust around black hole that's falling into the black hole.
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Hydrothermal resources contain hot water, steam, or a mixture of water and steam.
Academic text (1994) -
Students referenced the text to note that low-pressure air occurs "when hot air is rising."
Academic text (2013) -
Load Dispatch, this is Ventana, leaving hot standby... approaching power per normal procedure.
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Rita sits on a stool eating an apple and sipping hot tea, watching him with amazed interest.
Fiction book (1993) -
Caution is necessary when handling the wires because the hot wire could cause a severe electric shock.
Synonyms
Still able to explode or fire
Antonyms
Idioms
- Informal
Do something quickly to use a good chance before it ends
- Informal
To feel very excited about something and then lose interest often
Very nervous and unable to stay still because of worry or excitement
Compounds
- Informal
A position where someone is under strong pressure and criticism because of their responsibilities
- Specialized
A sudden hot feeling and heavy sweating that often happens during menopause
A small portable electric cooker with one or two burners for cooking and keeping food warm
A container filled with hot water to warm a bed or soothe a part of the body
A warm drink of alcohol, hot water, sugar and spices often used to soothe a sore throat
- Specialized
A way of sending detailed information that needs little effort from people who receive it, like radio or film
A park in Arkansas with natural hot springs people visit for bathing and health
A plant with cream colored flowers that grows in rocky soil in the western United States
- Specialized
A type of metal that stays hard at high temperatures used to make cutting tools like drills
How Dangerous
Surface Forms
Etymology
Hot has long been linked to strong energy and danger, the same idea behind heat as powerful force, so people used it for things with dangerous energy like radioactivity. That's why a 'hot' zone can mean a place with 'dangerous energy'.