A preliminary race, used to determine the participants in a final race
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 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.
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").
A finish line of a racetrack.
Any of the system of wires used to operate the puppets in a puppet show; hence, the network of hidden influences controlling the action of a person or organization; strings.
A piece of such material; a thread or slender rod of metal, a cable.
A knitting needle.
Metal formed into a thin, even thread, now usually by being drawn through a hole in a steel die.
A telecommunication wire or cable.
An electric telegraph; a telegram.
A hidden listening device on the person of an undercover operative for the purposes of obtaining incriminating spoken evidence.
A fence made of usually barbed wire.
A deadline or critical endpoint.
A metal conductor that carries electricity.
A wire strung with beads and hung horizontally above or near the table which is used to keep score.
The slender shaft of the plumage of certain birds.
A covert signal sent between people cheating in a card game.
To send a message or monetary funds to another person through a telecommunications system, formerly predominantly by telegraph.
To place (a ball) so that the wire of a wicket prevents a successful shot.
To fasten with wire, especially with reference to wine bottles, corks, or fencing.
To set or predetermine (someone's personality or behaviour, or an organization's culture) in a particular way.
To string on a wire.
To add (something) into a system (especially an electrical system) by means of wiring.
To snare by means of a wire or wires.
To install eavesdropping equipment.
To make someone tense or psyched up. See also adjective wired.
To connect, involve or embed (something) deeply or intimately into (something else, such as an organization or political scene), so that it is plugged in (to that thing) (“keeping up with current information about (the thing)”) or has insinuated itself into (the thing).
To add or connect (something) into a system as if with wires (for example, with nerves).
To equip with wires for use with electricity.