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white heat
noun
- a stage of intense activity, excitement, feeling, etc.:
The sales campaign is at white heat.
- an intense heat at which a substance glows with white light.
white heat
noun
- intense heat or a very high temperature, characterized by emission of white light
- informal.a state of intense excitement or activity
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Word History and Origins
Origin of white heat1
First recorded in 1700–10
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Example Sentences
"Really, you ought to write all this," exclaimed Aunt Maria, her imagination fired to a white heat.
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As supper-time came, they set this heap afire and let it burn for an hour or two, until the great flat ledge was at a white heat.
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The door swung open—no mosquitoes were stirring in that white heat—and the sun slanted inward with long dazzling rays.
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A burst of white heat rolled out of the gun, licking around Rudi.
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Nations are benefited, I believe, for ages, by being thrown once into divine white-heat in this manner.
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