hot vs warm what difference
what is difference between hot and warm
English
Alternative forms
- (physically attractive): hawt (slang, especially Internet), hott (slang, especially Internet)
Etymology
From Middle English hot, hat, from Old English hāt (“hot, fervent, fervid, fierce”), from Proto-Germanic *haitaz (“hot”), from Proto-Indo-European *kay- (“hot; to heat”). Cognate with Scots hate, hait (“hot”), North Frisian hiet (“hot”), Saterland Frisian heet (“hot”), West Frisian hjit (“hot”), Dutch heet (“hot”), Low German het (“hot”), German Low German heet (“hot”), German heiß (“hot”), Danish hed (“hot”), Swedish het (“hot”), Icelandic heitur (“hot”).
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) enPR: hŏt, IPA(key): /hɒt/
- Rhymes: -ɒt
- (General American) enPR: hät, IPA(key): /hɑt/
Adjective
hot (comparative hotter, superlative hottest)
- (of an object) Having a high temperature.
- 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; […].
- (of the weather) Causing the air to be hot.
- (of a person or animal) Feeling the sensation of heat, especially to the point of discomfort.
- (of a temper) Easily provoked to anger.
- Feverish.
- (of food) Spicy, pungent, piquant, as some chilis and other spices are.
- (informal) Very good, remarkable, exciting. [from the 19thc.]
- Stolen. [from the 20thc.]
- (not comparable) Electrically charged.
- (informal) Radioactive. [from the 20thc.]
- (slang, of a person) Very physically and/or sexually attractive.
- (slang) Sexual or sexy; involving sexual intercourse or sexual excitement.
- (slang) Sexually aroused; randy.
- (slang, with for) Attracted to.
- Popular; in demand.
- Of great current interest; provoking current debate or controversy.
- a hot topic
- Very close to finding or guessing something to be found or guessed.
- Performing strongly; having repeated successes.
- 1938, Harold M. Sherman, “Shooting Stars,” Boys’ Life (March 1938), Published by Boy Scouts of America, p.5:
- “Keep going! You’re hot tonight!” urged Wally.
- 2002, Peter Krause & Andy King, Play-By-Play Golf, First Avenue Editions, p.55:
- 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.
- 1938, Harold M. Sherman, “Shooting Stars,” Boys’ Life (March 1938), Published by Boy Scouts of America, p.5:
- Fresh; just released.
- 1960, Super Markets of the Sixties: Findings, recommendations.- v.2. The plans and sketches, Super Market Institute, p.30:
- A kid can stand in the street and sell newspapers, if the headlines are hot.
- 2000, David Cressy, Travesties and transgressions in Tudor and Stuart England: tales of discord and dissension, Oxford University Press, p.34:
- Some of these publications show signs of hasty production, indicating that they were written while the news was hot.
- 1960, Super Markets of the Sixties: Findings, recommendations.- v.2. The plans and sketches, Super Market Institute, p.30:
- Uncomfortable, difficult to deal with; awkward, dangerous, unpleasant.
- (slang) Used to emphasize the short duration or small quantity of something
- (slang) Characterized by police presence or activity.
- (slang, of a draft/check) Not covered by funds on account.
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Quotations
- For quotations using this term, see Citations:hot.
Synonyms
- (having a high temperature): heated; see also Thesaurus:hot
- (of the weather): baking, boiling, boiling hot, sultry, sweltering
- (feeling the sensation of heat): baking, boiling, boiling hot
- (feverish): feverish, having a temperature
- (spicy): piquant, spicy, tangy
- (slang: stolen): stolen
- (electrically charged): live
- (radioactive): radioactive
- (slang: physically or sexually attractive): attractive, beautiful, cute, fit, foxy, gorgeous, handsome, hunky, lush, pretty, sexy, studly, tasty, yummy
- (of a draft/check): rubber, bad
Antonyms
- (having a high temperature): chilled, chilly, cold, cold as ice, freezing, freezing cold, frigid, glacial, ice-cold, icy
- (of the weather): cold, freezing, freezing cold, icy
- (feeling the sensation of heat): freezing, freezing cold
- (spicy): bland, mild
- (electrically charged): neutral, dead
- (slang): lifeless
Derived terms
Translations
Verb
hot (third-person singular simple present hots, present participle hotting, simple past and past participle hotted)
- (with up) To heat; to make or become hot.
