hottest a. 热的,热烈的
- July is the hottest month in a year in my hometown.
在我的家乡,七月是一年里最热的一月。 - Summer is the hottest season of the year.
夏天是一年里最热的季节。
Hot \Hot\, a. [Compar. {Hotter}; superl. {Hottest}.] [OE. hot,
hat, AS. h[=a]t; akin to OS. h[=e]t, D. heet, OHG. heiz, G.
heiss, Icel. heitr, Sw. het, Dan. heed, hed; cf. Goth.
heit[=o] fever, hais torch. Cf. {Heat}.]
1. Having much sensible heat; exciting the feeling of warmth
in a great degree; very warm; -- opposed to cold, and
exceeding warm in degree; as, a hot stove; hot water or
air. ``A hotvenison pasty.'' --Shak.
2. Characterized by heat, ardor, or animation; easily
excited; firely; vehement; passionate; violent; eager.
Achilles is impatient, hot, and revengeful.
--Dryden.
There was mouthing in hot haste. --Byron.
3. Lustful; lewd; lecherous. --Shak.
4. Acrid; biting; pungent; as, hot as mustard.
{Hot bed} (Iron Manuf.), an iron platform in a rolling mill,
on which hot bars, rails, etc., are laid to cool.
{Hot wall} (Gardening), a wall provided with flues for the
conducting of heat, to hasten the growth of fruit trees or
the ripening of fruit.
{Hot well} (Condensing Engines), a receptacle for the hot
water drawn from the condenser by the air pump. This water
is returned to the boiler, being drawn from the hot well
by the feed pump.
{In hot water} (Fig.), in trouble; in difficulties. [Colloq.]
Syn: Burning; fiery; fervid; glowing; eager; animated; brisk;
vehement; precipitate; violent; furious; ardent;
fervent; impetuous; irascible; passionate; hasty;
excitable.
- But the show is nonetheless the summer's hottest ticket, with a record advance sale for a nonmusical of over 1.5 million pounds ($2.35 million), and a top ticket price of 17 pounds 50 ($27.50), steep by London standards.
- In the midst of the worst magazine slump in years, its ad revenue jumped 30% last year, helping the monthly earn a spot on Adweek magazine's list of the 10 hottest magazines with circulation under one million.
- On the busiest street-corner in Houston, Bob Landauer works in the hottest segment of the fastest-growing sector of the U.S. economy.
- Prom rentals are the hottest market for Dress Rehearsal, Dallas.
- The Bolsa index has risen more than 25% so far this year, establishing Mexico's exchange as one of the hottest of the emerging markets.
- Delays in the installation of this equipment meant Clarke was unable to manufacture ice-cream in time for the hottest months of the summer.
- "They've built a system where from front to back, they recognize what people want: the hottest new software with a little pizazz to go with it."
- The magazine that's not written for old fashioned housewives, it's written for the newest, hottest mamas ever.
- The astronomers will study some of the hottest objects in the universe, including a supernova.
- "To say it's the hottest item we've had is an understatement. He's the hottest thing I've seen in 10 years." _ Chris Nilan, sales manager for Nilan's Alley Inc., which sells novelty items to stores throughout the Southeast.
- "To say it's the hottest item we've had is an understatement. He's the hottest thing I've seen in 10 years." _ Chris Nilan, sales manager for Nilan's Alley Inc., which sells novelty items to stores throughout the Southeast.
- Celebrities once were wary of product endorsements, and the hottest ones often steered clear of them entirely.
- "Barbie is red hot and Hot Wheels has emerged as one of the fastest selling toy lines in the country," says Paul Valentine of Standard & Poor's Corp., noting that parents always seem willing to pay a premium for the hottest toys.
- Its hottest item: satin team jackets retailing for $90 to $200. Its biggest impetus: not athletes and coaches but rap groups and movie stars, wearing them in performance.
- The state's hottest issue is a constitutional amendment allowing a state lottery.
- Hours after his arrival on Sunday, Andrew took his wife for a 20-minute drive in the Surrey countryside on what was the hottest day of the year.
- That made the sector one of Wall Street's hottest investment areas.
- Despite growing election pressures to get home and campaign, Congress may have to remain in town into next week to deal with the year's hottest campaign topic _ drug abuse and the war against it.
- "The whole restructuring of companies with real estate assets will be one of the hottest things for 1988," says William Bahrenburg, president of Morgan Stanley Realty.
- "Suddenly, everybody (in the business world) has lost interest in the environment when it was the hottest topic around before," she said.
- Sony Corp. and Warner Communications Inc. have reached a tentative agreement allowing Hollywood's hottest producers, Peter Guber and Jon Peters, to jump to Sony's Columbia Pictures, a source close to the negotiations said Wednesday.
- At the outset, Reagan made an appeal for eliminating agricultural subsidies _ the hottest economic issue here _ and will return to the topic before Tuesday's adjournment.
- With a $330 million-a-year domestic market, Feldene is regarded as one of the hottest prescription drugs to come off patent this year.
- It's no surprise, then, that many of the hottest new edibles among last year's 7,866 entries (up from 4,540 in 1983) seem tailormade for the Chase and Grabbits.
- "It was the hottest deal of the year.
- Frozen food thawed, elevators wouldn't budge and air conditioners were useless during one of the hottest weeks in city history after service was cut Wednesday by a fire in an underground transformer and switching vault.
- Maintaining a clear complexion, salvaging a bad semester and decorating dormitory rooms are among the topics treated in one of publishing's hottest growth segments: magazines for college students.
- One of the hottest contests is in Orlando, Fla., where a joint venture of Dun & Bradstreet's Donnelley Directory unit and United Telecommunications Inc. is running neck and neck with BellSouth Corp.
- Marriott Corp. plans to invest $1 billion in the next five years to more than double its stake in the hottest area of the hotel industry-extended-stay hotels.
- Mr. Hays is still buying drug stocks, recently one of the market's hottest sectors, and also likes medical-service stocks.