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Hot air   /hɑt ɛr/   Listen
Hot air

noun
1.
Air that has been heated and tends to rise.
2.
Loud and confused and empty talk.  Synonyms: empty talk, empty words, palaver, rhetoric.






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"Hot air" Quotes from Famous Books



... keep some experiments on different kinds of plants in there at special low temperatures. You might have let in hot air and ruined something." ...
— The Revolt on Venus • Carey Rockwell

... vaporising the oil, and many types of vaporisers are employed to attain the same end. There are some in which a charge of oil is drawn by suction into a hot chamber in which it is converted into vapour and at the same time mixed with a small quantity of hot air; this rich mixture is then passed into the combustion chamber of the engine, in the same manner as coal-gas would be, where it is further diluted with more air drawn in through the air valve. Other arrangements cause a jet ...
— Gas and Oil Engines, Simply Explained - An Elementary Instruction Book for Amateurs and Engine Attendants • Walter C. Runciman

... though the evening was coming on, and the sun was hastening to go down at last, it had not yet ceased to shine brilliantly upon the great city. But inside James Oliver's house the gas was already lighted in a little steady flame, which never flickered in the still, hot air, though both door and window were wide open. For there was a window, though it was easy to overlook it, opening into a passage four feet wide, which led darkly up into a still closer and hotter court, lying in the very core of the maze of streets. As the houses were four stories high, ...
— Alone In London • Hesba Stretton

... my eyes wandered over the temples and cemeteries spread at my feet, over the woods and the green mountains, over Nagasaki lying bathed in the sunlight. The cicalas were chirping their loudest, the strident noise trembling feverishly in the hot air. All was calm, full of light ...
— Madame Chrysantheme Complete • Pierre Loti

... other. Martin Pike saw this and more; he saw Ariel Tabor and his own daughter leaning from the carriage, the arms of both pityingly extended to Joe Louden and his two burdens, while the stunned and silly crowd stood round them staring, clouds of dust settling down upon them through the hot air. ...
— The Conquest of Canaan • Booth Tarkington


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