Arm vs Warm - What's the difference?

As a noun arm

is sleeve; a part of a garment that covers all or part of an arm.

As a verb warm is

arm

English

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Etymology 1

From (etyl) (m), from (etyl) . (cognates) Akin to (etyl) (m), (etyl) (m), (etyl) .

Noun

(en noun)

The portion of the upper human appendage, from the shoulder to the wrist and sometimes including the hand.

* {{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham), title=(The China Governess)

, chapter=19 citation , passage=When Timothy and Julia hurried up the staircase to the bedroom floor, where a considerable commotion was taking place, Tim took Barry Leach with him. He had him gripped firmly by the arm , since he felt it was not safe to let him loose, and he had no immediate idea what to do with him.}}

(anatomy) The extended portion of the upper limb, from the shoulder to the elbow.

A limb, or locomotive or prehensile organ, of an invertebrate animal.

the arms of an octopus

A long, narrow, more or less rigid part of an object extending from the main part or centre of the object, such as the arm of an armchair, a crane, a pair of spectacles or a pair of compasses.

A bay or inlet off a main body of water.

A branch of an organization.

(figurative) Power; might; strength; support.

the arm of the law

the secular arm

* Bible, Isa. lii. 1

To whom is the arm of the Lord revealed?

(baseball, slang) A pitcher

The team needs to sign another arm in the offseason.

Derived terms

(derived terms) * armband * armchair * -armed * armful * armhole * arm in arm * armless * armlet * armlock * armpit * armrest * arm's reach * at arm's length * babe in arms * chance one's arm * cost an arm and a leg * forearm * in arm's reach * in the arms of Morpheus * the long arm of the law * lower arm * on one's arm * right arm * take in one's arms * take someone's arm * upper arm * with open arms * within arm's reach

Verb

(en verb)

To take by the arm; to take up in one's arms.

* Shakespeare

And make him with our pikes and partisans / A grave: come, arm him.

* Two N. Kins

Arm your prize; / I know you will not lose him.

To supply with arms or limbs.

* Beaumont and Fletcher

His shoulders broad and strong, / Armed long and round.

Etymology 2

From (etyl) . (cognates) Akin to (etyl) .

Adjective

(en-adj)

Poor; lacking in riches or wealth.

To be pitied; pitiful; wretched.

Derived terms

Etymology 3

(etyl), from (etyl) (m), from Latin , hence ultimately cognate with etymology 1.

Noun

(en noun)

(usually used in the plural) A weapon.

(in the plural) heraldic bearings or insignia

Synonyms

* See also

Derived terms

(derived terms) * armed * arms factory * arms race * army * bear arms * brothers in arms * coat of arms * firearm * in arms * lay down one's arms * present arms! * sidearm * shot in the arm * take up arms against * to arms! * unarmed * under arms * up in arms

Verb

(en verb)

To supply with armour or (later especially) weapons.

To prepare a tool or a weapon for action; to activate.

Remember to arm an alarm system.

To cover or furnish with a plate, or with whatever will add strength, force, security, or efficiency.

to arm''' the hit of a sword; to '''arm a hook in angling

(figurative) To furnish with means of defence; to prepare for resistance; to fortify, in a moral sense.

* Bible, 1 Peter iv. 1

Arm yourselves with the same mind.

To fit (a magnet) with an armature.

Derived terms

* arm to the teeth

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warm

English

Etymology 1

From (etyl) (m), (m), from (etyl) (m), from (etyl) , with different proposed origins:

(etyl) .

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

* See also * See also

Antonyms

* (mild temperature) arctic, cold, cool, frozen * (caring) arctic, cold, cool, frozen

Derived terms

* * lukewarm * warmhearted/warm-hearted * warmish * warmly * warm up / warm-up

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.

The earth soon warms on a clear summer day.

To favour increasingly.

* {{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham), title=(The China Governess)

, chapter=5 citation , 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.}}

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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