Alert vs Warm - What's the difference?
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Attentive; awake; on guard.
(obsolete) Brisk; nimble; moving with celerity.
* Addison
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The dispute is due to differing opinions on how initial Proto-Indo-European *g??- evolved in Germanic: some think that *g?? would have turned to *b, and that the root *g??er- would instead have given rise to burn etc. Some have also proposed a merger of the two roots.
The term is cognate with (etyl) (m), (etyl)/(etyl)/(etyl) (m), (etyl)/(etyl)/(etyl) (m) and (etyl)/(etyl) (m).
Having a temperature slightly higher than usual, but still pleasant; mildly hot.
* Longfellow
* 1985 , Robert Ferro, Blue Star
Caring and friendly, of relations to another person.
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.
* Black
(archaic) Ardent, zealous.
* Milton
* Alexander Pope
* Addison
* Hawthorne
* 1776 , Edward Gibbon, The History of The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire , Chapter 1
(archaic) Being well off as to property, or in good circumstances; rich.
* Washington Irving
* Goldsmith
To make or keep .
* Bible, Isaiah xliv. 15
* Longfellow
To become warm, to heat up.
To favour increasingly.
* {{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham), title=(The China Governess)
, chapter=5 To become ardent or animated.
To make engaged or earnest; to interest; to engage; to excite ardor or zeal; to enliven.
* Alexander Pope
* Keble
(colloquial) The act of warming, or the state of being warmed; a heating.
As a proper noun alert
is the northernmost inhabited place in nunavut, canada.As a verb warm is
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Adjective
(en adjective)- an alert young fellow
Anagrams
* * * * * ----warm
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Etymology 1
From (etyl) (m), (m), from (etyl) (m), from (etyl) , with different proposed origins:Adjective
(er)- The tea is still warm .
- This is a very warm room.
- Warm and still is the summer night.
- It seemed I was too excited for sleep, too warm , too young.
- We have a warm friendship .
- Here, indeed, young Mr. Dowse was getting "warm ", as children say at blindman's buff.
- a warm debate, with strong words exchanged
- Mirth, and youth, and warm desire!
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
Synonyms
* See also * See alsoAntonyms
* (mild temperature) arctic, cold, cool, frozen * (caring) arctic, cold, cool, frozenDerived terms
* * lukewarm * warmhearted/warm-hearted * warmish * warmly * warm up / warm-upSee also
* heated * hot * steamy * temperature * tepidEtymology 2
From (etyl) (m).Verb
(en verb)- 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
- The earth soon warms on a clear summer day.
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- The speaker warms as he proceeds.
- I formerly warmed my head with reading controversial writings.
- Bright hopes, that erst bosom warmed .
Derived terms
* like death warmed overNoun
(en noun)- (Dickens)
- Shall I give your coffee a warm in the microwave?