What's the difference between tepid and warm?

Tepid


Definition:

  • (a.) Moderately warm; lukewarm; as, a tepid bath; tepid rays; tepid vapors.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) It’s drummed into us from the first day of medical school: “First, do no harm.” We can do without tepid, faux-conflicted advice from the likes of Sir Bruce Keogh, medical director of the NHS.
  • (2) This drubbing exposed not only the team's inadequacy on the day in the face of a rampant United side who sensed miserable resistance almost from the kick-off, but also Arsène Wenger's tepid commitment to the FA Cup, whatever his ready-made complaints of depleted resources before and after.
  • (3) Photograph: Romas Foord for Observer Food Monthly Series 4, signature challenge Makes 36 strong white bread flour 1kg salt 20g fast-action dried yeast 20g tepid water 800ml olive oil 4 tbsp pitted green olives 1kg, well drained fine semolina for dusting (optional) baking sheets 3, lined with baking paper Put the flour into the bowl of a large freestanding electric mixer fitted with a dough hook.
  • (4) Given the appalling criminal record of many M23 leaders, alarm bells should be ringing loud and clear, but once again international attention has been tepid.
  • (5) My new year forecast: Trumpian uncertainty, and lots of it Read more “The focus on the domestic market, recent anti-pollution measures and supply-side policies, combined with the sluggish international demand for Chinese goods, are all having a negative impact on export.” Julian Evans-Pritchard, China economist at the consultancy Capital Economics , said he saw little prospect of China’s trade position improving in the near future, partly thanks to tepid global growth.
  • (6) Their first-half efforts here all lacked direction, as was the case when their impish Spanish midfielder Carles Gil dragged wide just before Hull’s opening goal and when Ashley Westwood clipped a 36th-minute free-kick over the wall, or power on the only occasion they did manage an effort on target when Allan McGregor saved a tepid glancing header from Gabby Agbonlahor.
  • (7) Parliamentary byelections, which Hanna transformed into memorable TV fiestas in the Thatcher era, have become tepid and tedious since the bonhomous Belfast bruiser quit the BBC in 1987.
  • (8) We played very well in the first half but maybe it was too cold in the second half.” Although City later tried to clarify that Pellegrini apparently meant his players had performed in a “tepid” manner rather than being affected by the freezing temperatures, Hart said: “It was really cold in the first half, when having the wind in your face made a big change, but the second half was fine.
  • (9) The governments of wealthy nations have given only tepid backing.
  • (10) I have always maintained a tepid masculine indifference towards soft toys.
  • (11) The effects of prolonged muscular exercise (swim in tepid water for 60 min) on blood glucose, plasma FFA and R-GH were studied in a group of normal rats and the effect on blood glucose and plasma FFA in a group of hypophysectomized rats.
  • (12) But the reason the compromise proposal was so tepid is because they scuppered efforts to ban assault weapons and high-capacity magazines, which enabled Lanza to kill far more children far more quickly.
  • (13) October 16, 2012 Updated at 1.39am BST 1.34am BST You can also find out what our readers thought were the questions that should be asked in tonight's debate – although it will be a pleasantly tepid day in Hell before issues such as this get raised: What gives the US the right to carry out long-range assassinations using pilotless drones?
  • (14) A rather forlorn-looking cup of tepid water into which the bag has yet to be introduced.
  • (15) • Despite tepid reviews for Ed Miliband’s speech Labour staff have been trying to flog copies (including the bits he forgot) to activists leaving Manchester.
  • (16) It literally can’t work.” The tepidity of British support this campaign has confirmed will only hasten its demise.
  • (17) Bush, one of the presumptive front-runners, gave a flaccid performance that received only polite, tepid applause.
  • (18) Kremlinologists pored over the words, detecting signs of tepidity in, for example, Mandelson's failure to lavish praise on Brown – confining himself to a bland statement that Hoon and Hewitt were not in the government and that "the prime minister continues to have the support of his colleagues".
  • (19) NSA veterans have bridled in the past at what they consider Obama’s tepid support, but both sides earlier showed support for each other.
  • (20) Adams had been disappointed that the world premiere weeks earlier in Brussels had been so tepidly received.

