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Definition of Hot air
1. Noun. Air that has been heated and tends to rise.
2. Noun. Loud and confused and empty talk. "Mere rhetoric"
Generic synonyms: Bunk, Hokum, Meaninglessness, Nonsense, Nonsensicality
Derivative terms: Palaver
Definition of Hot air
1. Noun. Air that has been heated, especially so as to function as the lifting agent of a hot-air balloon. ¹
2. Noun. Empty, confused or exaggerated talk having no meaning or substance. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Hot Air
Literary usage of Hot air
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Engineering Index Annual for by American Society of Mechanical Engineers (1909)
"Hot-Air Heating Heat Transmission over Long Distances (Ueber Fernleitung von Wärme).
... A mathematical discussion, particularly of the use of hot air. ..."
2. Preventive Medicine and Hygiene by Milton Joseph Rosenau, George Chandler Whipple, John William Trask, Thomas William Salmon (1921)
"Hot-air Furnaces.—A hot-air furnace consists of a coal fire which heats a ...
A hot-air furnace of this kind constantly pumps fresh air into the house and ..."
3. Supreme Court Reporter by Robert Desty, United States Supreme Court, West Publishing Company (1887)
"The shell of the hot-air cylinder, C, forms one side of each of these chimneys,
... "The top of the hot-air cylinder is covered with a cast-metal plate, L, ..."
4. Annual Report by Illinois Farmers' Institute (1899)
"hot air furnaces are coming into use more and more in country homes. When properly
constructed they furnish a large amount of converted heat and act also as ..."
5. Journal by Bond & Share Society, New Hampshire Dental Society, American Wine Society, Manning Valley Historical Society (1913)
"An Ancient Hot-Air Bath-House, near Schull, Co. Cork. By JAMES BUCKLEY, MRIA HE
remains of ancient Irish hot-air bath-houses, or sweat- houses as they are ..."
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