单词 | heated |
释义 | heated (once / 497 pages) adj Heated things are warmed up, like a heated swimming pool or a heated bowl of tomato soup. After a long walk in the snow, the warmth of a heated building feels great, although tasting a meal that's been heated in a microwave too long doesn't feel too great when it burns your tongue. When heated describes an argument, discussion, or dispute, it means "intense, passionate, or agitated." A heated debate between presidential candidates might be exactly what voters hope to see. WORD FAMILYheated: heatedly, unheated+/heat: heatable, heated, heater, heating, heatless, heats, overheat, preheat, reheat/heater: heaters/heating: heatings/overheat: overheated, overheating, overheats/preheat: preheated, preheating, preheats/reheat: reheated, reheating, reheats USAGE EXAMPLESIt was amid that heated and ugly rhetoric that the center announced its expansion plans — and promptly ran into a wall of opposition. Washington Post(Jan 02, 2017) During launch, as the liquid oxygen is consumed, the helium is heated and released to maintain pressure within the tank. New York Times(Jan 02, 2017) The ambient air is Newark’s, but filtered, ventilated, heated, and cooled. The New Yorker(Jan 01, 2017) 1adj made warm or hot (`het' is a dialectal variant of `heated') a heated swimming pool wiped his heated-up face with a large bandana Syn heated up, het, het up hot 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 2adj marked by emotional heat; vehement a heated argument Syn hot extended meanings; especially of psychological heat; marked by intensity or vehemence especially of passion or enthusiasm |
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