warm up
Get warmer, get your body ready for exercise, get a machine ready to work, or help someone feel relaxed.
Meanings
To do light exercise to prepare the body before more intense physical activity.
"Always warm up for at least ten minutes before you start running."
To gradually reach the correct operating temperature (for an engine, machine, or device).
"Let the car engine warm up for a minute before you drive in cold weather."
To become or make a person feel warmer after being cold.
"Come inside and have some soup — it'll warm you up."
To make an audience, crowd, or person feel relaxed, enthusiastic, and ready.
"The comedian spent twenty minutes warming up the audience before the main act."
Extremely versatile. Used for physical preparation before sports, for gradually increasing an engine or device's performance, for an audience before a show ('warm-up act'), and for making a social atmosphere friendlier.
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