English words for 'Producing heat when under pressure'
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adj
- produced under conditions involving intense heat
- produced by the action of fire or intense heat
- like or suggestive of fire
- Pertaining to or having the nature of fire; containing fire; resembling fire.
- (geology) Resulting from, or produced by, great heat. With rocks, it could also mean formed from lava or magma.
verb
- heat by a natural force
- be very hot, due to hot weather or exposure to the sun
- prepare with dry heat in an oven
- cook and make edible by putting in a hot oven
- (intransitive, slang) To smoke marijuana.
- (intransitive) To be warmed to drying and hardening.
- (transitive) To dry by heat.
- (computer graphics, transitive) To fix (lighting, reflections, etc.) as part of the texture of an object to improve rendering performance.
- (transitive or intransitive or ditransitive, with person as subject) To cook (something) in an oven (for someone).
- (figurative, with "in" or "into") To incorporate into something greater.
- (transitive, figuratively) To cause to be hot.
- (intransitive, with baked thing as subject) To be cooked in an oven.
- (intransitive, figuratively) To be hot.
noun
- (US) A social event at which food (such as seafood) is baked, or at which baked food is served.
- (especially UK, Australia, New Zealand) Any of various baked dishes resembling casserole.
- (Barbados, sometimes US and UK) A small, flat (or ball-shaped) cake of dough eaten mainly in Barbados, similar in appearance and ingredients to a pancake but fried (or sometimes roasted).
- The act of cooking food by baking.
- Any food item that is baked, such as a pastry.
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- (colloquial, figurative) Any area that is excessively hot.
- (figurative) A place or time of punishment, affliction, or great trial; severe experience or discipline.
- An industrial heating device, such as for smelting metal or firing ceramics.
- (US, Canada) A device that provides heat for a building.
- an enclosed chamber in which heat is produced to heat buildings, destroy refuse, smelt or refine ores, etc.
noun
- A process whereby two chemicals are combined to produce heat.
- A process wherein a fuel is combined with oxygen, usually at high temperature, releasing heat.
- (dated or archaicizing, figuratively) Violent agitation, tumult.
- (chemistry) The act or process of burning.
- a process in which a substance reacts with oxygen to give heat and light
- the act of burning something
- a state of violent disturbance and excitement
noun
- the production of heat or electricity
- a stage of technological development or innovation
- the normal time between successive generations
- all the people living at the same time or of approximately the same age
- a coming into being
- group of genetically related organisms constituting a single step in the line of descent
- the act of producing offspring or multiplying by such production
- (now US, dialectal) Race, family; breed.
- A group of people born in a specific range of years and whose members can relate culturally to one another.
- The act of creating a living creature or organism; procreation.
- (geometry) The formation or production of any geometrical magnitude, as a line, a surface, a solid, by the motion, in accordance with a mathematical law, of a point or a magnitude, by the motion of a point, of a surface by a line, a sphere by a semicircle, etc.
- (cellular automata) A single iteration of a cellular automaton rule on a pattern.
- A single step or stage in the succession of natural descent; a rank or degree in genealogy, the members of a family from the same parents, considered as a single unit.
- A version of a form of pop culture which differs from later or earlier versions.
- (television) A copy of a recording made from an earlier copy.
- A set stage in the development of computing or of a specific technology.
- The average amount of time needed for children to grow up and have children of their own, generally considered to be a period of around thirty years, used as a measure of time.
- The act of creating something or bringing something into being; production, creation.
noun
- (thermodynamics) A material capable of absorbing heat.
- (thermodynamics) A place toward which the heat moves in a system.
- (thermodynamics) An object, system or environment that absorbs and dissipates heat from objects in thermal contact (either direct or radiant) with it.
- a metal conductor specially designed to conduct (and radiate) heat
noun
- the presence of heat
- a form of energy that is transferred by a difference in temperature
- the trait of being intensely emotional
- the sensation caused by heat energy
- a preliminary race in which the winner advances to a more important race
- utility to warm a building
- applies to nonhuman mammals: a state or period of heightened sexual arousal and activity
- (uncountable) A condition in which a mammal is aroused sexually or where it is especially fertile and therefore eager to mate.
- (countable) A hot spell.
- (countable) One cycle of bringing metal to maximum temperature and working it until it is too cool to work further.
- (countable, fandom slang) In omegaverse fiction, a cyclical period in which omegas experience an intense, sometimes irresistible biological urge to mate.
- (countable, baseball) A fastball.
