heat

«heat» in Mova's school dictionary: warmth, the feeling of being hot — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

part of speech

noun (heat — uncountable; a heat, heats — race rounds); verb (heat, heats, heated, heating)

meaning for a pupil

1) Heat is warmth, the feeling of being hot. tree →

2) Heat is energy that moves from hot things to cooler things. tree →

3) To heat something is to make it warmer or hot, like heating soup. tree →

4) A heat is one early round of a race; the winners go on to the final. tree →

5) The heat of the day is its hottest part; a heatwave is many very hot days. tree →

sense in the lessons

Temperature that rises by degrees, or cooking time; sometimes a round of a race. In science: heat makes ice melt and water boil; metal lets heat through fast, wool keeps it in. In safety: heat from a stove or the sun can burn; drink water in the heat. Phrases: «heat up», «in the heat», «heatwave», «central heating».

examples

• She heats the water from 20 to 80 degrees. tree →
• The oven needs 10 minutes to heat. tree →
• The temperature rose 5 degrees each hour. tree →
• He won the first heat of the race. tree →
• Heat the soup but do not let it boil. tree →
• The heat from the sun melted my ice cream. tree →
• Stay in the shade during the heat of the day. tree →
• Turn on the heating, it is cold. tree →
• Days and weeks went by, and the heat increased. tree →

note

Heating raises the temperature (add); cooling lowers it (take away). Trap: the change is the end temperature minus the start. In science, heat and temperature are not the same: a bath of warm water has more heat than a cup of hot tea. Never touch a pan to see if it is hot.

In the corpora

• Heating a room with the window open sends the warm air, and the money that paid for it, straight outside.
• Hot water costs energy to heat, so long showers cost money and leave less for the next person.
• The boiler heats the water and the radiators, and "packed in" means it has stopped working.
• Pit vipers such as rattlesnakes have heat-sensing pits on their faces that find warm-blooded prey in total darkness.
• Caimans and crocodiles bask with their mouths open to let heat escape and cool down; it is not a threat or a yawn.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «heat» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.