heated

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Editorial note

The high rent problem emerges only when the market is over-heated, and subsides when there's a correction.

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Quick take

Very agitated, angry or impassioned.

Meaning at a glance

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adjective

Very agitated, angry or impassioned.

adjective

(usually not comparable) Made warm or hot by some means.

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for heated.

adjective

Very agitated, angry or impassioned.

adjective

(usually not comparable) Made warm or hot by some means.

Example sentences

The high rent problem emerges only when the market is over-heated, and subsides when there's a correction.

Sea water is heated with the natural gas, and turned into steam which runs turbines to generate electricity.

The heated issues around Uber is economics and how the pieces of the pie are cut up.

One that'll probably be a bit heated, of course, given the circumstances, but it's one that needs to be had.

The two feminists blocked Elliot on Twitter, told him to stop mentioning them, and to to stop commenting on heated political issues.

Basically get people heated up and then they gild the comments they agree with.

If there really were infinite stars in an eternal universe, everything would be heated to the same white-hot temperature, including the interstellar medium.

I don't think a good SO reputation deserving quite the heated bandwagon snarking this article produced.

The madness never ends - the office temp goes up and down, energy is wasted, people have 'heated' discussions about whether the A/C should be on.

Y have a heated debate of the orthogonal topic.

As a mixed African-American raised around multiple different ethnicities, my brother and I have had many heated debates about the usage of the word.

But there certainly are many kinds of olive oils, and some of them (especially extra virgin) are very likely to get very bad taste when heated to high temperatures.

Quote examples

They're talking about any method in which the cooking oil is heated to temperatures where it can "burn".

I've had to wake up and load a game before he started, or the whole day was "wasted":) Also the power supplier heated up so much, that after +- 8 hours it stopped working.

Reading all these heated discussions on HN, I find them to be extremely polarized ("good Germany/bad Germany") and missing the essential component: Greece is not a country that can sustainably live without working hard.

I'm sure there could be hours of heated debate over this, but every time a "mascot" issue like this pops up I wonder why they don't just frame it differently: 1) Does the mascot accurately represent the current values of the community, or 2) can a different mascot represent those values better?