white-hot
- adjective
- /ˈwaɪtˌhɑt/
- The metal glowed white-hot as it was heated in the forge, ready to be shaped into a sword.
- white-hot glow
- white-hot flame
- white-hot sun
It'll still glow, but now it's going to glow white hot and then glow blue hot.
- It'll still glow, but now it's going to glow white hot and then glow blue hot.
- It starts glowing first red hot, then white hot, then blue hot, then it it's glowing so hot it emits X-rays.
Examples
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For a split second, out of the corner of his eye, Vesquith saw the rock grow white hot.
Fiction book (1998) -
The coals still glared white-hot in the middle of the old cast-iron monster.
Fiction book (1990) -
You can heat this wire to white-hot, and it will still tell you the exact same story.
Fiction book (1999) -
The sun was directly overhead, white-hot and burning.
Fiction book (1992) -
In its center, the sun lies, a bright, white-hot ball pulsing toward the full noon.
Fiction book (2000) -
"There goes that hatch." Greg followed her look, watching as white-hot metal flared away on all sides of the hatch.
Fiction book (2002) -
I looked up at the prairie sun, glowing like a white-hot marble in the sky.
Fiction book (1996) -
The interior of the synagogue was a white-hot furnace; tiles of the roof glowed from the heat that devoured the rafters.
Fiction book (1991) -
As the stars burned brightly, the supernova shone with a white-hot brilliance that lit up the entire galaxy.
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Under the intense pressure, the coal transformed into a white-hot mass, burning fiercely in the furnace.
Synonyms
Very hot and glowing with a bright pale color
Giving off light because it is very hot
So warm it glows red
Glowing because it is very hot, like metal or coals
Antonyms
How Hot
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
White-hot began as a simple picture: metal so hot it glows white in a fire. The parts white ('the color of the glow') and hot ('very high heat') show this clearly, so white-hot means heated until it shines with a white light.