adj
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.
Friendly and with affection.
We have a warm friendship.
Having a color in the part of the visible electromagnetic spectrum between red and yellow-green.
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.
Fresh, of a scent; still able to be traced.
verb
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
To become warm, to heat up.
My socks are warming by the fire.
The earth soon warms on a clear summer day.
(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.
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.
To become ardent or animated.
The speaker warms as he proceeds.
noun
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