reheat

UK/ɹiːˈhiːt/US/ɹiːˈhiːt/

verbB1+Rare in speech; mostly a word you read · #12,923 of 15,258neutral

Other forms: reheated, reheating

To reheat is to make an already-cooked meal hot again. Reheat the leftovers, reheat thoroughly, reheat in the oven.

The safety rule is to make it steaming hot all the way through rather than merely warm, and rice deserves particular care because it can carry a bacterium that survives cooking. Note the re- meaning again.

Definitions of reheat

1verbreheatTo make an already-cooked meal hot again.B1+
“You can reheat the leftovers in the microwave tomorrow.”
- Said"Just reheat the leftovers; I'm not making dinner twice in one day."
- WrittenShe reheated the stew for the third night running, and it was better every time.
- UsedReheat until piping hot all the way through, never lukewarm.
- ContrastReheat, not cook. Cooking turns raw into done; reheating only warms what was done already. cook →
- Not thisWarming a plate is not reheating. Reheat means food, already made, brought back to hot.
- SimplyReheat the soup. Eat it hot.
Patternreheat + noun (leftovers, soup, rice) · reheat in the oven / microwave · reheated food

reheat is a heating.

Remember it

RE-HEAT → HEAT it again

It is re + heat: heat yesterday's soup again.

hooks ontoheat

Where it comes from

Proto-Indo-European
*keHy- — heat; hot
Proto-Germanic
*haitį̄ — heat
Proto-West Germanic
*haitī
Old English
hǣtu
Middle English
hete
English
heat
English, today
reheat

From re- + heat. heat comes from Middle English hete, from Old English hǣtu, from Proto-West Germanic haitī, from Proto-Germanic haitį̄ (“heat”), from Proto-Indo-European keHy- (“heat; hot”). Cognate with Scots hete (“heat”), stq Hatte (“heat”), Old High German heizī (“heat”). Related also to Dutch hitte (“heat”), German Hitze (“heat”), Swedish hetta (“heat”), Faroese and Icelandic hiti (“heat”). Related to hot.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA

Practised in In the Kitchen

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reheat in the wild

Intended to outpower any design then under construction, the Gyron was the most powerful engine of its era, producing 20,000 lbf "dry", and 27,000 lbf with reheat.
De Havilland Gyron
Since the second reheat finishes the cooking process, foods are not overcooked as leftovers often are.
Parcooking
However, variations such as CAV with reheat, CAV multizone, and CAV primary-secondary systems can serve multiple zones and larger buildings.
Constant air volume
There are two types of CAV systems that are commonly in use to modify the supply air temperature: the terminal reheat system and the mixed air system.
Constant air volume
Until regular commercial flights by Concorde ceased in October 2003, the Olympus turbojet was unique in aviation as the only turbojet with reheat powering a commercial aircraft.
Rolls-Royce/Snecma Olympus 593

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Definitions of reheat

1verbreheatTo make an already-cooked meal hot again.B1+

“You can reheat the leftovers in the microwave tomorrow.”

Said"Just reheat the leftovers; I'm not making dinner twice in one day."
WrittenShe reheated the stew for the third night running, and it was better every time.
UsedReheat until piping hot all the way through, never lukewarm.
ContrastReheat, not cook. Cooking turns raw into done; reheating only warms what was done already. cook →
Not thisWarming a plate is not reheating. Reheat means food, already made, brought back to hot.
SimplyReheat the soup. Eat it hot.

Patternreheat + noun (leftovers, soup, rice) · reheat in the oven / microwave · reheated food

reheat is a heating.