heat vs nip

heat

verb
  • To excite ardour in; to rouse to action; to excite to excess; to inflame, as the passions. 

  • To arouse, to excite (sexually). 

  • To become hotter. 

  • To excite or make hot by action or emotion; to make feverish. 

  • To cause an increase in temperature of (an object or space); to cause to become hot (often with "up"). 

noun
  • A condition where a mammal is aroused sexually or where it is especially fertile and therefore eager to mate; oestrus. 

  • A hot spell. 

  • The output of a heating system. 

  • An attribute of a spice that causes a burning sensation in the mouth. 

  • One cycle of bringing metal to maximum temperature and working it until it is too cool to work further. 

  • The condition or quality of being hot. 

  • Heating system; a system that raises the temperature of a room or building. 

  • A period of intensity, particularly of emotion. 

  • A fastball. 

  • An undesirable amount of attention. 

  • A preliminary race, used to determine the participants in a final race 

  • A violent action unintermitted; a single effort. 

  • A stage in a competition, not necessarily a sporting one; a round. 

  • In omegaverse fiction, a cyclical period in which omegas experience an intense, sometimes irresistible biological urge to mate. 

  • One or more firearms. 

  • Thermal energy. 

  • The police. 

nip

verb
  • To annoy, as by nipping. 

  • To squeeze or pinch. 

  • To make a quick, short journey or errand, usually a round trip. 

  • To blast, as by frost; to check the growth or vigor of; to destroy. 

  • To catch and enclose or compress tightly between two surfaces, or points which are brought together or closed; to pinch; to close in upon. 

  • To taunt. 

  • To benumb [e.g., cheeks, fingers, nose] by severe cold. 

  • To remove by pinching, biting, or cutting with two meeting edges of anything; to clip. 

noun
  • A hamburger. 

  • A more or less gradual thinning out of a stratum. 

  • Briskly cold weather. 

  • A playful bite. 

  • A small cut, or a cutting off the end. 

  • A small quantity of something edible or a potable liquor. 

  • A nipple, usually of a woman. 

  • A pinch with the nails or teeth. 

  • A seizing or closing in upon; a pinching 

  • A blast; a killing of the ends of plants by frost. 

  • A short turn in a rope. 

  • The place of intersection where one roll touches another 

  • A biting sarcasm; a taunt. 

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