- (uncountable) A period of intensity, particularly of emotion.
- (countable, by extension) A stage in a competition, not necessarily a sporting one; a round.
- (uncountable) An undesirable amount of attention.
- (uncountable) An attribute of a spice that causes a burning sensation in the mouth.
- (uncountable, slang) One or more firearms.
- (uncountable, slang) Stylish and valuable sneakers.
- (uncountable) The condition or quality of being hot.
- (countable) A violent action unintermitted; a single effort.
- (slang, endearing) The arousal or horniness of a person, likened to that of a mammal.
- (uncountable) Thermal energy.
- (uncountable) Heating system; a system that raises the temperature of a room or building.
- (uncountable, slang) The police.
- (professional wrestling slang) A negative reaction from the audience, especially as a heel (or bad character), or in general.
- (uncountable) The output of a heating system.
- (countable) A preliminary race, used to determine the participants in a final race.
verb
- provide with heat
- make hot or hotter
- gain heat or get hot
- arouse or excite feelings and passions
- (transitive, figurative) To excite ardour in; to rouse to action; to excite to excess; to inflame, as the passions.
- (transitive, figurative) To excite or make hot by action or emotion; to make feverish.
- (transitive, slang) To arouse, to excite (sexually).
- (transitive) To cause an increase in temperature of (an object or space); to cause to become hot (often with "up").
- (intransitive) To become hotter.
noun
- The process of transferring heat from an object in order to cool it.
- (medicine) The cooling of the body for therapeutic purposes.
- The process of preserving something by cooling.
- deliberately lowering the body's temperature for therapeutic purposes
- the process of cooling or freezing (e.g., food) for preservative purposes
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verb
adj
- (not comparable, slang, of a draft or check) Not covered by funds on account.
- Fresh; just released.
- (acoustics) Loud, producing a strong electric signal for the amplifier or other sound equipment.
- (of a person or animal) Feeling the sensation of heat, especially to the point of discomfort.
- (slang, of bodily fluids) Containing drugs.
- (slang) Extremely attracted to. [with for]
- Of great current interest; provoking current debate or controversy.
- Feverish; feeling a high fever.
- (slang) Used to emphasize the short duration or small quantity of something
- (slang) Stolen.
- Very close to finding or guessing something to be found or guessed.
- (of an object) Having or giving off a high temperature.
- (US, not comparable) Electrically charged.
- (colloquial, of a person) Very physically or sexually attractive.
- (slang) Sexually aroused; randy.
- Popular; in demand.
- Performing strongly; having repeated successes.
- (slang) Characterized by police presence or activity.
- (of a temper) Easily provoked to anger.
- (informal) Very good, remarkable, exciting.
- Uncomfortable, difficult to deal with; awkward, dangerous, unpleasant.
- (slang, of a vehicle or aircraft) Extremely fast or with great speed.
- (of food) Spicy, pungent, piquant, as some chilis and other spices are.
- (colloquial) Sexual or sexy; involving sexual intercourse or sexual excitement.
- (informal) Radioactive.
- Active, in use or ready for use (like a bullet or a firing range), turned on (like a microphone or camera).
- very good; often used in the negative
- recently stolen or smuggled
- marked by excited activity
- of a seeker; very near to the object sought
- newest or most recent
- having or showing great eagerness or enthusiasm
- sexually excited or exciting
- very fast; capable of quick response and great speed
- charged or energized with electricity
- (color) bold and intense
- wanted by the police
- (extended meanings, especially of psychological heat) marked by intensity or vehemence especially of passion or enthusiasm
- producing a burning sensation on the taste nerves
- made recently
- very unpleasant or even dangerous
- having or bringing unusually good luck
- having or dealing with dangerously high levels of radioactivity
- performed or performing with unusually great skill and daring and energy
- characterized by violent and forceful activity or movement; very intense
- very popular or successful
- 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
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- a long tube made of metal or plastic that is used to carry water or oil or gas etc.
- a thin strip of covered cord used to edge hems
- playing a pipe or the bagpipes
- An act of making music or noise with pipes.
- (cooking) Icing extruded from a piping bag.
- The sound of musical pipes.
- A system of pipes that compose a structure; pipework.
- (sewing) An ornamentation on the edges of a garment; a small cord covered with cloth.
- (botany) propagation by cuttings
- The process of an animal just beginning to break out of its egg; precedes hatching.
- (botany) A piece cut off to be set or planted; a cutting.
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adj
noun
- The method of cooking by immersion in steam.
