HEATED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does heated mean? 

• HEATED (adjective)
  The adjective HEATED has 2 senses:

1. made warm or hot ('het' is a dialectal variant of 'heated')

2. marked by emotional heat; vehement

  Familiarity information: HEATED used as an adjective is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• HEATED (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Made warm or hot ('het' is a dialectal variant of 'heated')

Synonyms:

heated; heated up; het; het up

Context example:

he was all het up and sweaty

Similar:

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)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Marked by emotional heat; vehement

Context example:

a heated argument

Similar:

hot (extended meanings; especially of psychological heat; marked by intensity or vehemence especially of passion or enthusiasm)

 Context examples 

As the material is ejected, it is heated up and smashes into the surrounding interstellar medium.

(Spitzer Studies a Stellar Playground With a Long History, NASA)

Ventilation can also be driven by temperature differences between the inside and outside of a room, as incoming air is heated by people or equipment, resulting in a buoyancy-driven flow at a window.

(Wind more effective than cold air at cooling rooms naturally, University of Cambridge)

We already had a heated debate with differing views on this issue.

(Health threats caused by mobile phone radiation, EUROPARL TV)

While the team was trying to figure out how to conserve energy and keep our core heated, the engineers came up with a completely new way out of the problem: Jump Jupiter's shadow.

(NASA's Juno Navigators Enable Jupiter Cyclone Discovery, NASA)

When Bennu's water-locked clays are heated, the water could begin to release and create pressure.

(NASA's OSIRIS-REx Explains Bennu Mystery Particles, NASA)

Researchers found that the infrared emission from dust heated by a flare causes an infrared signal that can be detected for up to a year after the flare is at its most luminous.

(Studies Find Echoes of Black Holes Eating Stars, NASA)

Then the team heated the mixture to between 620 and 2,240 degrees Fahrenheit (330 and 1,230 Celsius).

(Cooking up Alien Atmospheres on Earth, NASA)

Its subsequent interaction with the neutron star could have heated the pulsar and slowed its rotation.

(Hubble Uncovers Never-Before-Seen Features Around a Neutron Star, NASA)

COS detected material from the planet's super-heated atmosphere spilling onto the star.

(Hubble Captures Blistering Pitch-Black Planet, NASA)

It involves the infusion of a heated chemotherapy solution that circulates into the abdominal cavity.

(Hyperthermic Intraperitoneal Chemotherapy, NCI Thesaurus)