Warm vs Warn - What's the difference?
warm | warn |
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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.
To make (someone) aware of impending danger etc.
To caution (someone) against unwise or unacceptable behaviour.
To notify (someone) of something untoward.
To give warning.
* 1526 , William Tyndale, tr. Bible , Galatians II, 9-10:
* 1973 , Thomas Pynchon, Gravity's Rainbow , Penguin 1995, p. 177:
* 1988 , Salman Rushdie, The Satanic Verses , Picador 2000, p. 496:
* 1991 , Clive James, ‘Making Programmes the World Wants’, The Dreaming Swimmer , Jonathan Cape 1992:
(label) To refuse, deny (someone something).
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*:And yf thou warne' her loue she shalle goo dye anone yf thou haue no pyte on her / that sygnefyeth the grete byrd / the whiche shalle make the to ' warne her
In transitive terms the difference between warm and warn
is that warm is to make or keep warm while warn is to notify (someone) of something untoward.In intransitive terms the difference between warm and warn
is that warm is to favour increasingly while warn is to give warning.As an adjective warm
is having a temperature slightly higher than usual, but still pleasant; mildly hot.As a noun warm
is the act of warming, or the state of being warmed; a heating.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.
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- 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 ----warn
English
Etymology 1
(etyl) warnian, from (etyl) . Cognate with German warnen, Dutch waarnen.Verb
(en verb)- We waved a flag to warn the oncoming traffic.
- He was warned against crossing the railway tracks at night.
- Don't let me catch you running in the corridor again, I warn you.
- I phoned to warn him of the rail strike.
- then Iames Cephas and Iohn [...] agreed with vs that we shuld preache amonge the Hethen and they amonge the Iewes: warnynge only that we shulde remember the poore.
- She is his deepest innocence in spaces of bough and hay before wishes were given a different name to warn that they might not come true [...].
- She warned that he was seriously thinking of withdrawing his offer to part the waters, ‘so that all you'll get at the Arabian Sea is a saltwater bath [...]’.
- Every country has its resident experts who warn that imported television will destroy the national consciousness and replace it with Dallas'', ''The Waltons'', ''Star Trek'' and ''Twin Peaks .