Heat vs. Warm

Heatnoun

(uncountable) Thermal energy.

‘This furnace puts out 5000 BTUs of heat.’; ‘That engine is really throwing off some heat.’; ‘Removal of heat from the liquid caused it to turn into a solid.’;

Warmadjective

Having a temperature slightly higher than usual, but still pleasant; mildly hot.

‘The tea is still warm.’; ‘This is a very warm room.’;

Heatnoun

(uncountable) The condition or quality of being hot.

‘Stay out of the heat of the sun!’;

Warmadjective

Caring and friendly, of relations to another person.

‘We have a warm friendship.’;

Heatnoun

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

‘The chili sauce gave the dish heat.’;

Warmadjective

Having a color in the red-orange-yellow part of the visible electromagnetic spectrum.

Heatnoun

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

‘It's easy to make bad decisions in the heat of the moment.’;

Warmadjective

Close, often used in the context of a game in which "warm" and "cold" are used to indicate nearness to the goal.

Heatnoun

(uncountable) An undesirable amount of attention.

‘The heat from her family after her DUI arrest was unbearable.’;

Warmadjective

Fresh, of a scent; still able to be traced.

Heatnoun

The police.

‘The heat! Scram!’;

Warmadjective

(figurative) Communicating a sense of comfort, ease, or pleasantness

‘a warm piano sound’;

Heatnoun

One or more firearms.

Warmadjective

(archaic) Ardent, zealous.

‘a warm debate, with strong words exchanged’;

Heatnoun

A fastball.

‘The catcher called for the heat, high and tight.’;

Warmadjective

Well off as to property, or in good circumstances; rich.

Heatnoun

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

‘The male canines were attracted by the female in heat.’;

Warmadjective

(archaic) Requiring arduous effort.

Heatnoun

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

‘The runner had high hopes, but was out of contention after the first heat.’;

Warmverb

(transitive) To make or keep warm.

Heatnoun

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

‘I can make a scroll like that in a single heat.’;

Warmverb

(intransitive) To become warm, to heat up.

‘My socks are warming by the fire.’; ‘The earth soon warms on a clear summer day.’;

Heatnoun

(countable) A hot spell.

‘The children stayed indoors during this year's summer heat.’;

Warmverb

(intransitive) To favour increasingly.

‘He is warming to the idea.’; ‘Her classmates are gradually warming to her.’;

Heatnoun

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

‘I'm freezing; could you turn on the heat?’;

Warmverb

(intransitive) To become ardent or animated.

‘The speaker warms as he proceeds.’;

Heatnoun

(uncountable) The output of a heating system.

‘During the power outage we had no heat because the controls are electric.’; ‘Older folks like more heat than the young.’;

Warmverb

(transitive) To make engaged or earnest; to interest; to engage; to excite ardor or zeal in; to enliven.

Heatnoun

In omegaverse fan fiction, a cyclical period in which alphas and omegas experience an intense, sometimes irresistible biological urge to mate.

Warmverb

To beat or spank.

Heatverb

(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.’;

Warmnoun

(colloquial) The act of warming, or the state of being warmed; a heating.

‘Shall I give your coffee a warm in the microwave?’;

Heatverb

(intransitive) To become hotter.

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

Warmadjective

Having heat in a moderate degree; not cold as, warm milk.

‘Warm and still is the summer night.’;

Heatverb

To excite or make hot by action or emotion; to make feverish.

Warmadjective

Having a sensation of heat, esp. of gentle heat; glowing.

Heatverb

To excite ardour in; to rouse to action; to excite to excess; to inflame, as the passions.

Warmadjective

Subject to heat; having prevalence of heat, or little or no cold weather; as, the warm climate of Egypt.

Heatverb

To arouse, to excite (sexually).

‘The massage heated her up.’;

Warmadjective

Fig.: Not cool, indifferent, lukewarm, or the like, in spirit or temper; zealous; ardent; fervent; excited; sprightly; irritable; excitable.