- The action of steam on something.
- The raising of steam by a steam locomotive etc; the maintenance of a head of steam during operation; (metonymic) operation under load.
- (UK, informal) A form of robbery in which a large gang moves swiftly and violently through a bus or train.
- The act or process of seafaring under steam power.
verb
adj
noun
verb
verb
- loose heat
- make cool or cooler
- depress or discourage
- (intransitive, slang) To smoke marijuana.
- (intransitive, metallurgy) To become hard by rapid cooling.
- (transitive, figurative) To discourage, depress.
- (intransitive, slang) To "hang", hang out; to spend time with another person or group.
- (transitive, metallurgy) To harden a metal surface by sudden cooling.
- (intransitive) To become cold.
- (intransitive, slang) To relax; to lie back; to take things easy.
- (transitive) To lower the temperature of something; to cool.
noun
- coldness due to a cold environment
- a sensation of cold that often marks the start of an infection and the development of a fever
- an almost pleasurable sensation of fright
- a sudden numbing dread
- A sense of style; trendiness; savoir faire.
- A lack of warmth and cordiality; unfriendliness.
- A moderate, but uncomfortable and penetrating coldness.
- An uncomfortable and numbing sense of fear, dread, anxiety, or alarm, often one that is sudden and usually accompanied by a trembling nerve response resembling the body's response to biting cold.
- Calmness; equanimity.
- The hardened part of a casting, such as the tread of a carriage wheel.
- An iron mould or portion of a mould, serving to cool rapidly, and so to harden, the surface of molten iron brought in contact with it.
- A chilling effect; an atmosphere of this.
- A sudden penetrating sense of cold, especially one that causes a brief trembling nerve response through the body; the trembling response itself; often associated with illness: fevers and chills, or susceptibility to illness.
adj
verb
- loose heat
- make cool or cooler
- lose intensity
- (intransitive, figuratively) To become less intense, e.g. less amicable or passionate.
- (intransitive, African-American Vernacular, slang) To relax, hang out.
- (transitive, figuratively) To make less intense, e.g. less amicable or passionate.
- (transitive, literally) To make cooler, less warm.
- (intransitive, literally) To lose heat, to get colder.
adj
- fashionable and attractive at the time; often skilled or socially adept
- being satisfactory or in satisfactory condition
- neither warm nor very cold; giving relief from heat
- psychologically cool and unenthusiastic; unfriendly or unresponsive or showing dislike
- marked by calm self-control (especially in trying circumstances); unemotional
- used of a quantity or amount (especially of money) for emphasis
- inducing the impression of coolness; used especially of greens and blues and violets when referring to color
- (informal, of a person) Knowing what to do and how to behave; behaving with effortless and enviable style and panache; considered popular by others.
- (informal, originally African-American Vernacular) Fashionable; trendy; hip.
- (of a person) Not showing emotion; calm and in control of oneself.
- (informal) Very interesting or exciting.
- (informal) Followed by with: able to tolerate.
- Unenthusiastic; lukewarm; skeptical.
- (informal) Of a pair of people, Having good relations.
- Of a color, in the range of violet to green.
- (informal) All right; acceptable; good.
- Allowing or suggesting heat relief.
- Of a mildly low temperature.
- Applied facetiously to a sum of money, commonly as if to give emphasis to the largeness of the amount.
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adj
- (chemistry, of a reaction) That releases energy in the form of heat.
- (zoology) Of an animal: whose body temperature is regulated by external factors; cold-blooded.
- (chemistry, of a compound) That releases heat during its formation, and absorbs it during its decomposition.
- (of a chemical reaction or compound) occurring or formed with the liberation of heat
verb
- transform by heating
- prepare for eating by applying heat
- prepare a hot meal
- transform and make suitable for consumption by heating
- tamper, with the purpose of deception
- (transitive, military slang) To hold on to a grenade briefly after igniting the fuse, so that it explodes almost immediately after being thrown.
- (transitive, slang) To cause to be cooked, i.e. to put in a hopeless situation.
- (intransitive, slang, humorous) To proceed with some advantageous course of action; (more generally) to be successful.
- (transitive, slang) To tamper with or alter; to cook up.
- (transitive) To concoct or prepare.
- (intransitive, music, slang) To play music vigorously.
- (transitive, slang) To execute by electric chair.
- (intransitive, slang, derogatory, Australia) To develop insane or fringe ideas.
- (intransitive, figuratively) To be uncomfortably hot.
