different between arming vs warming

English

Verb

arming

1. present participle of arm

Noun

arming (plural armings)

1. (nautical) A piece of tallow or soap put in the cavity and over the bottom of a sounding lead to pick up samples of the bottom of the sea.

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2. The act of supplying with arms and ammunition in preparation of a conflict
3. (nautical, chiefly in the plural) One of the red dress cloths formerly hung fore and aft outside of a ship's upper works on holidays.

Translations

References

• FM 55-501 Marine Crewman’s Handbook

Anagrams

• Ingram, Maring, margin, raming

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From the adjective arm

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /²?rm??/

Noun

arming m (definite singular armingen, indefinite plural armingar, definite plural armingane)

1. A pitiful person, someone who is to be pitied.
   • 1861, Aasmund Olavsson Vinje, "Ferdaminni fraa Sumaren 1860":

     Og derfor heller Ingen er som slik ein Arming litit sæl; og um an ikki er os kjær, so maa me vilja honom vel.

     And therefore no one is as unhappy as such a pitiful person; and even if he is not dear to us, we must wish him well.

Further reading

• “arming” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

English

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -??(?)m??

Etymology 1

From Middle English warminge, warmynge, from Old English wærmi?ende, wermende, wyrmende, present participle of Old English wyrman, wirman (“to warm”), equivalent to warm +? -ing.

Verb

warming

1. present participle of warm

Etymology 2

From Middle English warmyng, warmynge, from Old English wærming, wirming, equivalent to warm +? -ing.

Noun

warming (plural warmings)

1. A small rise in temperature.
2. (slang) A beating; a thrashing.
   • 2017, Harry Goulding, A Grimsby Life - Part 1: Henry the Ninth (page 193)

     More than once had he caught me in the act and given me, as he put it, “a good warming,” with his hard hand so, however much I was tempted so to do, I steadfastly refrained.

Related terms

• global warming
• heart-warming
• warming pan
• warming up

Translations

References

• warming at OneLook Dictionary Search