WHITE HEAT

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does white heat mean? 

• WHITE HEAT (noun)
  The noun WHITE HEAT has 1 sense:

1. the hotness of something heated until it turns white

  Familiarity information: WHITE HEAT used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• WHITE HEAT (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The hotness of something heated until it turns white

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Hypernyms ("white heat" is a kind of...):

heat; high temperature; hotness (the presence of heat)

 Context examples 

"Am I a man that I should be made a mock by every child that cries for meat?" The anger boiled a white heat.

(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)

And next day Martin Eden cast hack-work aside, and at white heat hammered out an essay to which he gave the title, "The Philosophy of Illusion."

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

Three days, at white heat, completed his narrative; but when he had copied it carefully, in a large scrawl that was easy to read, he learned from a rhetoric he picked up in the library that there were such things as paragraphs and quotation marks.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)