# warm up

Pronunciation: US say "wawrm-UP" /ˌwɔɹm ˈʌp/; UK say "wawm-UP" /ˌwɔːm ˈʌp/

## Phrasal verb

1. To heat or reheat something, such as food.
   - Simple: To make something warm, or warm again, such as food.
   - _I'll warm up the rest of the soup for lunch._
   - _She warmed up a mug of cider and curled up with a book._
2. To prepare the body for strenuous exercise with light activity such as stretching.
   - Simple: To do easy exercises and stretches before harder exercise.
   - _Always warm up for ten minutes before you lift heavy weights._
   - _The runners warmed up with a slow jog around the track._
4. To become warmer.
   - Simple: To get warmer.
   - _The weather should warm up by the weekend._
   - _Once the furnace kicked on, the old farmhouse slowly warmed up._
5. To reach, or bring something to, its normal operating temperature, as with a car engine.
   - Simple: To get warm enough to work properly, or to make a machine do this.
   - _On icy mornings he lets the engine warm up for a few minutes before driving off._
   - _She warmed up the car while the kids finished their breakfast._
6. To grow to like or approve of someone or something more and more; used with to.
   - Simple: To slowly start to like someone or something more.
   - _It took the old cat a week to warm up to the new puppy._
   - _Voters were skeptical at first, but they gradually warmed up to her plan._
7. To get oneself ready for an activity by rehearsing or running through a routine beforehand.
   - Simple: To get ready for an activity by practicing first.
   - _Chess players often warm up with a few quick games before a tournament._
   - _The orchestra was warming up as the audience found their seats._
9. To make an audience lively and enthusiastic before a show.
   - Simple: To get the people watching excited before a show starts.
   - _A local comedian warmed up the crowd before the headliner came on._
   - _The host's job is to warm up the studio audience before taping begins._
11. In computing, to fill a cache with data ahead of time; to prepopulate it.
   - Simple: In computers, to fill a cache with data before it is needed.
   - _Remember to warm up the cache before you send live traffic to the new servers._
   - _The deploy script warmed up the database cache, so the first visitors never saw a slow page._
12. To send email from a domain in order to improve its sending reputation.
   - Simple: To send emails from a domain to give it a better reputation.
   - _If you don't warm up a new domain, inbox providers may flag your first campaign as spam._
   - _Before the launch, the marketing team spent a month warming up the new domain._

## Noun · warm-up

Pronunciation: US say "WAWRM-up" /ˈwɔɹm ˌʌp/; UK say "WAWM-up" /ˈwɔːm ˌʌp/

3. The act of exercising or stretching to get the body ready for strenuous activity.
   - Simple: Easy exercises and stretches you do before hard exercise.
   - _A proper warm-up lowers the risk of pulling a muscle._
   - _The coach made us repeat our warm-ups because we had rushed through them._
8. Something done to get ready for a performance.
   - Simple: Something you do to get ready before a show or performance.
   - _Before the recital, her only warm-up was a few slow scales on the piano._
   - _The cast's backstage warm-ups included tongue twisters and a lot of pacing._
10. A period of time set aside for warm-ups before an event.
   - Simple: The time given to get ready before a game or race.
   - _Fans filed in during warm-up, watching the players stretch along the sideline._
   - _The pitcher threw only a handful of pitches in warm-up before the umpire called time._

## Origin

Formed from the verb warm up.

Source: DictionaryAI, https://dictionaryai.com/define/warm-up (written from Wiktionary data, CC BY-SA 4.0: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/).