- (with up) To become lively or exciting.
- 2018 “Clean Slate”, Wentworth
- Turf war’s hotting up.
- 2018 “Clean Slate”, Wentworth
Synonyms
- hot up; heat, heat up
Anagrams
- -oth, OTH, o’th’, oth, tho, tho’, thô
Dutch
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ɦɔt/
- Hyphenation: hot
- Rhymes: -ɔt
Etymology 1
Unknown.
Adjective
hot (comparative hoter, superlative hotst)
- (nautical) right, on the right side
- Synonym: rechts
Derived terms
- van hot naar her
See also
- stuurboord
Etymology 2
Borrowed from English hot.
Adjective
hot (comparative hotter, superlative hotst)
- (informal) hot, popular
- (informal) hot, sexy, attractive
Inflection
Ingrian
Etymology
Borrowed from Russian хоть (xotʹ).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈhot/
Conjunction
hot
- though
Particle
hot
- Used to make a pronoun, adverb or determiner indefinite
References
- Vitalij Chernyavskij (2005) Ižoran keel (Ittseopastaja)[2]
Middle English
Alternative forms
- hoth, whote
- hate, hatte (northern)
Etymology
From Old English hāt.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /hɔːt/, /hɔt/
Adjective
hot
- hot
Noun
hot (uncountable)
- hotness
Descendants
- English: hot
- Scots: hat, hait, hate
- Yola: hoat, hote
References
- “hō̆t, adj.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.
- “hō̆t, n.(1).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.
Pennsylvania German
Verb
hot
- third-person singular present indicative of hawwe
Spanish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈxot/, [ˈxot̪]
Adjective
hot (plural hot or hots)
- hot; sexy
Swedish
Etymology
From Old Swedish hōt n, from Old Norse hót n pl, from Proto-Germanic *hwōtō (“threat”), cognate with Gothic ???????????????? f (ƕōta). Related to *hwētaną (“to attack, stab”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /huːt/
Noun
hot n
- a threat
Declension
Related terms
- bombhot
- hota
- hotbild
- hotbrev
- hotfull
- hotande
- mordhot
- terrorhot
Westrobothnian
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /huːt/, [hɯ́ᵝːt]
- Rhymes: -úːt
Etymology 1
Compare Icelandic hót, contraction of Old Norse hvat.
Noun
hot m
- A whit, a bit.
- n litn hot
- a little bit, a little piece
- n litn hot
Etymology 2
Ablaut of Icelandic hvata (“to sting, jab,”) dialectal Norwegian hvæta (“to jab,”) and related to gwätt, wäti.
Noun
hot n (nominative & accusative definite singular hote)
- A sting, pang.
- ja hav söm e hot ått brösten
- I feel a sting in my chest.
- ja hav söm e hot ått brösten
English
Alternative forms
- warme (obsolete)
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /wɔːm/
- (US) IPA(key): /wɔɹm/
- Rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)m
Etymology 1
From Middle English warm, werm, from Old English wearm, from Proto-West Germanic *warm, from Proto-Germanic *warmaz, with different proposed origins:
- Proto-Indo-European *gʷʰer- (“warm, hot”), related to Ancient Greek θερμός (thermós), Latin formus, Sanskrit घर्म (gharma).
- Proto-Indo-European *wer- (“to burn”), related to Hittite [script needed] (warnuzi) and to Old Church Slavonic варити (variti).
The dispute is due to differing opinions on how initial Proto-Indo-European *gʷʰ- evolved in Germanic: some think that *gʷʰ would have turned to *b, and that the root *gʷʰer- would instead have given rise to burn etc. Some have also proposed a merger of the two roots.
Adjective
warm (comparative warmer, superlative warmest)
- Having a temperature slightly higher than usual, but still pleasant; mildly hot.
- The tea is still warm.
- This is a very warm room.
- 1863, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, The Herons of Elmwood
- Warm and still is the summer night.
