warm

adj

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.”

   “Warm and still is the summer night.”

   “It seemed I was too excited for sleep, too warm, too young.”

   “While the study doesn’t directly shed light on why, it suggested that maintaining a similar degree of mobility as the climate changed to the warmer and wetter pattern we have today could have imparted additional stress as the mammoth encountered unfamiliar environments or restricted its movement.”

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.”

   “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. (figuratively)Communicating a sense of comfort, ease, or pleasantness.

   “a warm piano sound”

7. (archaic)Ardent, zealous.

   “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.”

   “To the strength and fierceness of barbarians they added a contempt for life, which was derived from a warm persuasion of the immortality and transmigration of the soul.”

8. (dated, informal)Well 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.”

   “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”

   “And he'd leave missis the house and enough money to keep it up in style. He was a warm man, it seems.”

   “That’s right; that’s the way he’s made his bit. He’s a warm man, is Mr. Noakes.”

9. (archaic)Requiring arduous effort.

   “The circular iron platform over there is used in the task of tyring the wheels, a warm job, too, by the way.”

verb

1. (transitive)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. (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.

   “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.”

4. (ditransitive)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. (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.”

   “Bright hopes, that erst the bosom warmed.”

7. (transitive)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. (colloquial, transitive)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 […]”

9. (colloquial, transitive)To scold or abuse verbally.
10. (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.

   “Shall I give your coffee a warm in the microwave?”

   “Sit ye down before the fire , my dear , and have a warm”