WARMER

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does warmer mean? 

• WARMER (noun)
  The noun WARMER has 1 sense:

1. device that heats water or supplies warmth to a room

  Familiarity information: WARMER used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• WARMER (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Device that heats water or supplies warmth to a room

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Synonyms:

heater; warmer

Hypernyms ("warmer" is a kind of...):

device (an instrumentality invented for a particular purpose)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "warmer"):

brasier; brazier (large metal container in which coal or charcoal is burned; warms people who must stay outside for long times)

convector (a space heater that transfers heat to the surrounding air by convection)

defroster; deicer (heater that removes ice or frost (as from a windshield or a refrigerator or the wings of an airplane))

demister (heater that removes mist from the windshield of a car)

gas heater (a heater that burns gas for heat)

heating pad; hot pad (heater consisting of electrical heating elements contained in a flexible pad)

kerosene heater; kerosine heater; oil heater; oilstove (heater that burns oil (as kerosine) for heating or cooking)

radiator (heater consisting of a series of pipes for circulating steam or hot water to heat rooms or buildings)

solar heater (a heater that makes direct use of solar energy)

space heater (heater consisting of a self-contained (usually portable) unit to warm a room)

stove (any heating apparatus)

hot-water heater; hot-water tank; water heater (a heater and storage tank to supply heated water)

Derivation:

warm (make warm or warmer)

 Context examples 

Previous infrared studies of the dwarf planet revealed that while Makemake’s surface is almost entirely bright and very cold, some areas appear warmer than other areas.

(Hubble Discovers Moon Orbiting the Dwarf Planet Makemake, NASA)

They were warmer last night when I touched them at the door of the mysterious chamber.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

His ideas seemed more moderate—his feelings warmer.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)

The increased plant growth in global forests could be due to several factors, including higher concentrations of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere, warmer temperatures and increased availability of nitrogen.

(World's forests increasingly taking up more carbon, National Science Foundation)

The results show that earlier, slower snowmelt, triggered by warmer temperatures, reduces streamflow.

(Earlier snowmelt decreases streamflow, reduces forests' ability to regulate atmospheric carbon dioxide, NSF)

Warmer, saltier water from the depths is ferried to the surface, where air chills it and makes it denser than the water below.

(Data from robotic drifters explain mysterious holes in Antarctic sea ice, National Science Foundation)

Most scientists have homed in on the northern and southern mid-latitudes, which have more plentiful sunlight and warmer temperatures than the poles.

(NASA's Treasure Map for Water Ice on Mars, NASA)

The team also used data from the MUSE instrument on ESO’s Very Large Telescope to track warmer gas — which is being launched out of the black hole in the form of jets.

(ALMA and MUSE Detect Galactic Fountain, ESO)

But one large section — the outermost of the large, main rings, called the A ring — was much warmer than the models predicted.

(At Saturn, One of These Rings is not like the Others, NASA)

The finding that the colder region would transition sooner than the warmer one came as a surprise.

(Far Northern Permafrost May Unleash Carbon Within Decades, NASA)