different between keen vs hot

English

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ki?n/
• (General American) enPR: k?n, IPA^(key): /kin/
• Rhymes: -i?n
• Homophones: Keane, Keene

Etymology 1

From Middle English kene (“bold, brave, sharp”), from Old English c?ne (“keen, fierce, bold, brave, warlike, powerful; learned, clever, wise”), from Proto-Germanic *k?niz (“knowledgeable, skilful, experienced, clever, capable”), from Proto-Indo-European *?neh?- (“to know”). Cognate with Danish køn (“handsome, pretty”), Dutch kien (“smart, wise, able”), koen (“daring, valiant, doughty, courageous”), German kühn (“bold, daring, audacious, hardy, valiant, venturesome”), Icelandic kænn (“wise, crafty, clever, able”), Scots keen (“lively, brisk; avaricious”). Related to Old English cunnan (“to know how to, be able to”). More at cunning, can.

Alternative forms

• keene, kene (both obsolete)

Adjective

keen (comparative keener or more keen, superlative keenest or most keen)

1. (chiefly Commonwealth of Nations) Often with a prepositional phrase, or with to and an infinitive: showing a quick and ardent responsiveness or willingness; eager, enthusiastic, interested.
   • 2000, Jane Green, Bookends, London: Penguin Books, ?ISBN; republished as Bookends: A Novel, trade paperback edition, New York, N.Y.: Broadway Books, 2003, ?ISBN, page 304:

     In fact, she doesn't mention the fact that I've obviously been avoiding her, just sounds genuinely thrilled to hear from me, and as soon as I mention getting together she suggests Monday, which is rather keen, even for Portia.

2. Fierce, intense, vehement.
3. Having a fine edge or point; sharp.
4. Acute of mind, having or expressing mental acuteness; penetrating, sharp.
5. Acrimonious, bitter, piercing.
6. Of cold, wind, etc.: cutting, penetrating, piercing, sharp.
   • 1764 December 19 (indicated as 1765), Oliver Goldsmith, The Traveller, or a Prospect of Society. A Poem. Inscribed to the Rev. Henry Goldsmith, London: Printed for J[ohn] Newbery, ?OCLC; 3rd edition, London: Printed for J. Newbury,^{[sic, meaning Newbery]} in St. Paul's Church-yard, 1765, ?OCLC, page 10:

     Chearful at morn he wakes from ?hort repo?e, / Brea?ts the keen air, and carolls as he goes; […]

7. (Britain) Of prices, extremely low as to be competitive.
8. (US, informal, dated) Marvelous.
9. (obsolete) Brave, courageous; audacious, bold.

Usage notes

Keen is often used to create compounds, the meaning of most of them being fairly obvious, for example, keen-edged, keen-eyed, keen-sighted, keen-witted, etc.

Synonyms

• (showing a quick and ardent responsiveness or willingness): ardent, eager, prompt
• (having a fine edge or point): sharp
• (acrimonious): biting, cutting, piercing
• (acute of mind): acute, penetrating, shrewd; see also Thesaurus:intelligent

Derived terms

Translations

Verb

keen (third-person singular simple present keens, present participle keening, simple past and past participle keened)

1. (transitive, rare) To make cold, to sharpen.
   • 1730, James Thomson, “Summer”, in The Seasons, A Hymn, A Poem to the Memory of Sir Isaac Newton, and Britannia, a Poem, London, Printed for J. Millan, near Whitehall; and A[ndrew] Millar, in the Strand, ?OCLC; republished in The Works of James Thomson. With His Last Corrections and Improvements. In Four Volumes, volume I, London: Printed for A. Millar, in the Strand, 1766, ?OCLC, page 93, lines 1256–1259:

     This is the pure?t exerci?e of health, / The kind refre?her of the ?ummer-heats; / Nor, when cold Winter keens the brightening flood, / Would I weak-?hivering linger on the brink.

Etymology 2

From Irish caoin (“to cry, weep; to keen”).

