Usually means: Energy transferred due to temperature difference.
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General (29 matching dictionaries)
  1. heat, the heat: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. heat, the heat: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. heat: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. heat, the heat: Collins English Dictionary
  5. heat: Vocabulary.com
  6. Heat, hea't, heat: Wordnik
  7. heat: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. HEAT, heat: Wiktionary
  9. heat: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. heat: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. heat: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. heat: Dictionary.com
  13. heat: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. heat: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. H.E.A.T, H.E.A.T (band), HEAT (magazine), HEAT, Heat (American Me album), Heat (Chris Brown song), Heat (Colder album), Heat (EP), Heat (Goldman novel), Heat (Jimmy Barnes album), Heat (Kelly Clarkson song), Heat (Kim Hyun-joong song), Heat (Lupica novel), Heat (Scarlet Pleasure song), Heat (Soul for Real album), Heat (TV channel), Heat (TV series), Heat (disambiguation), Heat (film), Heat (magazine), Heat (manga), Heat (perfume), Heat (professional wrestling), Heat (soundtrack), Heat (thermodynamics), Heat (video game), Heat, The Heat (Jesse Malin album), The Heat (Needtobreathe album), The Heat (Sirius XM), The Heat (Toni Braxton album), The Heat (film), The Heat: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Heat: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. heat: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. heat: Rhymezone
  19. heat: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. heat: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. Heat: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  22. heat: Free Dictionary
  23. heat: Mnemonic Dictionary
  24. Heat (sports): The Word Detective
  25. heat: Dictionary/thesaurus
  26. Heat: World Wide Words
  27. heat: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Art (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Epicurus.com Spanish Glossary (No longer online)
  2. Shakespeare Glossary (No longer online)
  3. Jazz Humor (No longer online)

Business (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Construction Term Glossary (No longer online)
  2. Heat (thermodynamics), heat: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Heat (thermodynamics), heat: Encyclopedia

Medicine (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. Heat: Merck Manuals
  4. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  5. Heat (thermodynamics), heat: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. Encyclopedia of Graphic Symbols (No longer online)
  2. Brilliant Dream Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. HEAT: Acronym Finder
  4. AbbreviationZ (No longer online)
  5. heat: Idioms

Science (7 matching dictionaries)
  1. Misunderstood Physics Terms (No longer online)
  2. Chemistry Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. Heat: Eric Weisstein's World of Physics
  4. General Chemistry Online (No longer online)
  5. HEAT: Cytokines & Cells Online Pathfinder Encyclopaedia
  6. Heat: Physic and Astronomy Glossary
  7. Weather Glossary (No longer online)

Slang (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. heat, heat, heat: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. Heat: Street Terms: Drugs and the Drug Trade
  3. Heat: 1960's Slang
  4. the heat: Urban Dictionary
  5. Heat: Twists, Slugs and Roscoes: Hardboiled Slang

Sports (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Cat Terms (No longer online)
  2. Hickok Sports Glossaries (No longer online)
  3. Heat: Sports Definitions

Tech (11 matching dictionaries)
  1. Book Binding (No longer online)
  2. AUTOMOTIVE TERMS (No longer online)
  3. Agriculture Glossary (No longer online)
  4. Dairy Glossary (No longer online)
  5. DOD Dictionary of Military Terms: Joint Acronyms and Abbreviations (No longer online)
  6. Glossary of Meteorology (No longer online)
  7. Explosives (No longer online)
  8. Glossary of Energy Terms (No longer online)
  9. HEAT: The Home Appliance Page
  10. HEAT: Power Engineering
  11. Washington State Definitions and Abbreviations of Vetrinary Terms (No longer online)

(Note: See heatable as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  (uncountable) Thermal energy.
noun:  (uncountable) The condition or quality of being hot.
noun:  (uncountable) An attribute of a spice that causes a burning sensation in the mouth.
noun:  (uncountable) A period of intensity, particularly of emotion.
noun:  (uncountable) An undesirable amount of attention.
noun:  (countable, baseball) A fastball.
noun:  (uncountable) A condition where a mammal is aroused sexually or where it is especially fertile and therefore eager to mate; oestrus.
noun:  (countable, fandom slang) In omegaverse fiction, a cyclical period in which omegas experience an intense, sometimes irresistible biological urge to mate.
noun:  (countable) A preliminary race, used to determine the participants in a final race
noun:  (countable, by extension) A stage in a competition, not necessarily a sporting one; a round.
noun:  (countable) One cycle of bringing metal to maximum temperature and working it until it is too cool to work further.
noun:  (countable) A hot spell.
noun:  (uncountable) Heating system; a system that raises the temperature of a room or building.
noun:  (uncountable) The output of a heating system.
noun:  (countable) A violent action unintermitted; a single effort.
noun:  (uncountable, slang) The police.
noun:  (uncountable, slang) One or more firearms.
noun:  (uncountable, slang) Stylish and valuable sneakers.
noun:  (professional wrestling slang) A negative reaction from the audience, especially as a heel (or bad character), or in general.
verb:  (transitive) To cause an increase in temperature of (an object or space); to cause to become hot (often with "up").
verb:  (intransitive) To become hotter.
verb:  (transitive, figurative) To excite or make hot by action or emotion; to make feverish.
verb:  (transitive, figurative) To excite ardour in; to rouse to action; to excite to excess; to inflame, as the passions.
verb:  (transitive, slang) To arouse, to excite (sexually).
noun:  (military) Acronym of high explosive antitank: a munition using a high explosive shaped charge to breach armour.

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