Heated
['hiːtɪd] or ['hitɪd]
Definition
(adj.) made warm or hot (`het' is a dialectal variant of `heated'); 'a heated swimming pool'; 'wiped his heated-up face with a large bandana'; 'he was all het up and sweaty' .
(adj.) marked by emotional heat; vehement; 'a heated argument' .
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Definition
(imp. & p. p.) of Heat
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Examples
- 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. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- 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. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- 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. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- The bulb was first heated and the stem placed in water. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- The oven filled with calcium carbide is then electrically heated with a carbon rod running through the center. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- Thus they reached Mr Venus's establishment, somewhat heated by the nature of their progress thither. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- How to remove the heated, vitiated air and to supply fresh air while maintaining the same uniform temperature is a problem of long standing. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- Water being extremely heated, _i. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
- This was another common procedure on the part of the ladies of the Hole, when heated by verbal or fistic altercation. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- The air passes through it before entering the working cylinder, and becomes heated to 450°. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
- From the varnishing department the shoes are taken to the vulcanizers, which are large ovens heated by innumerable steam pipes. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- In experiment 14 an electric light carbon heated to a red heat at its tip, is plunged vertically into a deep glass of liquid oxygen. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- He never came there heated with wine. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
- To accomplish this the caoutchouc must be heated to a temperature of from 120 to 130 deg. William K. David. Secrets of Wise Men, Chemists and Great Physicians.
- The cover of the boiler is then closed and fastened by lugs, and steam turned on until the goods in the can are thoroughly heated through. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- Fresh air from outside circulates over the radiators and then rises into the rooms to be heated. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- Pots are used containing the materials to be melted and not heated in the presence of the burning fuel, but by the heated gases in separate compartments. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- The Chinese ages ago heated their hollow tiled floors by underground furnace fires. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- I was a little heated, I suppose, by feeling that he had doubted me, and I went on bluntly, without waiting to hear him. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- That the lower region of air is often more heated, and so more rarefied, than the upper; consequently, specifically lighter. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
- As the air is heated by the fire it expands, and is pushed up the chimney by the cold air which is constantly entering through loose windows and doors. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- When nitrogen gas is in contact with heated calcium carbide, a reaction takes place which results in the formation of calcium nitride, a compound suitable for enriching the soil. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- These were transversed with the same colours of other heated bodies, and the latter were absorbed and rendered black. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- All gases, if not confined, expand when heated and contract as they cool. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- Having rekindled the fire, she thought she would go to market while the water heated. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
- It is recorded that Amontons of France, in 1699, had an atmospheric fire wheel or air engine in which a heated column of air was made to drive a wheel. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- If one square inch of platina be heated to 100 degrees it will fall to, say, zero in one second, whereas, if it was at 200 degrees it would require two seconds. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- A pin occasionally dropped with the wax, and the embers heated it red as it lay. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- The hydrogen gas is so obtained by the decomposition of water, effected by passing steam through highly heated coals. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- For example, if 100 pints of ice water is heated in a kettle, the 100 pints will steadily expand until, at the boiling point, it will occupy as much space as 104 pints of ice water. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
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