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How to pronounce heat
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What does heat mean?
nounThermal energy.
Heating system; a system that raises the temperature of a room or building.
“I'm freezing; could you turn on the heat?”
The output of a heating system.
“During the power outage we had no heat because the controls are electric. Older folks like more heat than the young.”
verbTo cause an increase in temperature of (an object or space); to cause to become hot (often with "up").
“I'll heat up the water.”
To become hotter.
“There's a pot of soup heating on the stove.”
To excite or make hot by action or emotion; to make feverish.
“Ile leaue you my ſweete Ladie, for a while, pray walke ſoftly, doe not heate your bloud, what, I muſt haue care of you.”
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