Heat
[hiːt] or [hit]
解釋/意思:
(noun.) the trait of being intensely emotional.
(noun.) the sensation caused by heat energy.
(noun.) a preliminary race in which the winner advances to a more important race.
(noun.) a form of energy that is transferred by a difference in temperature.
(verb.) make hot or hotter; 'the sun heats the oceans'; 'heat the water on the stove'.
(verb.) gain heat or get hot; 'The room heated up quickly'.
(verb.) provide with heat; 'heat the house'.
手打:穆里尔--From WordNet
解釋/意思:
(n.) 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.
(n.) 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.
(n.) 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.
(n.) 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.
(n.) 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.
(n.) 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.
(n.) Utmost violence; rage; vehemence; as, the heat of battle or party.
(n.) Agitation of mind; inflammation or excitement; exasperation.
(n.) Animation, as in discourse; ardor; fervency.
(n.) Sexual excitement in animals.
(n.) Fermentation.
(v. t.) To make hot; to communicate heat to, or cause to grow warm; as, to heat an oven or furnace, an iron, or the like.
(v. t.) To excite or make hot by action or emotion; to make feverish.
(v. t.) To excite ardor in; to rouse to action; to excite to excess; to inflame, as the passions.
(v. i.) To grow warm or hot by the action of fire or friction, etc., or the communication of heat; as, the iron or the water heats slowly.
(v. i.) To grow warm or hot by fermentation, or the development of heat by chemical action; as, green hay heats in a mow, and manure in the dunghill.
(imp. & p. p.) Heated; as, the iron though heat red-hot.
整理:蒂娜
同義詞及近義詞:
n. [1]. Caloric.[2]. Warmth.[3]. Degree of temperature.[4]. Excitement, flush, vehemence, impetuosity, violence, passion, fever.[5]. Ardor, earnestness, fervor, zeal.[6]. Contest, struggle, race.
v. a. [1]. Make hot.[2]. Excite, flush, make feverish.[3]. Warm, animate, rouse.
校對:惠特尼
同義詞及反義詞:
SYN:Warmth, ardor, passion, excitement, fever, ebullition, intensity
ANT:Coolness, indifference, subsidence, calmness, composure, reflection
編輯:厄休拉
解釋/意思:
n. that which excites the sensation of warmth: sensation of warmth: a heating: exposure to intense heat: a warm temperature: the warmest period as the heat of the day: indication of warmth flush redness: vehemence passion; sexual excitement or its period esp. of the female corresponding to rut in the male: a single course in a race: animation.—v.t. to make hot: to agitate.—v.i. to become hot:—pr.p. heat′ing; pa.p. heat′ed.—n. Heat′-ap′oplexy sunstroke.—p.adj. Heat′ed.—ns. Heat′-en′gine an engine which transforms heat into mechanical work; Heat′er one who or that which heats: a piece of cast-iron heated and then placed in a hollow flat-iron &c.—adjs. Heat′er-shaped triangular like the common heater; Heat′ing causing or imparting heat.—ns. Heat′-spot a spot on the surface of the body where a sensation of heat is felt; Heat′-ū′nit amount of heat required to raise a pound of water one degree.—Latent heat the quantity of heat absorbed when bodies pass from the solid into the liquid or from the liquid into the gaseous state; Mechanical equivalent of heat the relation between heat and work—viz. the amount of molecular energy required to produce one heat-unit; Specific heat the number of heat-units necessary to raise the unit of mass of a given substance one degree in temperature.
校對:玛拉
娱乐性解釋/意思:
To dream that you are oppressed by heat, denotes failure to carry out designs on account of some friend betraying you. Heat is not a very favorable dream.
錄入:梅林达
例句/造句/用法:
- Watt and his contemporaries regarded heat as a material substance called Phlogiston. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世紀發明.
- The steel for the manufacture of dies is carefully selected, forged at a high heat into the rough die, softened by careful annealing, and then handed over to the engraver. 佚名. 神奇的知識之書.
- But all power of a high order depends on an understanding of the essential character, or law, of heat, light, sound, gravity, and the like. 李貝. 西洋科學史.
- Contaminated water is made safe by boiling for a few minutes, because the strong heat destroys the disease-producing germs. 伯莎M.克拉克. 科學通論.
- The shoes remain in these vulcanizers from six to seven hours, subjected to extreme heat. 佚名. 神奇的知識之書.
- The Gulf Stream illustrates the transference of heat by convection. 伯莎M.克拉克. 科學通論.
- We halted here during the heat of the day. 瑪麗·雪萊. 最後一個人.
- Every housewife knows that if a kettle is filled with cold water to begin with, there will be an overflow as soon as the water becomes heated. 伯莎M.克拉克. 科學通論.
- When the mixture was heated, the ammonia was driven over to the other end of the tube, immersed in a cold bath, and the ammonia gas became liquefied. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世紀發明進展.
- In the preceding Section, we learned that many houses heated by hot water are supplied with fresh-air pipes which admit fresh air into separate rooms or into suites of rooms. 伯莎M.克拉克. 科學通論.
- The bulb was first heated and the stem placed in water. 李貝. 西洋科學史.
- The oven filled with calcium carbide is then electrically heated with a carbon rod running through the center. 佚名. 神奇的知識之書.
- Thus they reached Mr Venus's establishment, somewhat heated by the nature of their progress thither. 查理斯·狄更斯. 我們共同的朋友.
- How to remove the heated, vitiated air and to supply fresh air while maintaining the same uniform temperature is a problem of long standing. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世紀發明.
- It was August; so there could be small hope of relief during the heats. 瑪麗·雪萊. 最後一個人.
- In the summer the water cools the region; in the winter, on the contrary, the water heats the region, and hence extremes of temperature are practically unknown. 伯莎M.克拉克. 科學通論.
- Each burner is operated by an indicating snap switch which has three separate heats, full, medium and low; medium being one-half of full and low one-half of medium. 佚名. 神奇的知識之書.
- The Cowles process heats to incandescence by the electric current a mixture of alumina, carbon and copper, the reduced aluminum alloying with the copper. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世紀發明進展.
- Hence gusts after heats, and hurricanes in hot climates. 本傑明·佛蘭克林. 佛蘭克林自傳.
- The sun heats the air of our atmosphere most near the surface of the earth; for there, besides the direct rays, there are many reflections. 本傑明·佛蘭克林. 佛蘭克林自傳.
- The one pound of steam heats six times more than the one pound of water, both being at the same temperature. 魯伯特·薩金特·荷蘭. 歷史性發明.
- Heating by the circulation of hot water through pipes was also originated or revived during the 18th century, and a short time before Watt's circulation of steam. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世紀發明.
- The open fireplace as an early method of heating. 伯莎M.克拉克. 科學通論.
- It is modernly used as a luxury by those who are able to combine with it other means for heating. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世紀發明.
- The shrewd prophecy is made that gas will be manufactured less for lighting, as the result of electrical competition, and more and more for heating, etc. 弗蘭克·路易斯·戴爾. 愛迪生的生平和發明.
- The heating furnace and oil tank are served by a sixty-ton traveling crane and forty-ton jib crane. 佚名. 神奇的知識之書.
- They smelted iron by blowing up a charcoal fire, and wrought it by heating and hammering. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- The principle of hot-water heating. 伯莎M.克拉克. 科學通論.
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