a house-warming partywarming1 adjectivewarming2 noun
warmingwarm‧ing1 /ˈwɔːmɪŋ $ ˈwɔːr-/ adjective 
EXAMPLES FROM THE CORPUS
- Indeed, infra-red light is chiefly responsible for the general warming effect of solar radiation.
- Long before dawn, I was propped on an elbow, with a warming mug of tea and a few verses of Romans.
- Meredith's resentment was replaced by a warming sense of friendliness.
- The Good Food Fast recipes on page 143 provide warming ideas to please vegetarians and meat-eaters alike.
- This temporarily exceeds the warming impact of the greenhouse effect.
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES a house-warming party
a house-warming partyWORD FAMILYnounwarmththe warmwarmerwarmingadjectivewarmwarmingadverbwarmlywarmverbwarm
making you feel pleasantly warm: a warming cup of cocoawarming1 adjectivewarming2 noun
warmingwarming2 noun [singular] EXAMPLES FROM OTHER DICTIONARIES
- Lately, there has been a warming in U.S.-Chinese relations.
- Scientists predict a gradual warming of the Earth caused by pollution.
- Carbon Dioxide An increase in the amount of carbon dioxide is responsible for about half the total warming.
- Half a decade on, global warming has become the biggest environment story.
- He lost battles with the chief of staff, John Sununu, over global warming and wetland preservation.
- Such as global warming - and the West using less of the oil that the Gulf crisis is actually all about.
- These will all reduce emissions from fossil fuels and so help combat global warming and acid deposition.
- They suggest that forecasts of warming may have to revised downwards.
- Washington continues to challenge the scientific claim that global warming is in part caused by emissions of carbon dioxide.
- Whether the continued global warming and associated changes in atmospheric circulation will occur steadily is unknown.
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES a house-warming partyCOLLOCATIONS FROM THE CORPUSADJECTIVE
a house-warming party· Existing models of global warming have not taken this into account, according to Cox.· Reduce global warming by wearing a woolly hat.· The seminar is intended to educate them on climatic change and global warming.· However, it has not yet been established that global warming is due to excessive combustion of fossil fuels.· The Panel is also looking at ways of tackling global warming using legal methods.· They have taken as read the scientific conclusions of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change that global warming is a real threat.· Environmentalists stressed the importance of energy efficiency as offering the best prospect of limiting global warming.· This raises the possibility that global warming may be a contributing factor.
VERB· Some oceanographers believe that the bleaching effect is being caused by global warming.· Flooded Farmland prophesies rising seas caused by global warming.
· Because the production of most forms of power produces so-called greenhouse gases that contribute to global warming.
WORD FAMILYnounwarmththe warmwarmerwarmingadjectivewarmwarmingadverbwarmlywarmverbwarm
1an increase in the temperature of somethingwarming of the warming of the ocean currents in the Pacific → global warming2a situation in which a relationship becomes more friendlywarming of the warming of relations between Britain and Iran