warm
part of speech
adjective (warm, warmer, warmest); verb (warm, warms, warmed, warming)
meaning for a pupil
1) A little hot, pleasantly not cold: "warm water". tree →
2) Keeping you from being cold: "a warm coat". tree →
3) Friendly and kind: "a warm welcome". tree →
4) As a verb, to make or become warmer: "warm your hands". tree →
sense in the lessons
In science, warm means a temperature between cold and hot; warm air rises; mammals and birds are warm-blooded; the Earth is warming (climate change). In everyday life: dress warmly, warm up before sport. Phrases: warm up, keep warm, warm-blooded, warm welcome, warm-hearted.
examples
- It is warm and sunny today. tree →
- Wear a warm hat in winter. tree →
- Warm your hands by the fire. tree →
- We warm up before PE. tree →
- They gave us a warm welcome. tree →
- Warm air rises above cold air. tree →
- Dogs are warm-blooded animals. tree →
- The soup is warm, not too hot. tree →
- Lie still, and keep yourself warm.” tree →
note
Warm is less than hot. "Warm up" can mean heat food again or get your body ready for sport. Adverb: "warmly". Noun: "warmth".
In the corpora
- Heating a room with the window open sends the warm air, and the money that paid for it, straight outside.
- Happy tears come when people are moved, touched or very happy; they pass quickly and leave people feeling warm.
- Warm-ups such as lip trills and humming help the breath and the voice muscles work without strain.
- Whales are mammals: they breathe air, are warm-blooded, give birth to live young and feed them milk.
- Whales breathe through a blowhole on top of the head, and the spout is warm wet breath forming a cloud of mist.
Trees and pragmatics
Every meaning and example of «warm» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.