HEAT UP

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does heat up mean? 

• HEAT UP (verb)
  The verb HEAT UP has 3 senses:

1. gain heat or get hot

2. make hot or hotter

3. make more intense

  Familiarity information: HEAT UP used as a verb is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• HEAT UP (verb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Gain heat or get hot

Classified under:

Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.

Synonyms:

heat; heat up; hot up

Context example:

The room heated up quickly

Hypernyms (to "heat up" is one way to...):

change state; turn (undergo a transformation or a change of position or action)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "heat up"):

overheat (get excessively and undesirably hot)

fry (be excessively hot)

Sentence frame:

Something ----s

Sentence example:

The water heat ups

Sense 2

Meaning:

Make hot or hotter

Classified under:

Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.

Synonyms:

heat; heat up

Context example:

heat the water on the stove

Hypernyms (to "heat up" is one way to...):

alter; change; modify (cause to change; make different; cause a transformation)

Cause:

heat; heat up; hot up (gain heat or get hot)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "heat up"):

crisp; crispen; toast (make brown and crisp by heating)

scald (heat to the boiling point)

soak (heat a metal prior to working it)

calcine (heat a substance so that it oxidizes or reduces)

preheat (heat beforehand)

overheat (make excessively or undesirably hot)

scorch; sear (make very hot and dry)

bake; broil (heat by a natural force)

reheat (heat again)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Something ----s somebody
Something ----s something

Sentence example:

They heat up the water

Sense 3

Meaning:

Make more intense

Classified under:

Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.

Synonyms:

heat up; hot up; screw up

Context example:

Emotions were screwed up

Hypernyms (to "heat up" is one way to...):

compound; deepen; heighten; intensify (make more intense, stronger, or more marked)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something

 Context examples 

Does it heat up dramatically as it collides with the surrounding hot gas?

(Spiraling filaments feed young galaxies, National Science Foundation’s Division of Astronomical Sciences.)

They do provide some warmth, heating up Jupiter's equator more than the poles — just as they heat up Earth.

(Juno Solves 39-Year Old Mystery of Jupiter Lightning, NASA)

It shrank as it ran out of energy, causing it to heat up to over 100 million degrees.

(Giant Bubbles on Red Giant Star’s Surface, ESO)

Don’t heat up a relationship too fast because it is likely to puff up and then puff out just as quickly.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

Applying a high-frequency, oscillating magnetic field to the object caused the iron oxide particles to heat up through induction and warm the entire gripper.

(Tiny magnetic particles enable new material to bend, twist and grab, National Science Foundation)

Biopolymers and elastomers doped with ferromagnetic CrO2 will heat up when exposed to laser or sunlight, temporarily losing their magnetic properties until they cool down again.

(New Materials Developed by Scientists Able to Move in Response to Light, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

Auroras at Earth's poles (known as the aurora borealis at the North Pole and aurora australis at the South Pole) occur when the energetic particles blown out from the Sun (the solar wind) interact with and heat up the gases in the upper atmosphere.

(Jupiter's Atmosphere Heats up under Solar Wind, NASA)

Microwaves, the very same radiation that can heat up your dinner, are produced by a multitude of astrophysical sources, including strong emitters known as masers (microwave lasers), even stronger emitters with the somewhat villainous name of megamasers and the centers of some galaxies.

(Hubble's Megamaser Galaxy, ESA/NASA)

A similar pattern emerged near the end of that cold snap, transitioning out of the ice age; the current started strengthening roughly 400 years before the atmosphere began to heat up dramatically, when Greenland warmed up rapidly — its average temperature climbed by about 8 degrees over just a few decades, causing glaciers to melt and sea ice to drop off considerably in the North Atlantic.

(A new study is the first to measure the time lags between changing ocean currents and major climate shifts., University of Cambridge)