Warm vs Warp - What's the difference?
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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.
(obsolete) A throw; a cast.
(dialectal) A cast of fish (herring, haddock, etc.); four, as a tale of counting fish.
(dialectal) The young of an animal when brought forth prematurely; a cast lamb, kid, calf, or foal.
The sediment which subsides from turbid water; the alluvial deposit of muddy water artificially introduced into low lands in order to enrich or fertilise them.
(uncountable) The state of being bent or twisted out of shape.
A cast or twist; a distortion or twist, such as in a piece of wood.
(weaving) The threads that run lengthwise in a woven fabric; crossed by the woof or weft.
(nautical) A line or cable used in warping a ship.
A theoretical construct that permits travel across a medium without passing through it normally, such as a teleporter or time warp.
(transitive, obsolete, outside, dialects) To throw; cast; toss; hurl; fling.
(transitive, obsolete, outside, dialects) To utter; ejaculate; enunciate; give utterance to.
(dialectal) To bring forth (young) prematurely, said of cattle, sheep, horses, etc.
(dialectal) To cause a person to suddenly come into a particular state; throw.
(transitive, dialectal, of the wind or sea) To toss or throw around; carry along by natural force.
(ambitransitive, dialectal, of a door) To throw open; open wide.
To twist or turn something out of shape.
* Coleridge
* Tennyson
* , chapter=16
, title= To deflect something from a true or proper course.
* Dryden
* Addison
* Southey
To become twisted out of shape.
* (William Shakespeare)
* Moxon
To go astray or be deflected from a correct course
* (William Shakespeare)
To affect something wrongly, unfairly or unfavourably; to bias
* {{quote-news, year=2012, date=June 3, author=Nathan Rabin
, title= To arrange strands of thread etc so that they run lengthwise in weaving
(obsolete, rare, poetic) To weave, hence (figuratively) to fabricate; plot.
* Sternhold
(nautical) To move a vessel by hauling on a line or cable that is fastened to an anchor or pier; especially to move a sailing ship through a restricted place such as a harbour
* 1883: (Robert Louis Stevenson), (Treasure Island)
(nautical) (for a ship) To be moved by warping.
To fly with a bending or waving motion, like a flock of birds or insects.
* (John Milton)
(agriculture) To let the tide or other water in upon (low-lying land), for the purpose of fertilization, by a deposit of warp, or slimy substance.
(ropemaking) To run off the reel into hauls to be tarred, as yarns.
To travel across a medium without passing through it normally, as by using a teleporter or time warp.
In transitive terms the difference between warm and warp
is that warm is to make or keep warm while warp is to deflect something from a true or proper course.In intransitive terms the difference between warm and warp
is that warm is to favour increasingly while warp is to travel across a medium without passing through it normally, as by using a teleporter or time warp.As an adjective warm
is having a temperature slightly higher than usual, but still pleasant; mildly hot.warm
English
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.
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.}}
- 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?
Statistics
* 1000 English basic words ----warp
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) warp, werp, from (etyl) wearp, . Cognate with (etyl) warp, (etyl) warp, (etyl) Warf, (etyl) varp, (etyl) varp.Noun
(en noun)Etymology 2
From (etyl) werpen, weorpen, worpen, from (etyl) .Verb
(en verb)- The planks looked warped .
- Walter warped his mouth at this / To something so mock solemn, that I laughed.
The Mirror and the Lamp, passage=The preposterous altruism too!
- This first avowed, nor folly warped my mind.
- I have no private considerations to warp me in this controversy.
- We are divested of all those passions which cloud the intellects, and warp the understandings, of men.
- One of you will prove a shrunk panel, and, like green timber, warp .
- They clamp one piece of wood to the end of another, to keep it from casting, or warping .
- There is our commission, / From which we would not have you warp .
TV: Review: THE SIMPSONS (CLASSIC): “Mr. Plow” (season 4, episode 9; originally aired 11/19/1992), passage=It gives a pair of drunken bums direction, purpose and thriving small businesses but it destroys their friendship and warps their morals in the process.}}
- while doth he mischief warp
- (Nares)
- We had a dreary morning's work before us, for there was no sign of any wind, and the boats had to be got out and manned, and the ship warped three or four miles around the corner of the island.
- A pitchy cloud / Of locusts, warping on the eastern wind.