- Caring and friendly, of relations to another person.
- We have a warm friendship.
- Having a color in the red-orange-yellow part of the visible electromagnetic spectrum.
- Close, often used in the context of a game in which “warm” and “cold” are used to indicate nearness to the goal.
- 1876, William Black, Madcap Violet
- Here, indeed, young Mr. Dowse was getting “warm“, as children say at blindman’s buff.
- 1876, William Black, Madcap Violet
- Fresh, of a scent; still able to be traced.
- (figuratively) Communicating a sense of comfort, ease, or pleasantness
- a warm piano sound
- (archaic) Ardent, zealous.
- a warm debate, with strong words exchanged
- I had been none of the warmest of partisans.
- 1776, Edward Gibbon, The History of The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, Chapter 1
- To the strength and fierceness of barbarians they added a contempt for life, which was derived from a warm persuasion of the immortality and transmigration of the soul.
- (archaic, colloquial) Well off as to property, or in good circumstances; prosperous.
- You shall have a draught upon him, payable at sight: and let me tell you he is as warm a man as any within five miles round him.
- 1791, Charlotte Smith, Celestina, Broadview 2004, p. 258:
- Mrs. and the Miss Cathcarts began to be considered as people of some consequence in the circle in which they moved, while he gradually obtained in the city the name of a warm man.
- I know the Stuyvesant family —puff— every one of them —puff— not a more respectable family in the province —puff— old standards —puff— warm householders —puff— none of your upstarts
- (archaic) Requiring arduous effort.
- 1929, The Listener (issues 41-50, page 552)
- The circular iron platform over there is used in the task of tyring the wheels, a warm job, too, by the way.
- 1929, The Listener (issues 41-50, page 552)
Synonyms
- See also Thesaurus:warm
- See also Thesaurus:affectionate
- See also Thesaurus:difficult
Antonyms
- (mild temperature): Arctic, cold, cool, frozen
- (caring): Arctic, cold, cool, frozen
Derived terms
Translations
See also
- heated
- hot
- steamy
- temperature
- tepid
Etymology 2
From Old English werman.
Verb
warm (third-person singular simple present warms, present participle warming, simple past and past participle warmed)
- (transitive) To make or keep warm.
- Then shall it [an ash tree] be for a man to burn; for he will take thereof and warm himself.
- 1825, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Morituri Salutamus
- enough to warm, but not enough to burn
- (intransitive) To become warm, to heat up.
- The earth soon warms on a clear summer day.
- (transitive with to) (sometimes in the form warm up) To favour increasingly.
- (intransitive) To become ardent or animated.
- The speaker warms as he proceeds.
- (transitive) To make engaged or earnest; to interest; to engage; to excite ardor or zeal in; to enliven.
- November 20, 1717, Alexander Pope, letter to the Bishop of Rochester
- there was a collection of all that had been written{{..}}: I warmed my head with them.
- Bright hopes, that erst the bosom warmed.
- November 20, 1717, Alexander Pope, letter to the Bishop of Rochester
- (transitive, colloquial) To beat or spank.
- 1945, The Atlantic (volume 176, page 94)
- Not bothering to turn around and not missing a mouthful, Myrtle comforted her with threats of “I’ll warm your bottom”; “I’ll turn you over to your dad”; “I’ll lock you in the truck”; “I’ll send for the bogey man” — all of which Darleen ignored […]
- 1945, The Atlantic (volume 176, page 94)
Derived terms
- like death warmed over
Translations
Noun
warm (plural warms)
- (colloquial) The act of warming, or the state of being warmed; a heating.
Afrikaans
Etymology
From Dutch warm, from Middle Dutch warm, from Old Dutch warm, from Proto-Germanic *warmaz.
Adjective
warm (attributive warmer, comparative warmste, superlative warmste)
- warm
Alemannic German
Alternative forms
- woare, woarm, wore, wérme
Etymology
From Middle High German warm, from Old High German warm. Cognate with German warm, Dutch warm, English warm, Icelandic varmur.
