By-stroke (n.) An accidental or a slyly given stroke. |
Dead-stroke (a.) Making a stroke without recoil |
Heat (n.) A force in nature which is recognized in various effects, but especially in the phenomena of fusion and evaporation, and which, as manifested in fire, the sun's rays, mechanical action, chemical combination, etc., becomes directly known to us through the sense of feeling. In its nature heat is a mode if motion, being in general a form of molecular disturbance or vibration. It was formerly supposed to be a subtile, imponderable fluid, to which was given the name caloric. |
Heat (n.) The sensation caused by the force or influence of heat when excessive, or above that which is normal to the human body |
Heat (n.) High temperature, as distinguished from low temperature, or cold |
Heat (n.) Indication of high temperature |
Heat (n.) A single complete operation of heating, as at a forge or in a furnace |
Heat (n.) A violent action unintermitted |
Heat (n.) Utmost violence |
Heat (n.) Agitation of mind |
Heat (n.) Animation, as in discourse |
Heat (n.) Sexual excitement in animals. |
Heat (n.) Fermentation. |
Heat (v. t.) To make hot |
Heat (v. t.) To excite or make hot by action or emotion |
Heat (v. t.) To excite ardor in |
Heat (v. i.) To grow warm or hot by the action of fire or friction, etc., or the communication of heat |
Heat (v. i.) To grow warm or hot by fermentation, or the development of heat by chemical action |
Heat (imp. & p. p.) Heated |
Stroke (imp.) Struck. |
Stroke (v. t.) The act of striking |
Stroke (v. t.) The result of effect of a striking |
Stroke (v. t.) The striking of the clock to tell the hour. |
Stroke (v. t.) A gentle, caressing touch or movement upon something |
Stroke (v. t.) A mark or dash in writing or printing |
Stroke (v. t.) Hence, by extension, an addition or amandment to a written composition |
Stroke (v. t.) A sudden attack of disease |
Stroke (v. t.) A throb or beat, as of the heart. |
Stroke (v. t.) One of a series of beats or movements against a resisting medium, by means of which movement through or upon it is accomplished |
Stroke (v. t.) The rate of succession of stroke |
Stroke (v. t.) The oar nearest the stern of a boat, by which the other oars are guided |
Stroke (v. t.) The rower who pulls the stroke oar |
Stroke (v. t.) A powerful or sudden effort by which something is done, produced, or accomplished |
Stroke (v. t.) The movement, in either direction, of the piston plunger, piston rod, crosshead, etc., as of a steam engine or a pump, in which these parts have a reciprocating motion |
Stroke (v. t.) Power |
Stroke (v. t.) Appetite. |
Stroke (v. t.) To strike. |
Stroke (v. t.) To rib gently in one direction |
Stroke (v. t.) To make smooth by rubbing. |
Stroke (v. t.) To give a finely fluted surface to. |
Stroke (v. t.) To row the stroke oar of |
stroke stroking | a light touch with the hands |
stroke | a single complete movement |
keystroke key stroke | the stroke of a key, one depression of a key on a keyboard, the number of keystrokes was used as a measure of work |
medal play stroke play | golf scoring by total strokes taken |
stroke shot | (sports) the act of swinging or striking at a ball with a club or racket or bat or cue or hand, it took two strokes to get out of the bunker, a good shot requires good balance and tempo, he left me an almost impossible shot |
tennis stroke tennis shot | the act of hitting a tennis ball with a tennis racket |
backhand backhand stroke backhand shot | a return made with the back of the hand facing the direction of the stroke |
forehand forehand stroke forehand shot | (sports) a return made with the palm of the hand facing the direction of the stroke (as in tennis or badminton or squash) |
ground stroke | a tennis return made by hitting the ball after it has bounced once |
stroke | any one of the repeated movements of the limbs and body used for locomotion in swimming or rowing |
swimming stroke | a method of moving the arms and legs to push against the water and propel the swimmer forward |
butterfly butterfly stroke | a swimming stroke in which the arms are thrown forward together out of the water while the feet kick up and down |
golf stroke golf shot swing | the act of swinging a golf club at a golf ball and (usually) hitting it |
four-stroke engine four-stroke internalombustion engine | an internalombustion engine in which an explosive mixture is drawn into the cylinder on the first stroke and is compressed and ignited on the second stroke, work is done on the third stroke and the products of combustion are exhausted on the fourth stroke |
gas heat | heating system that burns natural gas |
heat engine | any engine that makes use of heat to do work |
heat exchanger | device that transfers heat from one liquid to another without allowing them to mix |
heating system heating plant heating heat | utility to warm a building, the heating system wasn't working, they have radiant heating |
heat lamp infrared lamp | electric heater consisting of a high-power incandescent lamp that emits infrared radiation, the bathroom could be warmed by an infrared lamp |
heat pump | apparatus that extracts heat from a liquid that is at a higher temperature than its surroundings, can be used to transfer heat from a reservoir outside in order to heat a building |
heat-seeking missile | a missile with a guidance system that directs it toward targets emitting infrared radiation (as the emissions of a jet engine) |
heat shield | a protective covering that protects a spacecraft from overheating on reentry |
heat sink | a metal conductor specially designed to conduct (and radiate) heat |
steam heat steam heating | a heating system in which steam is generated in boilers and piped to radiators |
heat warmth passion | the trait of being intensely emotional |
heat content total heat enthalpy H | (thermodynamics) a thermodynamic quantity equal to the internal energy of a system plus the product of its volume and pressure, enthalpy is the amount of energy in a system capable of doing mechanical work |
body temperature blood heat | temperature of the body, normally . F or C in humans, usually measured to obtain a quick evaluation of a person's health |
hotness heat high temperature | the presence of heat |
fieriness red heat | the heat or the color of fire |
white heat | the hotness of something heated until it turns white |
thermal barrier heat barrier | a limit to high speed flight imposed by aerodynamic heating |
heat warmth | the sensation caused by heat energy |
kinetic theory of heat | a theory that the temperature of a body increases when kinetic energy increases |
stroke | a mark made on a surface by a pen, pencil, or paintbrush, she applied the paint in careful strokes |
hair stroke | a very fine line in writing or printing |
solidus slash virgule diagonal stroke separatrix | a punctuation mark ( ) used to separate related items of information |
accident stroke fortuity chance event | anything that happens suddenly or by chance without an apparent cause, winning the lottery was a happy accident, the pregnancy was a stroke of bad luck, it was due to an accident or fortuity |
throw stroke cam stroke | the maximum movement available to a pivoted or reciprocating piece by a cam |
dead heat | a tie in a race |
heat flash | a flash of intense heat (as released by an atomic explosion) |
heat lightning | bright flashes of light near the horizon without thunder (especially on hot evenings), usually attributed to distant lightning that is reflected by clouds |
stroke | a light touch |
heat | a preliminary race in which the winner advances to a more important race |
stroke | the oarsman nearest the stern of the shell who sets the pace for the rest of the crew |
heat heat energy | a form of energy that is transferred by a difference in temperature |
heat of dissociation | the heat required for a fluid substance to break up into simpler constituents |
heat of formation | the heat evolved or absorbed during the formation of one mole of a substance from its component elements |
heat of solution | the heat evolved or absorbed when one mole of a substance is dissolved in a large volume of a solvent |
latent heat heat of transformation | heat absorbed or radiated during a change of phase at a constant temperature and pressure |
heat of condensation | heat liberated by a unit mass of gas at its boiling point as it condenses into a liquid, the heat of condensation is equal to the heat of vaporization |