Warm Up

Definition: Warm Up

Warm Up

Verb

1. Run until the normal working temperature is reached; "We warmed up the car for a few minutes".

2. Become more friendly or open; "She warmed up after we had lunch together".

3. Get warm or warmer; "The soup warmed slowly on the stove".

4. Do preliminary exercises so as to stretch the muscles; "The coach warmed up the players before the game".

5. Prepare for strenuous physical activity.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Education

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Synonyms: Warm Up

Improvement

Touch up, rub up, brush up, furbish up, bolster up, vamp up, brighten up, warm up; polish, cook, make the most of, set off to advantage; prune; repair; (restore); put in order; (arrange).

Restoration

Resuscitate, revive, reanimate, revivify, recall to life; reproduce; warm up; reinvigorate, refresh.

Crosswords: Warm Up

I figured you would warm up one day. (Ghost of the China Sea; writing credit: Charles B. Griffith)

I was just getting ready to warm up a little. (Buffy the Vampire Slayer; writing credit: Doreen Spicer)

No, I'll let ya warm up a little. (White Heat; writing credit: Virginia Kellogg; Ivan Goff)

Warm Up with Traci Lords (1988)

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Books

• Warm Up for Little League Baseball (reference)

  (more book examples)

Theater & Movies

• Lester Horton Technique: The Warm Up (Dance Instructional) (reference)

• Wrap Up Warm Up (reference)

  (more DVD examples; more video examples)

Music

• Warm Up [IMPORT] (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

High Tech

• Warm Up (Jewel Case) (reference)

  (more camera examples; more video game examples; more computer examples; more electronic examples; more software examples)

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Health

Warm up for about 6 to 10 minutes before you exercise. (references)

Travel

Mexico

On the other hand, some U.S. executives have found their Mexican counterparts to be initially brusque and slow to warm up. Again, it is difficult to make generalities. (references)

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Expressions using "warm up": warm up a bit ♦ warm up a little ♦ warm up in the stove ♦ warm up to one's subject. Additional references.

Albanian

nxemje, nxehet (heat), ngrohem (bask, tepefy, thaw, warm), i jap gjallëri (enliven), gjallëroj (animate, enliven, ensoul, exhilarate, illumine, inspirit, liven, liven up, move, pep, quicken, relieve, renew, revive, rouse, set about, smarten up, spirit, spiritualize, sting, stir, tense, vitalize, vivify), gjallërim i shikuesve. (various references)

Arabic 

‏حمى (advocate, anneal, broil, buckler, bulwark, conserve, cover, defend, diet, fence, fever, feverish, guard, haven, heat, overheating, patronize, protect, safeguard, shelter, stove, superheat, vindicate), ‏تمرن (exercise, practise, prelude), ‏تسخين في الرياضة, ‏تسخن (heat up), ‏سخن (broil, chafe, heat, heat up, hum, mull, overheat, overheating, run in, scald, stoke, stove, worm oneself), ‏طبخ ثانية. (various references)

Bulgarian 

увличам (carry away, infatuate, seduce, sweep along, transport), сгрявам (warm), разгрявам, разпалвам (inflame, kindle, set off, touch off, whip up, wind up), оживявам (enliven, exhilarate, jazz, liven, quicken, relive, smarten up, touch up, vitalize, vivify, warm, zip), подгрявам. (various references)

Chinese 

燖 , 熱 (fervent, heat, hot, to heat up). (various references)

Czech

zahřát se (grow warmer, warm oneself), rozehřát (heat, thaw), rozcvièka (limbering up, one's daily dozen), ohřát se (heat up, hot up). (various references)

Danish

varme op (to cook up, to fire up, to heat up, to warm up), tempre op (to fire up, to heat up, to warm up), optempre (to fire up, to heat up, to warm up). (various references)

Dutch

opwarmen (to fire up, to heat up, to warm up), optemperen (to fire up, to heat up, to warm up). (various references)

Finnish

lämmittää (fire, heat, stoke, warm), lämmitä (get warm), lämmetä (become warm, get warm). (various references)

French

échauffement (warming). (various references)

German

warmlaufen lassen, warm werden lassen, warm werden (heat), wärmen (be warm, heat up, provide warmth, toast, warm, warming, warmnesses), sich wärmen (warm oneself up), sich erwärmen (heat), sich aufwärmen (thaw), in stimmung bringen, in schwung bringen. (various references)

