hot
Part of speech: adj
adv
verb
noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
programming
sciences
Etymology: From Middle English hot, hat, from Old English hāt (“hot”), from Proto-West Germanic *hait, from Proto-Germanic *haitaz (“hot”), from Proto-Indo-European *keHy- (“hot; to heat”). Cognate with Scots hate, hait (“hot”), North Frisian hiet (“hot”), Saterland Frisian heet (“hot”), West Frisian hjit (“hot”), Dutch heet (“hot”), German Low German heet (“hot”), German heiß, heiss (“hot”), Danish hed (“hot”), Norwegian Bokmål, Norwegian Nynorsk, and Swedish het (“hot”), Faroese and Icelandic heitur (“hot”). Related to heat.
Superseded non-native Middle English chaud, from Old French chaut (“hot”); and early Modern English calent, from Latin calēns (“hot”).
Inflected forms:
form: hotter
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: hottest
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: hotter
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: hottest
pos: adv
tags: superlative
form: hots
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: hotting
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: hotted
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: hotted
pos: verb
tags: past
form: hots
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Relating to heat and conditions which produce it.
pos: adj
examples: He forgot that the frying pan was hot and burned his hand.
It is too hot to be outside.
It is hotter in summer than in winter.
It is roasting hot in here. Crack a window, please.
There was also hairdressing: hairdressing, too, really was hairdressing in those times — no running a comb through it and that was that. It was curled, frizzed, waved, put in curlers overnight, waved with hot tongs;[…].
“Everybody is interested in extremes – the hottest, the wettest, the windiest – so creating a database of professionally verified records is useful in that fact alone,” says Randall Cerveny from the World Meteorological Organization (WMO).
It is one of the first towns in the United States to purposely stall growth for want of water in a new era of megadroughts. But it could be a harbinger of things to come in a hotter, drier West.
gloss: Relating to heat and conditions which produce it.
pos: adj
examples: I was so hot from being in the sun too long.
Aren't you hot with that thick coat on?
gloss: Relating to heat and conditions which produce it.
pos: adj
gloss: Active, in use or ready for use (like a bullet or a firing range), turned on (like a microphone or camera).
pos: adj
examples: The microphone was hot and the show was on the air.
So I just blurted out, "This is really a fucking way to make a living, huh?" […] The microphone was hot, and I knew I was in trouble. The radio management came to my house and suspended me immediately.
I leaned forward, still ogling, thinking the camera was off me until the end of the song, but then on went the little red light that meant my camera was hot ...
"Your range is hot, corporal. Wind unchanged. You've got your dope. Fire at will," Hacksaw said, snapping the camera as fast as the motor drive could run ...
I join the space-to-ground channel to warn Terry that his mic is hot and that everyone with an internet connection or tuned to NASA TV can hear every word ...
"The range is hot, chief. Fire at will." Alex says with a smile as he steps back and puts his shooting ear muffs on. "I'm going to shoot, major."
I run an inventory, verify all bullets are hot in the chamber. They are. But the showroom prosthetics have all exited attraction mode.
gloss: Active, in use or ready for use (like a bullet or a firing range), turned on (like a microphone or camera).
pos: adj
tags: US
not-comparable
examples: a hot wire
gloss: Active, in use or ready for use (like a bullet or a firing range), turned on (like a microphone or camera).
pos: adj
tags: informal
gloss: Active, in use or ready for use (like a bullet or a firing range), turned on (like a microphone or camera).
pos: adj
tags: figuratively
examples: We need to keep the old drone production line going while it's still hot, or it'll be difficult to restart it.
gloss: Relating to excited emotions.
pos: adj
tags: figuratively
examples: Be careful, he has a hot temper and may take it out on you.
gloss: Relating to excited emotions.
pos: adj
tags: colloquial
figuratively
examples: He saw many hot girls at the concert.
That stripper is hot!
gloss: Relating to excited emotions.
pos: adj
tags: colloquial
figuratively
examples: There was only one problem. Paul was HIV positive. And just a few weeks after his hot encounter with Max, a letter arrived for him, containing some legalese about HIV infection being a criminal act, with a few chilling words
gloss: Relating to excited emotions.
pos: adj
tags: figuratively
slang
examples: Enough foreplay! You’ve gotten me so hot already!
gloss: Relating to excited emotions.
pos: adj
tags: figuratively
slang
examples: hot for her English teacher
gloss: Relating to popularity, quality, or the state of being interesting.
pos: adj
tags: informal
examples: He's a hot young player; we should give him a trial.
gloss: Relating to popularity, quality, or the state of being interesting.
pos: adj
examples: This new pickup is so hot we can't keep it in stock!
