warm

The tea is still warm.

This is a very warm room.

Warm and still is the summer night.

1863, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, The Herons of Elmwood:

It seemed I was too excited for sleep, too warm, too young.

We have a warm friendship.

Having a color in the part of the visible electromagnetic spectrum between red and yellow-green.

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.

1876, William Black, “An Encounter”, in Madcap Violet. […], volume III, London: Macmillan and Co., →OCLC, page 74:

(informal) Close to a goal or correct answer.

Fresh, of a scent; still able to be traced.

a warm piano sound

(figurative) Communicating a sense of comfort, ease, or pleasantness.

a warm debate, with strong words exchanged

Mirth, and youth, and warm desire!

1646 (indicated as 1645), John Milton, “Song on May Morning”, in Poems of Mr. John Milton, […], London: […] Ruth Raworth for Humphrey Mosely, […], →OCLC:

They say he's a warm man and does not care to be made mouths at.

1712 September 22 (Gregorian calendar), [Joseph Addison; Richard Steele et al.], “THURSDAY, September 11, 1712”, in The Spectator, number 481; republished in Alexander Chalmers, editor, The Spectator; a New Edition, […], volume V, New York, N.Y.: D[aniel] Appleton & Company, 1853, →OCLC:

1717, Alexander Pope, “Eloisa to Abelard”, in The Works of Mr. Alexander Pope, volume (please specify |volume=I or II), London: […] W[illiam] Bowyer, for Bernard Lintot, […], published 1717, →OCLC:

To the strength and fierceness of barbarians they added a contempt for life, which was derived from a warm persuasion of the immortality and transmigration of the soul.

1776–1788, Edward Gibbon, chapter I, in The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, volume (please specify |volume=I to VI), London: […] W[illiam] Strahan; and T[homas] Cadell, […], →OCLC:

I had been none of the warmest of partisans.

1850, Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Scarlet Letter, a Romance, Boston, Mass.: Ticknor, Reed, and Fields, →OCLC:

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.

1766, [Oliver Goldsmith], The Vicar of Wakefield: […], volume (please specify |volume=I or II), Salisbury, Wiltshire: […] B. Collins, for F[rancis] Newbery, […], →OCLC:

Mrs. and the Miss Cathcarts began to be considered as people of some consequence in the circle in which they moved, while he gradually obtained in the city the name of a warm man.

1791, Charlotte Smith, Celestina, Broadview, published 2004, page 258:

I know the Stuyvesant family —puff— every one of them —puff— not a more respectable family in the province —puff— old standards —puff— warm householders —puff— none of your upstarts

1824, Geoffrey Crayon [pseudonym; Washington Irving], Tales of a Traveller, (please specify |part=1 to 4), Philadelphia, Pa.: H[enry] C[harles] Carey & I[saac] Lea, […], →OCLC:

(archaic, informal) Well off as to property, or in good circumstances; prosperous.

The circular iron platform over there is used in the task of tyring the wheels, a warm job, too, by the way.

1929, The Listener, numbers 41-50, page 552:

en-adj

warm (comparative warmer, superlative warmest)

warmer (comparative)
warmest (superlative)

i ngrohtë

having a temperature slightly higher than usual

From Middle English warm, werm, from Old English wearm, from Proto-West Germanic *warm, from Proto-Germanic *warmaz, with different proposed origins:
# Proto-Indo-European *gʷʰer- (“warm, hot”), related to Ancient Greek θερμός (thermós), Latin formus, Sanskrit घर्म (gharma).
# Proto-Indo-European *wer- (“to burn”), related to Hittite [script needed] (warnuzi) and to Old Church Slavonic варити (variti).
The dispute is due to differing opinions on how initial Proto-Indo-European *gʷʰ- evolved in Germanic: some think that *gʷʰ would have turned to *b, and that the root *gʷʰer- would instead have given rise to burn etc. Some have also proposed a merger of the two roots.


warm

Then shall it [an ash tree] be for a man to burn; for he will take thereof and warm himself.

1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Isaiah 44 44-Chapter-15/# 15::

enough to warm, but not enough to burn

1825, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Morituri Salutamus:

My socks are warming by the fire.

The earth soon warms on a clear summer day.

(intransitive) To become warm, to heat up.

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.

1963, Margery Allingham, chapter 5, in The China Governess: A Mystery, London: Chatto & Windus, →OCLC:

He is warming to the idea.

Her classmates are gradually warming to her.

(intransitive) (sometimes in the form warm up) To favour increasingly. [with to]

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.

2006, Matt Wray, Not Quite White, page xi:

(ditransitive with to) To cause (someone) to favour (something) increasingly.

The speaker warms as he proceeds.

(intransitive) To become ardent or animated.

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.

Bright hopes, that erst the bosom warmed.

1827, [John Keble], The Christian Year: Thoughts in Verse for the Sundays and Holydays throughout the Year, volume (please specify |volume=I or II), Oxford, Oxfordshire: […] [B]y W. Baxter, for J. Parker; and C[harles] and J[ohn] Rivington, […], →OCLC:

(transitive) To make engaged or earnest; to interest; to engage; to excite ardor or zeal in; to enliven.

That is just the way God tells me this book is His Word. I read it, and it warms me and gives me light.

1886, Joseph Augustus Seiss, Right Life: Or, Candid Talks On Vital Themes:

(transitive) To give emotional warmth to a person.

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 […]

1945, The Atlantic, volume 176, page 94:

(transitive, colloquial) To beat or spank.

(transitive, colloquial) To scold or abuse verbally.

(computing, transitive) To prepopulate (a cache) so that its contents are ready for other users.

en-verb

warm (third-person singular simple present warms, present participle warming, simple past and past participle warmed)

warms (present singular third-person)
warming (participle present)
warmed (participle past)
warmed (past)


warm

Shall I give your coffee a warm in the microwave?

Sit ye down before the fire , my dear , and have a warm

1843 December 19, Charles Dickens, “(please specify the page number)”, in A Christmas Carol. In Prose. Being a Ghost Story of Christmas, London: Chapman & Hall, […], →OCLC:

(colloquial) The act of warming, or the state of being warmed; a heating.