- (intransitive, jazz, slang) To play or improvise in an inspired and rhythmically exciting way. (From 1930s jive talk.)
- (intransitive, slang, humorous) To proceed with some plan or course of action, or develop some train of thought towards its conclusion (whether this is advantageous, or comical, or digging into a hole).
- (transitive, slang) To kill, destroy, or otherwise render useless or inoperative through exposure to excessive heat or radiation.
- (intransitive) To be cooked.
- (transitive, slang) To defeat or humiliate.
- (ambitransitive) To prepare food for eating by heating it, often combining with other ingredients.
- (transitive, video games) To smelt.
noun
- someone who cooks food
- (cooking) A person who prepares food.
- (slang) One who manufactures certain illegal drugs, especially meth.
- (cooking) The degree or quality of cookedness of food.
- (cooking) The head cook of a manor house.
- (slang) A session of manufacturing certain illegal drugs, especially meth.
- (chess) An unintended solution to a chess problem, considered to spoil the problem.
- A fish, the European striped wrasse, Labrus mixtus.
- (metalworking, construction) The member of a hot-rivetting team who heats the rivets in a brazier, see rivet.
noun
- the process whereby heat changes something from a solid to a liquid
- (UK, politics, slang, derogatory) A centre-left or liberal person, when in opposition to a leftist; (especially) a critic of Jeremy Corbyn within the Labour Party.
- (geology) Rock showing evidence of having been remelted after it originally solidified.
- (UK, slang, derogatory) An idiot.
- The springtime snow runoff in mountain regions.
- Molten material, the product of melting.
- The transition of matter from a solid state to a liquid state.
- A melt sandwich.
- Variant spelling of milt, the semen of a male fish, used as food.
- A wax-based substance for use in an oil burner as an alternative to mixing oils and water.
verb
- become or cause to become soft or liquid
- reduce or cause to be reduced from a solid to a liquid state, usually by heating
- become more relaxed, easygoing, or genial
- lose its distinct outline or shape; blend gradually
- become less clearly visible or distinguishable; disappear gradually or seemingly
- become less intense and fade away gradually
- (intransitive, colloquial) To be very hot and sweat profusely.
- (intransitive, figurative) To be emotionally softened or touched.
- (transitive, figurative) To soften, as by a warming or kindly influence; to relax; to render gentle or susceptible to mild influences; sometimes, in a bad sense, to take away the firmness of; to weaken.
- (intransitive, figuratively) To dissolve, disperse, vanish.
- (ergative) To change (or to be changed) from a solid state to a liquid state, usually by a gradual heat.
- (intransitive) To be discouraged.
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verb
noun
- the process whereby heat changes something from a solid to a liquid
- a relaxation or slackening of tensions or reserve; becoming less hostile
- warm weather following a freeze; snow and ice melt
- The melting of ice, snow, or other frozen or congealed matter; the transformation of ice or the like into the state of a fluid; liquefaction by heat of anything congealed by frost
- (figuratively) A period of relaxation, of reduced reserve, tension, or hostility or of increased friendliness or understanding.
- a period of weather warm enough to melt that which is frozen
verb
- become or cause to become soft or liquid
- (intransitive) To gradually melt, dissolve, or become fluid; to soften from frozen.
- (intransitive, figuratively) To grow gentle or genial.
- (transitive) To gradually cause frozen things (such as earth, snow, ice) to melt, soften, or dissolve.
- (impersonal, intransitive) To become sufficiently warm to melt ice and snow, said in reference to the weather.
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- A process whereby two chemicals are combined to produce heat.
- A process wherein a fuel is combined with oxygen, usually at high temperature, releasing heat.
- (dated or archaicizing, figuratively) Violent agitation, tumult.
- (chemistry) The act or process of burning.
- a process in which a substance reacts with oxygen to give heat and light
- the act of burning something
- a state of violent disturbance and excitement
noun
- the production of heat or electricity
- a stage of technological development or innovation
- the normal time between successive generations
- all the people living at the same time or of approximately the same age
- a coming into being
- group of genetically related organisms constituting a single step in the line of descent
- the act of producing offspring or multiplying by such production
- (now US, dialectal) Race, family; breed.
- A group of people born in a specific range of years and whose members can relate culturally to one another.
- The act of creating a living creature or organism; procreation.
- (geometry) The formation or production of any geometrical magnitude, as a line, a surface, a solid, by the motion, in accordance with a mathematical law, of a point or a magnitude, by the motion of a point, of a surface by a line, a sphere by a semicircle, etc.
