ADJ
- burning, fierce, great, intense, searing, terrible, tremendous
- The soil is baked dry by the fierce heat of the sun
- gentle
- excess, excessive
- If circulation is impaired, the body cannot lose excess heat
- red, white
- (often figurative) Everything he did was at white heat and lightning speed
- blood, body
VERB + HEAT
- feel
- We could feel the tremendous heat coming from the fire
- disperse, dissipate, give out, lose
- Even after the sun had set, the stones continued to give out heat
- conserve, retain
- The thick walls retain the heat
- absorb
- Darker surfaces absorb heat
- conduct
- Being a metal, aluminium readily conducts heat
- generate, produce, provide, radiate
- Computers, faxes and photocopiers all generate heat of their own
- withstand
- a material which can withstand heats of up to 2,000°C
HEAT + VERB
- build up, increase
- He tried to ignore the heat building up in the confined space
HEAT + NOUN
- loss
- exhaustion, stress, stroke (also heatstroke)
- She slumped to the ground, near to heat exhaustion
PREP
- ~ from
- the heat from the fire
ADJ
- baking, blazing, blinding, blistering, boiling, extreme, great, intense, oppressive, scorching, searing, shimmering, stifling, suffocating, sweltering
- We walked more than ten miles in the blistering heat
- dry
- humid, steamy, sultry
- the steamy heat of New York in summer
- 80-degree, 90-degree, etc.
- afternoon, midday, morning
- summer
- desert, tropical
HEAT + NOUN
- haze
- A heat haze shimmered above the fields
PREP
- in the ~
- I can't work in this heat
PHRASES
- the heat of the day
- To avoid the heat of the day we went out in the mornings
ADJ
- high
- gentle, low
- medium, moderate
- direct
- Chocolate should never be melted over direct heat
- dry
VERB + HEAT
- turn up
- Towards the end of the cooking, turn up the heat to brown the outside
- lower, reduce, turn down
- remove sth from, take sth off
- Bring to the boil slowly, then remove from the heat
- return sth to
- Return the pan to the heat and stir
PREP
- off the ~
- Make sure the pan is off the heat
- on a ~
- Cook on a low heat for five minutes
- over a ~
- Simmer the sauce over a gentle heat
ADJ
- sudden
- He stared at her, sudden heat in his eyes
HEAT + VERB
- flare, flood sth, rise
- Heat flooded her cheeks
PREP
- in the ~ of
- in the heat of battle/passion
- with ~
- 'It was your hare-brained idea,' Henry said with heat
- without ~
- She spoke without heat
PHRASES
- in the heat of the moment
- Michael bitterly regretted those angry words, spoken in the heat of the moment
ADJ
- qualifying, regional
- dead
- Competition was fierce, with a dead heat in one of the races (= with two competitors finishing in exactly the same time)
PREP
- in a/the ~
- He fell in the first heat