warm | Lernwerd

Forms

1.Of a somewhat high temperature, often but not always connoting that the high temperature is pleasant rather than uncomfortable.
- Warm and still is the summer night.
- It seemed I was too excited for sleep, too warm, too young.
- 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.Close to a goal or correct answer.(informal)
- 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.

1.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.
2.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.
3.To become warm, to heat up.
- My socks are warming by the fire.
- The earth soon warms on a clear summer day.
4.(sometimes in the form warm up) To favour increasingly.
- Her classmates are gradually warming to her.
- He is warming to the idea.
- 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.

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Etymology tree

Proto-Germanic *warmaz

Proto-West Germanic *warm

Old English wearm

Middle English warm

English warm

From Middle English warm, werm, from Old English wearm, from Proto-West Germanic *warm, from Proto-Germanic *warmaz, from one of: