having or giving off heat; having a high temperature: a hot fire; hot coffee.
2.
having or causing a sensation of great bodily heat; attended with or producing such a sensation: He was hot with fever.
3.
creating a burning sensation, as on the skin or in the throat: This ointment is hot, so apply it sparingly.
4.
sharply peppery or pungent: Is this mustard hot?
5.
having or showing intense or violent feeling; ardent; fervent; vehement; excited: a hot temper.
6.
Informal. having a strong enthusiasm; eager: a hot baseball fan.
7.
Slang.
a.
sexually aroused; lustful.
b.
sexy; attractive.
8.
violent, furious, or intense: the hottest battle of the war.
9.
strong or fresh, as a scent or trail.
10.
absolutely new; fresh: a dozen new mystery stories hot from the press.
11.
requiring immediate delivery or correspondence; demanding priority: The hot freight must be delivered by 10:00 a.m. tomorrow, or we'll lose the contract.
12.
Slang. skillful in a reckless or daring way: a hot pilot.
13.
following very closely; close: to be hot on the trail of a thief.
14.
(of colors) extremely intense: hot pink.
15.
Informal. popular and commercially successful; in demand; marketable: The Beatles were a hot group in the 1960s.
16.
Slang. extremely lucky, good, or favorable: A poker player has to have a hot hand to win the pot.
17.
Slang. (in sports and games) playing well or winningly; scoring effectively: a hot pitcher.
18.
Slang. funny; absurd: That's a hot one!
19.
Games. close to the object or answer that is being sought.
20.
Informal. extremely exciting or interesting; sensational or scandalous: a hot news story.
21.
Jazz.
a.
(of music) emotionally intense, propulsive, and marked by aggressive attack and warm, full tone.
b.
(of a musician) skilled in playing hot jazz.
22.
Informal. (of a vehicle) capable of attaining extremely high speeds: a hot new jet plane.
23.
Slang.
a.
stolen recently or otherwise illegal and dangerous to possess: a hot diamond necklace.
Informal. in the mood to perform exceedingly well, or rapidly, as during a burst of creative work: Finish writing that story while you're still hot.
25.
actively conducting an electric current or containing a high voltage: a hot wire.
26.
of, pertaining to, or noting radioactivity.
27.
Metalworking. noting any process involving plastic deformation of a metal at a temperature high enough to permit recrystallization due to the strain: hot working.
–adverb
28.
in a hot manner; hotly.
29.
while hot: Garnish the potatoes with parsley and serve hot.
30.
Metalworking. at a temperature high enough to permit recrystallization: The wire was drawn hot.
–verb (used with object), verb (used without object)
31.
Chiefly BritishInformal. to heat; warm (usually fol. by up).
–noun
32.
the hots, Slang. intense sexual desire or attraction.
—Idioms
33.
get hot, Slang. (in sports and games) to become very effective or successful; score or win repeatedly or easily.
34.
hot and bothered, Informal. excited, aroused, or flustered: This mistake isn't worth getting hot and bothered about. Also, all hot and bothered.
35.
hot and heavy, Informal. in an intense, vehement, or passionate manner: They argued hot and heavy for 20 minutes.
make it hot for, Informal. to make something unpleasant for; cause trouble for: Ever since their argument the principal has been making it hot for the new teacher.
[Origin: bef. 1000; 1920–25 for def. 23; ME ho(o)t, OE hāt; c. D heet, ON heitr, Sw het, Dan hed, G heiss]
Charged or energized with electricity: a hot wire.
Radioactive, especially to a dangerous degree.
Marked by intensity of emotion; ardent or fiery: a hot temper.
Having or displaying great enthusiasm; eager: hot for travel.
Informal Arousing intense interest, excitement, or controversy: a hot new book; a hot topic.
Informal Marked by excited activity or energy: a hot week on the stock market.
Violent; raging: a hot battle.
Recently stolen: a hot car.
Wanted by the police: a hot suspect.
Most recent; new or fresh: a hot news item; the hot fashions for fall.
