heat
Roget category 382
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#382.
Heat
noun
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.
verb
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.
adjective
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†.
phrase
not a breath of air —
whirlwinds of tempestuous fire"
[Paradise Lost].
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