warm
To make or keep warmTo make or keep warm.
» The island is warm all year.
Auf der Insel ist es das ganze Jahr über warm.
Auf der Insel ist es ganzjährig warm.
На острове тепло круглый год.
На цьому острові тепло цілий рік.
Meaning
11 senses(transitive)To make or keep warm.
wärmen
гретьgretʹ
грі́тиhríty, нагріва́тиnahriváty, підігріва́тиpidihriváty
make warm or warmer
(intransitive)To become warm, to heat up.
My socks are warming by the fire.
The earth soon warms on a clear summer day.
get warm or warmer
(intransitive)(sometimes in the form warm up) To favour increasingly.
He is warming to the idea.
Her classmates are gradually warming to her.
(ditransitive)To cause (someone) to favour (something) increasingly.
(intransitive)To become ardent or animated.
The speaker warms as he proceeds.
(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.
(transitive)To give emotional warmth to a person.
(colloquial, transitive)To beat or spank.
(colloquial, transitive)To scold or abuse verbally.
(transitive)To prepopulate (a cache) so that its contents are ready for other users.
(Internet, transitive)To send electronic mail from (a domain) to improve its reputation for mail sending.
Examples
1629 sentencesThe island is warm all year.
На цьому острові тепло цілий рік.
ruНа острове тепло круглый год.
deAuf der Insel ist es das ganze Jahr über warm.
These flowers grow in warm countries.
Ці квіти ростуть у теплих країнах.
ruЭти цветы растут в теплых странах.
deDiese Blumen wachsen in warmen Ländern.
I just want to get warm.
Я лише хочу зігрітися.
ruЯ просто хочу согреться.
I'm so glad it's warm today.
Я такий радий, що сьогодні тепло.
ruЯ так рад, что сегодня тепло.
Tom wasn't wearing a warm coat.
Том не був у теплому пальто.
Translations
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Origin
From Middle English warmen, wermen, wyrmen, from Old English wierman (“to make warm”) andFrom Middle English warmen, wermen, wyrmen, from Old English wierman (“to make warm”) and wearmian (“to become warm”), from Proto-West Germanic *warmijan and *warmōn. Cognate with Dutch warmen, German wärmen, Swedish värma.
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Forms
warms, warming, warmed, warmedPhrasal verbs
3 phrasal verbsSynonyms
1 synonymsWord family
4 related wordsLessons for this word
3 lessons- A1Present simple — Because it is a verb
- A1Past simple, regular verbs — Because of its past form
- A2Present perfect: introduction — Because of its past participle
Collocations
12 patterns- warmer than usual
- global warming
- getting warmer
- is still warm
- warm today
- warming up now
- still warm
- warm yourselves by
- warm yourself by
- this warm weather
- warm clothes
- and warm yourself