Spicy or hot?
What is the correct word to describe a hot meal?
Spicy or hot?
How about an expression hot pepper?
Please show me example sentences with hot meal and spicy meal. (Hot not in a sense of temperature)
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Spicy or hot?
What is the correct word to describe a hot meal: spicy or hot?How about an the expression "hot pepper"?
Please show me some example sentences with "hot meal" and "spicy meal" (hot not in a sense of temperature).
Hi Vicka!
As you probably know by now, "hot" can mean both "extremely warm" and "spicy." When we say "hot meal," we generally mean temperature and not flavor. However, when "hot" is used to describe food in other ways, it can be confusing without proper context. For instance:
"This sandwich is hot."
This sentence could mean both: the sandwich could be very warm and/or very spicy. For certain sentences though, it's all right to use logic to presume what "hot" means.
"The soup was too hot that he had to wait awhile before eating it." (Temperature)
"She added too many hot seasonings to the stew that the guests all required water." (Flavor)
I hope these help. Please let me know if you're still confused.
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I see. And how about the expression hot pepper?
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A hot meal literally means the temperature of the meal involved is warm.
Spicy is a word to express the flavor of the food, like 酸甜苦辣(sour, sweet, bitter and spicy )， which means four basic flavor of Chinese food.
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