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warm up something

phrasal verb with warmverb[ I/T ]us/wɔrm/

(HEAT)

to make something hotter:
I can warm up the leftover soup for lunch.
We warmed the rolls up in the oven.

warm up (something)

phrasal verb with warmverb[ I/T ]us/wɔrm/

(PRACTICE)

to exercise or practice in order to prepare for something that takes a lot of effort:
Ballet dancers have to warm up before performing.
A new pitcher is warming up in the bullpen.
She warms up her voice by singing scales.
If you warm up a car, you let the engine get warm enough to work well.

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warm (someone/something) up
An initial warm-up conversation was followed by four narrative tasks in which the child was expected to produce at least one narrative.
The first 50 spontaneous and fully intelligible utterances were omitted to approximate warm-up periods in each sample.
Happily, there was a warm-up period to make the informant feel relaxed, and a multiinterviewer technique was also devised to better the subjects' output.
Although the two basic lessons used the same 20 training stimuli, unique warm-up and cool-down activities were presented in each lesson.
This, again, has implications when choosing the starting state or when considering a warm-up period.
After completion of the warm-up tasks, each child was presented with one of the four sets of toys from which a baseline score was assessed.
Data from the warm-up blocks were not used for acuity assessment.
This may be left as a warm-up exercise for the reader.
After the warm-up the experimenter asked the child to look through the book, page by page.
Five pictures were used in the warm-up phase and 12 were used in the experimental phase.
The warm-up was also designed to eliminate any children who were unable to follow the directions by erring on 2 of 3 trials.
The warm-up task was altered to avoid a bias to replace either the first or the second noun in the compound.
The warm-up story was not subsequently coded for narrative content.
Each warm-up trial asked children to evaluate a picture that ' another child made ' when given the statement read by the experimenter.
The first three trials in each block cor responded to three different warm-up filler pictures that appeared with unrelated distractor words.
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