hot
Definitions
General English
General Science
- adjective dangerously radioactive
Aviation
- adjective very warm, having a high temperature
Construction
- Slang for a live or electrically charged wire or other electrical component.
Economics
- (written as HOT)Heckscher-Ohlin Theorem.
- acronym forHeckscher-Ohlin Theorem (written as HOT)
- The proposition of the Heckscher-Ohlin Model that countries will have comparative advantage in, and therefore export, the goods that use relatively intensively their relatively abundant factors.
Electronics
- Anything connected electrically to a source of voltage. Also known as energized (1), live (1), or alive.
- Not electrically grounded.
- Possessing a high level of energy or radioactivity.
Law
- adjective stolen or illegal
Military
- noun (written as HOT)a European-produced wire-guided anti-tank missile (ATGW).
- acronym forhigh subsonic, optically guided, tube fire (written as HOT)
Slang
- adjective stolen, from the image of something ‘too hot to handle’. The word was used in this sense in The Eustace Diamonds by Trollope in 1875.
- adjective exciting, fashionable. A slang usage (from the language of jazz musicians in which ‘hot’, frenzied and fast, is contrasted with ‘cool’, relaxed and slow) which by the mid-1970s had become a common colloquialism.
- adjective sexually excited or aroused. The adjective has always been used in this sense, both literally and figuratively.
- adjective provocative, obstreperous. In this sense the word was defined by one of its users as ‘acting too obvious’ and denotes a transgression of the unwritten codes of behaviour of adolescent gangs. The term was recorded in use among North London schoolboys in 1993 and 1994.
Travel
- adjective having a very strong and spicy taste
Wine
- used to describe a wine that has high levels of alcohol, giving a burning sensation in the mouth
Origin & History of “hot”
Hot is the English member of a family of adjectives widespread in Germanic, but with very few outside relatives. Its first cousins are German heiss, Dutch heet, Swedish het, and Danish hed, which point back to a prehistoric Germanic ancestor *khaitaz (the English noun and verb heat come from the same source). Lithuanian kaisti and Latvian kaist ‘become hot’ are allied forms.
