How do you pronounce reheat?

The recorded pronunciation is /ɹiːˈhiːt/.

reheat

/ɹiːˈhiːt/

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.60 in modern English

Syllables: re-heat
IPA: /ɹiːˈhiːt/

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Meaning

noun

An afterburner.

British usage

noun

The act of heating something again.

Informal

verb

To heat something after it has cooled off, especially previously cooked food (also in figurative senses).

Transitive verb

verb

To become hot again after having cooled off (also in figurative senses).

Intransitive verb

Example Sentences

"I gave the potatoes a reheat."
"I’m reheating some leftovers for dinner."
"[…] the street of the Latin and Italian Poets, smelt only like the broth of reheated Coleworts."
"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, 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:"
"“Blow up the forge again, for that shoe wants reheating.”"
"[…] this conversation reheated my strong sense of guilt and responsibility about Paul; the war and my adult life had banked down that fire but not quenched it."

Etymology

Etymology tree Proto-Italic *wre- Latin re-der. Old French re-bor. Middle English re- English re- English heat English reheat From re- + heat.

Usage

Inflected Forms

reheats (plural) reheats (present, singular) reheating (participle, present) reheated (participle, past) reheated (past)

Derived Forms

reheatability reheatable reheater

Phrases

reheat nachos reheat someone's nachos

Frequently Paired Words

preheat

Rhymes With

street meet eat complete beat feet sweet heat seat treat meat re-treat