heat
/ˈhiːt/ sustantivo A2En español: calor, calidez, onda de calor, canícula
- Thermal 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.
- The condition or quality of being hot. · Stay out of the heat of the sun!
- A hot spell. · The children stayed indoors during this year's summer heat.
- 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.
Plural heats
Phrasal verbs y expresiones
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He had, moreover, looked upon the customs officer wounded to death, and, whether from heat of blood produced by the encounter, or the chill of human sentiment, this sight had made but slight impression upon him.
ON A SUMMER DAY, when the great heat induced a general thirst among the beasts, a Lion and a Boar came at the same moment to a small well to drink.
A LION, fatigued by the heat of a summer’s day, fell fast asleep in his den.
This order to heat the irons made Dantès shudder.
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