reheat

== English == === Etymology === From re- + heat. === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /ɹiːˈhiːt/, (rare) /ɹɪˈhiːt/, /ɹəˈhiːt/ Rhymes: -iːt === Noun === reheat (plural reheats) (aeronautics, chiefly UK) An afterburner. (informal) The act of heating something again. === Verb === reheat (third-person singular simple present reheats, present participle reheating, simple past and past participle reheated) (transitive) To heat something after it has cooled off, especially previously cooked food (also in figurative senses). 1649, uncredited translator, A Discourse of a Method for the Well Guiding of Reason, and the Discovery of Truth in the Sciences by René Descartes, London, Part 5, p. 85,[2] And if we examine how this heat is communicated to the other members, must we not avow that ’tis by means of the bloud, which passing the heart, reheats it self there, and thence disperseth it self thorow the whole body: (intransitive) To become hot again after having cooled off (also in figurative senses). 2011 Helen Hollick, I am the Chosen King [UK title: Harold the King], Naperville, IL: Sourcebooks, Part 3, Chapter 7, p. 416,[6] Dissension was reheating in southern Wales, but at least Wales could be quashed. ==== Derived terms ==== ==== Related terms ==== preheat ==== Translations ==== === Anagrams === Aether, Heater, aether, eather, hearte, heater, hereat, æther == Middle English == === Verb === reheat alternative form of rehete