Definition of "warm" in Anglais

adjective

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. (informal) Close to a goal or correct answer.

   • Earlier you were way off, but now you're getting warmer.

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

6. (figurative) Communicating a sense of comfort, ease, or pleasantness.

   • a warm piano sound

7. (archaic) Ardent, zealous.

   • a warm debate, with strong words exchanged

8. (dated, informal) Well off as to property, or in good circumstances; prosperous.

9. (archaic) Requiring arduous effort.

verb

1. (transitive) To make or keep warm.

2. (intransitive) To become warm, to heat up.

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

3. (intransitive) (sometimes in the form warm up) To favour increasingly. [with to]

   • He is warming to the idea.
   • Her classmates are gradually warming to her.

4. (ditransitive with to) To cause (someone) to favour (something) increasingly.

5. (intransitive) To become ardent or animated.

   • The speaker warms as he proceeds.

6. (transitive) 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.

7. (transitive) To give emotional warmth to a person.

8. (transitive, colloquial) To beat or spank.

9. (transitive, colloquial) To scold or abuse verbally.

10. (computing, transitive) To prepopulate (a cache) so that its contents are ready for other users.

11. (Internet, transitive) To send electronic mail from (a domain) to improve its reputation for mail sending.

noun

1. (colloquial) The act of warming, or the state of being warmed; a heating.