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warmth

(wôrmth)

1. The state, sensation, or quality of producing or having a moderate degree of heat: an agreeable warmth in the house.

a. Friendliness, kindness, or affection: human warmth.

b. Excitement or intensity, especially of emotion.

3. The glowing effect produced by using predominantly red or yellow hues.

[Middle English warmeth, from warm, warm; see warm.]

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warmth

(wɔːmθ)

1. the state, quality, or sensation of being warm

2. intensity of emotion: he denied the accusation with some warmth.

3. affection or cordiality

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warmth

(wɔrmθ)

n.

1. the quality or state of being warm; moderate or gentle heat.

2. the sensation of moderate heat.

3. ardor or fervor; enthusiasm.

4. the quality of being intimate and attached.

5. an effect of brightness, cheerfulness, etc., achieved esp. by the use of warm colors: a room of great warmth.

6. the ability to produce a sensation of heat.

7. slight anger or irritation.

[1125–75; Middle English wermth. See warm, -th¹]

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Noun	1.	warmth - the sensation caused by heat energy heat temperature - the somatic sensation of cold or heat
	2.	warmth - a warmhearted feeling warmheartedness caring, lovingness - a loving feeling
	3.	warmth - the quality of having a moderate degree of heat; "an agreeable warmth in the house" warmness high temperature, hotness, heat - the presence of heat lukewarmness, tepidity, tepidness - a warmness resembling the temperature of the skin
	4.	warmth - the trait of being intensely emotional passion, heat emotionalism, emotionality - emotional nature or quality fieriness - a passionate and quick-tempered nature
	5.	warmth - a quality proceeding from feelings of affection or love affectionateness, lovingness, fondness emotionalism, emotionality - emotional nature or quality tenderness - a tendency to express warm and affectionate feeling uxoriousness - foolish fondness for or excessive submissiveness to one's wife

warmth

noun

1. heat, snugness, warmness, comfort, homeliness, hotness She went in, drawn by the warmth of the fire.
heat cold, chill, coolness, coldness, chilliness, iciness

2. affection, feeling, love, goodwill, kindness, tenderness, friendliness, cheerfulness, amity, cordiality, affability, kindliness, heartiness, amorousness, hospitableness, fondness He greeted us both with warmth.
affection hostility, indifference, austerity, apathy, remoteness, lack of enthusiasm, aloofness, insincerity, sternness, hard-heartedness, cold-heartedness

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warmth

noun

1. The quality of being pleasant and friendly:

affability, agreeability, agreeableness, amenity, amiability, amiableness, congeniality, congenialness, cordiality, cordialness, friendliness, geniality, genialness, pleasantness, sociability, sociableness.

2. Intensity of feeling or reaction:

excitation, excitement, heat.

Translations

دِفء، حَرارَه، حَماسَه، سُخونَه

varme

Wärme

calor

chaleur

hlÿja

calore calorosità cordialit...caldo

ciepło

vrúcnosť

toplotatoplina

ılıklıksıcaklık

暖和

warmth

[wɔːmθ] N

1. [of sun, fire] → calor m

2. [of clothing, blanket] a blanket will provide extra warmth → una manta proporcionará más abrigo
wear a jacket for warmth → ponte una chaqueta para ir bien abrigado

3. [of greeting, welcome] → cordialidad f; [of smile] → simpatía f, afabilidad f

Collins Spanish Dictionary - Complete and Unabridged 8th Edition 2005 © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1971, 1988 © HarperCollins Publishers 1992, 1993, 1996, 1997, 2000, 2003, 2005

warmth

[ˈwɔː^rmθ] n

[fire, weather] → chaleur f
to huddle together for warmth → se blottir l'un contre l'autre pour se réchauffer

[greeting, welcome] → chaleur fwarm-up [ˈwɔː^rmʌp] n

(= preparation for sport) → échauffement m

(= preparation for activity, competition) → galop m d'essai

Collins English/French Electronic Resource. © HarperCollins Publishers 2005

warmth

(lit) → Wärme f

(fig) (= friendliness: of voice, welcome etc) → Wärme f, → Herzlichkeit f; (= heatedness) → Heftigkeit f, → Hitzigkeit f

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warmth

[wɔːmθ] n → calore m (fig) → calore, calorosità

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warm

(woːm) adjective

1. moderately, or comfortably, hot. Are you warm enough, or shall I close the window?; a warm summer's day.

2. (of clothes) protecting the wearer from the cold. a warm jumper.

3. welcoming, friendly, enthusiastic etc. a warm welcome; a warm smile.

4. tending to make one hot. This is warm work!

5. (of colours) enriched by a certain quantity of red or pink, or (of red etc) rich and bright. a warm red; I don't want white walls – I want something warmer.

verb

1. to make moderately hot. He warmed his hands in front of the fire.

2. to become friendly (towards) or enthusiastic (about). She warmed to his charm.

noun

an act of warming. Give your hands a warm in front of the fire.

ˈwarmly adverb

warmness noun

ˈwarmth (-θ) noun

the state of being warm. the warmth of the fire; The actor was delighted by the warmth of the applause; The warmth of her smile made me feel welcome.

ˌwarm-ˈblooded adjective

1. having a blood temperature greater than that of the surrounding atmosphere. warm-blooded animals such as man.

2. enthusiastic; passionate. When I was young and warm-blooded, I was passionate about many things that don't interest me now.

warmed-over adjective

(American).

1. warmed up or heated again. warmed-over soup.

2. (of a story, idea etc) that has been heard many times before so that it is no longer interesting or relevant.

ˌwarmˈhearted adjective

kind and affectionate. a warmhearted old lady; a warmhearted action.

ˌwarmˈheartedness noun

warm up

to make or become warm. The room will soon warm up; Have a cup of coffee to warm you up.

warmth

n calor m

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But the wood-fire is a kindly, cheerful, sociable spirit, sympathizing with mankind, and knowing that to create warmth is but one of the good offices which are expected from it.

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The girls had on cotton dresses under their shawls; they kept shivering beneath the buffalo robes and hugging each other for warmth. But they were so glad to get away from their ugly cave and their mother's scolding that they begged me to go on and on, as far as Russian Peter's house.

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The Snake was quickly revived by the warmth, and resuming its natural instincts, bit its benefactor, inflicting on him a mortal wound.

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They might in fact, have borne down a great deal more than they met with, for there was little to distress them beyond the want of graciousness and warmth. Sir Walter made no objection, and Elizabeth did nothing worse than look cold and unconcerned.

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At that distant day, there was a dreary isolation in the civilized Christian society of these realms for families that had dropped below their original level, unless they belonged to a sectarian church, which gets some warmth of brotherhood by walling in the sacred fire.

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Weston, that it had not added any lasting warmth, that she could still do without the writer, and that he must learn to do without her.

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Don't stir all the warmth out of your coffee; drink it.

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To Ethan there was something vaguely ominous in this stolid rejection of free food and warmth, and he wondered what had happened on the drive to nerve Jotham to such stoicism.

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He raised a certain building in his court-yard by a story, which shutting out the sun, took half a degree of warmth from Boxtel's garden, and, on the other hand, added half a degree of cold in winter; not to mention that it cut the wind, and disturbed all the horticultural calculations and arrangements of his neighbour.

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Her face glowed with fire-heat, and, it being a pretty warm morning, she bubbled and hissed, as it were, as if all a-fry with chimney-warmth, and summer-warmth, and the warmth of her own corpulent velocity.