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Warm   /wɔrm/   Listen
adjective
Warm  adj.  (compar. warmer; superl. warmest)  
1.
Having heat in a moderate degree; not cold as, warm milk. "Whose blood is warm within." "Warm and still is the summer night."
2.
Having a sensation of heat, esp. of gentle heat; glowing.
3.
Subject to heat; having prevalence of heat, or little or no cold weather; as, the warm climate of Egypt.
4.
Fig.: Not cool, indifferent, lukewarm, or the like, in spirit or temper; zealous; ardent; fervent; excited; sprightly; irritable; excitable. "Mirth, and youth, and warm desire!" "Each warm wish springs mutual from the heart." "I had been none of the warmest of partisans."
5.
Violent; vehement; furious; excited; passionate; as, a warm contest; a warm debate. "Welcome, daylight; we shall have warm work on't."
6.
Being well off as to property, or in good circumstances; forehanded; rich. (Colloq.) "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."
7.
In children's games, being near the object sought for; hence, being close to the discovery of some person, thing, or fact concealed. (Colloq.)
8.
(Paint.) Having yellow or red for a basis, or in their composition; said of colors, and opposed to cold which is of blue and its compounds.
Synonyms: Ardent; zealous; fervent; glowing; enthusiastic; cordial; keen; violent; furious; hot.


verb
Warm  v. t.  (past & past part. warmed; pres. part. warming)  
1.
To communicate a moderate degree of heat to; to render warm; to supply or furnish heat to; as, a stove warms an apartment. "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."
2.
To make engaged or earnest; to interest; to engage; to excite ardor or zeal; to enliven. "I formerly warmed my head with reading controversial writings." "Bright hopes, that erst bosom warmed."


Warm  v. i.  
1.
To become warm, or moderately heated; as, the earth soon warms in a clear day summer. "There shall not be a coal to warm at."
2.
To become ardent or animated.


noun
Warm  n.  The act of warming, or the state of being warmed; a warming; a heating. (Colloq.)





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"Warm" Quotes from Famous Books



... by his stay in this place, by once more overhauling the Swallow, and attending to the leak, which the carpenters doctored as well as they could. The sheathing was greatly worn, and the keel quite gnawed away by worms; they coated it with pitch and warm tar ...
— Celebrated Travels and Travellers - Part 2. The Great Navigators of the Eighteenth Century • Jules Verne
... partly resting on it, he again drifted down with the current. All night he floated down the river, and when morning came he was far from the camp of the Snakes. Benumbed with cold and stiff from the arrow wounds, he was glad to crawl out on the bank, and lie down in the warm sunshine. Soon ...
— Blackfoot Lodge Tales • George Bird Grinnell
... meal was concluded; the smoke was over; and the more careful men were back in the shed sharpening their shears by two o'clock. Punctually at that hour the bell repeated its summons DE CAPO. The warm afternoon gradually lengthened its shadows; the shears clicked in tireless monotone; the pens filled and became empty. The wool-presses yawned for the mountain of fleeces which filled the bins in front of them, divided into various grades of excellence, and continuously disgorged ...
— Shearing in the Riverina, New South Wales • Rolf Boldrewood
... indispensable as a defense against the Indians. Seth, the Yankee, had similarly engaged to dig a well close to the house. No supervision of them was therefore necessary. Lopez was to accompany them. Each took a double-barreled gun and a revolver. The day was very fine—about as hot as upon a warm day in June in England. Mr. Hardy proposed that they should first ride westerly as far as the property extended, six miles from the river; that they should then go to the south until they reached that boundary, and should follow that to the river, by whose banks they should return, and ...
— On the Pampas • G. A. Henty
... it you should be thus warm, Still pushing counsels when among your friends; Yet, at the court, cautious, and cold as age, Your voice, your eyes, your mien so different, You seem to ...
— The Works Of John Dryden, Vol. 7 (of 18) - The Duke of Guise; Albion and Albanius; Don Sebastian • John Dryden


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