hot
adjEtymology
From Middle English hot, hat, from Old English hāt (“hot”), from Proto-West Germanic *hait, from Proto-Germanic *haitaz (“hot”), from Proto-Indo-European *keHy- (“hot; to heat”). Cognate with Scots hate, hait (“hot”), North Frisian hiet (“hot”), Saterland Frisian heet (“hot”), West Frisian hjit (“hot”), Dutch heet (“hot”), German Low German heet (“hot”), German heiß (“hot”), Danish hed (“hot”), Swedish het (“hot”), Icelandic heitur (“hot”). Related to heat. Superseded non-native Middle English chaud, from Old French chaut (“hot”); and early Modern English calent, from Latin calēns (“hot”).
Definitions
Relating to heat and conditions which produce it.
- He forgot that the frying pan was hot and burned his hand.
- It is too hot to be outside.
- It is hotter in summer than in winter.
Active, in use or ready for use (like a bullet or a firing range), turned on (like a…
Active, in use or ready for use (like a bullet or a firing range), turned on (like a microphone or camera).
- The microphone was hot and the show was on the air.
- So I just blurted out, "This is really a fucking way to make a living, huh?" […] The microphone was hot, and I knew I was in trouble. The radio management came to my house and suspended me immediately.
- I leaned forward, still ogling, thinking the camera was off me until the end of the song, but then on went the little red light that meant my camera was hot ...
Relating to excited emotions.
- Be careful, he has a hot temper and may take it out on you.
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Relating to popularity, quality, or the state of being interesting.
- He's a hot young player; we should give him a trial.
Relating to danger or risk.
- I've been living here a few weeks and it's starting to get a little hot for me … I've written myself out of several states in the last six years.
- The police are looking for an anarchist who answers my description, seen leaving the house the day before the fire; there was an explosion[…]So what with one thing and another, His Grace thinks the country a little hot for me now
Very close to finding or guessing something to be found or guessed.
- Am I warm yet? — You're hot!
- He was hot on her tail.
Spicy, pungent, piquant, as some chilis and other spices are.
- This kind of chili pepper is way too hot for my taste.
Loud, producing a strong electric signal for the amplifier or other sound equipment.
Used to emphasize the short duration or small quantity of something
- He was finished in a hot minute.
- I dated him for a hot second.
Extremely fast or with great speed.
- That plane's coming in hot!
- a hot pass
- Brace yourselves; we're going in a little hot!
Hotly
Hotly; at a high temperature.
- Oak burns hot and lasts a long time. Its smoke is a medium to heavy flavor but not too overpowering. It leaves a buttersmooth, nutty finish.
Rapidly, quickly.
- Whatever happened, braking into the next-to-last hairpin, a blue-sky turn called Cog Cut, Durelle went in too hot.
- He went in hotter than he could have, the Cforce snugging him into the bucket seat. At the first switchback, there was already a hundred-foot drop-off […]
- He rolled over on his belly and raised up enough to see the second chopper coming in hotter, more deliberately than the first. Hollister grabbed Jrae by the ...
While shooting, while firing one's weapon(s).
- to come in hot; to go in hot
- We would pop over the riverbank and come down hot (shooting) on a designated target. […] We started rolling in hot with rockets, then suddenly we started taking fire from the […]
- "Shakedown is rolling in hot in Nakhoney right now. You're just in time. They've been getting shot at and are in overwatch for India 21 patrolling," […]
To heat
To heat; to make or become hot.
To become lively or exciting.
- Turf war's hotting up.
A hot meal, usually in the phrase "three hots" (i.e. three hot meals per day) or…
A hot meal, usually in the phrase "three hots" (i.e. three hot meals per day) or derivations such as three hots and a cot.
Acronym of hybrid-orientation technology (“CMOS fabrication technology that uses PMOS and…
Acronym of hybrid-orientation technology (“CMOS fabrication technology that uses PMOS and NMOS substrates with differing orientations”).
Acronym of hybrid-orientation technique, a technique that applies the technology.
Acronym of high-output turbo (turbocharger).
Acronym of high occupancy or toll lane.
Initialism of health over time
Initialism of health over time: a status effect that restores health points as time passes.
Acronym of high occupancy or toll.
The neighborhood
- synonymhot
- synonymcholeric
- synonymheated
- antonymchilled
- antonymchilly
- antonymcold
- antonymcold as ice
- antonymfreezing
- antonymfreezing cold
- antonymfrigid
- antonymglacial
- antonymice-cold
- antonymicy
- antonymwintry
- neighborsexy
- neighborspicy
- neighborbaking
- neighborbaking hot
- neighborblistering
- neighborboiling
- neighborburning
- neighborhissing hot
- neighborhotter than a pistol
- neighborhot as hell
- neighborhot as fire
- neighborincandescent
Derived
a bit hot, Ainsworth Hot Springs, Alabama hot pocket, as hot as hell, hot as hell, baking hot, blow hot air, blow hot and cold, boiling hot, boiling-hot, burning hot, Castle Hot Springs, catch it hot, get it hot, come in hot, crash hot, crash-hot, domestic hot water, drop like a hot brick, drop like a hot potato, drop like a hot skillet, egghot, egg-hot, firehot, foothot, full-hot, full of hot air, give it to someone hot, give it to someone hot and strong, glowing hot, go hot and cold, go like hot cakes, sell like hot cakes, have the hots for, hissing hot, hot abscess, hot ache, hot adult contemporary, hot air, hot-air balloon · +393 more
Vish — recursive loop
A definitional loop anchored at hot. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.
A definitional loop anchored at hot. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.
8 hops · closes at hot
curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.
sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA