You queried:

" heat "

Results retrieved for:

\ ˈhēt \

Your query is not considered offensive by any official sources.

( some results may take a moment to update )

(10) - Merriam-Webster Dictionary

+ ♪ (1)

(1) - Verb entries...

+ ♪ (1)

(3) - { heat:1 } : ( ✔ )Innoffensive?

+ ♪

[Verb] | "heat" | \ ˈhēt \

1: to become warm or hot

2: to start to spoil from heat

3: to make warm or hot

Origin: before 12th century ;

Middle English heten, going back to Old English hǣtan, going back to Germanic *haitjan- (whence also Middle Dutch hēten "to make warm," Old High German heizen, Old Norse heita "to make hot, brew"), derivative of *haita- "having a high temperature, burning" {mat|hot:1|};

(8) - Noun entries...

(3) - { heat:2 } : ( ✔ )Innoffensive?

[Noun] | "heat"

1: a condition of being hot : warmth

2: a marked or notable degree of hotness

3: pathological excessive bodily temperature

Origin: before 12th century ;

Middle English hete, going back to Old English hǣtu, going back to Germanic *haitīn- (whence also Old Frisian hēte "high temperature, heat," Old High German heizi), noun derivative from *haita- "having a high temperature, burning" {mat|hot:1|};

(1) - { heat engine } : ( ✔ )Innoffensive?

[Noun] | "heat engine"

1: a mechanism (such as an internal combustion engine) for converting heat energy into mechanical or electrical energy

Origin: circa 1895 ;

(1) - { heat exchanger } : ( ✔ )Innoffensive?

[Noun] | "heat exchanger"

1: a device (such as an automobile radiator) for transferring heat from one fluid to another without allowing them to mix

Origin: 1902 ;

(1) - { heat exhaustion } : ( ✔ )Innoffensive?

[Noun] | "heat exhaustion"

1: a condition marked by weakness, nausea, dizziness, and profuse sweating that results from physical exertion in a hot environment —called also heat prostration

Origin: 1861 ;

(1) - { heat index } : ( ✔ )Innoffensive?

[Noun] | "heat index"

1: a value that indicates what the ambient temperature feels like to the human body and that is derived from a calculation using air temperature and relative humidity

Origin: 1984 ;

(1) - { heat lightning } : ( ✔ )Innoffensive?

[Noun] | "heat lightning"

1: vivid and extensive flashes of electric light without thunder seen near the horizon especially at the close of a hot day and ascribed to far-off lightning reflected by high clouds

Origin: 1810 ;

(1) - { heat pump } : ( ✔ )Innoffensive?

[Noun] | "heat pump"

1: an apparatus for heating or cooling (such as a building) by transferring heat by mechanical means from or to an external reservoir (such as the ground, water, or outside air)

Origin: 1894 ;

(1) - { heat rash } : ( ✔ )Innoffensive?

[Noun] | "heat rash"

1: prickly heat

Origin: 1887 ;

(1) - Plural noun entries...

(1) - { heat cramps } : ( ✔ )Innoffensive?

[Plural noun] | "heat cramps"

1: a condition that is marked by sudden development of cramps in skeletal muscles and that results from prolonged work or exercise in high temperatures accompanied by profuse perspiration with loss of sodium chloride from the body

Origin: 1938 ;

(9) - Merriam-Webster Thesaurus

(4) - Noun entries...

(3) - { heat } : ( ✔ )Innoffensive?

[Noun] | "heat"

1: depth of feeling;

* e.g., " ... informed the doctor, with considerable heat, that she had been kept waiting for three hours "

2: a portable weapon from which a shot is discharged by gunpowder;

* e.g., " ... a private detective packing heat "

Synonyms :
arm,
firearm,
gun,
piece,
small arm

Antonyms :
(N/A)

3: a body of officers of the law;

* e.g., " ... he thought he was so slick, but the heat was onto him in no time "

Antonyms :
(N/A)

(1) - { heat wave } : ( ✔ )Innoffensive?

[Noun] | "heat wave"

1: as in heat;

(1) - { dead heat } : ( ✔ )Innoffensive?

[Noun] | "dead heat"

1: a situation in which neither participant in a contest, competition, or struggle comes out ahead of the other;

* e.g., " ... the horses crossed the finish line in a dead heat "

Synonyms :
draw,
stalemate,
standoff,
tie

Antonyms :
(N/A)

(1) - { white heat } : ( ✔ )Innoffensive?

[Noun] | "white heat"

1: depth of feeling;

* e.g., " ... claims that the novel was written at white heat in a tremendous, unbroken burst of creativity "

(5) - Verb entries...

(1) - { heat } : ( ✔ )Innoffensive?

[Verb] | "heat"

1: to cause to have or give off heat to a moderate degree;

* e.g., " ... heat water for tea "

Synonyms :
hot (up),
toast,
warm

Antonyms :
chill,
cool,
refrigerate

(1) - { heat-treat } : ( ✔ )Innoffensive?

[Verb] | "heat-treat"

1: as in temper;

(1) - { heat-treats } : ( ✔ )Innoffensive?

[Verb] | "heat-treats"

1: as in tempers;

(1) - { heat-treating } : ( ✔ )Innoffensive?

[Verb] | "heat-treating"

1: as in tempering;

(1) - { heat-treated } : ( ✔ )Innoffensive?

[Verb] | "heat-treated"

1: as in tempered;

(10) - Urban Dictionary

... may be offensive!

# 1 - { heat:307553 }