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Heat

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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Broader term 22

Alter 76% connected

To make otherwise; to change in some respect, either partially or wholly; to vary; to modify.

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Arouse 76% connected

To excite to action from a state of rest; to stir, or put in motion or exertion; to rouse; to excite; as, to arouse one from sleep; to arouse the dor…

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Change 76% connected

To alter; to make different; to cause to pass from one state to another; as, to change the position, character, or appearance of a thing; to change t…

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Elicit 76% connected

Elicited; drawn out; made real; open; evident.

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Emotionalism 76% connected

The cultivation of an emotional state of mind; tendency to regard things in an emotional manner.

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Energy 76% connected

Internal or inherent power; capacity of acting, operating, or producing an effect, whether exerted or not; as, men possessing energies may suffer the…

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Enkindle 76% connected

To set on fire; to inflame; to kindle.

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Evoke 76% connected

To call out; to summon forth.

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Fire 76% connected

The evolution of light and heat in the combustion of bodies; combustion; state of ignition.

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Furnish 76% connected

To supply with anything necessary, useful, or appropriate; to provide; to equip; to fit out, or fit up; to adorn; as, to furnish a family with provis…

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Kindle 76% connected

To bring forth young.

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Modify 76% connected

To change somewhat the form or qualities of; to alter somewhat; as, to modify a contrivance adapted to some mechanical purpose; to modify the terms o…

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Offer 76% connected

To present, as an act of worship; to immolate; to sacrifice; to present in prayer or devotion; -- often with up.

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Provide 76% connected

To look out for in advance; to procure beforehand; to get, collect, or make ready for future use; to prepare.

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Provoke 76% connected

To call forth; to call into being or action; esp., to incense to action, a faculty or passion, as love, hate, or ambition; hence, commonly, to incite…

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Race 76% connected

To raze.

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Raise 76% connected

To cause to rise; to bring from a lower to a higher place; to lift upward; to elevate; to heave; as, to raise a stone or weight.

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Render 76% connected

One who rends.

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Supply 76% connected

To fill up, or keep full; to furnish with what is wanted; to afford, or furnish with, a sufficiency; as, rivers are supplied by smaller streams; an a…

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Temperature 76% connected

Constitution; state; degree of any quality.

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Turn 76% connected

To cause to move upon a center, or as if upon a center; to give circular motion to; to cause to revolve; to cause to move round, either partially, wh…

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Utility 76% connected

The quality or state of being useful; usefulness; production of good; profitableness to some valuable end; as, the utility of manure upon land; the u…

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Manner of action 13

Bake 76% connected

To prepare, as food, by cooking in a dry heat, either in an oven or under coals, or on heated stone or metal; as, to bake bread, meat, apples.

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Broil 76% connected

A tumult; a noisy quarrel; a disturbance; a brawl; contention; discord, either between individuals or in the state.

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Calcine 76% connected

To reduce to a powder, or to a friable state, by the action of heat; to expel volatile matter from by means of heat, as carbonic acid from limestone,…

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Crisp 76% connected

Curling in stiff curls or ringlets; as, crisp hair.

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Ferment 76% connected

That which causes fermentation, as yeast, barm, or fermenting beer.

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Fry 76% connected

To cook in a pan or on a griddle (esp. with the use of fat, butter, or olive oil) by heating over a fire; to cook in boiling lard or fat; as, to fry…

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Overheat 76% connected

To heat to excess; to superheat.

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Reheat 76% connected

To heat again.

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Scald 76% connected

To burn with hot liquid or steam; to pain or injure by contact with, or immersion in, any hot fluid; as, to scald the hand.

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Scorch 76% connected

To burn superficially; to parch, or shrivel, the surface of, by heat; to subject to so much heat as changes color and texture without consuming; as,…

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Sear 76% connected

Alt. of Sere

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Soak 76% connected

To cause or suffer to lie in a fluid till the substance has imbibed what it can contain; to macerate in water or other liquid; to steep, as for the p…

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Toast 76% connected

To dry and brown by the heat of a fire; as, to toast bread.

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Narrower term 6

Calefaction 76% connected

The act of warming or heating; the production of heat in a body by the action of fire, or by communication of heat from other bodies.

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Fieriness 76% connected

The quality of being fiery; heat; acrimony; irritability; as, a fieriness of temper.

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Incalescence 76% connected

The state of being incalescent, or of growing warm.

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Torridity 76% connected

Torridness.

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Warmness 76% connected

Warmth.

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Warmth 76% connected

The quality or state of being warm; gentle heat; as, the warmth of the sun; the warmth of the blood; vital warmth.

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Derivationally related 6

Heater 74% connected

One who, or that which, heats.

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Heater 74% connected

One who, or that which, heats.

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Hotness 74% connected

The quality or state of being hot.

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Hotness 74% connected

The quality or state of being hot.

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Component part 2

Boiler 70% connected

One who boils.

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Radiator 70% connected

That which radiates or emits rays, whether of light or heat; especially, that part of a heating apparatus from which the heat is radiated or diffused…

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Containing whole 2

Building 70% connected

of Build

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Edifice 70% connected

A building; a structure; an architectural fabric; -- chiefly applied to elegant houses, and other large buildings; as, a palace, a church, a statehou…

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See also 2

Touch 66% connected

To come in contact with; to hit or strike lightly against; to extend the hand, foot, or the like, so as to reach or rest on.

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Touch 66% connected

To come in contact with; to hit or strike lightly against; to extend the hand, foot, or the like, so as to reach or rest on.

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Synonym 9

Heating 92% connected

of Heat

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Hotness 92% connected

The quality or state of being hot.

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Ignite 92% connected

To kindle or set on fire; as, to ignite paper or wood.

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Inflame 92% connected

To set on fire; to kindle; to cause to burn, flame, or glow.

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Oestrus 92% connected

A genus of gadflies. The species which deposits its larvae in the nasal cavities of sheep is oestrus ovis.

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Passion 92% connected

A suffering or enduring of imposed or inflicted pain; any suffering or distress (as, a cardiac passion); specifically, the suffering of Christ betwee…

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Rut 92% connected

Sexual desire or oestrus of deer, cattle, and various other mammals; heat; also, the period during which the oestrus exists.

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Wake 92% connected

The track left by a vessel in the water; by extension, any track; as, the wake of an army.

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Warmth 92% connected

The quality or state of being warm; gentle heat; as, the warmth of the sun; the warmth of the blood; vital warmth.

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Antonym 2

Chill 94% connected

A moderate but disagreeable degree of cold; a disagreeable sensation of coolness, accompanied with shivering.

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Chill 94% connected

A moderate but disagreeable degree of cold; a disagreeable sensation of coolness, accompanied with shivering.

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