warm
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Is warm a Scrabble word?
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Definition
adj (English)
1. (informal) Close to a goal or correct answer.Examples: "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."informal
2. (figurative) Communicating a sense of comfort, ease, or pleasantness.Examples: "a warm piano sound"figuratively
3. (archaic) Ardent, zealous.Examples: "a warm debate, with strong words exchanged"; "Mirth, and youth, and warm desire!"; "They say he's a warm man and does not care to be made mouths at."archaic
4. (archaic, informal) Well off as to property, or in good circumstances; prosperous.Examples: "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."; "I know the Stuyvesant family —puff— every one of them —puff— not a more respectable family in the province —puff— old standards —puff— warm householders —puff— none of your upstarts"archaicinformal
5. (archaic) Requiring arduous effort.Examples: "The circular iron platform over there is used in the task of tyring the wheels, a warm job, too, by the way."archaic
verb (English)
1. (transitive) To make or keep warm.Examples: "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"transitive
2. (intransitive) To become warm, to heat up.Examples: "My socks are warming by the fire."; "The earth soon warms on a clear summer day."intransitive
3. (intransitive) (sometimes in the form warm up) To favour increasingly. [with to]Examples: "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."; "Her classmates are gradually warming to her."intransitive
4. (ditransitive with to) To cause (someone) to favour (something) increasingly.Examples: "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."ditransitive
5. (intransitive) To become ardent or animated.Examples: "The speaker warms as he proceeds."intransitive
6. (transitive) To make engaged or earnest; to interest; to engage; to excite ardor or zeal in; to enliven.Examples: "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."transitive
noun (English)
1. (colloquial) The act of warming, or the state of being warmed; a heating.Examples: "Shall I give your coffee a warm in the microwave?"; "Sit ye down before the fire , my dear , and have a warm"colloquial
Definition source: Wiktionary