Pronunciations (3)
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/wɔːm/
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/waːm/
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- Northumbria
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/wɔɹm/
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- General-American
Adjective
Of a somewhat high temperature, often but not always connoting that the high temperature is pleasant rather than uncomfortable.
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The room is warm.
The tea is still warm.
This is a very warm room.
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Warm and still is the summer night.
It seemed I was too excited for sleep, too warm, too young.
While the study doesn’t directly shed light on why, it suggested that maintaining a similar degree of mobility as the climate changed to the warmer and wetter pattern we have today could have imparted additional stress as the mammoth encountered unfamiliar environments or restricted its movement.
Kids jump into Lake Michigan during unseasonably warm conditions in Chicago on February 26, 2024. […] This winter was the warmest on record for the Lower 48, NOAA’s National Centers for Environmental Information said Friday. Records date to the late 1800s.
Friendly and with affection.
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They gave us a warm welcome.
We have a warm friendship.
Having a color in the part of the visible electromagnetic spectrum between red and yellow-green.
Close to a goal or correct answer.
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Earlier you were way off, but now you're getting warmer.
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That was a further clue; and here, indeed, young Mr. Dowse was getting "warm," as children say at blind-man's-buff, although, as a matter-of-fact, she had now been talking of George Miller at all.
Fresh, of a scent; still able to be traced.
Communicating a sense of comfort, ease, or pleasantness.
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a warm piano sound
Ardent, zealous.
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a warm debate, with strong words exchanged
Mirth, and youth, and warm desire!
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They say he's a warm man and does not care to be made mouths at.
To the strength and fierceness of barbarians they added a contempt for life, which was derived from a warm persuasion of the immortality and transmigration of the soul.
I had been none of the warmest of partisans.
Well off as to property, or in good circumstances; prosperous.
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You shall have a draught upon him, payable at sight: and let me tell you he is as warm a man as any within five miles round him.
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Mrs. and the Miss Cathcarts began to be considered as people of some consequence in the circle in which they moved, while he gradually obtained in the city the name of a warm man.
I know the Stuyvesant family —puff— every one of them —puff— not a more respectable family in the province —puff— old standards —puff— warm householders —puff— none of your upstarts
And he'd leave missis the house and enough money to keep it up in style. He was a warm man, it seems.
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That’s right; that’s the way he’s made his bit. He’s a warm man, is Mr. Noakes.
Requiring arduous effort.
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The circular iron platform over there is used in the task of tyring the wheels, a warm job, too, by the way.
Verb
To make or keep warm.
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Warm the milk gently.
Then shall it [an ash tree] be for a man to burn; for he will take thereof and warm himself.
enough to warm, but not enough to burn
To become warm, to heat up.
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My socks are warming by the fire.
The earth soon warms on a clear summer day.
(sometimes in the form warm up) To favour increasingly.
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Mr. Campion appeared suitably impressed and she warmed to him. He was very easy to talk to with those long clown lines in his pale face, a natural goon, born rather too early she suspected.
He is warming to the idea.
Her classmates are gradually warming to her.
To cause (someone) to favour (something) increasingly.
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It is with no small degree of irony that I confess that immersing myself in an interdisciplinary project has warmed me to the seductions of disciplinary perspectives.
To become ardent or animated.
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The speaker warms as he proceeds.
To make engaged or earnest; to interest; to engage; to excite ardor or zeal in; to enliven.
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1717 November 20, Alexander Pope, letter to the Bishop of Rochester there was a collection of all that had been written […] : I warmed my head with them.
Bright hopes, that erst the bosom warmed.
To give emotional warmth to a person.
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That is just the way God tells me this book is His Word. I read it, and it warms me and gives me light.
To beat or spank.
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Not bothering to turn around and not missing a mouthful, Myrtle comforted her with threats of "I'll warm your bottom"; "I'll turn you over to your dad"; "I'll lock you in the truck"; "I'll send for the bogey man" — all of which Darleen ignored […]
To scold or abuse verbally.
Usage- Colloquial
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To prepopulate (a cache) so that its contents are ready for other users.
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To send electronic mail from (a domain) to improve its reputation for mail sending.
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Noun
The act of warming, or the state of being warmed; a heating.
Usage- Colloquial
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Shall I give your coffee a warm in the microwave?
Sit ye down before the fire , my dear , and have a warm
Adjective
having or producing a comfortable and agreeable degree of heat or imparting or maintaining heat
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a warm body
a warm room
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a warm climate
a warm coat
psychologically warm; friendly and responsive
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a warm greeting
a warm personality
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warm support
inducing the impression of warmth; used especially of reds and oranges and yellows when referring to color
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warm reds and yellows and orange
freshly made or left
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a warm trail
the scent is warm
easily aroused or excited
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a quick temper
a warm temper
characterized by strong enthusiasm
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ardent revolutionaries
warm support
characterized by liveliness or excitement or disagreement
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a warm debate
uncomfortable because of possible danger or trouble
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made things warm for the bookies
of a seeker; near to the object sought
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you're getting warm
Adverb
in a warm manner
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warmly dressed
warm-clad skiers
Verb
get warm or warmer
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The soup warmed slowly on the stove
make warm or warmer
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The blanket will warm you