‘Mirth, and youth, and warm desire!’; ‘Each warm wish springs mutual from the heart.’; ‘They say he's warm man and does not care to be mad mouths at.’; ‘I had been none of the warmest of partisans.’;

Heatnoun

A force in nature which is recognized in various effects, but especially in the phenomena of fusion and evaporation, and which, as manifested in fire, the sun's rays, mechanical action, chemical combination, etc., becomes directly known to us through the sense of feeling. In its nature heat is a mode of motion, being in general a form of molecular disturbance or vibration. It was formerly supposed to be a subtile, imponderable fluid, to which was given the name caloric.

Warmadjective

Violent; vehement; furious; excited; passionate; as, a warm contest; a warm debate.

‘Welcome, daylight; we shall have warm work on't.’;

Heatnoun

The sensation caused by the force or influence of heat when excessive, or above that which is normal to the human body; the bodily feeling experienced on exposure to fire, the sun's rays, etc.; the reverse of cold.

Warmadjective

Being well off as to property, or in good circumstances; forehanded; rich.

‘Warm householders, every one of them.’; ‘You shall have a draft upon him, payable at sight: and let me tell you he as warm a man as any within five miles round him.’;

Heatnoun

High temperature, as distinguished from low temperature, or cold; as, the heat of summer and the cold of winter; heat of the skin or body in fever, etc.

‘Else how had the world . . . Avoided pinching cold and scorching heat!’;

Warmadjective

In children's games, being near the object sought for; hence, being close to the discovery of some person, thing, or fact concealed.

‘Here, indeed, young Mr. Dowse was getting "warm," children say at blindman's buff.’;

Heatnoun

Indication of high temperature; appearance, condition, or color of a body, as indicating its temperature; redness; high color; flush; degree of temperature to which something is heated, as indicated by appearance, condition, or otherwise.

‘It has raised . . . heats in their faces.’; ‘The heats smiths take of their iron are a blood-red heat, a white-flame heat, and a sparkling or welding heat.’;

Warmadjective

Having yellow or red for a basis, or in their composition; - said of colors, and opposed to cold which is of blue and its compounds.

Heatnoun

A single complete operation of heating, as at a forge or in a furnace; as, to make a horseshoe in a certain number of heats.

Warmverb

To communicate a moderate degree of heat to; to render warm; to supply or furnish heat to; as, a stove warms an apartment.

‘Then shall it [an ash tree] be for a man to burn; for he will take thereof and warm himself.’; ‘Enough to warm, but not enough to burn.’;

Heatnoun

A violent action unintermitted; a single effort; a single course in a race that consists of two or more courses; as, he won two heats out of three.

‘Many causes . . . for refreshment betwixt the heats.’; ‘[He] struck off at one heat the matchless tale of "Tam o' Shanter."’;

Warmverb

To make engaged or earnest; to interest; to engage; to excite ardor or zeal; to enliven.

‘I formerly warmed my head with reading controversial writings.’; ‘Bright hopes, that erst bosom warmed.’;

Heatnoun

Utmost violence; rage; vehemence; as, the heat of battle or party.

Warmverb

To become warm, or moderately heated; as, the earth soon warms in a clear day summer.

‘There shall not be a coal to warm at.’;

Heatnoun

Agitation of mind; inflammation or excitement; exasperation.

Warmverb

To become ardent or animated; as, the speake warms as he proceeds.

Heatnoun

Animation, as in discourse; ardor; fervency; as, in the heat of argument.

‘With all the strength and heat of eloquence.’;

Warmnoun

The act of warming, or the state of being warmed; a warming; a heating.

Heatnoun

Sexual excitement in animals; readiness for sexual activity; estrus or rut.

Warmverb

get warm or warmer;

‘The soup warmed slowly on the stove’;

Heatnoun

Fermentation.

Warmverb

make warm or warmer;

‘The blanket will warm you’;

Heatnoun

Strong psychological pressure, as in a police investigation; as, when they turned up the heat, he took it on the lam.

Warmadjective

having or producing a comfortable and agreeable degree of heat or imparting or maintaining heat;

‘a warm body’; ‘a warm room’; ‘a warm climate’; ‘a warm coat’;

Heatverb

To make hot; to communicate heat to, or cause to grow warm; as, to heat an oven or furnace, an iron, or the like.