And in 1975 one of the hottest Austin ensembles was the posthippie western swing revivalist group known as Asleep at the Wheel.
gloss: Relating to popularity, quality, or the state of being interesting.
pos: adj
examples: a hot topic
The bluebloods of golf began pouring into the sweltering nation’s capital yesterday for the 64th U.S. Open championship, and the hottest topic was not Arnold Palmer or Jack Nicklaus, but Champagne Tony Lema.
gloss: Relating to popularity, quality, or the state of being interesting.
pos: adj
examples: "Keep going! You're hot tonight!" urged Wally.
The ball lands on the fairway, just a couple of yards in front of the green. "Nice shot Sarah! You're hot today!" Jenny says.
gloss: Relating to popularity, quality, or the state of being interesting.
pos: adj
examples: A kid can stand in the street and sell newspapers, if the headlines are hot.
Some of these publications show signs of hasty production, indicating that they were written while the news was hot.
gloss: Relating to popularity, quality, or the state of being interesting.
pos: adj
examples: Optimise hot code paths first.
gloss: Relating to danger or risk.
pos: adj
examples: The car sped along. She kept her foot permanently on the accelerator, and took every corner at an acute angle. Two motorists we passed looked out of their windows outraged as she swept by, and one pedestrian in a lane waved his stick at her. I felt rather hot for her. She did not seem to notice though. I crouched lower in my seat.
I've been living here a few weeks and it's starting to get a little hot for me … I've written myself out of several states in the last six years.
The police are looking for an anarchist who answers my description, seen leaving the house the day before the fire; there was an explosion[…]So what with one thing and another, His Grace thinks the country a little hot for me now
"Things are a little hot for us in San Francisco. We'll burn the vardo at Drake's Bay and then head to your place." "Things are hot, so you're heading to my place?" "Hot's not a big deal. Just a matter of jurisdiction and time.
I'd also thought things might have gotten a little hot for him in Atlantic City, so he'd moved West to its bigger, badder cousin, where he wasn't as well known
gloss: Relating to danger or risk.
pos: adj
tags: slang
examples: I wouldn't speed through here if I was you. This area is hot this time of night.
gloss: Relating to danger or risk.
pos: adj
tags: slang
examples: hot merchandise
The camera was hot. Buying a hot camera was a parole violation.
gloss: Relating to danger or risk.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
slang
examples: I wouldn't trust him. He gave me a hot check last week.
gloss: Relating to danger or risk.
pos: adj
tags: slang
examples: The solider was discharged from the military after he pissed hot for cocaine.
gloss: Very close to finding or guessing something to be found or guessed.
pos: adj
examples: Am I warm yet? — You're hot!
He was hot on her tail.
gloss: Spicy, pungent, piquant, as some chilis and other spices are.
pos: adj
examples: This kind of chili pepper is way too hot for my taste.
gloss: Loud, producing a strong electric signal for the amplifier or other sound equipment.
pos: adj
gloss: Used to emphasize the short duration or small quantity of something
pos: adj
tags: slang
examples: He was finished in a hot minute.
I dated him for a hot second.
gloss: Extremely fast or with great speed.
pos: adj
tags: slang
examples: That plane's coming in hot!
a hot pass
Brace yourselves; we're going in a little hot!
gloss: Hotly; at a high temperature.
pos: adv
examples: Oak burns hot and lasts a long time. Its smoke is a medium to heavy flavor but not too overpowering. It leaves a buttersmooth, nutty finish.
gloss: Rapidly, quickly.
pos: adv
examples: Whatever happened, braking into the next-to-last hairpin, a blue-sky turn called Cog Cut, Durelle went in too hot.
He went in hotter than he could have, the Cforce snugging him into the bucket seat. At the first switchback, there was already a hundred-foot drop-off […]
He rolled over on his belly and raised up enough to see the second chopper coming in hotter, more deliberately than the first. Hollister grabbed Jrae by the ...
They were coming in hotter than Dash liked, nose down toward the watery surface […]
“When landing on dirt, gravel, or pavement, you'll be coming in hotter, faster than a runway made of grass, so try and keep that in mind.
