Word Finder - heat

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Thermal energy.

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This furnace puts out 5000 BTUs of heat.   That engine is really throwing off some heat.   Removal of heat from the liquid caused it to turn into a solid.

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The condition or quality of being hot.

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Stay out of the heat of the sun!

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An attribute of a spice that causes a burning sensation in the mouth.

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The chili sauce gave the dish heat.

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A period of intensity, particularly of emotion.

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It's easy to make bad decisions in the heat of the moment.

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• passion
• vehemence

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An undesirable amount of attention.

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The heat from her family after her DUI arrest was unbearable.

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The police.

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The heat! Scram!

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One or more firearms.

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A fastball.

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The catcher called for the heat, high and tight.

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A condition where a mammal is aroused sexually or where it is especially fertile and therefore eager to mate.

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The male canines were attracted by the female in heat.

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A preliminary race, used to determine the participants in a final race

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The runner had high hopes, but was out of contention after the first heat.

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One cycle of bringing metal to maximum temperature and working it until it is too cool to work further.

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I can make a scroll like that in a single heat.

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A hot spell.

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The children stayed indoors during this year's summer heat.

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Heating system; a system that raises the temperature of a room or building.

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I'm freezing; could you turn on the heat?

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The output of a heating system.

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During the power outage we had no heat because the controls are electric.   Older folks like more heat than the young.

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In omegaverse fiction, a cyclical period in which alphas and omegas experience an intense, sometimes irresistible biological urge to mate.

The evening heat was stifling.

The heat settled around them like a hot breath.

No one had remembered to turn the heat on last night.

A flood of heat washed up her throat to stain her cheeks.

Carmen stopped at the corner, uncomfortable with the heat of the exchange, yet unwilling to interrupt.

The thick Miami heat had never felt so good!

As they watched, the figures in the dusty heat waves finally became recognizable as cavalry - even to the naked eye.

Heat waves blurred the dunes around them.

The desert heat couldn't reach her private cloud.

Fuming anyway, she pushed the curtains away from the balcony door and stepped into the night, winter's chill taking some of the heat out of her.

The heat was definitely turned up.

She tasted sweet and saucy, like the woman herself, her heat, scent and silky skin filling his senses in a way that left him wanting more of her.

Of course the vital heat is not to be confounded with fire; but so much for analogy.

Heat and drought had continued for more than three weeks.

In the heat of a battle it is easy to make a mistake.

The gully shimmered in heat waves.

The brilliant suns were overhead, their heat heavy in the still day.

The heat at Damascus and Aleppo is great, the cooling winds being kept off by the mountains.

Electricity produces heat, heat produces electricity.

The riders were a blur in the heat waves, but she was sure one was Pete.

She shivered at the odd connection, the heat and warmth.

It is also possible to find in them many anticipations of the views of the economists of later times; but such statements were as a rule generated merely by the heat of controversy on some measure or event of practical importance, and when the controversy died down were seldom regarded or incorporated in a scientific system.

The heat of summer (December-March, which is the rainy season) is tempered by cool breezes; winter (MaySeptember, inclusive) is dry, cold and bracing, and frost prevails for prolonged periods.

The first is carried out by saponifying the soap with acid in the heat when the fatty acids come to the surface.

Let him who has work to do recollect that the object of clothing is, first, to retain the vital heat, and secondly, in this state of society, to cover nakedness, and he may judge how much of any necessary or important work may be accomplished without adding to his wardrobe.

Yully met his gaze, utterly relaxed and content with his heat and power moving through her.

His scent and heat, the warmth of his magic, the heady sensations of being so close to him … She concentrated on placing her feet and not on his body.

The steam produced in consequence of this heat transference from the furnace gas to the water carries heat to the cylinder, where 7 to II% is transformed into mechanical energy, the remainder passing away up the chimney with the exhaust steam.

Of the former, the first, published in 1896, was on the dynamics of a particle; and afterwards there followed a number of concise treatises on thermodynamics, heat, light, properties of matter and dynamics, together with an admirably lucid volume of popular lectures on Recent Advances in Physical Science.

These changes are regarded as having been produced by the operation of heat, pressure and folding.

Rain is brought by the west wind; the north-west wind, which blows often, moderates the heat.

Carmen lay still for a few minutes, soaking up the body heat from Alex.

Gas fires, as a substitute for the open coal fire, have many points in their favour, for they are conducive to cleanliness, they need but little attention, and the heat is easily controlled.

All these methods warm chiefly by means of convected heat, the amount of true radiation from the pipes being small.

In electric cranes a useful method is to arrange the connexions so that the lifting motor acts as a dynamo, and, driven by the energy of the falling load, generates a current which is converted into heat by being passed through resistances.

That the quantity of heat to be got rid of may become very considerable is seen when it is considered that the energy of a load of 60 tons descending through 50 ft.

Over the surface of the plate and between it and the indicator there was passed, at a regularly uniform speed, in a direction perpendicular to the line of motion of the indicator, a material capable of being acted on physically by the sparks, through either their chemical action, their heat, or their perforating force.

The extremes of heat and cold are very great.

The arboreous forms which least require the humid and equable heat of the more truly tropical and equatorial climates, and are best able to resist the high temperatures and excessive drought of the northern Indian hot months from April to June, are certain Leguminosae, Bauhinia, Acacia, Butea and Dalbergia, Bombax, Shorea, Nauclea, Lagerstroemia, and Bignonia, a few bamboos and palms, with others which extend far beyond the tropic, and give a tropical aspect to the forest to the extreme northern border of the Indian plain.

In this same region the summer heat and rain provide a thoroughly tropical climate, in which rice and other tropical cereals are freely raised, being as a rule sown early in July and reaped in September or October.

Hylas, like Adonis and Hyacinthus, represents the fresh vegetation of spring, or the water of a fountain, which dries up under the heat of summer.

The bark contains a large amount of a fine, highly-resinous turpentine, which collects in tumours on the trunk during the heat of summer.

These he defended with great ability, but with so much heat that Erasmus joined in demanding his expulsion from the city.

The evaporation from this large basin exercises a certain influence on the climate of the surrounding country, while the absorption of heat for the thawing of the ice has a notable cooling effect in early summer.

But it still contains a large amount of oil, which forms animal fat and heat, and thus makes up for part of its deficiency in carbohydrates.

After a short spring the heat of summer succeeds, which in its turn is followed by an autumn of six weeks' duration.

Viscosity increases with density, but oils of the same density often vary greatly; the coefficient of expansion, on the other hand, varies inversely with the density, but bears no simple relation to the change of fluidity of the oil under the influence of heat, this being most marked in oils of paraffin base.

The earliest form of testing instrument employed for this purpose was that of Giuseppe Tagliabue of New York, which consists of a glass cup placed in a copper water bath heated by a spirit lamp. The cup is filled with the oil to be tested, a thermometer placed in it and heat applied, the temperatures being noted at which, on passing a lighted splinter of wood over the surface of the oil, a flash occurs, and after further heating, the oil ignites.

At Tiberias a little squadron of the brethren of the two Orders went down before Saladin's cavalry in May; at Hattin the levy masse of the kingdom, some 20,000 strong, foolishly marching over a sandy plain under the heat of a July sun, was utterly defeated; and after a fortnight's siege Jerusalem capitulated (October 2nd, 1187).

In their simplest form they consist of a wire through which passes the current to be measured, some arrangement being provided for measuring the small expansion produced by the heat generated in the wire.