Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
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alt. 1 (context idiomatic English) A period of exceptionally hot weather. 2 (context US weather broadcasting English) Three consecutive days with daytime high temperature of 90 degrees Fahrenheit or higher. n. 1 (context idiomatic English) A period of exceptionally hot weather. 2 (context US weather broadcasting English) Three consecutive days with daytime high temperature of 90 degrees Fahrenheit or higher.
WordNet
n. a wave of unusually hot weather
Wikipedia
A heat wave is a prolonged period of excessively hot weather, which may be accompanied by high humidity, especially in oceanic climate countries. While definitions vary, a heat wave is measured relative to the usual weather in the area and relative to normal temperatures for the season. Temperatures that people from a hotter climate consider normal can be termed a heat wave in a cooler area if they are outside the normal climate pattern for that area.
The term is applied both to routine weather variations and to extraordinary spells of heat which may occur only once a century. Severe heat waves have caused catastrophic crop failures, thousands of deaths from hyperthermia, and widespread power outages due to increased use of air conditioning. A heat wave is considered extreme weather, and a danger because heat and sunlight may overheat the human body.
Heat Wave (Mick Rory) is a fictional supervillain appearing in American comic books published by DC Comics, commonly as an adversary of the Silver Age Flash. He is a member of the Rogues.
"Heat Wave" is a 1963 song penned by the Holland–Dozier–Holland songwriting team. The song was first made popular by the American Motown girl group Martha and the Vandellas. Released as a single on July 9, 1963, on the Motown subsidiary label Gordy, it peaked at number 4 on the Billboard Hot 100 and number 1 on the Billboard Hot R&B chart. It was later covered by rock vocalist Linda Ronstadt on her Platinum-selling 1975 album Prisoner in Disguise. Ronstadt's version of the song was also released as a single in September 1975, reaching number 5 on the Billboard Hot 100. In 2010, English singer Phil Collins had success with his Top 40 remake of the song on the Billboard Adult Contemporary chart.
Heat Wave is the second album released by American Motown girl group Martha and the Vandellas. Released in 1963 on Motown's Gordy imprint, intended to capitialize on the success of the title track, which rose to number four on the pop singles chart and number-one on the R&B singles chart. The album was produced by the likes of Holland-Dozier-Holland (who composed the group's first five hit singles) and Mickey Stevenson. This was the last album to feature original Vandella Annette Beard.
The material is composed almost entirely of cover versions of songs that were popular at the time. These range from pop tunes like " Then He Kissed Me" and " My Boyfriend's Back" to mainstream standards such as " More" (the theme from the 1962 film Mondo Cane) and " Danke Schoen." The folk song " If I Had a Hammer" is also included as the Peter, Paul, and Mary version was big at the time. On its original release Heat Wave charted lowly at 125 on the U.S. albums chart.
A heat wave is a prolonged period of unusually hot weather.
Heat Wave, or similar, may refer to:
Heat Wave is a 1990 American action- thriller television film about 1965 Los Angeles Watts Riots, directed by Kevin Hooks and starring Blair Underwood, Cicely Tyson, James Earl Jones, Margaret Avery, and David Strathairn.
"Heat Wave" is a song by Danish pop band Alphabeat from their second studio album, The Spell (2009). The song was released in Denmark on 21 June 2010 as the album's fourth and final single. "Heat Wave" peaked at number four on the Danish Singles Chart, and was certified gold by IFPI Denmark in October 2010, denoting sales in excess of 15,000 copies.
Heat Wave is an album by American jazz pianist Ahmad Jamal featuring performances recorded in 1966 and released on the Cadet label.
Heat Wave is the first in a series of mystery novels featuring the characters Nikki Heat, an NYPD homicide detective, and Jameson Rook, a journalist. The novel and its sequels are published by Hyperion Books as a tie-in to the U.S. crime series Castle, and are attributed to that show's lead character Richard Castle. Heat Wave was published in 2009 and has been followed by Naked Heat (2010), Heat Rises (2011), Frozen Heat (2012), Deadly Heat (2013), Raging Heat (2014) and "Driving Heat" (2015).
