HET

heated, heated up, het, het up

(adjective) made warm or hot (‘het’ is a dialectal variant of ‘heated’); “a heated swimming pool”; “wiped his heated-up face with a large bandana”; “he was all het up and sweaty”

Source: WordNet® 3.1


Etymology 1

Noun

het (countable and uncountable, plural hets)

(countable, slang) A heterosexual person.

(uncountable, fandom slang) Fan fiction based on celebrities or fictional characters involved in an opposite-sex romantic and/or sexual relationship.

Synonyms

• (fan fiction): hetfic

Adjective

het (comparative more het, superlative most het)

(slang) Heterosexual.

Etymology 2

Verb

het

(dialect) simple past tense and past participle of heat

Adjective

het (comparative more het, superlative most het)

(dialect) Heated.

Etymology 3

Noun

het (plural hets)

heterozygote

Adjective

het (not comparable)

heterozygous

Etymology 4

Noun

het (plural hets)

Alternative form of heth (“Semitic letter”)

Anagrams

• -eth, ETH, Eth, Eth., TEH, eth, eth-, teh, the, the-

Noun

HET (plural HETs)

Abbreviation of Hall effect thruster.

Coordinate terms

• Hall effect

Anagrams

• -eth, ETH, Eth, Eth., TEH, eth, eth-, teh, the, the-

Source: Wiktionary



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