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heats

/hiːts/

heats is the third-person singular simple present indicative of heat.

heats is the plural of heat.

Meaning of heat

Verb

heat (third-person singular simple present heats, present participle heating, simple past and past participle heated or (dialectal or obsolete) heat or (dialectal) het)

  1. (transitive) To cause an increase in temperature of (an object or space); to cause to become hot (often with "up").
    • I'll heat up the water.
  2. (intransitive) To become hotter.
    • There's a pot of soup heating on the stove.
  3. (figuratively, transitive) To excite or make hot by action or emotion; to make feverish.
    • Ile leaue you my ſweete Ladie, for a while, pray walke ſoftly, doe not heate your bloud, what, I muſt haue care of you.c. 1607–1608 (date written), William Shakespeare, [George Wilkins?], The Late, and Much Admired Play, Called Pericles, Prince of Tyre. […], London: […] [William White and Thomas Creede] for Henry...
  4. (figuratively, transitive) To excite ardour in; to rouse to action; to excite to excess; to inflame, as the passions.
    • A noble emulation heats your breaſt, / And your own fame now robs you of your reſt.a. 1701 (date written), John Dryden, “To His Sacred Majesty. A Panegyric on his Coronation.”, in The Miscellaneous Works of John Dryden, […], volume I, London: […] J[acob] and R[ichard] Tonson, […]...
  5. (slang, transitive) To arouse, to excite (sexually).
    • The massage heated her up.

See all 26 meanings of heat

Noun

heats pl (plural only)

  1. (dated, noun, plural, plural-only) A period of hot weather.
    • Everyone suffered during the heats of July.
    • The heats of the spring, says M. Berthe, (which I need not observe are considerable at Seville,) were at this time beginning to be felt.1830, Usher Parsons, On the comparative influence of Vegetable and Animal Decomposition as a cause of Fever.

Phrases with heats

Words that rhyme with heats

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Questions about heats

What does heats mean?
Heats means a period of hot weather.
What is heats the third-person singular simple present indicative of?
Heats is the third-person singular simple present indicative of heat.
What part of speech is heats?
Heats is a noun.
How do you pronounce heats?
Heats is pronounced /hiːts/.

Words near heats in the dictionary

  1. heatproofing
  2. heatproofs
  3. heatpump
  4. heatronic
  5. heatronics
  6. heats
  7. heats of fusion
  8. heats of reaction
  9. heats of transformation
  10. heats of vaporization
  11. heats through

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