Definition of Hot air

1. Noun. Air that has been heated and tends to rise.

Generic synonyms: Air

2. Noun. Loud and confused and empty talk. "Mere rhetoric"
Exact synonyms: Empty Talk, Empty Words, Palaver, 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

hot-tub
hot-tubbed
hot-tubbing
hot-tubs
hot-water bag
hot-water bottle
hot-water heater
hot-water tank
hot-wire
hot-wired
hot-work steel
hot-working
hot Jupiter
hot Jupiters
hot abscess
hot air (current term)
hot air balloon
hot air balloons
hot and bothered(p)
hot and cold
hot and heavy
hot and sour soup
hot bed
hot beef injections
hot blast
hot bone lesions
hot bottle

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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