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WARMING
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Warm weather following a freeze; snow and ice melt
Example:
they welcomed the spring thaw
Synonyms:
Classified under:
Nouns denoting natural phenomena
Hypernyms ("warming" is a kind of...):
atmospheric condition; conditions; weather; weather condition (the atmospheric conditions that comprise the state of the atmosphere in terms of temperature and wind and clouds and precipitation)
Sense 2
Meaning:
The process of becoming warmer; a rising temperature
Synonyms:
heating; warming
Classified under:
Nouns denoting natural processes
Hypernyms ("warming" is a kind of...):
temperature change (a process whereby the degree of hotness of a body (or medium) changes)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "warming"):
boiling (the application of heat to change something from a liquid to a gas)
global warming (an increase in the average temperature of the earth's atmosphere (especially a sustained increase that causes climatic changes))
induction heating (the heating of a conducting material caused by an electric current induced in it)
overheating (excessive heating)
radiant heating (heating a building by radiation from panels containing hot water or electrical heaters)
melt; melting; thaw; thawing (the process whereby heat changes something from a solid to a liquid)
Derivation:
warm (get warm or warmer)
II. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Producing the sensation of heat when applied to the body
Example:
a mustard plaster is calefacient
Synonyms:
calefacient; warming
Classified under:
Similar:
hot (used of physical heat; having a high or higher than desirable temperature or giving off heat or feeling or causing a sensation of heat or burning)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Imparting heat
Example:
a warming fire
Classified under:
Similar:
warm (having or producing a comfortable and agreeable degree of heat or imparting or maintaining heat)
III. (verb)
Sense 1
-ing form of the verb warm
Context examples:
The findings have implications for the impact of a possible future biodiversity crisis driven by climate change and a warming planet.
(Mass extinction of land and sea biodiversity 250 million years ago not simultaneous, National Science Foundation)
The models suggests that explosions of warming nitrogen created basins in the moon's crust.
(New Models Suggest Titan Lakes Are Explosion Craters, NASA)
Beyond this natural change, human-caused global warming has hastened the speed of the retreat.
(Retreat of Yakutat Glacier, NASA)
"Good! Good!" cried Jo, pounding with the handle of the old warming pan on which she leaned.
(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)
“He is very handsome, is he not?” said I, my heart warming with this praise.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
Added lead author Eric Post, a UC Davis ecologist, Many of the changes over the past decade are so dramatic they make you wonder what the next decade of warming will bring.
(Warming at the poles will have global consequences, National Science Foundation)
As the warming ocean loses oxygen, the delicate balance of marine life is thrown into disarray.
(Oceans running out of oxygen at unprecedented rate, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)
This is particularly significant in times of global warming, where there is an urgent need to breed more resilient crops.
(Harnessing tomato jumping genes could help speed-breed drought-resistant crops, University of Cambridge)
An increase in temperature that occurs globally such as the interglacial warming period the earth experienced after the last Ice Age, or that predicted to result from human increases in greenhouse gases.
(Global warming, NOAA Paleoclimate Glossary)
An unctuous, combustible substance which is liquid, or easily liquefiable, on warming, and is soluble in ether but insoluble in water.
(Oil Dosage Form, NCI Thesaurus/CDISC)
