verb
Meaning 1
To become warmer.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: intransitive
Examples
- He came inside to warm up.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
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verb
To become warmer.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: intransitive
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
verb
To heat or reheat (e.g. food).
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: transitive
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
verb
To reach, or cause to reach, a normal operating temperature (of a car for example).
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: intransitive, transitive
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
verb
To physically or mentally prepare oneself, something or someone for an activity.
To do gentle exercise, stretching etc., in order to prepare the body for more vigorous exercise.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: figuratively, intransitive
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
verb
To physically or mentally prepare oneself, something or someone for an activity.
To prepare for an activity by carrying out a practice or preparation routine.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: figuratively, intransitive
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
verb
To physically or mentally prepare oneself, something or someone for an activity.
To make (an audience) enthusiastic or animated before a show.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: figuratively, transitive
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
verb
Synonym of warm (to favor increasingly).
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: figuratively, intransitive
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Synonyms: warm
Antonyms: none provided
verb
Synonym of warm (“prepopulate a cache”).
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: transitive
Topics: computing, engineering, mathematics, natural-sciences, physical-sciences, sciences
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Synonyms: warm
Antonyms: none provided
verb
Synonym of warm (“send mail from a domain to improve reputation”).
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: Internet, transitive
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Synonyms: warm
Antonyms: none provided
verb
make one's body limber or suppler by stretching, as if to prepare for strenuous physical activity
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Synonyms: limber up, loosen up
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: exercise, work out
verb
cause to do preliminary exercises so as to stretch the muscles
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: exercise, work, work out, put to work
Narrower terms: limber
verb
become more friendly or open
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: change
verb
get warm or warmer
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Synonyms: warm
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: change
verb
run until the normal working temperature is reached
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: operate, run
History
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Across languages
116 source translations are retained for this English entry.