in heat
Meaning
in heat
(biology) in estrus; receptive to mating
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Arc welding falls between these two extremes, with the individual processes varying somewhat in heat input.
By contrast, Priestley preferred to observe qualitative changes in heat, color, and particularly volume.
As Matthiessen demonstrates, Ahab's first extended speech to the crew, in the "Quarter-Deck" (Ch.36), is "virtually blank verse, and can be printed as such": But look ye, Starbuck, what is said in heat, That thing unsays itself.
For though the world has stood up and stopped the bastard, the bitch that bore him is in heat again."
Eventually (see the discussion in heat capacity ) it became clear that heat capacities per particle for all substances in all states are the same, to within a factor of two, so long as temperatures are not in the cryogenic range.
Circus had little interest in my mare (who of course was in heat) or the two geldings my companions were on.