"Heat Wave" is a popular song written by Irving Berlin for the 1933 musical As Thousands Cheer, and introduced in the show by Ethel Waters.
The song was featured in the 1938 movie Alexander's Ragtime Band, where it was performed by Ethel Merman. It was also featured in the 1946 movie Blue Skies, where it was performed by Olga San Juan and in the 1954 movie There's No Business Like Show Business, where it was performed by Marilyn Monroe. (Note: based on the lyrics alone, the Marilyn song is different, and ironically, within the film's narrative Monroe's version is a sexier variant of the original that's "stolen" from Ethel Merman's character).
A snippet of the song can be heard in the beginning of the 1954 film White Christmas, sung by Bing Crosby and Danny Kaye. Crosby also recorded the song on his 1956 album Bing Sings Whilst Bregman Swings.
Ella Fitzgerald sang the song on her 1958 album Ella Fitzgerald Sings the Irving Berlin Songbook. Enoch Light gave a symphonic treatment of the song, which can be found on the album Stereo 35-MM (1961).
More recently, covers of the song were performed by Patti LuPone and the Hollywood Bowl Orchestra on the album Heatwave: Patti LuPone Sings Irving Berlin.
Heat Wave is a 2011 French drama film and the directorial debut of Jean-Jacques Jauffret. It was screened in the Directors' Fortnight section at the 2011 Cannes Film Festival.
Heat Wave is a 1982 studio album by vibraphonist Cal Tjader and jazz singer Carmen McRae. Tjader died four months after the completion of Heat Wave, it was his final recording.
The album was arranged by pianists Mark Levine and Marshall Otwell. McRae and Tjader did not get on well during the recording, and Tjader later overdubbed his parts without McRae present. McRae chose to sing " Besame Mucho" in its original Spanish language lyrics, and Willie Bobo helped her with the pronunciation.
Heat Wave peaked at 25 on Billboard's Jazz Albums chart.
Heat Wave is a made for television film in the action / adventure genre. It is about a heat wave that threatens to turn Los Angeles County into a parched, lifeless desert.
Heat Wave (original title: Coup de chaud) is a 2015 French thriller-drama film directed by Raphaël Jacoulot. It was released on 12 August 2015.
Heat Wave is a 1935 British comedy film directed by Maurice Elvey and starring Albert Burdon, Cyril Maude and Les Allen. A British vegetable salesman accidentally gets mixed up in a planned revolution in South America.
It was made at Islington Studios by Gainsborough Pictures. The film's sets were designed by the Austrian art director Oscar Friedrich Werndorff.
Heat Wave is the fifth album by The Jazz Crusaders recorded in 1963 and released on the Pacific Jazz label.
Heat Wave is a 2009 Canadian drama film directed by Sophie Lorain.
Usage examples of "heat wave".
A wind had dispelled the heat wave that had lingered, according to the natives, unusually long into the autumn season, so it was no hardship to pass the afternoon in gossip and splendor as petitioners came and went, most of them artisans and guildsmen fashioning the many trappings and the great feast that would accompany the coronation.
The sun burned down, the heat wave continuing, but she couldnt feel its heat or see its bright light.
And if that wasn't enough, a tropical front, settled quietly in the Gulf of Mexico, has responded in kind, rushing up the Mississippi River in a sudden heat wave.
Then, near the horizon on his right, he saw a man-made object, a dark speck in a shimmering heat wave.
Hearings were scheduled for June, so Hansen could deliver his testimony during a blistering heat wave.
It had been a wet spring, and until the heat wave kicked in a few weeks back the summer sun had been benevolent.
The kitchen was hot, because the oven needed a good bed of coals, and also because there was a heat wave.