- (cellular automata) A single iteration of a cellular automaton rule on a pattern.
- A single step or stage in the succession of natural descent; a rank or degree in genealogy, the members of a family from the same parents, considered as a single unit.
- A version of a form of pop culture which differs from later or earlier versions.
- (television) A copy of a recording made from an earlier copy.
- A set stage in the development of computing or of a specific technology.
- The average amount of time needed for children to grow up and have children of their own, generally considered to be a period of around thirty years, used as a measure of time.
- The act of creating something or bringing something into being; production, creation.
noun
- (thermodynamics) A material capable of absorbing heat.
- (thermodynamics) A place toward which the heat moves in a system.
- (thermodynamics) An object, system or environment that absorbs and dissipates heat from objects in thermal contact (either direct or radiant) with it.
- a metal conductor specially designed to conduct (and radiate) heat
noun
- the presence of heat
- a form of energy that is transferred by a difference in temperature
- the trait of being intensely emotional
- the sensation caused by heat energy
- a preliminary race in which the winner advances to a more important race
- utility to warm a building
- applies to nonhuman mammals: a state or period of heightened sexual arousal and activity
- (uncountable) A condition in which a mammal is aroused sexually or where it is especially fertile and therefore eager to mate.
- (countable) A hot spell.
- (countable) One cycle of bringing metal to maximum temperature and working it until it is too cool to work further.
- (countable, fandom slang) In omegaverse fiction, a cyclical period in which omegas experience an intense, sometimes irresistible biological urge to mate.
- (countable, baseball) A fastball.
- (uncountable) A period of intensity, particularly of emotion.
- (countable, by extension) A stage in a competition, not necessarily a sporting one; a round.
- (uncountable) An undesirable amount of attention.
- (uncountable) An attribute of a spice that causes a burning sensation in the mouth.
- (uncountable, slang) One or more firearms.
- (uncountable, slang) Stylish and valuable sneakers.
- (uncountable) The condition or quality of being hot.
- (countable) A violent action unintermitted; a single effort.
- (slang, endearing) The arousal or horniness of a person, likened to that of a mammal.
- (uncountable) Thermal energy.
- (uncountable) Heating system; a system that raises the temperature of a room or building.
- (uncountable, slang) The police.
- (professional wrestling slang) A negative reaction from the audience, especially as a heel (or bad character), or in general.
- (uncountable) The output of a heating system.
- (countable) A preliminary race, used to determine the participants in a final race.
verb
- provide with heat
- make hot or hotter
- gain heat or get hot
- arouse or excite feelings and passions
- (transitive, figurative) To excite ardour in; to rouse to action; to excite to excess; to inflame, as the passions.
- (transitive, figurative) To excite or make hot by action or emotion; to make feverish.
- (transitive, slang) To arouse, to excite (sexually).
- (transitive) To cause an increase in temperature of (an object or space); to cause to become hot (often with "up").
- (intransitive) To become hotter.
noun
- The process of transferring heat from an object in order to cool it.
- (medicine) The cooling of the body for therapeutic purposes.
- The process of preserving something by cooling.
- deliberately lowering the body's temperature for therapeutic purposes
- the process of cooling or freezing (e.g., food) for preservative purposes
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adj
- (chemistry, of a reaction) That releases energy in the form of heat.
- (zoology) Of an animal: whose body temperature is regulated by external factors; cold-blooded.
- (chemistry, of a compound) That releases heat during its formation, and absorbs it during its decomposition.
- (of a chemical reaction or compound) occurring or formed with the liberation of heat
noun
- the process whereby heat changes something from a solid to a liquid
- (UK, politics, slang, derogatory) A centre-left or liberal person, when in opposition to a leftist; (especially) a critic of Jeremy Corbyn within the Labour Party.
- (geology) Rock showing evidence of having been remelted after it originally solidified.
- (UK, slang, derogatory) An idiot.
- The springtime snow runoff in mountain regions.
- Molten material, the product of melting.
- The transition of matter from a solid state to a liquid state.
- A melt sandwich.
- Variant spelling of milt, the semen of a male fish, used as food.
- A wax-based substance for use in an oil burner as an alternative to mixing oils and water.
verb
- become or cause to become soft or liquid
- reduce or cause to be reduced from a solid to a liquid state, usually by heating
- become more relaxed, easygoing, or genial
- lose its distinct outline or shape; blend gradually
- become less clearly visible or distinguishable; disappear gradually or seemingly
- become less intense and fade away gradually
- (intransitive, colloquial) To be very hot and sweat profusely.
