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warm up

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Princeton's WordNet

  1. warm-up, tune-up, prolusionverb

    exercising in preparation for strenuous activity

  2. warm upverb

    run until the normal working temperature is reached

    "We warmed up the car for a few minutes"

  3. warm upverb

    become more friendly or open

    "She warmed up after we had lunch together"

  4. warm, warm upverb

    get warm or warmer

    "The soup warmed slowly on the stove"

  5. warm upverb

    cause to do preliminary exercises so as to stretch the muscles

    "The coach warmed up the players before the game"

  6. limber up, warm up, loosen upverb

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

Wiktionary

  1. warm upverb

    To make an audience enthusiastic or animated before a show

  2. warm upverb

    To reach a normal operating temperature (of a car for example)

  3. warm upverb

    To reheat food

  4. warm upverb

    To become warmer

  5. warm upverb

    To prepare for executing an already-learned activity by a limited amount of additional practice.

ChatGPT

  1. warm up

    A warm-up generally refers to a period or act of preparation before an activity or event. Usually, this involves light exercises or practice to gradually increase heart rate, stimulate muscles and improve physical or mental readiness. This can apply to various contexts such as sports, performance arts, workout routines or even before engaging in a major task or project.

Wikidata

  1. Warm Up

    Warm Up is a Formula One style racing video game, released in 2000 developed by Lankhor, and published by Microïds, for Microsoft Windows based PCs. The game can be played by up to 10 players on a network. The game does not have the proper license, and therefore does not have the correct teams and drivers, etc.

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of warm up in Chaldean Numerology is: 9

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of warm up in Pythagorean Numerology is: 2

Examples of warm up in a Sentence

  1. Zach Harting:

    I could n’t sleep last night, woke up before my alarm, heart pounding out of my chest, crazy adrenaline, i wanted to puke all through warm-up, still kind of want to do that. I do n’t think I really handled it well, but I knew I was going to win so that kind of gave me a little bit of peace.

  2. Kai Pfaffenbach:

    The semi-finals is a warm up also for photographers, i was free to play around and I thought I would try a motion blur ... I saw him running ... The moment he turned his head I thought the picture was ruined as it would be too shaky but it just happened ... and overnight it became 'the' picture.

  3. Kris Flores:

    Ive been a fisherman since I was 6 months old. When I had my son, I had him out on the water, too, when he was very young, right before he caught the fish, it was getting cool on the lake and the kids wanted to go back in and warm up.The sun had just set and the lake was like glass when one of the rods doubled over and Alex began to reel.

  4. Joseph Cirincione:

    People talk very cavalierly about these strikes. It's really appalling to me that this kind of discussion goes on, this is not a pinprick attack. This would be weeks of hundreds of U.S. sorties. This would be the beginning of a major war in the Middle East that would make the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq look like warm-up acts, and it would have regional consequences.

  5. Zakaria Ngobongue:

    This exercise to a large extent can be considered a warm-up to enable our special forces to learn techniques in the fight against terrorism.


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