warming
  加暖; 加溫
  warming
  加熱 暖機
  Warm, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Warmed p. pr. & vb. n. Warming.]
  1. To communicate a moderate degree of heat to; to render warm; to supply or furnish heat to; as, a stove warms an apartment.
     Then shall it [an ash tree] be for a man to burn; for he will take thereof and warm himself.   --Isa. xliv 15
     Enough to warm, but not enough to burn.   --Longfellow.
  2. To make engaged or earnest; to interest; to engage; to excite ardor or zeal; to enliven.
     I formerly warmed my head with reading controversial writings.   --Pope.
     Bright hopes, that erst bosom warmed.   --Keble.
  Warm·ing, a. & n. from Warm, v.
  Warming pan, a long-handled covered pan into which live coals are put, -- used for warming beds.
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  warming
       adj 1: imparting heat; "a warming fire"
       2: producing the sensation of heat when applied to the body; "a
          mustard plaster is calefacient" [syn: calefacient]
       n 1: the process of becoming warmer; a rising temperature [syn: heating]
       2: warm weather following a freeze; snow and ice melt; "they
          welcomed the spring thaw" [syn: thaw, thawing]