- (intransitive, figurative) To be emotionally softened or touched.
- (transitive, figurative) To soften, as by a warming or kindly influence; to relax; to render gentle or susceptible to mild influences; sometimes, in a bad sense, to take away the firmness of; to weaken.
- (intransitive, figuratively) To dissolve, disperse, vanish.
- (ergative) To change (or to be changed) from a solid state to a liquid state, usually by a gradual heat.
- (intransitive) To be discouraged.
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- the process whereby heat changes something from a solid to a liquid
- a relaxation or slackening of tensions or reserve; becoming less hostile
- warm weather following a freeze; snow and ice melt
- The melting of ice, snow, or other frozen or congealed matter; the transformation of ice or the like into the state of a fluid; liquefaction by heat of anything congealed by frost
- (figuratively) A period of relaxation, of reduced reserve, tension, or hostility or of increased friendliness or understanding.
- a period of weather warm enough to melt that which is frozen
verb
- become or cause to become soft or liquid
- (intransitive) To gradually melt, dissolve, or become fluid; to soften from frozen.
- (intransitive, figuratively) To grow gentle or genial.
- (transitive) To gradually cause frozen things (such as earth, snow, ice) to melt, soften, or dissolve.
- (impersonal, intransitive) To become sufficiently warm to melt ice and snow, said in reference to the weather.
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- heat by a natural force
- be very hot, due to hot weather or exposure to the sun
- prepare with dry heat in an oven
- cook and make edible by putting in a hot oven
- (intransitive, slang) To smoke marijuana.
- (intransitive) To be warmed to drying and hardening.
- (transitive) To dry by heat.
- (computer graphics, transitive) To fix (lighting, reflections, etc.) as part of the texture of an object to improve rendering performance.
- (transitive or intransitive or ditransitive, with person as subject) To cook (something) in an oven (for someone).
- (figurative, with "in" or "into") To incorporate into something greater.
- (transitive, figuratively) To cause to be hot.
- (intransitive, with baked thing as subject) To be cooked in an oven.
- (intransitive, figuratively) To be hot.
noun
- (US) A social event at which food (such as seafood) is baked, or at which baked food is served.
- (especially UK, Australia, New Zealand) Any of various baked dishes resembling casserole.
- (Barbados, sometimes US and UK) A small, flat (or ball-shaped) cake of dough eaten mainly in Barbados, similar in appearance and ingredients to a pancake but fried (or sometimes roasted).
- The act of cooking food by baking.
- Any food item that is baked, such as a pastry.
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- (colloquial, figurative) Any area that is excessively hot.
- (figurative) A place or time of punishment, affliction, or great trial; severe experience or discipline.
- An industrial heating device, such as for smelting metal or firing ceramics.
- (US, Canada) A device that provides heat for a building.
- an enclosed chamber in which heat is produced to heat buildings, destroy refuse, smelt or refine ores, etc.
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adj
- (not comparable, slang, of a draft or check) Not covered by funds on account.
- Fresh; just released.
- (acoustics) Loud, producing a strong electric signal for the amplifier or other sound equipment.
- (of a person or animal) Feeling the sensation of heat, especially to the point of discomfort.
- (slang, of bodily fluids) Containing drugs.
- (slang) Extremely attracted to. [with for]
- Of great current interest; provoking current debate or controversy.
- Feverish; feeling a high fever.
- (slang) Used to emphasize the short duration or small quantity of something
- (slang) Stolen.
- Very close to finding or guessing something to be found or guessed.
- (of an object) Having or giving off a high temperature.
- (US, not comparable) Electrically charged.
- (colloquial, of a person) Very physically or sexually attractive.
- (slang) Sexually aroused; randy.
- Popular; in demand.
- Performing strongly; having repeated successes.
- (slang) Characterized by police presence or activity.
- (of a temper) Easily provoked to anger.
- (informal) Very good, remarkable, exciting.
- Uncomfortable, difficult to deal with; awkward, dangerous, unpleasant.
- (slang, of a vehicle or aircraft) Extremely fast or with great speed.
- (of food) Spicy, pungent, piquant, as some chilis and other spices are.
- (colloquial) Sexual or sexy; involving sexual intercourse or sexual excitement.
- (informal) Radioactive.
- Active, in use or ready for use (like a bullet or a firing range), turned on (like a microphone or camera).
