Tra từ hot - Từ điển Oxford Advanced Learner 8th

hot [hot hotter hottest hots hotted hotting] adjective, verb BrE [hɒt] NAmE [hɑːt]
adjective (hot·ter, hot·test)

TEMPERATURE
1. having a high temperature; producing heat
• Do you like this hot weather?
• It's hot today, isn't it?
•It was hot and getting hotter.
•It was the hottest July on record.
•a hot dry summer
•Be careful— the plates are hot.
•All rooms have hot and cold water.
•a hot bath
•a hot meal (= one that has been cooked)
•I couldn't live in a hot country (= one which has high average temperatures).
•Cook in a very hot oven.
•Eat it while it's hot.
•I touched his forehead. He felt hot and feverish.
see also ↑baking hot, ↑boiling hot, ↑piping hot, ↑red-hot, ↑white-hot
2. (of a person)feeling heat in an unpleasant or uncomfortable way
• Is anyone too hot?
• I feel hot.
•Her cheeks were hot with embarrassment.
3. making you feel hot
• London was hot and dusty.
•a long hot journey

FOOD WITH SPICES
4. containing pepper and spices and producing a burning feeling in your mouth
•hot spicy food
• You can make a curry hotter simply by adding chillies.
•hot mustard
Opp: ↑mild

CAUSING STRONG FEELINGS
5. involving a lot of activity, argument or strong feelings
• Today we enter the hottest phase of the election campaign.
•The environment has become a very hot issue.
•Competition is getting hotter day by day.

DIFFICULT/DANGEROUS
6. difficult or dangerous to deal with and making you feel worried or uncomfortable
•When things got too hot most journalists left the area.
•They're making life hot for her.

POPULAR
7. (informal)new, exciting and very popular
•This is one of the hottest clubs in town.
•They are one of this year's hot new bands.
•The couple are Hollywood's hottest property.

NEWS
8. fresh, very recent and usually exciting
•I've got some hot gossip for you!
•a story that is hot off the press (= has just appeared in the newspapers)

TIP/FAVOURITE
9. only before noun likely to be successful
•She seems to be the hot favourite for the job.
•Do you have any hot tips for today's race?

GOOD AT STH/KNOWING A LOT
10. not before noun ~ at/on sth (informal)very good at doing sth; knowing a lot about sth
•Don't ask me— I'm not too hot on British history.

ANGER
11. if sb has a hot temper they become angry very easily

SEXUAL EXCITEMENT
12. feeling or causing sexual excitement
•You were as hot for me as I was for you.
•I've got a hot date tonight.

SHOCKING/CRITICAL
13. containing scenes, statements, etc. that are too shocking or too critical and are likely to cause anger or disapproval
•Some of the nude scenes were regarded as too hot for Broadway.
•The report was highly critical of senior members of the Cabinet and was considered too hot to publish.
see also ↑hot stuff

STRICT
14. not before noun ~ on sth thinking that sth is very important and making sure that it always happens or is done
•They're very hot on punctuality at work.

MUSIC
15. (of music, especially ↑jazz)having a strong and exciting rhythm

GOODS
16. stolen and difficult to get rid of because they can easily be recognized
•I'd never have touched those CDs if I'd known they were hot.

IN CHILDREN'S GAMES
17. not before noun used in children's games to say that the person playing is very close to finding a person or thing, or to guessing the correct answer
•You're getting hot!
more at blow hot and cold at ↑blow _v., like a cat on hot bricks at ↑cat, (hard/hot) on sb's/sth's heels at ↑heel _n., strike while the iron is hot at ↑strike _v.

Word Origin:
Old English hāt, of Germanic origin; related to Dutch heet and German heiss.

Thesaurus:
hot adj.
1.
•I'll feel better after a hot bath.
warm • • heated • • burning • • boiling • • humid • • sultry • • red-hot •
Opp: cold
hot/warm/humid/sultry weather/conditions
hot/warm sunshine/water
hot/burning/red-hot coals
2.
•a hot curry with plenty of chillies
spicy • • strong •
Opp: mild
a hot/spicy/strong flavour
hot/strong mustard
a hot/spicy curry

Example Bank:
•Don't you feel hot so close to the fire?
•His face grew hot at the memory of his embarrassment.
•His forehead was burning hot.
•I love really hot food.
•I was boiling hot and sweaty.
•It was unbearably hot in the car.
•Make sure the fat is sizzling hot.
•Serve hot or cold accompanied by bread and a salad.
•She was beginning to get uncomfortably hot.
•That was a pretty hot curry!
•The containers keep the food hot for five hours.
•The food should stay hot until we're ready to eat.
•The ground was hot enough to fry an egg on.
•The sun shone fiercely down and it grew hotter and hotter.
•This weather's a bit hot for me.
•Wash the tablecloth in fairly hot soapy water.
•a boiling hot summer day
•a bowl of piping hot soup
•white-hot metal
•Eat it while it's hot.
•He brought out a plate of sausages covered in hot mustard.
•Her cheeks grew hot with embarrassment.
•I couldn't live in a hot country.
•I touched his forehead. It was burning hot.
•I was feeling a bit hot so I went outside for a moment.
•I'll feel better after a hot bath.
•It had been a long hot journey.
•It's hot today, isn't it?
•Leave the pie in the oven for about half an hour, until piping hot.
•The canteen provides hot meals as well as salads and snacks.
•The couple are Hollywood's hottest property.
•They are one of this year's hot new bands on the rock scene.
Idioms: ↑go hot and cold ▪ ↑go like hot cakes ▪ ↑hot and bothered ▪ ↑hot on somebody's heels ▪ ↑hot on somebody's trail ▪ ↑hot to trot ▪ ↑hot under the collar ▪ ↑in hot pursuit ▪ ↑in into hot water ▪ ↑not so hot
Derived: ↑hot up

verb (-tt-)
Verb forms:

Word Origin:
Old English hāt, of Germanic origin; related to Dutch heet and German heiss.

See also: ↑heat up