Currently very popular or successful: one of the hottest young talents around.
Requiring immediate action or attention: a hot opportunity.
Performing with great skill and daring: a hot drummer.
Having or characterized by repeated successes: a player who is on a hot streak.
Fast and responsive: a hot sports car.
Unusually lucky: hot at craps.
Being at or exhibiting a temperature that is higher than normal or desirable: a hot forehead.
Causing a burning sensation, as in the mouth; spicy: hot peppers; a hot curry.
Charged or energized with electricity: a hot wire.
Radioactive, especially to a dangerous degree.
Marked by intensity of emotion; ardent or fiery: a hot temper.
Having or displaying great enthusiasm; eager: hot for travel.
Informal Arousing intense interest, excitement, or controversy: a hot new book; a hot topic.
Informal Marked by excited activity or energy: a hot week on the stock market.
Violent; raging: a hot battle.
Recently stolen: a hot car.
Wanted by the police: a hot suspect.
Most recent; new or fresh: a hot news item; the hot fashions for fall.
Currently very popular or successful: one of the hottest young talents around.
Requiring immediate action or attention: a hot opportunity.
Performing with great skill and daring: a hot drummer.
Having or characterized by repeated successes: a player who is on a hot streak.
Fast and responsive: a hot sports car.
Unusually lucky: hot at craps.
Marked by intensity of emotion; ardent or fiery: a hot temper.
Having or displaying great enthusiasm; eager: hot for travel.
Informal Arousing intense interest, excitement, or controversy: a hot new book; a hot topic.
Informal Marked by excited activity or energy: a hot week on the stock market.
Violent; raging: a hot battle.
Recently stolen: a hot car.
Wanted by the police: a hot suspect.
Most recent; new or fresh: a hot news item; the hot fashions for fall.
Currently very popular or successful: one of the hottest young talents around.
Requiring immediate action or attention: a hot opportunity.
Performing with great skill and daring: a hot drummer.
Having or characterized by repeated successes: a player who is on a hot streak.
Fast and responsive: a hot sports car.
Unusually lucky: hot at craps.
Informal Arousing intense interest, excitement, or controversy: a hot new book; a hot topic.
Informal Marked by excited activity or energy: a hot week on the stock market.
Violent; raging: a hot battle.
Recently stolen: a hot car.
Wanted by the police: a hot suspect.
Most recent; new or fresh: a hot news item; the hot fashions for fall.
Currently very popular or successful: one of the hottest young talents around.
Requiring immediate action or attention: a hot opportunity.
Performing with great skill and daring: a hot drummer.
Having or characterized by repeated successes: a player who is on a hot streak.
Fast and responsive: a hot sports car.
Unusually lucky: hot at craps.
Slang Sexually excited or exciting.
Slang
Recently stolen: a hot car.
Wanted by the police: a hot suspect.
Most recent; new or fresh: a hot news item; the hot fashions for fall.
Currently very popular or successful: one of the hottest young talents around.
Requiring immediate action or attention: a hot opportunity.
Performing with great skill and daring: a hot drummer.
Having or characterized by repeated successes: a player who is on a hot streak.
Fast and responsive: a hot sports car.
Unusually lucky: hot at craps.
Close to a successful solution or conclusion: hot on the trail.
Informal
Most recent; new or fresh: a hot news item; the hot fashions for fall.
Currently very popular or successful: one of the hottest young talents around.
Requiring immediate action or attention: a hot opportunity.
Performing with great skill and daring: a hot drummer.
Having or characterized by repeated successes: a player who is on a hot streak.
Fast and responsive: a hot sports car.
Unusually lucky: hot at craps.
Slang Very good or impressive. Often used in the negative: I'm not so hot at math.
Slang Funny or absurd: told a hot one about the neighbors' dog.
Slang
Performing with great skill and daring: a hot drummer.
Having or characterized by repeated successes: a player who is on a hot streak.
Fast and responsive: a hot sports car.
Unusually lucky: hot at craps.