- very good; often used in the negative
- recently stolen or smuggled
- marked by excited activity
- of a seeker; very near to the object sought
- newest or most recent
- having or showing great eagerness or enthusiasm
- sexually excited or exciting
- very fast; capable of quick response and great speed
- charged or energized with electricity
- (color) bold and intense
- wanted by the police
- (extended meanings, especially of psychological heat) marked by intensity or vehemence especially of passion or enthusiasm
- producing a burning sensation on the taste nerves
- made recently
- very unpleasant or even dangerous
- having or bringing unusually good luck
- having or dealing with dangerously high levels of radioactivity
- performed or performing with unusually great skill and daring and energy
- characterized by violent and forceful activity or movement; very intense
- very popular or successful
- 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
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noun
noun
- the presence of heat
- a form of energy that is transferred by a difference in temperature
- the trait of being intensely emotional
- the sensation caused by heat energy
- a preliminary race in which the winner advances to a more important race
- utility to warm a building
- applies to nonhuman mammals: a state or period of heightened sexual arousal and activity
- (uncountable) A condition in which a mammal is aroused sexually or where it is especially fertile and therefore eager to mate.
- (countable) A hot spell.
- (countable) One cycle of bringing metal to maximum temperature and working it until it is too cool to work further.
- (countable, fandom slang) In omegaverse fiction, a cyclical period in which omegas experience an intense, sometimes irresistible biological urge to mate.
- (countable, baseball) A fastball.
- (uncountable) A period of intensity, particularly of emotion.
- (countable, by extension) A stage in a competition, not necessarily a sporting one; a round.
- (uncountable) An undesirable amount of attention.
- (uncountable) An attribute of a spice that causes a burning sensation in the mouth.
- (uncountable, slang) One or more firearms.
- (uncountable, slang) Stylish and valuable sneakers.
- (uncountable) The condition or quality of being hot.
- (countable) A violent action unintermitted; a single effort.
- (slang, endearing) The arousal or horniness of a person, likened to that of a mammal.
- (uncountable) Thermal energy.
- (uncountable) Heating system; a system that raises the temperature of a room or building.
- (uncountable, slang) The police.
- (professional wrestling slang) A negative reaction from the audience, especially as a heel (or bad character), or in general.
- (uncountable) The output of a heating system.
- (countable) A preliminary race, used to determine the participants in a final race.
verb
- provide with heat
- make hot or hotter
- gain heat or get hot
- arouse or excite feelings and passions
- (transitive, figurative) To excite ardour in; to rouse to action; to excite to excess; to inflame, as the passions.
- (transitive, figurative) To excite or make hot by action or emotion; to make feverish.
- (transitive, slang) To arouse, to excite (sexually).
- (transitive) To cause an increase in temperature of (an object or space); to cause to become hot (often with "up").
- (intransitive) To become hotter.
verb
- loose heat
- make cool or cooler
- depress or discourage
- (intransitive, slang) To smoke marijuana.
- (intransitive, metallurgy) To become hard by rapid cooling.
- (transitive, figurative) To discourage, depress.
- (intransitive, slang) To "hang", hang out; to spend time with another person or group.
- (transitive, metallurgy) To harden a metal surface by sudden cooling.
- (intransitive) To become cold.
- (intransitive, slang) To relax; to lie back; to take things easy.
- (transitive) To lower the temperature of something; to cool.
noun
- coldness due to a cold environment
- a sensation of cold that often marks the start of an infection and the development of a fever
- an almost pleasurable sensation of fright
- a sudden numbing dread
- A sense of style; trendiness; savoir faire.
- A lack of warmth and cordiality; unfriendliness.
- A moderate, but uncomfortable and penetrating coldness.
- An uncomfortable and numbing sense of fear, dread, anxiety, or alarm, often one that is sudden and usually accompanied by a trembling nerve response resembling the body's response to biting cold.
- Calmness; equanimity.
- The hardened part of a casting, such as the tread of a carriage wheel.
- An iron mould or portion of a mould, serving to cool rapidly, and so to harden, the surface of molten iron brought in contact with it.
- A chilling effect; an atmosphere of this.
- A sudden penetrating sense of cold, especially one that causes a brief trembling nerve response through the body; the trembling response itself; often associated with illness: fevers and chills, or susceptibility to illness.
adj
verb
- loose heat
- make cool or cooler
- lose intensity
- (intransitive, figuratively) To become less intense, e.g. less amicable or passionate.
- (intransitive, African-American Vernacular, slang) To relax, hang out.
