warm

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When we were at half strength, they allowed half of our group to go into what they called a warm-up room.

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  1. adjective Somewhat hotter than temperate; having or producing a comfortable and agreeable degree of heat; moderately hot: a warm climate.
  2. adjective Having the natural heat of living beings: a warm body.
  3. adjective Preserving or imparting heat: a warm overcoat.

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  • Mlle. Louise had a cousin whom she used to speak of as a warm-hearted man with peculiar opinions, eager and impetuous, who would like to make the acquaintance of her friend from the North. —  Recollections Of My Childhood And Youth
  • When we were at half strength, they allowed half of our group to go into what they called a warm-up room. —  Sand Mountain Reporter: News
  • Replace the Long Island accent with a southern accent and she acted with Bethenny just the way my mom acted with all my good girlfriends -- warm, caring, and always there. —  Entertainment Weekly's PopWatch
  • This girl has nothing to worry about -- warm, friendly, on law review, interviews everywhere you could want. —  Frequent Citations
  • As a (not so) "warm" - blooded Greek (i think she meant '"hot" - blooded'), i am not that bothered about the marbles being on display in the British Museum, precisely because of that fact: they are on public display in a museum. —  Louis Proyect: The Unrepentant Marxist
 

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Etymologies (3)

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  1. Middle English, from Old English wearm.

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  1. from Middle English warm. from Anglo-Saxon wearm = Old Saxon OFries. D. warm = Old High German Middle High German G. warm = Icelandic varmr = Danish Swedish varm = Gothic (Moesogothic) *warms (in verb warmjan), warm; with formative -m, from ✓ war, be hot, seen in Old Bulgarian varŭ, heat, vrieti, be hot, boil, vrŭlŭ, hot, Russian varitĭ, boil, brew, scorch, Lithuanian wirti, cook, seethe, boil. In another view, the word is connected with L. formus. Greek θερμός, hot, Sanskrit gharma, heat.
  2. from Middle English warmen, from Anglo-Saxon wearmian (= Dutch warmen = Middle High German warmen, German wärmen = Icelandic verma = Danish varme = Swedish värma = Gothic (Moesogothic) warmjan), become warm, from wearm, warm: see warm, a.
 

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