Greek 

ζέσταμα. (various references)

Hebrew 

לחמם (chafe, heat, heat up, scald, warm), ל�"תחמם (bask, be excited, become hot, heat up, warm), �"תחממות (getting hot, warming). (various references)

Hungarian

megmelegít (to heat, to warm up), felmelegedés (heating, warm), felmelegít (hot, rehash, to chill, to hash, to hot, to hot up, to rehash, to warm, to warm over, to warm up), bemelegítés (limbering up, warming up). (various references)

Indonesian

mengapi (fan, rouse, stir up). (various references)

Italian

scaldarsi i muscoli, riscaldamento (heater, heating, warming up), intiepidire (cool, cool down, make warm, warm), animarsi (liven, warm). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

調子付く (to be elated, to become enthusiastic about, to warm up to), 暖まる (to get warm, to sun oneself, to warm oneself, to warm up), 沸きが早い (quick to warm up), 温まる (to get warm, to sun oneself, to warm oneself, to warm up), 壁役 (catchers who warm up pitchers in the bullpen). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

かべやく (catchers who warm up pitchers in the bullpen), あたたまる (to get warm, to sun oneself, to warm oneself, to warm up), わきがはやい (quick to warm up), ちょうしづく (to be elated, to become enthusiastic about, to warm up to). (various references)

Manx

chiow (heat, warm, warming). (various references)

Pig Latin

armway upay

Portuguese

bafejar (be favorable, be favourable, blow, fan, heat with breath, incite, instigate, provoke). (various references)

Russian 

согреть (warm), разогреваться, разогревать, разминка (limbering up, limbering-up, warming up, warmup, warm-up, warmups), греться (warm), греть (warm). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

zagrejati (get warm, heat, heat up, limber up), ugrejati (get hot, heat), podgrejati (heat up, reheat). (various references)

Spanish

recalentar (hot up, look for an excuse, overheat, preheat, reheat, warm over), reanimar (bring around, bring round, bring to, pull round, raise spirits, reanimate, revive), precalentarse, calentar (animate, enliven, freshen, heat, heat up, hot up, scald, stoke, vivify, warm, warm through), calentamiento (heating), avivar (brighten, enliven, fuel, invigorate, jazz, revive, stimulate, whip up), acalorarse (get angry, get excited, heat, heat up, hot up). (various references)

Swedish

varmköra, värma upp (fry up), uppvärmning (heating, warming up), uppvärma (reheat), komma loss. (various references)

Turkish

kurcalamak (drag up, go round, irritate, monkey, monkey with, poke, poke up, possess, rake up, tamper, tamper with), kızıştırmak (envenom, escalate, heat, heat up, incite, provoke), kızışmak (become hot, come to the boil, heat, rut), kışkırtmak (agitate, antagonize, defy, egg, egg on, excite, fan the flame, ferment, foment, ginger, ginger up, goad, goad on, hound, hound on, incite, inflame, instigate, jockey into, lash, prod, provoke, rouse, set on, solicit, sting, stir up, tempt, whip up), heyecanlandırmak (carry away, electrify, exalt, excite, ferment, flush, hot up, impassion, inebriate, key up, Spike, stir, stir up, sweep away, sweep off, thrill, tickle up, transport, turn on, unsettle, wind up, work up), hararetlenmek, coşturmak (carry away, ecstasize, elate, enthuse, exhilarate, flush, inflame, key up, lend wings to, root for, send, steam up, sweep away, sweep off, transport, whoop it up), ısıtmak (fire, give a warm, heat, heat up, hot, hot up, toast, warm), ısınmak (become reconciled to, become warmer, get hot, grow warm, have a warm, heat, hit it off with smb., hot, hot up, loosen up, reconcile oneself to, take a shine to smb., take kindly to, warm). (various references)

Turkmen 

яylynmak, яylamak (heat up), maяlamak (become warm), зoяmak (heat). (various references)

Ukrainian

розминка (warming up, workout), розминатися. (various references)

concaluit. (various references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: warmup.

-2 letters: arum, mura, pram, prau, puma, ramp, rump, warm, warp, waur, wrap.

-3 letters: amp, amu, arm, map, mar, maw, pam, par, paw, pur, ram, rap, raw, rum, ump, wap, war.

-4 letters: am, ar, aw, ma, mu, pa, um, up.

+1 letter: warmups.

+4 letters: superwoman.