heat

Roget-categorie 382

3. Words relating to matter
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#382. Heat

zelfstandig naamwoord

heat, caloric — temperature, warmth, fervor, calidity^† — incalescence^†, incandescence — glow, flush — fever, hectic.
phlogiston — fire, spark, scintillation, flash, flame, blaze — bonfire — firework, pyrotechnics, pyrotechny^† — wildfire — sheet of fire, lambent flame — devouring element — adiathermancy^† — recalescence [Phys.].
summer, dog days — canicular days^† — baking etc. 384 — heat, white heat, tropical heat, Afric heat^†, Bengal heat^†, summer heat, blood heat — sirocco, simoom — broiling sun — insolation — warming etc. 384.
sun etc. (luminary) 423.
[Science of heat] pyrology^† — thermology^†, thermotics^†, thermodynamics — thermometer etc. 389.
[thermal units] calorie, gram-calorie, small calorie — kilocalorie, kilogram calorie, large calorie — British Thermal Unit, B.
T.U. — therm, quad.
[units of temperature] degrees Kelvin, kelvins, degrees centigrade, degrees Celsius — degrees Fahrenheit.

werkwoord

be hot etc. adj. — glow, flush, sweat, swelter, bask, smoke, reek, stew, simmer, seethe, boil, burn, blister, broil, blaze, flame — smolder — parch, fume, pant.
heat etc. (make hot) 384 — recalesce^† — thaw, give.

bijvoeglijk naamwoord

hot, warm, mild, genial, tepid, lukewarm, unfrozen — thermal, thermic — calorific — fervent, fervid — ardent — aglow.
sunny, torrid, tropical, estival^†, canicular^†, steamy — close, sultry, stifling, stuffy, suffocating, oppressive — reeking etc. v. — baking etc. 384.
red hot, white hot, smoking hot, burning etc. v.. hot, piping hot — like a furnace, like an oven — burning, hot as fire, hot as pepper — hot enough to roast an ox, hot enough to boil an egg.
fiery — incandescent, incalescent^† — candent^†, ebullient, glowing, smoking — live — on fire — dazzling etc. v. — in flames, blazing, in a blaze — alight, afire, ablaze — unquenched, unextinguished^† — smoldering — in a heat, in a glow, in a fever, in a perspiration, in a sweat — sudorific^† — sweltering, sweltered — blood hot, blood warm — warm as a toast, warm as wool.
volcanic, plutonic, igneous — isothermal^†, isothermic^†, isotheral^†.

uitdrukking

not a breath of air — whirlwinds of tempestuous fire" [Paradise Lost].

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