heat

1. 1.

   make hot or hotter

   “the sun heats the oceans”

   “heat the water on the stove”

   Synonymsheat up

   Antonymscool

   Broaderchange

   Narrowercrispenscaldsoakcalcinepreheatoverheatsearbroilreheat
2. 2.

   provide with heat

   “heat the house”

   Broadersupply

   Narrowersteam-heat
3. 3.

   arouse or excite feelings and passions

   “The ostentatious way of living of the rich ignites the hatred of the poor”

   “The refugees' fate stirred up compassion around the world”

   “Wake old feelings of hatred”

   Synonymsinflamestir upwakeignitefire up

   Broaderarouse

   Narrowerferment
4. 4.

   gain heat or get hot

   “The room heated up quickly”

   Synonymshot upheat up

   Antonymscool

   Broaderchange state

   Narroweroverheatfry

Other forms of heat

plural

heats·

past tense

heated·

present participle

heating·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about heat

What does heat mean?

heat means "a form of energy that is transferred by a difference in temperature". That is the primary sense; the word has 11 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in heat?

heat has 1 syllable: heat. In IPA it is /ˈhit/.

What is another word for heat?

Close synonyms include heat energy, hotness, high temperature, warmth, warmth. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

What is the opposite of heat?

The recorded antonyms are cool, cool.

Is heat a common word?

heat is banded "Core" — among the few thousand words that carry most english. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with heat?

1 word rhymes with heat. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.