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# hot

«hot» in Mova's school dictionary: **Having a high temperature; very warm: "hot soup"** — 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

adjective (hot, hotter, hottest)

### meaning for a pupil

1) Having a high temperature; very warm: "hot soup". [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/hot/#m1)

2) Making your mouth burn because of spices: "hot sauce". [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/hot/#m2)

3) Feeling too warm: "I'm hot." [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/hot/#m3)

4) Very popular or new (informal): "the hot toy this year". [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/hot/#m4)

5) Hot can also mean very keen or eager about doing something (informal). [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/hot/#m5)

### sense in the lessons

In science, hot means high temperature; heat moves from hotter things to colder things. In safety: hot stoves, kettles, irons and water can burn; never touch things that might be hot; drink water on hot days. Phrases: hot weather, hot water, red-hot, piping hot, hot and cold, hot spot.

### examples

- The soup is too hot to eat. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/hot/#x1)
- Don't touch the hot pan. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/hot/#x2)
- It is a hot day, so drink water. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/hot/#x3)
- Hot air rises. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/hot/#x4)
- This sauce is very hot and spicy. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/hot/#x5)
- The sand was hot under our feet. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/hot/#x6)
- Run the hot tap carefully. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/hot/#x7)
- Summer is the hottest season. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/hot/#x8)
- He hot fer true, ain't he?" [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/hot/#x9)

### note

Double the t: hotter, hottest. "Hot" can mean high temperature or spicy — check which. Higher temperature numbers mean hotter. Metal gets hot fast; a cooker can stay hot after it is turned off.

### In the corpora

- [There is rent or a mortgage, energy for heating and hot water, council tax, broadband and insurance.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/6-paying-for-a-home-and-the-bills/1/)
- [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/)
- [His heart thumps, his cheeks go hot, and he shoves the tablet under a cushion.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/58-landing-on-an-18-film-by-accident/4/)
- [When you see something upsetting, the body reacts fast: the heart races, the cheeks go hot, you may freeze.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/58-landing-on-an-18-film-by-accident/12/)
- [Vent water can be hotter than three hundred degrees, but it does not boil because of the huge pressure of the deep sea.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/177-vents-and-trenches-tubeworms-iron-snails-the-challenger-deep-and-life-without-sunlight/5/)

### Trees and pragmatics

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