Warm vs Concern - What's the difference?

As verbs the difference between warm and concern

is that warm is while concern is (label) to relate or belong to; to have reference to or connection with; to affect the interest of; to be of importance to.

As a noun concern is

that which affects one's welfare or happiness.

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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concern

English

Noun

That which affects one's welfare or happiness.

, title=(The Celebrity), chapter=2 , passage=We drove back to the office with some concern on my part at the prospect of so large a case. Sunning himself on the board steps, I saw for the first time Mr. Farquhar Fenelon Cooke. He was dressed out in broad gaiters and bright tweeds, like an English tourist, and his face might have belonged to Dagon, idol of the Philistines.}}

* {{quote-news, year=2011, date=April 10, author=Alistair Magowan, work=BBC Sport

, title= Aston Villa 1-0 Newcastle , passage=Although the encounter was bathed in sunshine, the match failed to reach boiling point but that will be of little concern to Gerard Houllier's team, who took a huge step forward before they face crucial matches against their relegation rivals.}}

The expression of solicitude, anxiety, or compassion toward a thing or person.

* {{quote-book, year=1907, author=

, title=The Dust of Conflict, chapter=22 citation , passage=Appleby

A business, firm or enterprise; a company.

* 2001 November 18, " What the Muslim World Is Watching," The New York Times (retrieved 26 July 2014):

Soon after he ascended the throne, an Arabic television joint venture between the BBC and a Saudi concern , Orbit Communications, foundered over the BBC's insistence on editorial independence.

(computing, programming) Any set of information that affects the code of a computer program.

* 2006 , Awais Rashid, ?Mehmet Aksit, Transactions on Aspect-Oriented Software Development II (page 148)

At the programming level, an aspect is a modular unit that implements a concern .

Synonyms

* (sense, that which affects one's welfare or happiness) interest

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Verb

(en verb)

(label) To relate or belong to; to have reference to or connection with; to affect the interest of; to be of importance to.

*(Bible), (w) xxviii. 31

*:Preaching the kingdom of God, and teaching those things which concern the Lord Jesus Christ.

*(Joseph Addison) (1672-1719)

*:Our wars with France have affected us in our most tender interests, and concerned us more than those with any other nation.

*(James Fenimore Cooper) (1789-1851)

*:ignorant, so far as the usual instruction is concerned

*:As a political system democracy seems to me extraordinarily foolish, but I would not go out of my way to protest against it. My servant is, so far as I am concerned , welcome to as many votes as he can get. I would very gladly make mine over to him if I could.

(label) To engage by feeling or sentiment; to interest.

*(Samuel Rogers) (1763-1855)

*:They think themselves out the reach of Providence, and no longer concerned to solicit his favour.

*{{quote-book, year=1935, author= George Goodchild

, title=Death on the Centre Court, chapter=3 , passage=It had been his intention to go to Wimbledon, but as he himself said: “Why be blooming well frizzled when you can hear all the results over the wireless. And results are all that concern me.

(label) To make somebody worried.

Derived terms

* concernable