warm English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) (m), (m), from (etyl) (m), from (etyl) , with different proposed origins:
(etyl) .
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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).
Adjective
( er)
Having a temperature slightly higher than usual, but still pleasant; mildly hot.
- The tea is still warm .
- This is a very warm room.
* Longfellow
- Warm and still is the summer night.
* 1985 , Robert Ferro, Blue Star
- It seemed I was too excited for sleep, too warm , too young.
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.
* Black
- Here, indeed, young Mr. Dowse was getting "warm ", as children say at blindman's buff.
(archaic) Ardent, zealous.
- a warm debate, with strong words exchanged
* Milton
- Mirth, and youth, and warm desire!
* Alexander Pope
- Each warm wish springs mutual from the heart.
* Addison
- They say he's a warm man and does not care to be made mouths at.
* Hawthorne
- 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) Being well off as to property, or in good circumstances; rich.
* Washington Irving
- warm householders, every one of them
* Goldsmith
- 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
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Antonyms
* (mild temperature) arctic, cold, cool, frozen
* (caring) arctic, cold, cool, frozen
Derived terms
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* lukewarm
* warmhearted/warm-hearted
* warmish
* warmly
* warm up / warm-up
See also
* heated
* hot
* steamy
* temperature
* tepid
Etymology 2
From (etyl) (m).
Verb
( en verb)
To make or keep .
* Bible, Isaiah xliv. 15
- Then shall it [an ash tree] be for a man to burn; for he will take thereof and warm himself.
* Longfellow
- enough to warm , but not enough to burn
To become warm, to heat up.
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- The earth soon warms on a clear summer day.
To favour increasingly.
* {{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham), title=(The China Governess)
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, passage=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.}}
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To become ardent or animated.
- The speaker warms as he proceeds.
To make engaged or earnest; to interest; to engage; to excite ardor or zeal; to enliven.
* Alexander Pope
- I formerly warmed my head with reading controversial writings.
* Keble
- Bright hopes, that erst bosom warmed .
Derived terms
* like death warmed over
Noun
( en noun)
(colloquial) The act of warming, or the state of being warmed; a heating.
- (Dickens)
- Shall I give your coffee a warm in the microwave?
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* 2005 Dallas Hudgens, Drive Like Hell , Simon and Schuster, ISBN 0743251636, page 94:
- "Your parents like Cool Hand Luke''''', yes?" "I don't really know. Why?" "Why? Because they name you '''Luke'''." I was worried I might have to explain that my name wasn't all that uncommon, and, anyway, Claudia had named me after the alter ego of Hank Williams, ' Luke the Drifter.
(Luke the Evangelist), an early Christian credited with the authorship of the Gospel of Luke and the Acts of the Apostles.
* :
- Luke , the beloved physician, and Demas, greet you.
(biblical) The Gospel of St. Luke, a book of the New Testament of the Bible. Traditionally the third of the four gospels.
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