Work vs. Heat — What's the Difference?

Physical or mental effort or activity directed toward the production or accomplishment of something

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.

Such effort or activity by which one makes a living; employment

A form of energy associated with the kinetic energy of atoms or molecules and capable of being transmitted through solid and fluid media by conduction, through fluid media by convection, and through empty space by radiation.

A trade, profession, or other means of livelihood

The transfer of energy from one body to another as a result of a difference in temperature or a change in phase.

The part of a day devoted to an occupation or undertaking

The sensation or perception of such energy as warmth or hotness.

One's place of employment

An abnormally high bodily temperature, as from a fever.

Something that one is doing, making, or performing, especially as an occupation or undertaking; a duty or task

The condition of being hot.

An amount of such activity either done or required

A degree of warmth or hotness

The action or effect of an agency

The warming of a room or building by a furnace or another source of energy

Something that has been produced or accomplished through the effort, activity, or agency of a person or thing

A furnace or other source of warmth in a room or building

An act; a deed

A hot season; a spell of hot weather.

An artistic creation, such as a painting, sculpture, or literary or musical composition, or a creative result of other human activity

Intensity, as of passion, emotion, color, appearance, or effect.

Works The output of a writer, artist, or composer considered or collected as a whole

The most intense or active stage

Works Engineering structures, such as bridges or dams.

A burning sensation in the mouth produced by spicy flavoring in food.

A fortified structure, such as a trench or fortress.

Estrus.

Needlework, weaving, lacemaking, or a similar textile art.

One of a series of efforts or attempts.

A piece of such textile art.

Sports & Games One round of several in a competition, such as a race.

A material or piece of material being processed in a machine during manufacture

A preliminary contest held to determine finalists.

Works (used with a sing. or pl. verb) A factory, plant, or similar building or complex of buildings where a specific type of business or industry is carried on. Often used in combination

(Informal) Pressure; stress.

Works Internal mechanism

An intensification of police activity in pursuing criminals.

The manner, style, or quality of working or treatment; workmanship.

The police. Used with the.

Abbr. w(Physics) The transfer of energy from one physical system to another, especially the application of a force to move a body in a certain direction. It is calculated as the product of the force and the distance over which it is applied and is expressed in joules, ergs, and foot-pounds.

(Slang) Adverse comments or hostile criticism

Works Moral or righteous acts or deeds

(Slang) A firearm, especially a pistol.

(Informal) The full range of possibilities; everything. Used with the

To make warm or hot.

(Slang) A thorough beating or other severe treatment. Used with the

To excite the feelings of; inflame.

Of, relating to, designed for, or engaged in work.

(Physics) To increase the heat energy of (an object).

To exert oneself physically or mentally in order to do, make, or accomplish something.

To become warm or hot.

To be employed; have a job.

To become excited emotionally or intellectually.

To function; operate

(uncountable) Thermal energy.

To function or operate in the desired or required way

(uncountable) The condition or quality of being hot.

To have a given effect or outcome

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

To have the desired effect or outcome; prove successful

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

To exert an influence. Used with on or upon

(uncountable) An undesirable amount of attention.

To arrive at a specified condition through gradual or repeated movement

The police.

To proceed or progress slowly and laboriously

One or more firearms.

To move in an agitated manner, as with emotion

A fastball.

To behave in a specified way when handled or processed

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

To ferment.

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

To strain in heavy seas so that the joints give slightly and the fastenings become slack. Used of a boat or ship.

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

To sail against the wind.

A stage in a competition, not necessarily a sporting one; a round.

To undergo small motions that result in friction and wear

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

To cause or effect; bring about

(countable) A hot spell.

To cause to operate or function; actuate, use, or manage

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

To shape or forge

(uncountable) The output of a heating system.

To make or decorate by needlework

(countable) A violent action unintermitted; a single effort.

To solve (a problem) by calculation and reasoning.

To get a negative reaction from the audience, especially as a heel (or bad character).

To knead, stir, or otherwise manipulate in preparation

(transitive) To cause an increase in temperature of (an object or space); to cause to become hot often with "up".

To bring to a specified condition by gradual or repeated effort or work

(intransitive) To become hotter.

To make, achieve, or pay for by work or effort

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

(Informal) To arrange or contrive. Often used with it

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

To make productive; cultivate

To arouse, to excite (sexually).

To cause to work

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.

To excite or provoke

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.

To gratify, cajole, or enchant artfully, especially for the purpose of influencing

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.

To use or manipulate to one's own advantage; exploit

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.

To carry on an operation or function in or through

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.

To ferment (liquor, for example).

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.

Employment.

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

Labour, occupation, job.

Agitation of mind; inflammation or excitement; exasperation.

The place where one is employed.

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

(by extension) One's employer.

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

(dated) A factory; a works.

Fermentation.

Effort.

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

Effort expended on a particular task.

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

Sustained human effort to overcome obstacles and achieve a result.

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

Something on which effort is expended.

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

(physics) A measure of energy expended in moving an object; most commonly, force times distance. No work is done if the object does not move.

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.

A measure of energy that is usefully extracted from a process.

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.

(heading) Product; the result of effort.

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

The result of a particular manner of production.

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

Something produced using the specified material or tool.

The presence of heat

(countable) A literary, artistic, or intellectual production.

The sensation caused by heat energy

(countable) A fortification.

Intense passion or emotion

The staging of events to appear as real.

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

(mining) Ore before it is dressed.

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

The equipment needed to inject a drug (syringes, needles, swabs etc.)

