hotness
热度,热量,热情,热力
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Definitions
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hot·ter, hot·test.
- : having or giving off heat; having a high temperature: a hot fire; hot coffee.
- : having or causing a sensation of great bodily heat; attended with or producing such a sensation: He was hot with fever.
- : creating a burning sensation, as on the skin or in the throat: This ointment is hot, so apply it sparingly.
- : sharply peppery or pungent: Is this mustard hot?
- : having or showing intense or violent feeling; ardent; fervent; vehement; excited: a hot temper.
- : Informal. having a strong enthusiasm; eager: a hot baseball fan.
- : Slang. sexually aroused; lustful.sexy; attractive.
- : violent, furious, or intense: the hottest battle of the war.
- : strong or fresh, as a scent or trail.
- : absolutely new; fresh: a dozen new mystery stories hot from the press.
- : requiring immediate delivery or correspondence; demanding priority: The hot freight must be delivered by 10:00 a.m. tomorrow, or we'll lose the contract.
- : Slang. skillful in a reckless or daring way: a hot pilot.
- : following very closely; close: to be hot on the trail of a thief.
- : extremely intense: hot pink.
- : Informal. popular and commercially successful; in demand; marketable: The Beatles were a hot group in the 1960s.
- : Slang. extremely lucky, good, or favorable: A poker player has to have a hot hand to win the pot.
- : Slang. playing well or winningly; scoring effectively: a hot pitcher.
- : Slang. funny; absurd: That's a hot one!
- : Games. close to the object or answer that is being sought.
- : Informal. extremely exciting or interesting; sensational or scandalous: a hot news story.
- : Jazz. emotionally intense, propulsive, and marked by aggressive attack and warm, full tone. skilled in playing hot jazz.
- : Informal. capable of attaining extremely high speeds: a hot new jet plane.
- : Slang. stolen recently or otherwise illegal and dangerous to possess: a hot diamond necklace.wanted by the police.dangerous.
- : Informal. in the mood to perform exceedingly well, or rapidly, as during a burst of creative work: Finish writing that story while you're still hot.
- : actively conducting an electric current or containing a high voltage: a hot wire.
- : of, relating to, or noting radioactivity.
- : Metalworking. noting any process involving plastic deformation of a metal at a temperature high enough to permit recrystallization due to the strain: hot working.
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- : in a hot manner; hotly.
- : while hot: Garnish the potatoes with parsley and serve hot.
- : Metalworking. at a temperature high enough to permit recrystallization: The wire was drawn hot.
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hot·ted, hot·ting.
- : Chiefly British Informal. to heat; warm.
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- : the hots, Slang. intense sexual desire or attraction.
Phrases
- hot air
- hot and bothered
- hot and heavy
- hot as blazes
- hot dog
- hot line
- hot number
- hot off the press
- hot on
- hot potato
- hot rod
- hot seat, in the
- hot stuff
- hot to trot
- hot under the collar
- hot water
- blow hot and cold
- like a cat on hot bricks
- like hot cakes
- make it hot for
- piping hot
- strike while the iron's hot
Synonyms & Antonyms
Examples
Fill your serving cups with hot water to keep them warm while you prepare the drink.
Water changes states depending on its temperature—it evaporates when it’s hot, goes back to its liquid state when it cools, and, of course, you’ve heard of ice.
Leave the potatoes in the foil and tuck them into hot coals.
Richard Nixon is president, bell-bottoms are a hot new look, and Simon & Garfunkel is playing on everyone’s radios.
During the interview, Filippi was preparing for a race on a searing-hot track in Berlin in the middle of a heat wave.
The Vampire Diaries sets an unrealistic precedence for both magical creatures and teenage hotness in small town America.
On the show, she was the epitome of Marilyn Monroe hotness, but subbed loud belches for breathy coos—and then laughed about it.
Pair her hotness with her salty mouth, and she will make a great comic or host in the vein of Sarah Silverman or Jenny McCarthy.
Unique Tool Her sheer hotness—and something called the Lean 30-Day Plan.
Her hotness is diminished,” the magazine says, “when she espouses dumb ideas like defunding Planned Parenthood.
On very rare occasions he had described it in the eyes of his dark-eyed heroines, and never without a hotness in his own.
Then a flurried toilet, and a difficult, for the man especially; but hotness of desire breeds dexterity.
The air was pleasantly cool here, and had lost the dead hotness that brooded over the higher ground.
Then the sensation of hotness began again and increased until Burl's skin was reddened and inflamed.
There was something distasteful to him about the naked, raw hotness of a newly-lighted cigar-tip.