- (transitive, figuratively) To make less intense, e.g. less amicable or passionate.
- (transitive, literally) To make cooler, less warm.
- (intransitive, literally) To lose heat, to get colder.
adj
- fashionable and attractive at the time; often skilled or socially adept
- being satisfactory or in satisfactory condition
- neither warm nor very cold; giving relief from heat
- psychologically cool and unenthusiastic; unfriendly or unresponsive or showing dislike
- marked by calm self-control (especially in trying circumstances); unemotional
- used of a quantity or amount (especially of money) for emphasis
- inducing the impression of coolness; used especially of greens and blues and violets when referring to color
- (informal, of a person) Knowing what to do and how to behave; behaving with effortless and enviable style and panache; considered popular by others.
- (informal, originally African-American Vernacular) Fashionable; trendy; hip.
- (of a person) Not showing emotion; calm and in control of oneself.
- (informal) Very interesting or exciting.
- (informal) Followed by with: able to tolerate.
- Unenthusiastic; lukewarm; skeptical.
- (informal) Of a pair of people, Having good relations.
- Of a color, in the range of violet to green.
- (informal) All right; acceptable; good.
- Allowing or suggesting heat relief.
- Of a mildly low temperature.
- Applied facetiously to a sum of money, commonly as if to give emphasis to the largeness of the amount.
noun
verb
- transform by heating
- prepare for eating by applying heat
- prepare a hot meal
- transform and make suitable for consumption by heating
- tamper, with the purpose of deception
- (transitive, military slang) To hold on to a grenade briefly after igniting the fuse, so that it explodes almost immediately after being thrown.
- (transitive, slang) To cause to be cooked, i.e. to put in a hopeless situation.
- (intransitive, slang, humorous) To proceed with some advantageous course of action; (more generally) to be successful.
- (transitive, slang) To tamper with or alter; to cook up.
- (transitive) To concoct or prepare.
- (intransitive, music, slang) To play music vigorously.
- (transitive, slang) To execute by electric chair.
- (intransitive, slang, derogatory, Australia) To develop insane or fringe ideas.
- (intransitive, figuratively) To be uncomfortably hot.
- (intransitive, jazz, slang) To play or improvise in an inspired and rhythmically exciting way. (From 1930s jive talk.)
- (intransitive, slang, humorous) To proceed with some plan or course of action, or develop some train of thought towards its conclusion (whether this is advantageous, or comical, or digging into a hole).
- (transitive, slang) To kill, destroy, or otherwise render useless or inoperative through exposure to excessive heat or radiation.
- (intransitive) To be cooked.
- (transitive, slang) To defeat or humiliate.
- (ambitransitive) To prepare food for eating by heating it, often combining with other ingredients.
- (transitive, video games) To smelt.
noun
- someone who cooks food
- (cooking) A person who prepares food.
- (slang) One who manufactures certain illegal drugs, especially meth.
- (cooking) The degree or quality of cookedness of food.
- (cooking) The head cook of a manor house.
- (slang) A session of manufacturing certain illegal drugs, especially meth.
- (chess) An unintended solution to a chess problem, considered to spoil the problem.
- A fish, the European striped wrasse, Labrus mixtus.
- (metalworking, construction) The member of a hot-rivetting team who heats the rivets in a brazier, see rivet.
adv
noun
- a long tube made of metal or plastic that is used to carry water or oil or gas etc.
- a thin strip of covered cord used to edge hems
- playing a pipe or the bagpipes
- An act of making music or noise with pipes.
- (cooking) Icing extruded from a piping bag.
- The sound of musical pipes.
- A system of pipes that compose a structure; pipework.
- (sewing) An ornamentation on the edges of a garment; a small cord covered with cloth.
- (botany) propagation by cuttings
- The process of an animal just beginning to break out of its egg; precedes hatching.
- (botany) A piece cut off to be set or planted; a cutting.
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verb
adv
adj
noun
- The method of cooking by immersion in steam.
- The action of steam on something.
- The raising of steam by a steam locomotive etc; the maintenance of a head of steam during operation; (metonymic) operation under load.
- (UK, informal) A form of robbery in which a large gang moves swiftly and violently through a bus or train.
- The act or process of seafaring under steam power.
verb
adj
- produced under conditions involving intense heat
- produced by the action of fire or intense heat
- like or suggestive of fire
- Pertaining to or having the nature of fire; containing fire; resembling fire.
- (geology) Resulting from, or produced by, great heat. With rocks, it could also mean formed from lava or magma.