"You're coming in hotter than we'd like." "Roger that, Huygens, increasing reverse thrust by 20%."
gloss: While shooting, while firing one's weapon(s).
pos: adv
examples: to come in hot; to go in hot
We would pop over the riverbank and come down hot (shooting) on a designated target. […] We started rolling in hot with rockets, then suddenly we started taking fire from the […]
"Shakedown is rolling in hot in Nakhoney right now. You're just in time. They've been getting shot at and are in overwatch for India 21 patrolling," […]
gloss: To heat; to make or become hot.
pos: verb
gloss: To become lively or exciting.
pos: verb
examples: Turf war's hotting up.
gloss: A hot meal, usually in the phrase "three hots" (i.e. three hot meals per day) or derivations such as three hots and a cot.
pos: noun
Synonyms: hot
choleric
heated
Antonyms: chilled
chilly
cold
cold as ice
freezing
freezing cold
frigid
glacial
ice-cold
icy
wintry
Related words: sexy
spicy
Derived words: a bit hot
Ainsworth Hot Springs
Alabama hot pocket
a little pot is soon hot
as hot as hell
hot as hell
baking hot
blow hot air
blow hot and cold
boiling hot
boiling-hot
burning hot
Castle Hot Springs
catch it hot
get it hot
come in hot
crash hot
crash-hot
domestic hot water
drop like a hot brick
drop like a hot potato
drop like a hot skillet
egg-hot
egghot
firehot
foothot
full-hot
full of hot air
give it to someone hot
give it to someone hot and strong
glowing hot
go hot and cold
go like hot cakes
sell like hot cakes
have the hots for
hissing hot
hot abscess
hot ache
hot adult contemporary
hot air
hot-air balloon
hot air balloon
hot-air stove
hot and bothered
hot and cold
hot and heavy
hot and high
hot-and-hot
hot and sour soup
hot as a pistol
hot as blazes
hot as fire
hot as Hades
hot as hell's hinges
hot as the hobs of Hell
hot bag
hot band
hot bar
hotbar
hot bean
hotbed
hot bed
hot beef
hot beef injection
hot-beef injection
hot bench
hot blast
hotblooded
hot-blooded
hot boiled beans
hot boot
hot bottle
hot box
hotbox
hot-brain
hot-brained
hot bread kitchen
hot bread shop
hot brown
hot bulb
hotbunk
hot bunk
hot burglary
hot buttered rum
hot-button
hot button
hot cake
hotcake
hot cargo
hot carl
hot cathode
hot cell
hot chair
hot chassis
hot chat
hot check
hot chicken
hot chips
hot chisel
hot chocolate
hot chocolate effect
hot closet
hot-closet
hotcockles
hot cockles
hot cocoa
hot comb
hot coppers
hot corino
hot corner
hot cross bun
hot cupboard
hot curler
hot damn
hot dang
hot dark matter
hot date
hot death
hot desk
hot-desk
hot-desker
hot desker
hot desking
hot diggety
hot diggety dog
hot diggity
hot diggity dog
hot-dip
hot-dipped
hot dipping
hotdish
hot-dog
hot dog
hot empathy
hot end
hot extraction
hot favorite
hot favourite
hot-fire
hotfix
hot-flash
hot flash
hot flush
hot-flue
hot folder
hotfoot
hot from the press
hot off the press
hot fudge
hot fusion
hot garbage
hot genocide
hot girl summer
hot glue
hot glue gun
hot gospeler
hot gospeller
hot gospeling
hot gospelling
hotgun
hot hamburger sandwich
hot hand
hot hatchback
hot hatch
hot-hatch
hot-head
hothead
hot-headed
hotheaded
hot-headedness
hot-hearted
hot hold
hot-hoof
hot-house
hothouse
hot ice
hot iron test
hot-iron test
hot jazz
hot Jupiter
hot jupiter
hot karl
hot key
hotkey
hot-key
hot-knife
hot lab
hot laboratory
Hotlanta
hot lap
hotlapping
hot lava
