(n.) A contest between nations or states, carried on by force, whether for defence, for revenging insults and redressing wrongs, for the extension of commerce, for the acquisition of territory, for obtaining and establishing the superiority and dominion of one over the other, or for any other purpose; armed conflict of sovereign powers; declared and open hostilities.
(n.) A condition of belligerency to be maintained by physical force. In this sense, levying war against the sovereign authority is treason.
(n.) Instruments of war.
(n.) Forces; army.
(n.) The profession of arms; the art of war.
(n.) a state of opposition or contest; an act of opposition; an inimical contest, act, or action; enmity; hostility.
(v. i.) To make war; to invade or attack a state or nation with force of arms; to carry on hostilities; to be in a state by violence.
(v. i.) To contend; to strive violently; to fight.
(v. t.) To make war upon; to fight.
(v. t.) To carry on, as a contest; to wage.
Example Sentences:
(1) The result has been called the biggest human upheaval since the Second World War.
(2) But it will be a subtle difference, because it's already abundantly clear there's no danger of the war being suddenly forgotten, or made to seem irrelevant to our sense of what Europe and the world has to avoid repeating.
(3) We are the generation who saw the war,, who ate bread received with ration cards.
(4) A full-scale war is unlikely but there is clear concern in Seoul about the more realistic threat of a small-scale attack on the South Korean military or a group of islands near the countries' disputed maritime border in the Yellow Sea.
(5) Stringer, a Vietnam war veteran who was knighted in 1999, is already inside the corporation, if only for a few months, after he was appointed as one of its non-executive directors to toughen up the BBC's governance following a string of scandals, from the Jimmy Savile abuse to multimillion-pound executive payoffs.
(6) The Pakistan government, led as usual by a general, was anxious to project the army's role as bringers of order to a country that was sliding quickly towards civil war.
(7) True, Syria subsequently disarmed itself of chemical weapons, but this was after the climbdown on bombing had shown western public opinion had no appetite for another war of choice.
(8) When war broke out, the nine-year-old Arden was sent away to board at a school near York and then on Sedbergh School in Cumbria.
(9) When asked why the streets of London were not heaving with demonstrators protesting against Russia turning Aleppo into the Guernica of our times, Stop the War replied that it had no wish to add to the “jingoism” politicians were whipping up against plucky little Russia .
(10) If there was to be guerrilla warfare, I wanted to be able to stand and fight with my people and to share the hazards of war with them.
(11) Among the guests invited to witness the flypast were six second world war RAF pilots, dubbed the “few” by the wartime prime minister, Winston Churchill.
(12) He's called out for his lack of imagination in a stinging review by a leading food critic (Oliver Platt) and - after being introduced to Twitter by his tech-savvy son (Emjay Anthony) - accidentally starts a flame war that will lead to him losing his job.
(13) Beginning with its foundation by Charles Godon in 1900 he describes the growth of the Federation as an organization of the dental profession which continued despite the interruption of two world wars.
(14) Jack Straw, foreign secretary at the time of the Iraq war, took a less dramatic view.
(15) The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge stood among the graves on 4 August last year in a moving ceremony to mark the 100th anniversary of the outbreak of war.
(16) Journalists should never be a propaganda arm of any government – not in peace and never in war.
(17) The supporters – many of them wearing Hamas green headbands and carrying Hamas flags – packed the open-air venue in rain and strong winds to celebrate the Islamist organisation's 25th anniversary and what it regards as a victory in last month's eight-day war with Israel.
(18) To do so degrades the language of war and aids the terrorist enemy.
(19) Chadwick felt that Customs and Trading Standards needed to continue their war on illegal tobacco – if not, efforts to tackle smoking could be undermined.
(20) To a large extent, the failure has been a consequence of a cold war-style deadlock – Russia and Iran on one side, and the west and most of the Arab world on the other – over the fate of Bashar al-Assad , a negotiating gap kept open by force in the shape of massive Russian and Iranian military support to keep the Syrian regime in place.
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.