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Definition of heat

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Heat (n.) A force in nature which is recognized in various effects, but especially in the phenomena of fusion and evaporation, and which, as manifested in fire, the sun's rays, mechanical action, chemical combination, etc., becomes directly known to us through the sense of feeling. In its nature heat is a mode if motion, being in general a form of molecular disturbance or vibration. It was formerly supposed to be a subtile, imponderable fluid, to which was given the name caloric..

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Theca :: Theca (n.) A sheath; a case; as, the theca, or cell, of an anther; the theca, or spore case, of a fungus; the theca of the spinal cord..

Graduate :: Graduate (n.) To prepare gradually; to arrange, temper, or modify by degrees or to a certain degree; to determine the degrees of; as, to graduate the heat of an oven..

Freeze :: Freeze (v. i.) To become chilled with cold, or as with cold; to suffer loss of animation or life by lack of heat; as, the blood freezes in the veins..

Ardor :: Ardor (n.) Heat, in a literal sense; as, the ardor of the sun's rays..

Iodine :: Iodine (n.) A nonmetallic element, of the halogen group, occurring always in combination, as in the iodides. When isolated it is in the form of dark gray metallic scales, resembling plumbago, soft but brittle, and emitting a chlorinelike odor. Symbol I. Atomic weight 126.5. If heated, iodine volatilizes in beautiful violet vapors..

Moor :: Moor (n.) An extensive waste covered with patches of heath, and having a poor, light soil, but sometimes marshy, and abounding in peat; a heath..

Heat :: Heat (n.) Sexual excitement in animals.

Subject :: Subject (a.) Exposed; liable; prone; disposed; as, a country subject to extreme heat; men subject to temptation..

Sheathing :: Sheathing (n.) The first covering of boards on the outside wall of a frame house or on a timber roof; also, the material used for covering; ceiling boards in general..

Geck :: Geck (n.) To cheat; trick, or gull..

Bath :: Bath (n.) A medium, as heated sand, ashes, steam, hot air, through which heat is applied to a body..

Vaginated :: Vaginated (a.) Invested with, or as if with, a sheath; as, a vaginate stem, or one invested by the tubular base of a leaf..

Hot :: Hot (superl.) Characterized by heat, ardor, or animation; easily excited; firely; vehement; passionate; violent; eager..

Ignite :: Ignite (v. t.) To subject to the action of intense heat; to heat strongly; -- often said of incombustible or infusible substances; as, to ignite iron or platinum..

Intranscalent :: Intranscalent (a.) Impervious to heat; adiathermic.

Raisin :: Raisin (n.) A grape dried in the sun or by artificial heat.

Broil :: Broil (v. t.) To subject to great (commonly direct) heat.

Outcheat :: Outcheat (v. t.) To exceed in cheating.

Carbunculation :: Carbunculation (n.) The blasting of the young buds of trees or plants, by excessive heat or cold..

Stand :: Stand (v. t.) To endure; to sustain; to bear; as, I can not stand the cold or the heat..