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warm | herd |

As a verb warm

is .

As a noun herd is

stove, cooker.

warm

English

Etymology 1

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

    English

    Etymology 1

    From (etyl) herde, heerde, heorde, from (etyl) hierd, .

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A number of domestic animals assembled together under the watch or ownership of a keeper.
  • * 1768, ,
  • The lowing herd wind slowly o’er the lea.
  • Any collection of animals gathered or travelling in a company.
  • * 2007, J. Michael Fay, Ivory Wars: Last Stand in Zakouma , National Geographic (March 2007), 47,
  • Zakouma is the last place on Earth where you can see more than a thousand elephants on the move in a single, compact herd .
  • A crowd, a mass of people; now usually pejorative: a rabble.
  • * Dryden
  • But far more numerous was the herd of such / Who think too little and who talk too much.
  • * Coleridge
  • You can never interest the common herd in the abstract question.

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To unite or associate in a herd; to feed or run together, or in company.
  • Sheep herd on many hills.
  • To associate; to ally one's self with, or place one's self among, a group or company.
  • (rfdate) I’ll herd among his friends, and seem One of the number. Addison.

    Etymology 2

    (etyl) hirde, (hierde), from (etyl) . Cognate with German Hirte, Swedish herde, Danish hyrde.

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • Someone who keeps a group of domestic animals; a herdsman.
  • * 2000 , Alasdair Grey, The Book of Prefaces , Bloomsbury 2002, p. 38:
  • Any talent which gives a good new thing to others is a miracle, but commentators have thought it extra miraculous that England's first known poet was an illiterate herd .
    Derived terms
    * bearherd * cowherd * goatherd * gooseherd * hogherd * horseherd * neatherd * oxherd * swanherd * swineherd * vaxherd

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • (Scotland) To act as a herdsman or a shepherd.
  • To form or put into a herd.
  • I heard the herd of cattle being herded home from a long way away.

    See also

    * * drove * gather * muster * round up * ride herd on English collective nouns ----