heat

Definitions

• (uncountable) thermal Thermal energy.
• (uncountable) The condition or quality of being hot.
• (uncountable) An attribute of a spice that causes a burning sensation in the mouth.
• (uncountable) A period of intensity, particularly of emotion.
• (uncountable) An undesirable amount of attention.
• (uncountable) The police.
• (uncountable) One or more firearms.
• (countable) A fastball.
• (uncountable) A condition where a mammal is aroused sexually or where it is especially fertile and therefore eager to mate.
• (countable) A preliminary race, used to determine the participants in a final race
• (countable) One cycle of bringing metal to maximum temperature and working it until it is too cool to work further.
• (countable) A hot spell.
• (uncountable) Heating system; a system that raises the temperature of a room or building.
• (uncountable) The output of a heating system.
• (countable) In omegaverse fiction, a cyclical period in which alphas and omegas experience an intense, sometimes irresistible biological urge to mate.