hot

hot
    adj 1: used of physical heat; having a high or higher than
           desirable temperature or giving off heat or feeling or
           causing a sensation of heat or burning; "hot stove"; "hot
           water"; "a hot August day"; "a hot stuffy room"; "she's
           hot and tired"; "a hot forehead" [ant: {cold}]
    2: characterized by violent and forceful activity or movement;
       very intense; "the fighting became hot and heavy"; "a hot
       engagement"; "a raging battle"; "the river became a raging
       torrent" [syn: {hot}, {raging}]
    3: extended meanings; especially of psychological heat; marked
       by intensity or vehemence especially of passion or
       enthusiasm; "a hot temper"; "a hot topic"; "a hot new book";
       "a hot love affair"; "a hot argument" [ant: {cold}]
    4: (color) bold and intense; "hot pink"
    5: sexually excited or exciting; "was hot for her"; "hot pants"
    6: recently stolen or smuggled; "hot merchandise"; "a hot car"
    7: very fast; capable of quick response and great speed; "a hot
       sports car"; "a blistering pace"; "got off to a hot start";
       "in hot pursuit"; "a red-hot line drive" [syn: {blistering},
       {hot}, {red-hot}]
    8: wanted by the police; "a hot suspect"
    9: producing a burning sensation on the taste nerves; "hot
       salsa"; "jalapeno peppers are very hot" [syn: {hot}, {spicy}]
    10: performed or performing with unusually great skill and
        daring and energy; "a hot drummer"; "he's hot tonight"
    11: very popular or successful; "one of the hot young talents";
        "cabbage patch dolls were hot last season"
    12: very unpleasant or even dangerous; "make it hot for him";
        "in the hot seat"; "in hot water"
    13: newest or most recent; "news hot off the press"; "red-hot
        information" [syn: {hot}, {red-hot}]
    14: having or bringing unusually good luck; "hot at craps"; "the
        dice are hot tonight"
    15: very good; often used in the negative; "he's hot at math but
        not so hot at history"
    16: newly made; "a hot scent"
    17: having or showing great eagerness or enthusiasm; "hot for
        travel"
    18: of a seeker; very near to the object sought; "you are hot"
    19: having or dealing with dangerously high levels of
        radioactivity; "hot fuel rods"; "a hot laboratory"
    20: charged or energized with electricity; "a hot wire"; "a live
        wire" [syn: {hot}, {live}]
    21: marked by excited activity; "a hot week on the stock market"
    

Hot \Hot\,
   imp. & p. p. of {Hote}. [Obs.] --Spenser.
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Hot \Hot\, a. [Compar. {Hotter}; superl. {Hottest}.] [OE. hot,
   hat, AS. h[=a]t; akin to OS. h[=e]t, D. heet, OHG. heiz, G.
   heiss, Icel. heitr, Sw. het, Dan. heed, hed; cf. Goth.
   heit[=o] fever, hais torch. Cf. {Heat}.]
   1. Having much sensible heat; exciting the feeling of warmth
      in a great degree; very warm; -- opposed to cold, and
      exceeding warm in degree; as, a hot stove; hot water or
      air. "A hotvenison pasty." --Shak.
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   2. Characterized by heat, ardor, or animation; easily
      excited; firely; vehement; passionate; violent; eager.
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            Achilles is impatient, hot, and revengeful.
                                                  --Dryden.
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            There was mouthing in hot haste.      --Byron.
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   3. Lustful; lewd; lecherous. --Shak.
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   4. Acrid; biting; pungent; as, hot as mustard.
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   {Hot bed} (Iron Manuf.), an iron platform in a rolling mill,
      on which hot bars, rails, etc., are laid to cool.

   {Hot wall} (Gardening), a wall provided with flues for the
      conducting of heat, to hasten the growth of fruit trees or
      the ripening of fruit.

   {Hot well} (Condensing Engines), a receptacle for the hot
      water drawn from the condenser by the air pump. This water
      is returned to the boiler, being drawn from the hot well
      by the feed pump.

   {In hot water} (Fig.), in trouble; in difficulties. [Colloq.]

