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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



... the ball a jolly good kick and it went ever so far and the two twins after it down towards the shingle. Pure jealousy of course it was nothing else to draw attention on account of the gentleman opposite looking. She felt the warm flush, a danger signal always with Gerty MacDowell, surging and flaming into her cheeks. Till then they had only exchanged glances of the most casual but now under the brim of her new hat she ventured a look at him and the face that met her gaze there in the twilight, ...
— Ulysses • James Joyce

... The weather was warm and muggy in spite of the punkha waving in the room, pulled by the uncertain hand of a coolie half-asleep in the verandah. There was another waving in like manner, she knew, in her husband's room at the extreme end of ...
— Banked Fires • E. W. (Ethel Winifred) Savi

... "'Tis a warm day," remarks George Selwyn in a letter to Lord Carlisle, "and someone proposes a stroll to Betty's front shop; suddenly the cry is raised, 'The Gunnings are coming,' and we all tumble out ...
— The Ladies - A Shining Constellation of Wit and Beauty • E. Barrington

... stirred reluctantly, her weary senses battling with the pleasant lethargy of sleep; but a sudden nip in the air stung her nose and found out the warm crevices of the bed. She stirred ...
— Every Soul Hath Its Song • Fannie Hurst

... the intervention of this young man was providential; and she turned several times to see if he had not followed her in the shadow. Sarah had in her heart a certain natural confidence which became her wonderfully; she felt herself to be the child of these warm latitudes, which the sun decorates with surprising vegetation; proud as a Spaniard, if she had fixed her regards on this man, it was because he had stood proudly in the presence of her pride, and had not begged a glance as a ...
— The Pearl of Lima - A Story of True Love • Jules Verne


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