warming center
Syllables: warm·ing centerUK/ˈwɔːmɪŋ ˌsɛntə/US/ˈwoɹmɪŋ ˌsɛntəɹ/
warming center noun: an artificially warmed emergency shelter that operates during dangerously cold weather to provide care and relief for people affected by the low temperature.
Noun
warming center (plural warming centers)
- An artificially warmed emergency shelter that operates during dangerously cold weather to provide care and relief for people affected by the low temperature.
- Synonyms:
- heat bank, warm bank, warming station
- Antonyms:
- cooling center
- Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see warming, center.
- It is known that the warming center formed in the Atlantic and moved northwestward across the Hudson Bay to a position northeast of Alaska.1966, Willis L. Webb, Structure of the Stratosphere and Mesosphere (International Geophysics Series; 9), Academic Press, →OCLC, page 172
- On such days the fireplace was a cheerful, warming center of activity and Alice would often spread a quilt on the floor in front of it where boy and dog could play.1970, Junius Watson, Joe Jacoby, New York: McCall Publishing Company, →ISBN, page 91
Examples of warming center in a sentence
- Part of the reason Thoreau lights on fireplaces, chimneys, and hearths as indexical locations has to do with all that they mean in terms of warming centers.1991, Frederick Garber, Thoreau's Fable of Inscribing (Princeton Legacy Library), Princeton: Princeton University Press, →ISBN, page 153:
- We can see from the reanalysis that two anomalous warming centers in the tropical eastern Pacific straddle the equator and extend eastward.2000, Jiayu Zhou, William K.-M. Lau, “Intercomparison of AGCM Simulations of 1997/98 El Niño Impact on South American Summer Monsoon”, in...
Synonyms of warming center
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Forms of warming center
| plural | warming centers |
|---|---|
| alternative form | warming centre |
Origin of warming center
From warming (adjective) + center.
Questions about warming center
- What does warming center mean?
- Warming center means an artificially warmed emergency shelter that operates during dangerously cold weather to provide care and relief for people affected by the low temperature.
- How do you use warming center in a sentence?
- Part of the reason Thoreau lights on fireplaces, chimneys, and hearths as indexical locations has to do with all that they mean in terms of warming centers.
- What part of speech is warming center?
- Warming center is a noun.
- How do you pronounce warming center?
- Warming center is pronounced /ˈwɔːmɪŋ ˌsɛntə/ (UK).
- What is the plural of warming center?
- The plural of warming center is warming centers.
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