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Heat can be a verb or a noun.
heat used as a verb:
- To cause an increase in temperature of an object or space; to cause something to become hot; often with "up".
"I'll heat up the water." - to arouse, to excite (sexually)
"The massage heated her up."
Verbs are action words and state of being words. Examples of action words are: ran, attacking, dreamed. Examples of "state of being" words are: is, was, be. Learn more →
heat used as a noun:
- thermal energy
"This furnace puts out 5000 BTUs of heat." - The condition or quality of being hot.
"Stay out of the heat of the sun!" - An attribute of a spice that causes a burning sensation in the mouth.
"The chili sauce gave the dish heat." - A period of intensity, particularly of emotion.
"It's easy to make bad decisions in the heat of the moment" - An undesirable amount of attention.
"The heat from her family after her DUI arrest was unbearable." - The police.
"The heat! Scram!" - One or more firearms.
"He's packing heat." - A fastball.
"The catcher called for the heat, high and tight." - A condition where a mammal is aroused sexually or where it is especially fertile and therefore eager to mate.
"The male canines were attracted by the female in heat." - A preliminary race, used to determine the participants in a final race
"The runner had high hopes, but was out of contention after the first heat." - One cycle of bringing metal to maximum temperature and working it until it is too cool to work further
"I can make a scroll like that in a single heat." - A hot spell.
"The children stayed indoors during this year's summer heat."
Nouns are naming words. They are used to represent a person (soldier, Jamie), place (Germany, beach), thing (telephone, mirror), quality (hardness, courage), or an action (a run, a punch). Learn more →
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What type of word is heat?
- Verb usage: I'll heat up the water.
- Verb usage: The massage heated her up.
- Noun usage: This furnace puts out 5000 BTUs of heat.
- Noun usage: That engine is really throwing off some heat.
- Noun usage: Removal of heat from the liquid caused it to turn into a solid.
- Noun usage: Stay out of the heat of the sun!
- Noun usage: The chili sauce gave the dish heat.
- Noun usage: It's easy to make bad decisions in the heat of the moment
- Noun usage: The heat from her family after her DUI arrest was unbearable.
- Noun usage: The heat! Scram!
- Noun usage: He's packing heat.
- Noun usage: The catcher called for the heat, high and tight.
- Noun usage: The male canines were attracted by the female in heat.
- Noun usage: The runner had high hopes, but was out of contention after the first heat.
- Noun usage: I can make a scroll like that in a single heat.
- Noun usage: The children stayed indoors during this year's summer heat.
Unfortunately, with the current database that runs this site, I don't have data about which senses of heat are used most commonly. I've got ideas about how to fix this but will need to find a source of "sense" frequencies. Hopefully there's enough info above to help you understand the part of speech of heat, and guess at its most common usage.
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For those interested in a little info about this site: it's a side project that I developed while working on Describing Words and Related Words. Both of those projects are based around words, but have much grander goals. I had an idea for a website that simply explains the word types of the words that you search for - just like a dictionary, but focussed on the part of speech of the words. And since I already had a lot of the infrastructure in place from the other two sites, I figured it wouldn't be too much more work to get this up and running.
The dictionary is based on the amazing Wiktionary project by wikimedia. I initially started with WordNet, but then realised that it was missing many types of words/lemma (determiners, pronouns, abbreviations, and many more). This caused me to investigate the 1913 edition of Websters Dictionary - which is now in the public domain. However, after a day's work wrangling it into a database I realised that there were far too many errors (especially with the part-of-speech tagging) for it to be viable for Word Type.
Finally, I went back to Wiktionary - which I already knew about, but had been avoiding because it's not properly structured for parsing. That's when I stumbled across the UBY project - an amazing project which needs more recognition. The researchers have parsed the whole of Wiktionary and other sources, and compiled everything into a single unified resource. I simply extracted the Wiktionary entries and threw them into this interface! So it took a little more work than expected, but I'm happy I kept at it after the first couple of blunders.
Special thanks to the contributors of the open-source code that was used in this project: the UBY project (mentioned above), @mongodb and express.js.
Currently, this is based on a version of wiktionary which is a few years old. I plan to update it to a newer version soon and that update should bring in a bunch of new word senses for many words (or more accurately, lemma).
