warm

名词 n. 动词 v. 形容词 adj.
中文释义
英 /wɔːm/    美 /wɔɹm/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. The act of warming, or the state of being warmed; a heating. colloquial
    — Shall I give your coffee a warm in the microwave?
动词 v.
  1. To make or keep warm. transitive
    — Then shall it [an ash tree] be for a man to burn; for he will take thereof and warm himself.
  2. To become warm, to heat up. intransitive
    — My socks are warming by the fire.
  3. (sometimes in the form warm up) To favour increasingly. intransitive
    — 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.
  4. To cause (someone) to favour (something) increasingly. ditransitive
    — 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. To become ardent or animated. intransitive
    — The speaker warms as he proceeds.
  6. To make engaged or earnest; to interest; to engage; to excite ardor or zeal in; to enliven. transitive
    — 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. To give emotional warmth to a person. transitive
    — 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. To beat or spank. colloquial,transitive
    — 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. To scold or abuse verbally. colloquial,transitive
  10. To prepopulate (a cache) so that its contents are ready for other users. transitive
  11. To send electronic mail from (a domain) to improve its reputation for mail sending. Internet,transitive
形容词 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.
  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.
  5. Fresh, of a scent; still able to be traced.
  6. Communicating a sense of comfort, ease, or pleasantness. figuratively
    — a warm piano sound
  7. Ardent, zealous. archaic
    — a warm debate, with strong words exchanged
  8. Well off as to property, or in good circumstances; prosperous. dated,informal
    — 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.
  9. Requiring arduous effort. archaic
    — The circular iron platform over there is used in the task of tyring the wheels, a warm job, too, by the way.

词形变化

warmer comparative warmest superlative warme alternative,obsolete warms present,singular,third-person warming participle,present warmed participle,past warmed past warme alternative,obsolete warms plural warme alternative,obsolete

词汇关系

近义词
warm tepid mild balmy
反义词
Arctic cold cool frozen
下位词
lukewarm overwarm underwarm
衍生词
cold hands, warm heart lukewarm milk-warm muffin-warm piss-warm warm antibody warm as life warm as toast warm bank warm-blooded warm-bloodedness warm body warm boot warm carl warm dark matter warm-down warm front warm fuzzy warm hatch warm-hearted warmhearted warm hose warm-hot intergalactic medium warm hub warm ionized medium warmish warm line warmly warm prop warm regards warm space Warm Springs warm storage warm store warm transfer warm-up warm up warm wallet warm-water port warm working wet and warm like death warmed over warm down warm over warm someone's heart warm the bench warm the cockles of someone's heart
相关词
heated hot steamy temperature tepid
并列词
cold hot

词源

词源 1
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:
* Proto-Indo-European *wór-mo-s, from *wer- (“to burn”), which is related to Hittite 𒉿𒊏𒀀𒉌 (warāni, “to burn”), Armenian վառել (vaṙel, “to burn, heat, warm”), Old Church Slavonic варити (variti, “to cook, boil”).
* Proto-Indo-European *gʷʰor-mo-s, from the root *gʷʰer- (“warm, hot”), in which case cognate with Ancient Greek θερμός (thermós) (making perhaps a distant doublet of thermos), Latin formus, Sanskrit घर्म (gharmá).
In any case cognate within Germanic to West Frisian waarm, Saterland Frisian woorm, Dutch warm, German warm, Swedish varm, Icelandic varmur.
词源 2
Etymology tree
Proto-Germanic *warmaz
Proto-Indo-European *-yeti
Proto-Indo-European *-éyeti
Proto-Germanic *-janą
Proto-Germanic *warmijaną
Proto-West Germanic *warmijan
Old English wierman
Proto-West Germanic *warmōn
Old English wearmian
Middle English warmen
English warm
From 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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