Music Of, relating to, or being an emotionally charged style of performance marked by strong rhythms and improvisation: hot jazz.
Bold and bright.
n.
hots (hŏts)
Slang Strong sexual attraction or desire. Used with the.
adv.
In a hot manner; hotly.
While hot: foods that are best eaten hot.
tr.v.
hot·ted, hot·ting, hots Informal To cause to increase in intensity or excitement. Often used with up: "His book is an exercise in the fashionable art of instant history, in which every episode is hotted up with an anecdote"(Harper's).
[Middle English, from Old English hāt; see kai- in Indo-European roots.]
O.E. hat "hot, opposite of cold," also "fervent, fierce," from P.Gmc. *haitoz (cf. O.Fris. het, O.N. heitr, Du. heet, Ger. heiß "hot," Goth. heito "heat of a fever"), from PIE base *qai- (cf. Lith. kaistu "to grow hot"), the same root as that of heat. Taste sense of "pungent, acrid, biting" is from 1548. Sense of "exciting, remarkable, very good" is 1895; that of "stolen" is first recorded 1925 (originally with overtones of "easily identified and difficult to dispose of"); that of "radioactive" is from 1942. Hot air "unsubstantiated statements, boastful talk" is from 1900. Hot potato in figurative sense is from 1846. Hot-blooded "passionate" (1598) is a relic of medieval physiology theory. The association of hot with sexuality dates back to 1500. Hot rod first recorded 1945 in Amer.Eng.; hot water "trouble" is from 1537. The hot and cold in hide-and-seek or guessing games are from hunting (1648), with notion of tracking a scent. Hot spot "night club" first recorded 1931. Hotshot "important person" is from 1933; it earlier meant "fast train" (1925).
used of physical heat; having a high or higher than desirable temperature or giving off heat or feeling or causing a sensation of heat or burning; "hot stove"; "hot water"; "a hot August day"; "a hot stuffy room"; "she's hot and tired"; "a hot forehead" [ant: cold]
2.
characterized by violent and forceful activity or movement; very intense; "the fighting became hot and heavy"; "a hot engagement"; "a raging battle"; "the river became a raging torrent"
3.
extended meanings; especially of psychological heat; marked by intensity or vehemence especially of passion or enthusiasm; "a hot temper"; "a hot topic"; "a hot new book"; "a hot love affair"; "a hot argument" [ant: cold]
4.
(color) bold and intense; "hot pink"
5.
sexually excited or exciting; "was hot for her"; "hot pants"
6.
recently stolen or smuggled; "hot merchandise"; "a hot car"
7.
very fast; capable of quick response and great speed; "a hot sports car"; "a blistering pace"; "got off to a hot start"; "in hot pursuit"; "a red-hot line drive" [syn: blistering]
8.
wanted by the police; "a hot suspect"
9.
producing a burning sensation on the taste nerves; "hot salsa"; "jalapeno peppers are very hot"
10.
performed or performing with unusually great skill and daring and energy; "a hot drummer"; "he's hot tonight"
11.
very popular or successful; "one of the hot young talents"; "cabbage patch dolls were hot last season"
12.
very unpleasant or even dangerous; "make it hot for him"; "in the hot seat"; "in hot water"
13.
newest or most recent; "news hot off the press"; "red-hot information"
14.
having or bringing unusually good luck; "hot at craps"; "the dice are hot tonight"
15.
very good; often used in the negative; "he's hot at math but not so hot at history"
16.
newly made; "a hot scent"
17.
having or showing great eagerness or enthusiasm; "hot for travel"
18.
of a seeker; very near to the object sought; "you are hot"
19.
having or dealing with dangerously high levels of radioactivity; "hot fuel rods"; "a hot laboratory"
20.
charged or energized with electricity; "a hot wire"; "a live wire"
21.
