heats
English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /hiːts/
Verb
heats
- Third-person singular simple present indicative form of heat
Noun
heats
- plural of heat (countable senses)
- (plural noun, dated) A period of hot weather.
- Everyone suffered during the heats of July.
- 1830, Usher Parsons, On the comparative influence of Vegetable and Animal Decomposition as a cause of Fever.:
- The heats of the spring, says M. Berthe, (which I need not observe are considerable at Seville,) were at this time beginning to be felt.
- 1871, Robert Scott Burn, Masonry, Bricklaying and Plastering, published 2015, page 156:
- During the heats of summer the mortar is injured by a too rapid desiccation.
- 1901, Albert Matthews, The Term Indian Summer, page 34:
- Day after day succeeds of most delicious, dreamy softness; not enervating like the heats of summer, but exhilarating to soul and body.
Anagrams
- ashet, haets, haste, hates, heast, hetas, sheat