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# heat

«heat» in Mova's school dictionary: **warmth, the feeling of being hot** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (heat — uncountable; a heat, heats — race rounds); verb (heat, heats, heated, heating)

### meaning for a pupil

1) Heat is warmth, the feeling of being hot. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/heat/#m1)

2) Heat is energy that moves from hot things to cooler things. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/heat/#m2)

3) To heat something is to make it warmer or hot, like heating soup. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/heat/#m3)

4) A heat is one early round of a race; the winners go on to the final. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/heat/#m4)

5) The heat of the day is its hottest part; a heatwave is many very hot days. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/heat/#m5)

### sense in the lessons

Temperature that rises by degrees, or cooking time; sometimes a round of a race. In science: heat makes ice melt and water boil; metal lets heat through fast, wool keeps it in. In safety: heat from a stove or the sun can burn; drink water in the heat. Phrases: «heat up», «in the heat», «heatwave», «central heating».

### examples

- She heats the water from 20 to 80 degrees. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/heat/#x1)
- The oven needs 10 minutes to heat. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/heat/#x2)
- The temperature rose 5 degrees each hour. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/heat/#x3)
- He won the first heat of the race. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/heat/#x4)
- Heat the soup but do not let it boil. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/heat/#x5)
- The heat from the sun melted my ice cream. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/heat/#x6)
- Stay in the shade during the heat of the day. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/heat/#x7)
- Turn on the heating, it is cold. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/heat/#x8)
- Days and weeks went by, and the heat increased. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/heat/#x9)

### note

Heating raises the temperature (add); cooling lowers it (take away). Trap: the change is the end temperature minus the start. In science, heat and temperature are not the same: a bath of warm water has more heat than a cup of hot tea. Never touch a pan to see if it is hot.

### In the corpora

- [Heating a room with the window open sends the warm air, and the money that paid for it, straight outside.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/6-paying-for-a-home-and-the-bills/14/)
- [Hot water costs energy to heat, so long showers cost money and leave less for the next person.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/6-paying-for-a-home-and-the-bills/20/)
- [The boiler heats the water and the radiators, and "packed in" means it has stopped working.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/11-when-things-break/5/)
- [Pit vipers such as rattlesnakes have heat-sensing pits on their faces that find warm-blooded prey in total darkness.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/30-snakes-and-lizards/10/)
- [Caimans and crocodiles bask with their mouths open to let heat escape and cool down; it is not a threat or a yawn.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/42-the-capybara/16/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «heat» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/heat/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.