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单词 to hot up
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to hot up
to hot up
colloquial.
1.
a. transitive. To heat (something) up.
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the world > matter > properties of materials > temperature > heat > heating or making hot > heat or make hot [verb (transitive)]
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anheatOE
heatc1000
warmOE
hota1200
enchafec1374
eschaufec1374
chafea1382
achafea1400
calefy1526
heaten1559
glow1599
foment1658
to hot up1846
sultry1897
1846 J. T. J. Hewlett Great Tom of Oxf. III. xv. 263 Please, miss, cookey only hotted it up by master's orders.
1878 M. E. Braddon Open Verdict xix. 139 I'll go and get things hotted up for you.
1913 E. Phillpotts Widecombe Fair 29 You'd better hot up some more poultices.
1928 J. Galsworthy Swan Song ii. iv. 138 Let me hot up your stew.
1989 O. S. Card Prentice Alvin xv. 210 If you don't mind hotting up your stove there, we can get water from Gertie's well yonder and set it to steaming in no time.
b. intransitive. To become hot, to heat up.
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the world > matter > properties of materials > temperature > heat > be hot [verb (intransitive)] > become hot
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chafe1393
heatenc1540
to hot up1897
1897 H. E. Browning Girl's Wanderings in Hungary 159 She fetched the iron pot with some soup in it, and put it on to ‘hot up’.
1967 M. Chandler Ceramics in Mod. World iv. 132 The higher the frequency the more the insulator will hot up.
1984 A. Mockler Haile Selassie's War v. 62 On the first day, only twenty-two miles out, the little Fiat-Ansaldo tanks hotted up to 120 degrees.
2. transitive. To alter (an engine, vehicle, or component) so as to increase its power and acceleration, or to improve some other characteristic; cf. soup v. 3.
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society > occupation and work > equipment > machine > machines which impart power > engine > operate engine [verb (transitive)] > increase power or efficiency
to hot up1920
soup1931
stretch1960
1920 Times 29 June 11/3 The principal way in which an engine of normal external appearance is ‘hotted up’ is in modifications of the valve gear.
1945 Jrnl. Royal Aeronaut. Soc. 49 205/1 The Americans have had considerable success in ‘hotting up’ engines once intended for airline use.
1948 G. Frost Flying Squad v. 55 Many of the processes involved in hotting up these cars are of a confidential nature, but two mechanical secrets of the Squad can be revealed.
1950 Hansard Commons 472 2036 Our present submarines are being ‘hotted-up’ with fast battery drive.
1984 W. L. Mitchell & A. Girdler Corvette (new ed.) 10 I'd probably be a Buick dealer today, hotting up somebody else's cars instead of my own.
1996 G. E. White Offenhauser 12/2 Many other drivers and mechanics had their own cams ground to hot up Miller's conservative valve timing.
3.
a. intransitive. Of an activity: to become more intense. Also: (of an adverse situation) to become increasingly difficult or uncomfortable.
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the world > relative properties > quantity > increase in quantity, amount, or degree > [verb (intransitive)] > in intensity or degree
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fortify1605
strengthena1616
harden1625
intend1655
thicken1672
exasperate1742
intensify1853
thick1879
to hot up1922
to build up1936
1922 P. G. Wodehouse in Cosmopolitan Dec. 126/2 ‘Things are hotting up.’ ‘What's happened now?’
1936 P. G. Wodehouse Laughing Gas xiii. 146 It did not need a razorlike intelligence to show me that things were hotting up, and that flight was the only course.
1958 Daily Mail 3 Sept. 1/2 The cold war being fought out between Britain and Iceland in the rich fishing grounds of the northern seas hotted up yesterday.
1969 Times 28 July 18/6 (heading) Pacific air route battle hots up.
1979 M. Leigh Abigail's Party i, in Abigail's Party & Goose-pimples 24 The party certainly seems to be hotting up at your place.
2005 Cosmopolitan Aug. 15/1 I'd been meeting up with this gorgeous brunette..for a few days and it was hotting up between us.
b. transitive. To make a situation difficult or uncomfortable for (a person). Cf. hot adj. 9a. rare.
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the world > action or operation > difficulty > of difficulty: beset (a person) [verb (transitive)] > put (a person) in difficulty
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to make (a place, situation, etc.) too hot for1582
difficult1641
to wind (oneself) a (bonny) pirn1660
swamp1818
to be rough on1860
taigle1865
soup1895
hot1920
to hot up1927
1927 C. D. Bruce Hist. Duke of Wellington's Regiment 65 We hotted them up with gun fire at irregular intervals throughout the day.
c. transitive. To intensify (an activity). Also: to make (an adverse situation) more difficult or uncomfortable.
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the world > relative properties > quantity > increase in quantity, amount, or degree > [verb (transitive)] > increase the intensity of
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strengthen1546
aggravate1549
enhance1559
intend1603
enrich1620
re-enforce1625
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reinforce1660
support1691
richen1795
to give a weight to1796
intensify1817
exalt1850
intensate1856
to step up1920
to hot up1937
ramp1981
1937 Times 16 Sept. 14/4 A telegram..saying that if ‘Mr. X’ did not pay the £140 a writ would be issued. That..was done with the idea of ‘hotting up’ things a bit for ‘Mr. X’.
1958 Times 12 Aug. 7/2 The General Assembly is the place to hot things up.
1973 Guardian 28 May 2 The need to avoid actions which would ‘hot up this cod war’.
1984 Daily Tel. 24 Sept. 16/1 Acorn launched its bid for a share of the business computer market..and is therefore hotting up an already-feverish competition.
d. transitive. To make (something or occasionally someone) more lively or exciting.
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the mind > emotion > pleasure > cheerfulness > make cheerful [verb (transitive)] > make cheerful and lively
alacriate1560
enlivea1617
enliven1701
frisk1802
liven1821
pearten1851
effervesce1866
to liven up1873
to hot up1929
goose1970
to funk up1972
to funk out1995
1929 Rhythm Feb. 9/2 Hugh..handles his band very judiciously, playing fairly straight, but ‘hotting it up’ when the crowd gets going.
1939 R. Lehmann No More Music 56 You seem to have hotted her up nicely.
1941 Musical Times Oct. 375/2 A classical or semi-classical musical work being ‘hotted up’ to suit what they possibly imagine is the popular taste.
1958 J. Carew Wild Coast xii. 161 The drummerboys hotted up the rhythm.
1994 New Yorker 21 Feb. 106/1 Orton had already made a mental note to hot up the new play.
2001 P. Fletcher World Musics in Context iv. xvi. 576 Tunes from the minstrel shows were hotted up.
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