heat vs warm

heat

verb
  • To become hotter. 

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

  • To arouse, to excite (sexually). 

  • 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. 

warm

verb
  • To become warm, to heat up. 

  • To scold or abuse verbally. 

  • To become ardent or animated. 

  • To make engaged or earnest; to interest; to engage; to excite ardor or zeal in; to enliven. 

  • (sometimes in the form warm up) To favour increasingly. 

  • To prepopulate (a cache) so that its contents are ready for other users. 

  • To make or keep warm. 

  • To beat or spank. 

noun
  • The act of warming, or the state of being warmed; a heating. 

adj
  • Caring and friendly, of relations to another person. 

  • Having a color in the red-orange-yellow part of the visible electromagnetic spectrum. 

  • Having a temperature slightly higher than usual, but still pleasant; mildly hot. 

  • Close, often used in the context of a game in which "warm" and "cold" are used to indicate nearness to the goal. 

  • Fresh, of a scent; still able to be traced. 

  • Communicating a sense of comfort, ease, or pleasantness 

How often have the words heat and warm occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )