heat vs quench

heat

verb
  • To arouse, to excite (sexually). 

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

  • 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. 

quench

verb
  • To satisfy, especially a literal or figurative thirst. 

  • To rapidly change the parameters of a physical system. 

  • To cool rapidly by direct contact with liquid coolant, as a blacksmith quenching hot iron. 

  • To extinguish or put out (as a fire or light). 

  • To terminate or greatly diminish (a chemical reaction) by destroying or deforming the remaining reagents. 

  • To rapidly terminate the operation of a superconducting electromagnet by causing part or all of the magnet's windings to enter the normal, resistive state. 

noun
  • The abnormal termination of operation of a superconducting magnet, occurring when part of the superconducting coil enters the normal (resistive) state. 

  • A rapid change of the parameters of a physical system. 

  • The act of quenching something; the fact of being quenched. 

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