hot line
hotline
hotlink
hot link
hotlinking
hot lips
hotlist
hot-livered
hotly
hot-making
hot medium
hotmelt
hot melt adhesive
hot melt glue
hot melt
hot-melt adhesive
hot-melt glue
hot mess
hot metal
hot metal typesetting
hot mic
hot mike
hot microphone
hot milk cake
hot mint
hot minute
hot-mix
hot money
hot-mouthed
hot-natured
hot Neptune
hotness
hot nickel
hot off the presses
hot on
hot on someone's heels
hot on the trail
hot panted
hot-panted
hot-pantsed
hot pants
hot particle
hot patch
hot-patch
hotpath
hot pencil
hot pepper
hot pie
hot pink
hot pint
hot piping
hot piss
hot-plate
hot plate
hotplate
hotplug
hot-pluggable
hot pool
hot poop
hot potato
hot-potato routing
hot pot
hot-pot
hotpot
hot-pressed
hot-presser
hotpress
hot press
hot-press
hot property
hot pursuit
hot rack
hot rail
hot reactor
hot refuel
hot rock
hot rodder
hot-rodder
hotrodder
hot rodent man
hot rod
hotrod
hot roll
hot rolling
hot sauce
hot saw
hot-saw
hot seal
hot seat
hot second
hot set
hot sheet
hotsheet
hot-sheet motel
hot shift
hot shit
hot shoe
hot shop
hot-short
hot short
hotshot
hot shot
hotski
hot-skull
hot sleeper
hot spare
hot spell
hot-spirited
hot spot
hot spring
Hot Spring County
Hot Springs
Hot Springs County
hotspur
hot squat
hot-stage
hot stamp
hot-stopping
hot-stove
hot stove
hot stove league
hot streak
hot stuff
Hot Sulphur Springs
hot swap
hot-swap
hot-swappable
hot take
hot-takey
hot talk
hot tamale
hot tap
hot tapping
hot tear
hot tearing
hot-tempered
hotten
hotter
hotter than a pistol
hotter than a two dollar pistol
hot ticket
hottie
hot tiger
hotting
hottish
hot toddy
hot top
hot to trot
hot-to-trot
hot trod
hot-trod
hot truck
hot-tub
hot tub
hot tubber
hot-tubber
hot tube
hotty
hot under the collar
hot up
hotwalk
hot wall
hot wallet
hot war
hot wash
hotwash
hot water
hot water bag
hot water bottle
hot water bottle rash
hot water can
hot water crust
hot water heater
hot wave
hot waxing
hot well
Hot Wheel
hot wheel
hot wheels
hot whiskey
hot whisky
hot wiener
hotwife
hot wind
hot wing
hot-wire
hot-wired
hot with
hotword
hot-work
hot work
hot-working
hot yoga
hot ziggety
hot zone
I'm hot
in hot pursuit
in the hot seat
like a cat on a hot tin roof
like a cat on hot bricks
like a hen on a hot griddle
like a hot knife through butter
like hot cakes
like throwing a hot dog down a hallway
make it hot for
make things hot for
more than someone has had hot dinners
Nashville hot chicken
nonhot
not-so-hot
not so hot
one-hot
overhot
piping hot
piss hot
process hot water
red hot
red-hot
red-hot minute
red-hot poker
run hot
run hot and cold
scalding hot
scorching hot
searing hot
semihot
shit-hot
shit hot
smoking hot
spicy-hot
steaming hot
strike the iron while it's hot
strike while the iron is hot
superhot
the devil to pay and no pitch hot or ready
three hots and a cot
too hot for
too hot to handle
too hot to hold
ugly hot
ultrahot
ultra-hot jupiter
unhot
warm-hot intergalactic medium
white-hot
white hot
Translations:
lang: Ainu
word: シㇼポㇷ゚ケ
roman: sirpopke
lang: Arabic
word: حَرَّان
roman: ḥarrān
lang: Arabic
word: حَارّ
roman: ḥārr
lang: Arabic
word: حَرَّان
roman: ḥarrān
lang: Arabic
word: حَرّ
roman: ḥarr
lang: Arabic
word: حار
roman: ḥārr
lang: Armenian
word: շոգ
roman: šog
lang: Azerbaijani
word: isti
lang: Bashkir
word: эҫе
roman: eśe
lang: Belarusian
word: гара́чы
roman: haráčy
