Translations

8 languages
Українська
By meaning 1
to cause an increase in temperature of an object or space:
Русский
By meaning 2
to cause an increase in temperature of an object or space:
to arouse, to excite (sexually):
Deutsch
By meaning 2
to cause an increase in temperature of an object or space:
to arouse, to excite (sexually):

Examples

459 sentences

  1. The house is heated by solar energy.

    Цей дім обігрівається сонячною енергією. — deniko

    ruЭтот дом обогревается солнечной энергией. — al_ex_an_der

    deDas Haus wird mit Solarenergie geheizt. — MUIRIEL

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  2. Heat it up.

    Нагрій його. — deniko

    ruНагрей. — fjay69

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  3. How do you heat the house?

    ruКак вы отапливаете дом? — Selena777

    deWie heizen Sie das Haus? — MUIRIEL

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Meaning

5 senses

  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.

    erhitzen, heizen

    гретьgretʹ, нагрева́тьnagrevátʹ, нагре́тьnagrétʹ

    грі́тиhríty, нагріва́тиnahriváty, нагрі́тиnahríty

  2. (intransitive)To become hotter.

    There's a pot of soup heating on the stove.

  3. (figuratively, transitive)To excite or make hot by action or emotion; to make feverish.

More meanings 2

  1. (figuratively, transitive)To excite ardour in; to rouse to action; to excite to excess; to inflame, as the passions.

  2. (slang, transitive)To arouse, to excite (sexually).

    The massage heated her up.

    heiß machen

    возбужда́тьvozbuždátʹ, возбуди́тьvozbudítʹ, разогрева́тьrazogrevátʹ

    arouse or excite feelings and passions

Origin

From Middle English heten, from Old English hǣtan (“to heat; become hot”), from Proto-Germ

From Middle English heten, from Old English hǣtan (“to heat; become hot”), from Proto-Germanic *haitijaną (“to heat, make hot”).

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Forms

heats, heating, heated, heated

regular

Base formheat · to heat
3rd person singularheats
Present participleheating
Past simpleheated
Past participleheated

Tenses

heat · heated · will heat · have heated

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Present simpleLesson

I, you, we, theyheat
he, she, itheats

Present perfectLesson

I, you, we, theyhave heated
he, she, ithas heated

Future simple (will)Lesson

all personswill heat

Past simpleLesson

all personsheated

Phrasal verbs

2 phrasal verbs

Synonyms

7 synonyms
Close in meaning

Antonyms

1 antonyms
cool

Word family

19 related words
Relatedheatableheaterheating
Deriveddeheatultraheatdesuperheatforeheatheatabilityheat-and-eatheat throughheat upoverheatpreheatreheatresuperheatself-heatingsteam-heatsuperheatunderheat

Lessons for this word

3 lessons

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
heartlessheartstringsheartyB1heaterB1heathheathen

Dictionary text adapted from Wiktionary (Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Open English WordNet / Princeton WordNet (CC BY 4.0, WordNet License); shared under CC BY-SA 4.0. Example sentences and recordings are credited where they appear.

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