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Roget category 382

3. Words relating to matter
3.3. Organic matter
›› 3.3.2. Sensation

#382. Heat

noun

heat, calorictemperature, warmth, fervor, calidityincalescence, incandescenceglow, flushfever, hectic.
phlogistonfire, spark, scintillation, flash, flame, blaze bonfirefirework, pyrotechnics, pyrotechnywildfiresheet of fire, lambent flamedevouring elementadiathermancyrecalescence [Phys.].
summer, dog dayscanicular daysbaking etc. 384heat, white heat, tropical heat, Afric heat, Bengal heat, summer heat, blood heatsirocco, simoombroiling suninsolationwarming etc. 384.
sun etc. (luminary) 423.
[Science of heat] pyrologythermology, thermotics, thermodynamicsthermometer etc. 389.
[thermal units] calorie, gram-calorie, small caloriekilocalorie, kilogram calorie, large calorieBritish Thermal Unit, B.
T.U. — therm, quad.
[units of temperature] degrees Kelvin, kelvins, degrees centigrade, degrees Celsiusdegrees Fahrenheit.

verb

be hot etc. adj. — glow, flush, sweat, swelter, bask, smoke, reek, stew, simmer, seethe, boil, burn, blister, broil, blaze, flamesmolderparch, fume, pant.
heat etc. (make hot) 384recalescethaw, give.

adjective

hot, warm, mild, genial, tepid, lukewarm, unfrozenthermal, thermiccalorificfervent, fervidardentaglow.
sunny, torrid, tropical, estival, canicular, steamyclose, sultry, stifling, stuffy, suffocating, oppressivereeking etc. v. — baking etc. 384.
red hot, white hot, smoking hot, burning etc. v.. hot, piping hotlike a furnace, like an ovenburning, hot as fire, hot as pepperhot enough to roast an ox, hot enough to boil an egg.
fieryincandescent, incalescentcandent, ebullient, glowing, smokingliveon firedazzling etc. v. — in flames, blazing, in a blazealight, afire, ablazeunquenched, unextinguishedsmolderingin a heat, in a glow, in a fever, in a perspiration, in a sweatsudorificsweltering, swelteredblood hot, blood warmwarm as a toast, warm as wool.
volcanic, plutonic, igneousisothermal, isothermic, isotheral.

phrase

not a breath of airwhirlwinds of tempestuous fire" [Paradise Lost].

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