lang: Belarusian
word: жа́ркі
roman: žárki
lang: Belarusian
word: спяко́тны
roman: spjakótny
lang: Central Bikol
word: mainit
lang: Bulgarian
word: горе́щ
roman: goréšt
lang: Catalan
word: fer calor
lang: Cebuano
word: init
lang: Cebuano
word: alingaang
lang: Chinese Cantonese
word: 熱 /热
roman: jit⁶
lang: Chinese Cantonese
word: 炎熱 /炎热
roman: jim⁴ jit⁶
lang: Chinese
word: жә
roman: řə
lang: Chinese
word: 熱 /热
roman: jo̍ah, lo̍ah
lang: Chinese
word: 炎熱 /炎热
roman: iām-jo̍ah, iām-lo̍ah
lang: Chinese
word: 燒熱 /烧热
roman: sio-jo̍ah, sio-lo̍ah
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 熱 /热
roman: rè
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 炎熱 /炎热
roman: yánrè
lang: Czech
word: horký
lang: Danish
word: hed
lang: Danish
word: varm
lang: Dutch
word: warm
lang: Dutch
word: heet
lang: Esperanto
word: varmega
lang: Finnish
word: kuuma
lang: French
word: faire chaud
lang: Galician
word: facer calor
lang: Georgian
word: ცხელი
roman: cxeli
lang: German
word: heiß
lang: German
word: warm
lang: Greek
word: κάνει ζέστη
roman: kánei zésti
lang: Hindi
word: गरम
roman: garam
lang: Hindi
word: गर्म
roman: garm
lang: Hote
word: (thời tiết)nóng
lang: Icelandic
word: heitur
lang: Indonesian
word: panas
lang: Italian
word: caldo
lang: Italian
word: fare caldo
lang: Japanese
word: 暑い
roman: atsui
lang: Jeju
word: 덥다
roman: deopda
lang: Kaingang
word: rỹ
lang: Kazakh
word: ыстық
roman: ystyq
lang: Korean
word: 덥다
roman: deopda
lang: Latvian
word: karsts
lang: Louisiana Creole
word: sho
lang: Macedonian
word: врел
roman: vrel
lang: Macedonian
word: жежок
roman: žežok
lang: Malay
word: panas
lang: Malayalam
word: ചൂട്
roman: cūṭŭ
lang: Māori
word: pūāhuru
lang: Ngarrindjeri
word: waldi
lang: Norwegian Bokmål
word: het
lang: Norwegian Bokmål
word: varm
lang: Pashto
word: تودوخي
roman: tawdoxi
lang: Pashto
word: ګرمي
roman: garmi
lang: Iranian Persian
word: گَرْم
roman: garm
lang: Polish
word: gorący
lang: Polish
word: upalny
lang: Portuguese
word: quente
lang: Portuguese
word: fazer calor
lang: Quechua
word: goñi
lang: Quechua
word: gonog
lang: Quechua
word: k'ajay
lang: Romanian
word: cald
lang: Russian
word: жа́ркий
roman: žárkij
lang: Russian
word: жа́рко
roman: žárko
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: вру̑ћ
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: vrȗć
lang: Slovak
word: horúci
lang: Slovene
word: vroč
lang: Spanish
word: caluroso
lang: Spanish
word: cálido
lang: Spanish
word: hacer calor
lang: Spanish
word: estuoso
lang: Swedish
word: varm
lang: Swedish
word: het
lang: Tajik
word: гарм
roman: garm
lang: Thai
word: ร้อน
roman: rɔ́ɔn
lang: Turkish
word: sıcak
lang: Ottoman Turkish
word: صیجاق
roman: sıcak
lang: Ottoman Turkish
word: ایصی
roman: ısı, ıssı
lang: Ottoman Turkish
word: حرارتلو
roman: hararetli
lang: Ukrainian
word: спеко́тний
roman: spekótnyj
lang: Ukrainian
word: жарки́й
roman: žarkýj
lang: Ukrainian
word: спеко́тливий
roman: spekótlyvyj
lang: Ukrainian
word: спекотли́вий
roman: spekotlývyj
lang: Ukrainian
word: гаря́чий
roman: harjáčyj
lang: Ukrainian
word: спе́чний
roman: spéčnyj
lang: Urdu
word: گَرْم
roman: garm
lang: Uzbek
word: issiq
lang: Vietnamese
word: (thời tiết) nóng
lang: Vietnamese
word: nóng
lang: Volapük
word: hitik
lang: Yiddish
word: הייס
roman: heys
lang: Yoruba
word: ooru mú
lang: Zazaki
word: germ (diq)