Wars vs Warms - What's the difference?

wars | warms |

As verbs the difference between wars and warms

is that wars is (war) while warms is (warm).

As a noun wars

is .

wars

English

Noun

(head)

He's tough. He's been through all the wars .

Verb

(head)

(war)

His envy wars at his generosity.

warms

English

Verb

(head)

(warm)

Anagrams

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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