warmadj詞源 1/wɔːm/

• 1

  Of a somewhat high temperature, often but not always connoting that the high temperature is pleasant rather than uncomfortable.

  • The tea is still warm.
  • This is a very warm room.
• 2

  Friendly and with affection.

  • We have a warm friendship.
• 3

  Having a color in the part of the visible electromagnetic spectrum between red and yellow-green.

• 4

  informalClose to a goal or correct answer.

  • Earlier you were way off, but now you're getting warmer.
  • That was a further clue; and here, indeed, young Mr. Dowse was getting "warm," as children say at blind-man's-buff, although, as a matter-of-fact, she had now been talking of George Miller at all.
• 5

  Fresh, of a scent; still able to be traced.

• 6

  Communicating a sense of comfort, ease, or pleasantness.

  • a warm piano sound
• 7

  archaicArdent, zealous.

  • a warm debate, with strong words exchanged
  • Mirth, and youth, and warm desire!
• 8

  datedinformalWell off as to property, or in good circumstances; prosperous.

  • You shall have a draught upon him, payable at sight: and let me tell you he is as warm a man as any within five miles round him.
  • Mrs. and the Miss Cathcarts began to be considered as people of some consequence in the circle in which they moved, while he gradually obtained in the city the name of a warm man.

warmverb詞源 2/wɔːm/

• 1

  To make or keep warm.

  • 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 become warm, to heat up.

  • My socks are warming by the fire.
  • The earth soon warms on a clear summer day.
• 3

  (sometimes in the form warm up) To favour increasingly.

  • 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.
  • He is warming to the idea.
• 4

  To cause (someone) to favour (something) increasingly.

  • It is with no small degree of irony that I confess that immersing myself in an interdisciplinary project has warmed me to the seductions of disciplinary perspectives.
• 5

  To become ardent or animated.

  • The speaker warms as he proceeds.
• 6

  To make engaged or earnest; to interest; to engage; to excite ardor or zeal in; to enliven.

  • 1717 November 20, Alexander Pope, letter to the Bishop of Rochester there was a collection of all that had been written […] : I warmed my head with them.
  • Bright hopes, that erst the bosom warmed.
• 7

  To give emotional warmth to a person.

  • That is just the way God tells me this book is His Word. I read it, and it warms me and gives me light.
• 8

  To beat or spank.

  • Not bothering to turn around and not missing a mouthful, Myrtle comforted her with threats of "I'll warm your bottom"; "I'll turn you over to your dad"; "I'll lock you in the truck"; "I'll send for the bogey man" — all of which Darleen ignored […]

warmnoun詞源 2/wɔːm/

• 1

  The act of warming, or the state of being warmed; a heating.

  • Shall I give your coffee a warm in the microwave?
  • Sit ye down before the fire , my dear , and have a warm