Adjective
warm
- (Formazza) warm
References
- “warm” in Patuzzi, Umberto, ed., (2013) Ünsarne Börtar [Our Words], Luserna, Italy: Comitato unitario delle isole linguistiche storiche germaniche in Italia / Einheitskomitee der historischen deutschen Sprachinseln in Italien
Dutch
Etymology
From Middle Dutch warm, from Old Dutch warm, from Proto-West Germanic *warm, from Proto-Germanic *warmaz, of uncertain origin; derivations from either Proto-Indo-European *gʷʰer- (“warm, hot”) or *wer- (“to burn”) have been proposed.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ʋɑr(ə)m/
- Hyphenation: warm
- Rhymes: -ɑrm
Adjective
warm (comparative warmer, superlative warmst)
- warm, hot
- Antonym: koud
- (meteorology, officially) 20 °C or more
Inflection
Derived terms
- warmte
- warmwater
Descendants
- Afrikaans: warm
- Berbice Creole Dutch: warum
- Negerhollands: warm, werm
See also
- tropisch
- zomers
German
Etymology
From Middle High German and Old High German warm.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /varm/, [vaʁm], [vaɐ̯m], [vaːm], [ʋ-]
Adjective
warm (comparative wärmer, superlative am wärmsten)
- warm; mildly hot
- Antonyms: kalt, kühl
- (of clothes) warm; keeping the wearer warm
- (dated, except in warmer Bruder) homosexual, gay
- Synonym: schwul
Usage notes
- German warm means “warm”, but not “feeling warm”; therefore the phrase ich bin warm (literally “I am warm”) would mean that one’s body has a high temperature, particularly that one’s skin is warm on the outside. The English “I am warm” (that is: I feel warm) is equivalent to German mir ist warm (literally “to me it’s warm”).
- Although warm (“gay”) is not in general use, this sense is current enough to make it advisable not to describe the relation between two men as warm (unless the implication is intended).
Declension
Derived terms
Adverb
warm
- (of rent-paying) including utilities
- Antonym: kalt
Derived terms
- Warmmiete
Further reading
- “warm” in Duden online
Middle Dutch
Etymology
From Old Dutch warm, from Proto-West Germanic *warm
Adjective
warm
- warm, hot
- warm, keeping the wearer warm (of clothes)
- warm (of emotions)
Inflection
This adjective needs an inflection-table template.
Alternative forms
- wāerm
- werm
Descendants
- Dutch: warm
- Afrikaans: warm
- Limburgish: werm
- West Flemish: werm
Further reading
- “warm”, in Vroegmiddelnederlands Woordenboek, 2000
- Verwijs, E.; Verdam, J. (1885–1929), “warm”, in Middelnederlandsch Woordenboek, The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff, →ISBN
Middle English
Alternative forms
- warme, werm, wearm
Etymology
From Old English wearm
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /warm/, /wɛrm/
Adjective
warm (plural and weak singular warme, comparative warmer, superlative warmest)
- (temperature) warm, mildly hot
- (weather) warm, pleasant, mild
- heated, warmed
- (locations or garments) having a tendency to be warm; designed to stay warm
- Being at a healthy temperature
- enthusiastic, vigourous
Descendants
- Scots: wairm
- English: warm
References
- “warm, adj.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-03-26.
Noun
warm
- warmness, heat
References
- “warm, adj.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-03-26.
Old High German
Etymology
From Proto-West Germanic *warm
Adjective
warm
- warm
Derived terms
- warmī
Descendants
- Middle High German: warm
- Alemannic German: warm
- Italian Walser: warm, woare, woarm, wore, wérme
- Bavarian: borm
- Cimbrian: barm
- Mòcheno: bòrm
- Udinese: borm, borbm, boarm
- Viennese: wårm
- Central Franconian: wärm, warm
- Hunsrik: waarem
- German: warm
- Luxembourgish: waarm
- Yiddish: וואַרעם (varem)
- Alemannic German: warm
Old Saxon
Etymology
From Proto-West Germanic *warm (“warm”)
Adjective
warm (comparative warmoro, superlative warmost)
- warm
Declension
Descendants
- Middle Low German: warm
- Low German: warm
- German Low German: warm