Warm vs Worm - 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.
A generally tubular invertebrate of the annelid phylum.
* {{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham), title=(The China Governess)
, chapter=7 A contemptible or devious being.
* Bible, Psalms xxii. 6
(computing) A self-replicating program that propagates through a network.
(cricket) A graphical representation of the total runs scored in an innings.
Anything helical, especially the thread of a screw.
* Moxon
# A spiral instrument or screw, often like a double corkscrew, used for drawing balls from firearms.
# (anatomy) A muscular band in the tongue of some animals, such as dogs; the lytta.
# The condensing tube of a still, often curved and wound to save space.
# A short revolving screw whose threads drive, or are driven by, a worm wheel or rack by gearing into its teeth.
(archaic) A dragon or mythological serpent.
(obsolete) Any creeping or crawling animal, such as a snake, snail, or caterpillar.
* Tyndale (Acts xxviii. 3, 4)
* Shakespeare
* Longfellow
An internal tormentor; something that gnaws or afflicts one's mind with remorse.
(math) A strip of linked tiles sharing parallel edges in a tiling.
(label) To make (one's way) with a crawling motion.
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To work one's way by artful or devious means.
*(George Herbert) (1593-1633)
*:When debates and fretting jealousy / Did worm and work within you more and more, / Your colour faded.
To work (one's way or oneself) (into) gradually or slowly; to insinuate.
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To effect, remove, drive, draw, or the like, by slow and secret means; often followed by out .
*(Jonathan Swift) (1667–1745)
*:They find themselves wormed out of all power.
To "worm out of", to "drag out of" (often: "drag every word out of someone"), to get information that someone is reluctant or unwilling to give (through artful or devious means or by pleading or asking repeatedly). Often combined with expressions such as "It's like pulling teeth" or "It's like getting blood out of a stone".
*(Charles Dickens) (1812-1870)
*:Theywormed things out of me that I had no desire to tell.
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*:He nodded. "Mum's the word, Mrs. Bunting! It'll all be in the last editions of the evening newspapers—it can't be kep' out. There'd be too much of a row if twas!" ¶ "Are you going off to that public-house now?" she asked. ¶ "I've got a awk'ard job—to try and worm something out of the barmaid."
To fill in the contlines of a rope before parcelling and serving.
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*:Ropesare generally wormed before they are served.
(label) To deworm an animal.
(label) To move with one's body dragging the ground.
*1919 , , How animals talk: and other pleasant studies of birds and beast?
*:Inch by inch I wormed along the secret passageway, flat to the ground, not once raising my head, hardly daring to pull a full breath.
(label) To cut the worm, or lytta, from under the tongue of (a dog, etc.) for the purpose of checking a disposition to gnaw, and formerly supposed to guard against canine madness.
*Sir (Walter Scott) (1771-1832)
*:The men assisted the laird in his sporting parties, wormed his dogs, and cut the ears of his terrier puppies.
(label) To clean by means of a worm; to draw a wad or cartridge from, as a firearm.
In archaic terms the difference between warm and worm
is that warm is being well off as to property, or in good circumstances; rich while worm is a dragon or mythological serpent.In transitive terms the difference between warm and worm
is that warm is to make or keep warm while worm is to clean by means of a worm; to draw a wad or cartridge from, as a firearm.In intransitive terms the difference between warm and worm
is that warm is to favour increasingly while worm is to move with one's body dragging the ground.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.
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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 ----worm
English
Noun
(en noun)citation, passage=‘Children crawled over each other like little grey worms in the gutters,’ he said. ‘The only red things about them were their buttocks and they were raw. Their faces looked as if snails had slimed on them and their mothers were like great sick beasts whose byres had never been cleared. […]’}}
- I am a worm , and no man.
- The threads of screws, when bigger than can be made in screw plates, are called worms .
- There came a viper out of the heat, and leapt on his hand. When the men of the country saw the worm hang on his hand, they said, This man must needs be a murderer.
- 'Tis slander, / Whose edge is sharper than the sword, whose tongue / Outvenoms all the worms of Nile.
- When Cerberus perceived us, the great worm , / His mouth he opened and displayed his tusks.
- — Richard III ,
Verb
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