heated

Adjective

WordNet 3.0

Adjective (2)

  1. made warm or hot (`het' is a dialectal variant of `heated')“a heated swimming pool”“wiped his heated-up face with a large bandana”“he was all het up and sweaty”Synonyms: heated uphethet up
  2. marked by emotional heat; vehement“a heated argument”
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Webster's Dictionary (GCIDE)

heated \heated\ adj.

1.characterized by great warmth and intensity of feeling; as, a heated argument. Opposite of dispassionate, passionless. [WordNet sense 1]

Syn: ardent, fervent, fervid, fiery, hot, impassioned, perfervid, torrid. [WordNet 1.5]

2.supplied with a mechanism for heating; -- of structures or devices; as, a heated fishing cabin. Opposite of unheated. [WordNet sense 2] [WordNet 1.5 +PJC]


Heat \Heat\ (h[=e]t), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Heated; p. pr. & vb. n. Heating.] [OE. heten, AS. h[=ae]tan, fr. h[=a]t hot. See Hot.]

1.To make hot; to communicate heat to, or cause to grow warm; as, to heat an oven or furnace, an iron, or the like. [1913 Webster]

Heat me these irons hot.— Shak.[1913 Webster]

2.To excite or make hot by action or emotion; to make feverish. [1913 Webster]

Pray, walk softly; do not heat your blood.— Shak.[1913 Webster]

3.To excite ardor in; to rouse to action; to excite to excess; to inflame, as the passions. [1913 Webster]

A noble emulation heats your breast.— Dryden.[1913 Webster]
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