marked by excited activity; "a hot week on the stock market"
Hot Springs, MT (town, FIPS 37825) Location: 47.60889 N, 114.67110 W Population (1990): 411 (385 housing units) Area: 0.8 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 59845
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Heat\, n. [OE. hete, h[ae]te, AS. h?tu, h?to, fr. h[=a]t hot; akin to OHG. heizi heat, Dan. hede, Sw. hetta. See Hot.]1. A force in nature which is recognized in various effects, but especially in the phenomena of fusion and evaporation, and which, as manifested in fire, the sun's rays, mechanical action, chemical combination, etc., becomes directly known to us through the sense of feeling. In its nature heat is a mode if motion, being in general a form of molecular disturbance or vibration. It was formerly supposed to be a subtile, imponderable fluid, to which was given the name caloric. Note: As affecting the human body, heat produces different sensations, which are called by different names, as heat or sensible heat, warmth, cold, etc., according to its degree or amount relatively to the normal temperature of the body. 2. The sensation caused by the force or influence of heat when excessive, or above that which is normal to the human body; the bodily feeling experienced on exposure to fire, the sun's rays, etc.; the reverse of cold. 3. High temperature, as distinguished from low temperature, or cold; as, the heat of summer and the cold of winter; heat of the skin or body in fever, etc. Else how had the world . . . Avoided pinching cold and scorching heat! --Milton. 4. Indication of high temperature; appearance, condition, or color of a body, as indicating its temperature; redness; high color; flush; degree of temperature to which something is heated, as indicated by appearance, condition, or otherwise. It has raised . . . heats in their faces. --Addison. The heats smiths take of their iron are a blood-red heat, a white-flame heat, and a sparking or welding heat. --Moxon. 5. A single complete operation of heating, as at a forge or in a furnace; as, to make a horseshoe in a certain number of heats. 6. A violent action unintermitted; a single effort; a single course in a race that consists of two or more courses; as, he won two heats out of three. Many causes . . . for refreshment betwixt the heats. --Dryden. [He] struck off at one heat the matchless tale of "Tam o'Shanter." --J. C. Shairp. 7. Utmost violence; rage; vehemence; as, the heat of battle or party. "The heat of their division." --Shak. 8. Agitation of mind; inflammation or excitement; exasperation. "The head and hurry of his rage." --South. 9. Animation, as in discourse; ardor; fervency. With all the strength and heat of eloquence. --Addison. 10. Sexual excitement in animals. 11. Fermentation. Animal heat, Blood heat, Capacity for heat, etc. See under Animal, Blood, etc. Atomic heat (Chem.), the product obtained by multiplying the atomic weight of any element by its specific heat. The atomic heat of all solid elements is nearly a constant, the mean value being 6.4. Dynamical theory of heat, that theory of heat which assumes it to be, not a peculiar kind of matter, but a peculiar motion of the ultimate particles of matter. Heat engine, any apparatus by which a heated substance, as a heated fluid, is made to perform work by giving motion to mechanism, as a hot-air engine, or a steam engine. Heat producers. (Physiol.) See under Food. Heat rays, a term formerly applied to the rays near the red end of the spectrum, whether within or beyond the visible spectrum. Heat weight (Mech.), the product of any quantity of heat by the mechanical equivalent of heat divided by the absolute temperature; -- called also thermodynamic function, and entropy. Mechanical equivalent of heat. See under Equivalent. Specific heat of a substance (at any temperature), the number of units of heat required to raise the temperature of a unit mass of the substance at that temperature one degree. Unit of heat, the quantity of heat required to raise, by one degree, the temperature of a unit mass of water, initially at a certain standard temperature. The temperature usually employed is that of 0[deg] Centigrade, or 32[deg] Fahrenheit.
Heat\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Heated; p. pr. & vb. n. Heating.] [OE. heten, AS. h?tan, fr. h[=a]t hot. See Hot.]1. To make hot; to communicate heat to, or cause to grow warm; as, to heat an oven or furnace, an iron, or the like. Heat me these irons hot. --Shak. 2. To excite or make hot by action or emotion; to make feverish. Pray, walk softly; do not heat your blood. --Shak. 3. To excite ardor in; to rouse to action; to excite to excess; to inflame, as the passions. A noble emulation heats your breast. --Dryden.
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