different between heat vs inhumation

English

Pronunciation

• enPR: h?t, IPA^(key): /hi?t/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /hit/, [çit]
• Rhymes: -i?t

Etymology 1

From Middle English hete, from Old English h?te, h?tu (“heat, warmth; fervor, ardor”), from Proto-Germanic *hait?? (“heat”), from Proto-Indo-European *kayd-, a derived form of *kay- (“heat; hot”).

Cognate with Scots hete (“heat”), North Frisian hiet (“heat”), Old High German heiz? (“heat”). Related also to Dutch hitte (“heat”), German Hitze (“heat”), Swedish hetta (“heat”), Icelandic hiti (“heat”).

Noun

heat (countable and uncountable, plural heats)

1. (uncountable) Thermal energy.
   • 2007, James Shipman, Jerry Wilson, Aaron Todd, An Introduction to Physical Science: Twelfth Edition, pages 106–108:

     Heat and temperature, although different, are intimately related. [...] For example, suppose you added equal amounts of heat to equal masses of iron and aluminum. How do you think their temperatures would change? […] if the temperature of the iron increased by 100 C°, the corresponding temperature change in the aluminum would be only 48 C°.

2. (uncountable) The condition or quality of being hot.

3. (uncountable) An attribute of a spice that causes a burning sensation in the mouth.

4. (uncountable) A period of intensity, particularly of emotion.

   Synonyms: passion, vehemence

5. (uncountable) An undesirable amount of attention.

6. (uncountable, slang) The police.
7. (uncountable, slang) One or more firearms.
8. (countable, baseball) A fastball.

9. (uncountable) A condition where a mammal is aroused sexually or where it is especially fertile and therefore eager to mate.

10. (countable) A preliminary race, used to determine the participants in a final race

11. (countable) One cycle of bringing metal to maximum temperature and working it until it is too cool to work further.

12. (countable) A hot spell.

13. (uncountable) Heating system; a system that raises the temperature of a room or building.

14. (uncountable) The output of a heating system.

Derived terms

Translations

Etymology 2

From Middle English heten, from Old English h?tan (“to heat; become hot”), from Proto-Germanic *haitijan? (“to heat, make hot”).

Verb

heat (third-person singular simple present heats, present participle heating, simple past and past participle heated 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. (transitive, figuratively) To excite or make hot by action or emotion; to make feverish.
4. (transitive, figuratively) To excite ardour in; to rouse to action; to excite to excess; to inflame, as the passions.
5. (transitive, slang) To arouse, to excite (sexually).

   The massage heated her up.

Derived terms

Synonyms

• stoke
• warm up
• heat up; hot up, hot

Translations

Anagrams

• Thea, eath, haet, hate, heta

Swedish

Etymology

From English heat.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?hi?t/
• Homophone: hit

Noun

heat n

1. (sports) A heat, a preliminary race, used to determine the participants in a final race

Declension

Anagrams

• Thea, heta

English

Etymology

From inhume +? -ation

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?n.hju??me?.??n/

Noun

inhumation (countable and uncountable, plural inhumations)

1. The act of burial.
   • 1885, "Cremation or Burial," New York Times, 18 March (retrieved 10 Sep 2010):

     "Cremation versus Inhumation" was the subject considered at the meeting of the Nineteenth Century Club at the residence of Mr. Courtlandt Palmer, No. 117 East One Hundred and Seventeenth-street, last evening.

   • 2010, Eti Bonn-Muller, "Dynasty of Priestesses," archaeology.org, 10 March (retrieved 10 Sep 2010):

     Stampolidis's team has unearthed three types of Iron Age burials at Orthi Petra . . . dating from the ninth to the seventh century B.C.: pithos (large ceramic jar) burials, cremations, and basic inhumations.

2. The act of burying vessels in warm earth in order to expose their contents to a steady moderate heat; the state of being thus exposed.
3. (medicine) arenation

Synonyms

• burial, entombment, interment

Antonyms

• disinterment, exhumation

Translations

French

Etymology

inhumer +? -ation

Pronunciation

Noun

inhumation f (plural inhumations)

1. inhumation