   Syn: Burning; fiery; fervid; glowing; eager; animated; brisk;
        vehement; precipitate; violent; furious; ardent;
        fervent; impetuous; irascible; passionate; hasty;
        excitable.
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Hote \Hote\, v. t. & i. [pres. & imp. {Hatte}, {Hot}, etc.; p.
   p. {Hote}, {Hoten}, {Hot}, etc. See {Hight}, {Hete}.]
   1. To command; to enjoin. [Obs.] --Piers Plowman.
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   2. To promise. [Obs.] --Chaucer.
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   3. To be called; to be named. [Obs.]
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            There as I was wont to hote Arcite,
            Now hight I Philostrate, not worth a mite.
                                                  --Chaucer.
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Hight \Hight\, v. t. & i. [imp. {Hight}, {Hot}, p. p. {Hight},
   {Hote} (?), {Hoten} (?). See {Hote}.] [OE. heiten, highten,
   haten, hoten; also hight, hatte, hette, is called, was
   called, AS. h[=a]tan to call, name, be called, to command,
   promise; also h[=a]tte is called, was called; akin to G.
   heissen to call, be called, bid, Goth. haitan to call, in the
   passive, to be called.]
   1. To be called or named. [Archaic & Poetic.]
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   Note: In the form hight, it is used in a passive sense as a
         present, meaning is called or named, also as a
         preterite, was called or named. This form has also been
         used as a past participle. See {Hote}.
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               The great poet of Italy,
               That highte Dante.                 --Chaucer.
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               Bright was her hue, and Geraldine she hight.
                                                  --Surrey.
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               Entered then into the church the Reverend
               Teacher.
               Father he hight, and he was, in the parish.
                                                  --Longfellow.
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               Childe Harold was he hight.        --Byron.
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   2. To command; to direct; to impel. [Obs.]
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            But the sad steel seized not where it was hight
            Upon the child, but somewhat short did fall.
                                                  --Spenser.
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   3. To commit; to intrust. [Obs.]
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            Yet charge of them was to a porter hight. --Spenser.
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   4. To promise. [Obs.]
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            He had hold his day, as he had hight. --Chaucer.
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      afire, animal, ape about, aphrodisiomaniacal, approaching,
      approximate, approximating, ardent, arm-in-arm, autoluminescent,
      bad, baking, bang-up, banned, bawdy, blistering, boiling,
      boiling over, bonzer, boss, breathless, bricky, brisk, broiling,
      bugs on, bully, burning, burning hot, burning with excitement,
      but good, canicular, cardinal, carmine, carnal, carnation,
      carnelian, cerise, charged, cheek-by-jowl, cherry, cherry-colored,
      cherry-red, clitoromaniacal, close, combustible, committed,
      concupiscent, contaminated, cool, cordial, corking, cracked on,
      crackerjack, crazy about, crimson, curried, damask, dandy,
      dedicated, delicious, delirious, detectable, determinable, devoted,
      devout, dirty, disappearing, discernible, disclosable,
      discoverable, drunk, ducky, earnest, ebullient, ejaculatory,
      electric-heated, electrified, enthusiastic, erotic,
      eroticomaniacal, erotomaniacal, estral, estrous, estrual, excited,
      explosive, exposable, exuberant, fab, faithful, fanatic, febrile,
      ferruginous, fervent, fervid, fevered, feverish, feverous, fiery,
      findable, fine and dandy, fire-red, flame-colored, flame-red,
      flaming, fleshly, flushed, freaked-out, fugitive, gaga over,
      gas-heated, gear, glorious, glowing, goatish, gone on, great,
      grilling, groovy, gules, gynecomaniacal, hand-in-hand, hard-core,
      hasty, hearty, heated, heavy, hectic, hepped up over, het, het up,
      high-seasoned, high-tension, hipped on, horny, hot about,
      hot as fire, hot as hell, hot as pepper, hot-air-heated,
      hot-blooded, hot-tempered, hotheaded, hotted up, hunky-dory,
      hyperpyretic, hyperthermic, hysteromaniacal, impassioned,
      in a fever, in earnest, in flight, in heat, in must, in rut,
      incarmined, infected, inflamed, infrared, intense, intent,
      intent on, intimate, intoxicated, iron-red, irradiated, itching,
      ithyphallic, jam-up, jazz, jazzed up, jazzy, just dandy, keen,
      lake-colored, laky, lascivious, lateritious, lecherous, lewd,
      libidinous, lickerish, like a furnace, like an oven, live, lively,
      lobster-red, loyal, lubricious, lurid, lustful, mad about, madcap,
      maroon, marvy, mean, mild, must, musty, near, near the mark,
      nearing, nearish, neat, nifty, nigh, nighish, nippy, nobby,
      nuts about, nuts on, nymphomaniacal, obscene, oil-heated, okay,
      on fire, on the lam, orgasmic, orgastic, out of sight, overheated,
      overwarm, parching, passionate, peachy, peachy-keen, peppery,
      perfervid, pilfered, piping hot, pirated, plagiarized, poisoned,
      port-wine, priapic, propinque, proximal, proximate, prurient, puce,
      purloined, pyretic, quick, quick-tempered, racy, radiferous,
      radioactivated, radioactive, radioluminescent, ragtime, ragtimey,
      randy, rechauffe, recooked, red, red-dyed, red-hot, red-looking,
      reddened, reddish, reddish-amber, reddish-brown, reheated,
      resolute, ripping, roasting, rubicund, rubiginous, rubric,
      rubricose, ruby, ruby-colored, ruby-red, ruddied, ruddy, rufescent,
      rufous, rum, runaway, rust, rust-red, rusty, rutting, ruttish,
      rutty, salacious, satyric, scalding, scarlet, scorching,
      scrumptious, searing, seasoned, seething, sensual, serious,
      sex-starved, sexual, sexually excited, sexy, short-tempered,
      side-by-side, simmering, sincere, sizzling, sizzling hot, slap-up,
      smashing, smoking hot, smoldering, snappy, solid, something else,
      spiced, spicy, spiffing, spiffy, spirited, spottable, spunky,
      stammel, starry-eyed over, steam-heated, steamed up about,
      steaming, steamy, stolen, stunning, sudorific, sultry, summery,
      super, superheated, sweating, sweaty, swell, sweltering, sweltry,
      swingy, syncopated, tangy, tile-red, toasting, torrid,
      totally committed, tough, tropic, tropical, turned-on,
      unrestrained, unsatisfied, vehement, vermilion, vicinal, vigorous,
      vinaceous, volcanic, warm, warmed, warmed up, warmed-over,
      white-hot, wild about, wine-colored, wine-red, with a kick, wizard,
      zealous, zestful, zesty, zippy