WARM UP

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does warm up mean? 

• WARM UP (noun)
  The noun WARM UP has 1 sense:

1. performing mild exercises to prepare for some more strenuous activity

  Familiarity information: WARM UP used as a noun is very rare.

• WARM UP (verb)
  The verb WARM UP has 5 senses:

1. run until the normal working temperature is reached

2. become more friendly or open

3. get warm or warmer

4. cause to do preliminary exercises so as to stretch the muscles

5. make one's body limber or suppler by stretching, as if to prepare for strenuous physical activity

  Familiarity information: WARM UP used as a verb is common.

 Dictionary entry details 

• WARM UP (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Performing mild exercises to prepare for some more strenuous activity

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Context example:

the marathon runner did not warm up and hurt himself

Hypernyms ("warm up" is a kind of...):

preparation; readying (the activity of putting or setting in order in advance of some act or purpose)

• WARM UP (verb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Run until the normal working temperature is reached

Classified under:

Verbs of political and social activities and events

Context example:

We warmed up the car for a few minutes

Hypernyms (to "warm up" is one way to...):

operate; run (direct or control; projects, businesses, etc.)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

Sense 2

Meaning:

Become more friendly or open

Classified under:

Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.

Context example:

She warmed up after we had lunch together

Hypernyms (to "warm up" is one way to...):

change (undergo a change; become different in essence; losing one's or its original nature)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s

Sense 3

Meaning:

Get warm or warmer

Classified under:

Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.

Synonyms:

warm; warm up

Context example:

The soup warmed slowly on the stove

Hypernyms (to "warm up" is one way to...):

change (undergo a change; become different in essence; losing one's or its original nature)

Sentence frame:

Something ----s

Sense 4

Meaning:

Cause to do preliminary exercises so as to stretch the muscles

Classified under:

Verbs of grooming, dressing and bodily care

Context example:

The coach warmed up the players before the game

Hypernyms (to "warm up" is one way to...):

exercise; work; work out (give a workout to)

put to work; work (cause to work)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "warm up"):

limber (cause to become limber)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s somebody

Derivation:

warm-up (exercising in preparation for strenuous activity)

Sense 5

Meaning:

Make one's body limber or suppler by stretching, as if to prepare for strenuous physical activity

Classified under:

Verbs of grooming, dressing and bodily care

Synonyms:

limber up; loosen up; warm up

Hypernyms (to "warm up" is one way to...):

exercise; work out (do physical exercise)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s

Derivation:

warm-up (exercising in preparation for strenuous activity)

 Context examples 

But they usually shed gas and dust as they approach the Sun and warm up. ‘Oumuamua didn’t.

(New Study Shows What Interstellar Visitor ‘Oumuamua Can Teach Us, NASA)

This preparation, Mrs. Crupp, after some difficulty, consented to warm up; and it shrunk so much in a liquid state, that we found it what Steerforth called “rather a tight fit” for four.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

I’ve seen a driver warm up the off-side passenger on the roof behind him every time he tried to cut his off-side wheeler.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

"There's Norton and Hamilton; come on and meet them. Stevens isn't around, I hear. I'm going to get them started on monism if I can. Wait till they get a few jolts in them and they'll warm up."

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)