Utility to warm a building;

(intransitive) To do a specific task by employing physical or mental powers.

Make hot or hotter;

Followed by in (or at, etc.) Said of one's workplace (building), or one's department, or one's trade (sphere of business).

Provide with heat;

Followed by as. Said of one's job title

Arouse or excite feelings and passions;

Followed by for. Said of a company or individual who employs.

Gain heat or get hot;

Followed by with. General use, said of either fellow employees or instruments or clients.

(intransitive) To effect by gradual degrees;

(transitive) To effect by gradual degrees.

(transitive) To embroider with thread.

(transitive) To set into action.

(transitive) To cause to ferment.

(intransitive) To ferment.

(transitive) To exhaust, by working.

(transitive) To shape, form, or improve a material.

(transitive) To operate in a certain place, area, or speciality.

(transitive) To operate in or through; as, to work the phones.

(transitive) To provoke or excite; to influence.

(transitive) To use or manipulate to one’s advantage.

To cause to happen or to occur as a consequence.

(transitive) To cause to work.

(intransitive) To function correctly; to act as intended; to achieve the goal designed for.

To influence.

(intransitive) To move in an agitated manner.

(intransitive) To behave in a certain way when handled

To cause (someone) to feel (something); to do unto somebody (something, whether good or bad).

To hurt; to ache.

To pull off; to wear, perform, etc. successfully or to advantage.

Exertion of strength or faculties; physical or intellectual effort directed to an end; industrial activity; toil; employment; sometimes, specifically, physical labor.

The matter on which one is at work; that upon which one spends labor; material for working upon; subject of exertion; the thing occupying one; business; duty; as, to take up one's work; to drop one's work.

That which is produced as the result of labor; anything accomplished by exertion or toil; product; performance; fabric; manufacture; in a more general sense, act, deed, service, effect, result, achievement, feat.

Specifically: (a) That which is produced by mental labor; a composition; a book; as, a work, or the works, of Addison. (b) Flowers, figures, or the like, wrought with the needle; embroidery.

Structures in civil, military, or naval engineering, as docks, bridges, embankments, trenches, fortifications, and the like; also, the structures and grounds of a manufacturing establishment; as, iron works; locomotive works; gas works.

Manner of working; management; treatment; as, unskillful work spoiled the effect.

The causing of motion against a resisting force. The amount of work is proportioned to, and is measured by, the product of the force into the amount of motion along the direction of the force. See Conservation of energy, under Conservation, Unit of work, under Unit, also Foot pound, Horse power, Poundal, and Erg.

Ore before it is dressed.

Performance of moral duties; righteous conduct.

Break; twist.

The causing of motion against a resisting force, measured by the product of the force into the component of the motion resolved along the direction of the force.

Ore before it is dressed.

To exert one's self for a purpose; to put forth effort for the attainment of an object; to labor; to be engaged in the performance of a task, a duty, or the like.

Hence, in a general sense, to operate; to act; to perform; as, a machine works well.

Hence, figuratively, to be effective; to have effect or influence; to conduce.

To carry on business; to be engaged or employed customarily; to perform the part of a laborer; to labor; to toil.

To be in a state of severe exertion, or as if in such a state; to be tossed or agitated; to move heavily; to strain; to labor; as, a ship works in a heavy sea.

To make one's way slowly and with difficulty; to move or penetrate laboriously; to proceed with effort; - with a following preposition, as down, out, into, up, through, and the like; as, scheme works out by degrees; to work into the earth.

To ferment, as a liquid.

To act or operate on the stomach and bowels, as a cathartic.

To labor or operate upon; to give exertion and effort to; to prepare for use, or to utilize, by labor.

To produce or form by labor; to bring forth by exertion or toil; to accomplish; to originate; to effect; as, to work wood or iron into a form desired, or into a utensil; to work cotton or wool into cloth.

To produce by slow degrees, or as if laboriously; to bring gradually into any state by action or motion.

To influence by acting upon; to prevail upon; to manage; to lead.

To form with a needle and thread or yarn; especially, to embroider; as, to work muslin.

To set in motion or action; to direct the action of; to keep at work; to govern; to manage; as, to work a machine.

To cause to ferment, as liquor.

Activity directed toward making or doing something;

A product produced or accomplished through the effort or activity or agency of a person or thing;

The occupation for which you are paid;

Applying the mind to learning and understanding a subject (especially by reading);

The total output of a writer or artist (or a substantial part of it);

A place where work is done;

(physics) a manifestation of energy; the transfer of energy from one physical system to another expressed as the product of a force and the distance through which it moves a body in the direction of that force;

Exert oneself by doing mental or physical work for a purpose or out of necessity;

Be employed;

Have an effect or outcome; often the one desired or expected;

Perform as expected when applied;

Shape, form, or improve a material;

Give a work-out to;

Proceed along a path;

Operate in a certain place, area, or specialty;

Proceed towards a goal or along a path or through an activity;

Move in an agitated manner;

Cause to happen or to occur as a consequence;

Cause to work;

Prepare for crops;

Behave in a certain way when handled;

Have and exert influence or effect;

Operate in or through;

Cause to operate or function;

Provoke or excite;

Gratify and charm, usually in order to influence;

Make something, usually for a specific function;

Move into or onto;

Make uniform;

Use or manipulate to one's advantage;

Find the solution to (a problem or question) or understand the meaning of;

Cause to undergo fermentation;

Go sour or spoil;

Arrive at a certain condition through repeated motion;