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white heat

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white heat
n.
1. The temperature or physical condition of a white-hot substance.
2. Intense emotion or excitement: working at white heat to make the deadline.
white heat
Noun
1. intense heat that produces a white light
2. Informal a state of intense emotion: the white heat of hate
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Noun1.white heat - the hotness of something heated until it turns white
high temperature, hotness, heat - the presence of heat


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I could see that Montgomery had one of those slow, pertinacious tempers that will warm day after day to a white heat, and never again cool to forgiveness; and I saw too that this quarrel had been some time growing.
The Island of Doctor Moreau by Wells, H.G. View in context
For, there was Bitzer, out of breath, his thin lips parted, his thin nostrils distended, his white eyelashes quivering, his colourless face more colourless than ever, as if he ran himself into a white heat, when other people ran themselves into a glow.
Hard Times by Dickens, Charles View in context
Three days, at white heat, completed his narrative; but when he had copied it carefully, in a large scrawl that was easy to read, he learned from a rhetoric he picked up in the library that there were such things as paragraphs and quotation marks.
Martin Eden by London, Jack View in context
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