hotbox

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. isim A container maintained at elevated temperatures in order to heat or cook its contents.

   “We made a hundred pizzas with a variety of toppings and put them in hotboxes — portable sterno heaters.”

2. isim An oven.
3. isim An overheated shaft bearing.

   “If a hotbox is not discovered early, the temperature of the journal or bearing may rise to a critical level, so that the wheel end of the journal may burn off and cause a derailment of the car.”

4. isim An overheated axle box, bearing and bearing enclosure.

   “One of the ex-L. & Y.R. "pugs" displaced by diesels at Bank Hall, No. 51232, is going to Preston for employment on the dock lines there, but when en route on December 31 it ran out of water and also sustained a hot box, as a result of which it was detained at Bank Hall.”

5. isim A room or compartment that is kept artificially warm for some purpose.

   “The hotbox should be located in the nearest vicinity of the sorting room. The hotbox is a chamber in which air can be heated to a temperature of about 60 ° C.”

6. isim A cold frame containing compost that provides a limited amount of warmth.

   “Near-synonym: hotbed”

7. isim A box for hot composting.

   “I have two Hotboxes for composting garden and kitchen waste.”

8. isim An incubator.
9. isim A room or house that becomes unbearably hot inside when the weather is hot.

   “With portholes and doors secured, the staterooms became hotboxes and the odor from the galley an unendurable stench.”

10. isim A small, hot, enclosure, used as a punishment for slaves or prisoners.

    “In recent years, it had been believed that hotboxes only existed in movies such as Cool Hand Luke and Bridge Over The River Kwai.”

11. isim A furnace or heat source for a building.

    “We usually think in terms of "hotboxes" or furnaces on the surface of the Earth, nuclear or fossil fuel plants; indeed some people think in terms of solar furnaces in which power is generated and distributed to the consumer.”

12. isim A small, airtight space where people smoke marijuana in order to intensify the high.

    “The blackouts, the hangovers, the vomiting, the hotboxes, the detox, the shame, and the degradation.”

13. isim A gas manifold that diverts hot gasses into a heat exchanger.

    “It is planned to take the existing ventilation system and use it to exhaust the areas outside of the hotboxes, but to have the new system take over for the various hotboxes.”

14. isim A soundproof box used to hold a camera in order to prevent the sound of its operation interfering with the recording of a film.

    “The lack of microphone and camera mobility (cameras were placed in hotboxes so that their whirring sound would not be picked up) prevented the film-makers from handling the camera with ease, as they had done previously.”

15. isim A storage container for personal belongings of employees who are hot desking.

    “Storage refers to the use of 'hotboxes' in which staff are required to place any personal belongings when they finish work; the aim of which is to ensure that staff no longer have a fixed place of work.”

16. isim A location where controversial ideas are discussed or practiced.

    “CMA's "hotboxes" give sources a chance to role-play before they face a real interview .”

17. isim A sexy woman.

    “They drove on with comments about "redskin hotboxes who didn't wear any pants at all," and kept calling me "chief" in a sneering manner.”

18. isim A context-sensitive dialog that duplicates many of the commands on the menu for users of the Maya Embedded Language.

    “While you can do everything you wish in Maya without ever using the hotbox, once you get used to the way the hotbox conserves space and puts nearly all of Maya's tools in easy reach, you'll wonder how you ever got along without it .”

19. fiil To smoke marijuana in a small confined area, such as the inside of a car, until it is full of smoke, thereby intensifying the drug's effects.

    “Jane hotboxed the tent earlier.”

20. fiil To put out a cigarette just before entering a vehicle, then expel smoke in the vehicle.
21. fiil To smoke a cigarette vigorously and rapidly.
22. fiil To fart in a small confined area, such as the inside of a car.