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warm

The correct spelling is warm.

How to pronounce warm

/wɔːm/
adjective

IPA: /wɔːm/

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The correct spelling is warm. Having a temperature slightly higher than usual, but still pleasant; mildly hot. For example: "The tea is still warm."

Usage Examples

The tea is still warm.

We have a warm friendship.

a warm piano sound

Meanings

adjective

  1. 1.Having a temperature slightly higher than usual, but still pleasant; mildly hot.
  2. 2.Caring and friendly, of relations to another person.
  3. 3.Having a color in the red-orange-yellow part of the visible electromagnetic spectrum.
  4. 4.Close, often used in the context of a game in which "warm" and "cold" are used to indicate nearness to the goal.
  5. 5.Fresh, of a scent; still able to be traced.

noun

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

verb

  1. 1.To make or keep warm.
  2. 2.To become warm, to heat up.
  3. 3.To favour increasingly.
  4. 4.To become ardent or animated.
  5. 5.To make engaged or earnest; to interest; to engage; to excite ardor or zeal in; to enliven.

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