warming

English

Pronunciation

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• Rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)mɪŋ

Etymology 1

From Middle English warminge, warmynge, from Old English wærmiġende, wermende, wyrmende, present participle of Old English wyrman, wirman (“to warm”), equivalent to warm +‎ -ing.

Verb

warming

1. present participle and gerund of warm

Etymology 2

From Middle English warmyng, warmynge, from Old English wærming, wirming, equivalent to warm +‎ -ing.

Noun

warming (plural warmings)

1. A small rise in temperature.
2. (slang) A beating; a thrashing.
   • 2017, Harry Goulding, A Grimsby Life - Part 1: Henry the Ninth, page 193:

     More than once had he caught me in the act and given me, as he put it, “a good warming,” with his hard hand so, however much I was tempted so to do, I steadfastly refrained.

Related terms

• flat-warming
• global warming
• greenhouse warming
• heart-warming
• house-warming
• house warming
• sudden stratospheric warming
• warming center
• warming centre
• warming pan
• warming room
• warming up

 

Translations

a small rise in temperature

• Bulgarian: затопляне (bg) n (zatopljane)
• Dutch: opwarming (nl) f
• German: Erwärmung (de) f
• Greek:

  Ancient: θάλψις f (thálpsis)

• Polish: ocieplenie (pl) n
• Russian: потепле́ние (ru) n (poteplénije), согрева́ние (ru) n (sogrevánije) (action)

References

• “warming”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.