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WARMED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does warmed mean? 

WARMED (adjective)
  The adjective WARMED has 1 sense:

1. having been warmed upplay

  Familiarity information: WARMED used as an adjective is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


WARMED (adjective)


Sense 1

Meaning:

Having been warmed up

Context example:

a cup of warmed milk

Similar:

warm (having or producing a comfortable and agreeable degree of heat or imparting or maintaining heat)


 Context examples 


Nay, it warmed my very heart to see it.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

It was this, all of it, and more, that he had put into his story, and it was this, he believed, that warmed her as she sat and listened.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

“Do you know where Mr. Traddles lives in the Inn?” I asked the waiter, as I warmed myself by the coffee-room fire.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

If you have got your feet well warmed, I'll show you your bedroom.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

Usually, when comets are warmed by the Sun they eject dust and gas, which form a cloud of material — called a coma — around them, as well as the characteristic tail.

(ESO’s VLT Sees `Oumuamua Getting a Boost, ESO)

Then said the youth, “See, little cousin, have I not warmed you?”

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)

The asteroid is warmed by sunlight and re-emits thermal radiation in different directions as it rotates.

(NASA to Map the Surface of an Asteroid, NASA)

Then he warmed up and enveloped Spitz in a whirlwind of rushes.

(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)

The study, led by scientists at the University of California, Davis, reports that the Arctic has warmed by 0.75 degrees Celsius in the last decade alone.

(Warming at the poles will have global consequences, National Science Foundation)

SOFIA's image shows gas in blue as it's heated by massive stars located near the center, and dust in green that is warmed both by existing massive stars and nearby newborn stars.

(SOFIA Reveals How the Swan Nebula Hatched, NASA)



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