warm up

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• verb transitive To make an audience enthusiastic or animated before a show
• verb transitive To reach a normal operating temperature (of a car for example)
• verb transitive To reheat food
• verb intransitive To become warmer
• verb intransitive To prepare for executing an already-learned activity by a limited amount of additional practice.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

• verb cause to do preliminary exercises so as to stretch the muscles
• verb get warm or warmer
• verb become more friendly or open
• verb run until the normal working temperature is reached
• verb make one's body limber or suppler by stretching, as if to prepare for strenuous physical activity