Noun

keen (plural keens)

1. A prolonged wail for a deceased person.

Verb

keen (third-person singular simple present keens, present participle keening, simple past and past participle keened)

1. (intransitive) To utter a keen.
   • 20th century, Stuart Howard-Jones (1904–1974), “Hibernia”, in Kingsley Amis, comp., The New Oxford Book of English Light Verse, New York, N.Y.: Oxford University Press, 1978, ?ISBN, page 243:

     Last night he had put down too much Potheen / (A vulgar blend of Methyl and Benzene) / That, at some Wake, he might the better keen. / (Keen—meaning 'brisk'? Nay, here the Language warps: / 'Tis singing bawdy Ballads to a Corpse.)

2. (transitive) To utter with a loud wailing voice or wordless cry.
3. (transitive) To mourn.

Related terms

• keener

References

Anagrams

• Enke, kene, knee, kène, neek

Basque

Noun

keen

1. genitive plural of ke

Hunsrik

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /k?e?n/

Particle

keen

1. no, not any, not a

Declension

¹Form used when the plural of the noun is the same as the singular

Further reading

• Online Hunsrik Dictionary

Luxembourgish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ke?n/
  • Rhymes: -e?n

Particle

keen m or n

1. no, not any, not a

Declension

Somali

Verb

keen

1. bring

Yola

Etymology

From Middle English kene, from Old English c?ne.

Adjective

keen

1. sharp

References

• Jacob Poole (1867) , William Barnes, editor, A glossary, with some pieces of verse, of the old dialect of the English colony in the baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, J. Russell Smith, ?ISBN

English

Alternative forms

• (physically attractive): hawt (slang, especially Internet), hott (slang, especially Internet)

Etymology

From Middle English hot, hat, from Old English h?t (“hot, fervent, fervid, fierce”), from Proto-Germanic *haitaz (“hot”), from Proto-Indo-European *kay- (“hot; to heat”). Cognate with Scots hate, hait (“hot”), North Frisian hiet (“hot”), Saterland Frisian heet (“hot”), West Frisian hjit (“hot”), Dutch heet (“hot”), Low German het (“hot”), German Low German heet (“hot”), German heiß (“hot”), Danish hed (“hot”), Swedish het (“hot”), Icelandic heitur (“hot”).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) enPR: h?t, IPA^(key): /h?t/
• Rhymes: -?t
• (General American) enPR: hät, IPA^(key): /h?t/

Adjective

hot (comparative hotter, superlative hottest)

1. (of an object) Having a high temperature.

   • There was also hairdressing: hairdressing, too, really was hairdressing in those times — no running a comb through it and that was that. It was curled, frizzed, waved, put in curlers overnight, waved with hot tongs; […].

2. (of the weather) Causing the air to be hot.

3. (of a person or animal) Feeling the sensation of heat, especially to the point of discomfort.

4. (of a temper) Easily provoked to anger.

5. Feverish.
6. (of food) Spicy, pungent, piquant, as some chilis and other spices are.

7. (informal) Very good, remarkable, exciting. [from the 19^thc.]

8. Stolen. [from the 20^thc.]

9. (not comparable) Electrically charged.
10. (informal) Radioactive. [from the 20^thc.]
11. (slang, of a person) Very physically and/or sexually attractive.

12. (slang) Sexual or sexy; involving sexual intercourse or sexual excitement.
13. (slang) Sexually aroused; randy.

14. (slang, with for) Attracted to.

15. Popular; in demand.

16. Of great current interest; provoking current debate or controversy.

    a hot topic

17. Very close to finding or guessing something to be found or guessed.

18. Performing strongly; having repeated successes.
    • 1938, Harold M. Sherman, "Shooting Stars," Boys' Life (March 1938), Published by Boy Scouts of America, p.5:

      "Keep going! You're hot tonight!" urged Wally.

    • 2002, Peter Krause & Andy King, Play-By-Play Golf, First Avenue Editions, p.55:

      The ball lands on the fairway, just a couple of yards in front of the green. "Nice shot Sarah! You're hot today!" Jenny says.

19. Fresh; just released.
    • 1960, Super Markets of the Sixties: Findings, recommendations.- v.2. The plans and sketches, Super Market Institute, p.30:

      A kid can stand in the street and sell newspapers, if the headlines are hot.

    • 2000, David Cressy, Travesties and transgressions in Tudor and Stuart England: tales of discord and dissension, Oxford University Press, p.34:

      Some of these publications show signs of hasty production, indicating that they were written while the news was hot.

