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Warm up

verb

Run until the normal working temperature is reached.

Become more friendly or open.

Get warm or warmer. Synonym: warm.

Cause to do preliminary exercises so as to stretch the muscles.

Make one's body limber or suppler by stretching, as if to prepare for strenuous physical activity. Synonyms: limber up, loosen up.

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"Warm up" Quotes from Famous Books

... attending to the work and letting me rest," said Marilla. "You seem to have got on fairly well and made fewer mistakes than usual. Of course it wasn't exactly necessary to starch Matthew's handkerchiefs! And most people when they put a pie in the oven to warm up for dinner take it out and eat it when it gets hot instead of leaving it to be burned to a crisp. But that doesn't seem to be ...

— Anne Of Green Gables • Lucy Maud Montgomery

... your many anxious moments of thought and work—string your fiddle, for, be assured, you will be rewarded, be your instrument somewhat crude in tone; and he is of a miserably cold, prosaic temperament indeed, who does not warm up at this juncture—this climax, this crisis. It may be the tone is good, very good; with what pride it is shown and tried; should it be mediocre, or even poor, a certain amount of pride is ...

— Violin Making - 'The Strad' Library, No. IX. • Walter H. Mayson

... the ladder of rocks. But the men were gay at their work, singing like mocking-birds. After all, the glow of life comes from friction with its difficulties. If we cannot find them at home, we sally abroad and create them, just to warm up our mettle. ...

— Little Rivers - A Book Of Essays In Profitable Idleness • Henry van Dyke

... about the Latin-American. How much form should I put on? Can you warm up to them? How do you get the truth out of them? And how do you get them to stay by their word? What are they suspicious of, silence or volubility? Do they expect you to ask for more than you expect to get? Do they appreciate candor and fair dealing, or must you be crafty and indirect? If they ...

— The Letters of Franklin K. Lane • Franklin K. Lane

... offered to "shove" coal to the end of his run, which was Rawlins, and my offer was accepted. My work was out on the tender, in the snow, breaking the lumps of coal with a sledge and shovelling it forward to him in the cab. But as I did not have to work all the time, I could come into the cab and warm up now ...

— The Road • Jack London

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