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[ adjective ] made warm or hot
Examples "a heated swimming pool" "wiped his heated-up face with a large bandana" (`het' is a dialectal variant of `heated' as in "he was all het up and sweaty") Used in print (Raymond C. Binder et al., editors, Proceedings...)This arrangement had the purpose to prevent heated gas to reach the thermocouple by natural convection . (Stephen Longstreet, Eagles Where I Walk....)New_York lay bleaching in the summer sun , and the morning fish_hawk , flying in the heated air , saw below him the long triangular wedge of Manhattan_Island . Related terms |
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[ adjective ] marked by emotional heat; vehement
Examples "a heated argument" Used in print (William C. Smith, "Why Fear Ideas?"...)When Peter_B._Kyne ( Pride_of_Palomar , 43 ) informed us in 1921 that we had an instinctive dislike for the Japanese , did the heated debates of the Californians settle the truth or falsity of the proposition ? Related terms |
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