‘Heat me these irons hot.’;

Warmadjective

psychologically warm; friendly and responsive;

‘a warm greeting’; ‘a warm personality’; ‘warm support’;

Heatverb

To excite or make hot by action or emotion; to make feverish.

‘Pray, walk softly; do not heat your blood.’;

Warmadjective

(color) inducing the impression of warmth; used especially of reds and oranges and yellows;

‘warm reds and yellows and orange’;

Heatverb

To excite ardor in; to rouse to action; to excite to excess; to inflame, as the passions.

‘A noble emulation heats your breast.’;

Warmadjective

having or displaying warmth or affection;

‘affectionate children’; ‘caring parents’; ‘a fond embrace’; ‘fond of his nephew’; ‘a tender glance’; ‘a warm embrace’;

Heatverb

To grow warm or hot by the action of fire or friction, etc., or the communication of heat; as, the iron or the water heats slowly.

Warmadjective

freshly made or left;

‘a warm trail’; ‘the scent is warm’;

Heatverb

To grow warm or hot by fermentation, or the development of heat by chemical action; as, green hay heats in a mow, and manure in the dunghill.

Warmadjective

easily aroused or excited;

‘a quick temper’; ‘a warm temper’;

Heat

Heated; as, the iron though heat red-hot.

Warmadjective

characterized by strong enthusiasm;

‘ardent revolutionaries’; ‘warm support’;

Heatnoun

a form of energy that is transferred by a difference in temperature

Warmadjective

characterized by liveliness or excitement or disagreement;

‘a warm debate’;

Heatnoun

the presence of heat

Warmadjective

uncomfortable because of possible danger or trouble;

‘made things warm for the bookies’;

Heatnoun

the sensation caused by heat energy

Warmadjective

of a seeker; near to the object sought;

‘you're getting warm’; ‘hot on the trail’;

Heatnoun

intense passion or emotion

Warmadverb

in a warm manner;

‘warmly dressed’; ‘warm-clad skiers’;

Heatnoun

applies to nonhuman mammals: a state or period of heightened sexual arousal and activity

Warmadjective

of or at a fairly or comfortably high temperature

‘I walked quickly to keep warm’; ‘a warm September evening’;

Heatnoun

a preliminary race in which the winner advances to a more important race

Warmadjective

(of clothes or coverings) made of a material that helps the body to retain heat

‘a warm winter coat’;

Heatnoun

utility to warm a building;

‘the heating system wasn't working’; ‘they have radiant heating’;

Warmadjective

(of a soil) quick to absorb heat or retaining heat.

Heatverb

make hot or hotter;

‘heat the soup’;

Warmadjective

having or showing enthusiasm, affection, or kindness

‘they exchanged warm, friendly smiles’; ‘a warm welcome’;

Heatverb

provide with heat;

‘heat the house’;

Warmadjective

characterized by lively or heated disagreement

‘a warm debate arose’;

Heatverb

arouse or excite feelings and passions;

‘The ostentatious way of living of the rich ignites the hatred of the poor’; ‘The refugees' fate stirred up compassion around the world’; ‘Wake old feelings of hatred’;

Warmadjective

sexually explicit or titillating

‘if there is anything a little too warm in the play, it can easily be left out’;

Heatverb

gain heat or get hot;

‘The room heated up quickly’;

Warmadjective

(of a colour) containing red, yellow, or orange tones

‘her fair colouring suited soft, warm shades’;

Heat

In thermodynamics, heat is energy in transfer to or from a thermodynamic system, by mechanisms other than thermodynamic work or transfer of matter. The various mechanisms of energy transfer that define heat are stated in the next section of this article.

Warmadjective

(of a scent or trail) fresh; strong.

Warmadjective

(especially in children's games) close to discovering something or guessing the correct answer

‘we're getting warmer, sir’;

Warmverb

make or become warm

‘the film warmed our hearts’; ‘it's a bit chilly in here, but it'll soon warm up’; ‘I stamped my feet to warm them up’;

Warmverb

spank (someone's buttocks)

‘I'll warm your bum if you don't come here this instant’;

Warmnoun

a warm place or area

‘stay in the warm, I've made up the fire for you’;

Warmnoun

an act of warming something or oneself

‘he had a cup of tea and a warm by the kitchen range’;

Warmnoun

short for British warm