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HEATED
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I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Made warm or hot ('het' is a dialectal variant of 'heated')
Example:
he was all het up and sweaty
Synonyms:
heated; heated up; het; het up
Classified under:
Similar:
hot (used of physical heat; having a high or higher than desirable temperature or giving off heat or feeling or causing a sensation of heat or burning)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Marked by emotional heat; vehement
Example:
a heated argument
Classified under:
Similar:
hot (extended meanings; especially of psychological heat; marked by intensity or vehemence especially of passion or enthusiasm)
II. (verb)
Sense 1
Past simple / past participle of the verb heat
Context examples:
They believe the moon must have been spewing out so much super-heated volatile gas, including water vapor, during these periods that it could have sustained life.
(Life Could Exist on Moon 4 Billion Years Ago, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)
Wrapping the limb in a heated blanket or warming the drugs or blood may help the drugs work better.
(Isolated Chemotherapeutic Limb Perfusion, NCI Dictionary)
In between the hundreds or even thousands of galaxies in a cluster, there are vast reservoirs of super-heated gas that glow brightly in X-ray light.
(Scientists Surprised by Relentless Cosmic Cold Front, NASA)
A clear, colorless liquid with an aromatic odor that emits toxic fumes of phosphorous oxides and nitrogen oxides when heated to decomposition.
(Hexamethylphosphoramide, NCI Thesaurus)
The point of vulnerability lies in the fact that that solar heated surface water flows into the cavity near a stabilising pinning point, which could be undermined if basal melting intensifies further.
(Rapid melting of the world’s largest ice shelf linked to solar heat in the ocean, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)
"Molten" refers to the electrolyte, which is mixed with reactants for iron, carbon or vanadium boride, then heated until the mixture becomes liquid.
(New, high-energy rechargeable batteries, NSF)
Although the lava itself was low in nitrates, it heated the deeper layers of nutrient-rich water.
(Scientists report skyrocketing phyotplankton population in aftermath of Kīlauea eruption, Wikinews)
Having rekindled the fire, she thought she would go to market while the water heated.
(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)
A scalpel, a laser knife, or a thin wire loop heated by an electric current may be used to remove the tissue.
(Cone biopsy, NCI Dictionary)
She will need be heated before we can do anything more.
(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)
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