warm
Pronunciation Adjective
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Pronunciation Adjective
warm (comparative warmer, superlative warmest)
- Having a temperature slightly higher than usual, but still pleasant; mildly hot.
- The tea is still warm.
- This is a very warm room.
- Warm and still is the summer night.
- Caring and friendly, of relations to another person.
- We have a warm friendship.
- Having a color in the red-orange-yellow part of the visible electromagnetic spectrum.
- Close, often used in the context of a game in which "warm" and "cold" are used to indicate nearness to the goal.
- Here, indeed, young Mr. Dowse was getting "warm", as children say at blindman's buff.
- Fresh, of a scent; still able to be traced.
- (figurative) Communicating a sense of comfort, ease, or pleasantness
- a warm piano sound
- (archaic) Ardent, zealous.
- a warm debate, with strong words exchanged
- 1645, John Milton, “Song On May Morning”, in Poems of Mr. John Milton, […] , London: Printed by Ruth Raworth for Humphrey Moſely, […], OCLC 606951673 ↗:
- Mirth, and youth, and warm desire!
- 1717, Alexander Pope, Eloisa to Abelard:
- Each warm wish springs mutual from the heart.
- They say he's a warm man and does not care to be made mouths at.
- I had been none of the warmest of partisans.
- 1776, Edward Gibbon, The History of The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, Chapter 1
- 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.
- (archaic, colloquial) Well off as to property, or in good circumstances; rich.
- warm householders, every one of them
- You shall have a draft upon him, payable at sight: and let me tell you he as warm a man as any within five miles round him.
- (archaic) Requiring arduous effort.
- 1929, The Listener (issues 41-50, page 552)
- The circular iron platform over there is used in the task of tyring the wheels, a warm job, too, by the way.
- 1929, The Listener (issues 41-50, page 552)
- See also Thesaurus:warm
- See also Thesaurus:affectionate
- See also Thesaurus:difficult
- French: chaud, chaude
- German: warm
- Italian: caldo
- Portuguese: morno
- Russian: тёплый
- Spanish: caliente, cálido, caluroso (weather)
- French: chaleureux, chaleureuse
- Italian: caldo, caloroso, cordiale
- Portuguese: morno
- Russian: тёплый
- French: cordial, cordiale
- German: warmherzig, fürsorglich
- Italian: caloroso
- Portuguese: caloroso, cordial
warm (warms, present participle warming; past and past participle warmed)
- (transitive) To make or keep warm#Adjective|warm.
Bible, Isaiah xliv. 15 - 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
- (intransitive) To become warm, to heat up.
- My socks are warming by the fire.
- The earth soon warms on a clear summer day.
- (intransitive) To favour increasingly.
- He is warming to the idea.
- Her classmates are gradually warming to her.
- (intransitive) To become ardent or animated.
- The speaker warms as he proceeds.
- (transitive) To make engaged or earnest; to interest; to engage; to excite ardor or zeal in; to enliven.
- November 20, 1717, 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 bosom warmed.
- November 20, 1717, Alexander Pope, letter to the Bishop of Rochester
- (transitive, colloquial) To beat or spank.
- 1945, The Atlantic (volume 176, page 94)
- 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 […]
- 1945, The Atlantic (volume 176, page 94)
- French: chauffer, échauffer, réchauffer
- German: wärmen
- Italian: riscaldare, scaldare
- Portuguese: aquecer, esquentar
- Spanish: calentar
- Italian: accostarsi a, affezionarsi a
warm (plural warms)
- (colloquial) The act of warming, or the state of being warmed; a heating.
- Shall I give your coffee a warm in the microwave?
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