hot
/hɑt/ adjective A1- Having or giving off a high temperature. · He forgot that the frying pan was hot and burned his hand.· It is too hot to be outside.
- Feeling the sensation of heat, especially to the point of discomfort. · I was so hot from being in the sun too long.· Aren't you hot with that thick coat on?
- Feverish; feeling a high fever.
- Active, in use or ready for use (like a bullet or a firing range), turned on (like a microphone or camera).
- Electrically charged. · a hot wire
- Radioactive.
- In active use at or near capacity. · We need to keep the old drone production line going while it's still hot, or it'll be difficult to restart it.
- Easily provoked to anger. · Be careful, he has a hot temper and may take it out on you.
Comparative hotter · Superlative hottest
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I was a strollin’ down, thinkin’ between ourselves how uncommon handy a four of gin hot would be, when suddenly the glint of a light caught my eye in the window of that same house.
And most people when they put a pie in the oven to warm up for dinner take it out and eat it when it gets hot instead of leaving it to be burned to a crisp.
The Tin Woodman had chopped a big pile of wood, and now he made a fire of it, and Oz held the bottom of the balloon over the fire so that the hot air that arose from it would be caught in the silken bag.
The balloon was by this time tugging hard at the rope that held it to the ground, for the air within it was hot, and this made it so much lighter in weight than the air without that it pulled hard to rise into the sky.
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