20. Uncomfortable, difficult to deal with; awkward, dangerous, unpleasant.
21. (slang) Used to emphasize the short duration or small quantity of something

22. (slang) Characterized by police presence or activity.

23. (slang, of a draft/check) Not covered by funds on account.

24. (of ammunition) This term needs a definition. Please help out and add a definition, then remove the text {{rfdef}}.

Quotations

• For quotations using this term, see Citations:hot.

Synonyms

• (having a high temperature): heated; see also Thesaurus:hot
• (of the weather): baking, boiling, boiling hot, sultry, sweltering
• (feeling the sensation of heat): baking, boiling, boiling hot
• (feverish): feverish, having a temperature
• (spicy): piquant, spicy, tangy
• (slang: stolen): stolen
• (electrically charged): live
• (radioactive): radioactive
• (slang: physically or sexually attractive): attractive, beautiful, cute, fit, foxy, gorgeous, handsome, hunky, lush, pretty, sexy, studly, tasty, yummy
• (of a draft/check): rubber, bad

Antonyms

• (having a high temperature): chilled, chilly, cold, cold as ice, freezing, freezing cold, frigid, glacial, ice-cold, icy
• (of the weather): cold, freezing, freezing cold, icy
• (feeling the sensation of heat): freezing, freezing cold
• (spicy): bland, mild
• (electrically charged): neutral, dead
• (slang): lifeless

Derived terms

Translations

Verb

hot (third-person singular simple present hots, present participle hotting, simple past and past participle hotted)

1. (with up) To heat; to make or become hot.
2. (with up) To become lively or exciting.
   • 2018 "Clean Slate", Wentworth

     Turf war's hotting up.

Synonyms

• hot up; heat, heat up

Anagrams

• -oth, OTH, o'th', oth, tho, tho', thô

Dutch

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??t/
• Hyphenation: hot
• Rhymes: -?t

Etymology 1

Unknown.

Adjective

hot (comparative hoter, superlative hotst)

1. (nautical) right, on the right side

   Synonym: rechts

Derived terms

• van hot naar her

See also

• stuurboord

Etymology 2

Borrowed from English hot.

Adjective

hot (comparative hotter, superlative hotst)

1. (informal) hot, popular
2. (informal) hot, sexy, attractive

Inflection

Ingrian

Etymology

Borrowed from Russian ???? (xot?).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?hot/

Conjunction

hot

1. though

Particle

hot

1. Used to make a pronoun, adverb or determiner indefinite

References

• Vitalij Chernyavskij (2005) Ižoran keel (Ittseopastaja)?^[2]

Middle English

Alternative forms

• hoth, whote
• hate, hatte (northern)

Etymology

From Old English h?t.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /h??t/, /h?t/

Adjective

hot

1. hot

Noun

hot (uncountable)

1. hotness

Descendants

• English: hot
• Scots: hat, hait, hate
• Yola: hoat, hote

References

• “h??t, adj.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.
• “h??t, n.(1).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

Pennsylvania German

Verb

hot

1. third-person singular present indicative of hawwe

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?xot/, [?xot?]

Adjective

hot (plural hot or hots)

1. hot; sexy

Swedish

Etymology

From Old Swedish h?t n, from Old Norse hót n pl, from Proto-Germanic *hw?t? (“threat”), cognate with Gothic ???????????????? f (??ta). Related to *hw?tan? (“to attack, stab”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /hu?t/

Noun

hot n

1. a threat

Declension

Related terms

• bombhot
• hota
• hotbild
• hotbrev
• hotfull
• hotande
• mordhot
• terrorhot

Westrobothnian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /hu?t/, [h????t]

  Rhymes: -ú?t

Etymology 1

Compare Icelandic hót, contraction of Old Norse hvat.

Noun

hot m

1. A whit, a bit.

   n litn hot

   a little bit, a little piece

Etymology 2

Ablaut of Icelandic hvata (“to sting, jab,”) dialectal Norwegian hvæta (“to jab,”) and related to gwätt, wäti.

Noun

hot n (nominative & accusative definite singular hote)

1. A sting, pang.

   ja hav söm e hot ått brösten

   I feel a sting in my chest.