Warm


Definition:

  • (superl.) Having heat in a moderate degree; not cold as, warm milk.
  • (superl.) Having a sensation of heat, esp. of gentle heat; glowing.
  • (superl.) Subject to heat; having prevalence of heat, or little or no cold weather; as, the warm climate of Egypt.
  • (superl.) Fig.: Not cool, indifferent, lukewarm, or the like, in spirit or temper; zealous; ardent; fervent; excited; sprightly; irritable; excitable.
  • (superl.) Violent; vehement; furious; excited; passionate; as, a warm contest; a warm debate.
  • (superl.) Being well off as to property, or in good circumstances; forehanded; rich.
  • (superl.) In children's games, being near the object sought for; hence, being close to the discovery of some person, thing, or fact concealed.
  • (superl.) Having yellow or red for a basis, or in their composition; -- said of colors, and opposed to cold which is of blue and its compounds.
  • (a.) To communicate a moderate degree of heat to; to render warm; to supply or furnish heat to; as, a stove warms an apartment.
  • (a.) To make engaged or earnest; to interest; to engage; to excite ardor or zeal; to enliven.
  • (v. i.) To become warm, or moderately heated; as, the earth soon warms in a clear day summer.
  • (v. i.) To become ardent or animated; as, the speake/ warms as he proceeds.
  • (n.) The act of warming, or the state of being warmed; a warming; a heating.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) These are typically runaway processes in which global temperature rises lead to further releases of CO², which in turn brings about more global warming.
  • (2) Keep it in the ground campaign Though they draw on completely different archives, leaked documents, and interviews with ex-employees, they reach the same damning conclusion: Exxon knew all that there was to know about climate change decades ago, and instead of alerting the rest of us denied the science and obstructed the politics of global warming.
  • (3) Changes in regional cerebral blood flow (rCBF) were measured over 254 cortical regions during caloric vestibular stimulation with warm water (44 degrees C).
  • (4) A dozen peers hold ministerial positions and Westminster officials are expecting them to keep the paperwork to run the country flowing and the ministerial seats warm while their elected colleagues fight for votes.
  • (5) Of great influence on the results of measurements are preparation and registration (warm-up-time, amplification, closeness of pressure-system, unhurt catheters), factors relating to equipment and methods (air-bubbles in pressure-system, damping by filters, continuous infusion of the micro-catheter, level of zero-pressure), factors which occur during intravital measurement (pressure-drop along the arteria pulmonalis, influence of normal breathing, great intrapleural pressure changes, pressure damping in the catheter by thrombosis and external disturbances) and last not least positive and negative acceleration forces, which influence the diastolic and systolic pulmonary artery pressure.
  • (6) Peter Stott of the Met Office, who led the study, said: "With global warming we're talking about very big changes in the overall water cycle.
  • (7) "For a better world, not only for the Iranian people but for the next generation across the globe, I earnestly hope that President Rouhani will receive a warm welcome and meaningful responses during his visit to the UN."
  • (8) The quality of liver grafts was evaluated using an original, blood-free isolated perfusion model, after 8 h cold storage, or after 15 min warm ischemia performed prior to harvesting.
  • (9) Bobbing in warming waters, this ancient ice fossil will be gone in a couple of weeks.
  • (10) This is triggered not so much by climate change but the cause of global warming itself: the burning of fossil fuels both inside and outside the home, says Farrar.
  • (11) Supermarkets are slashing the price of cauliflower because a relatively warm start to the year has produced a glut of florets.
  • (12) A patient with autoimmune hemolytic anemia of the warm antibody type developed a hyperacute hemolytic crisis with acute renal failure under conventional treatment with corticosteroids.
  • (13) "Thousands of scientists and officials from over 100 countries have collaborated to achieve greater certainty as to the scale of the warming," the panel said.
  • (14) In short, it says the IPCC exaggerates the warming effect of CO2.
  • (15) Where Jim Broadbent stands as an inherently warm screen presence, his co-star's image is rather more flinty.
  • (16) Environmental campaigners had been apprehensive about the chances of the Senate ratifying a new international treaty – a successor to the Kyoto protocol – to combat global warming unless a consensus had already been reached on Capitol Hill.
  • (17) Treatment and prevention of menstrual disorders of women at high altitudes could be carried out by invigorating Qi, regulating blood, promoting the flow of Qi, by warming the channel and regulating Zang and Fu, etc.
  • (18) Day-0 rabbits kept for 1 h in a warm (41 degrees C), neutral 39 degrees C) or cool (28 degrees C) environment selected a different TE at 39.8, 39.5 and 37.3 degrees C, giving colonic temperatures (TC) of 40.8, 39.9 and 37.7 degrees C, respectively.
  • (19) During suction a flow of cold, dry room air replaces the warm, moist cavity air, causing cooling both directly and by vaporization of water.
  • (20) But for the mid Atlantic, the models showed that only human-driven global warming could explain the increase in saltiness – the first time such an explicit link has been made between climate change and salinity.