warming
from
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006)
warming
adj 1: imparting heat; "a warming fire"
2: producing the sensation of heat when applied to the body; "a
mustard plaster is calefacient" [syn: {calefacient},
{warming}]
n 1: the process of becoming warmer; a rising temperature [syn:
{heating}, {warming}]
2: warm weather following a freeze; snow and ice melt; "they
welcomed the spring thaw" [syn: {thaw}, {thawing}, {warming}]
from
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Warm \Warm\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Warmed}; p. pr. & vb. n.
{Warming}.] [AS. wearmian. See {Warm}, a.]
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1. To communicate a moderate degree of heat to; to render
warm; to supply or furnish heat to; as, a stove warms an
apartment.
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Then shall it [an ash tree] be for a man to burn;
for he will take thereof and warm himself. --Isa.
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Enough to warm, but not enough to burn.
--Longfellow.
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2. To make engaged or earnest; to interest; to engage; to
excite ardor or zeal; to enliven.
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I formerly warmed my head with reading controversial
writings. --Pope.
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Bright hopes, that erst bosom warmed. --Keble.
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from
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
36 Moby Thesaurus words for "warming":
beating, burning, calefacient, calefaction, calefactive,
calefactory, cauterant, chafing, cooking, debacle, defeasance,
dielectric heating, drubbing, electric heating, electronic heating,
furnace heating, gas heating, heat exchange, heating,
hot-air heating, increase of temperature, induction heating,
insolation, licking, oil heating, overthrow, panel heating,
radiant heating, recalescence, rout, shellacking, steam heating,
superheating, tepefaction, thrashing, torrefaction
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