How to pronounce "warmest"

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Transcriber: Translate TED Reviewer: Rhonda Jacobs

Why is 1.5 degrees such a big deal?

Because to warm our entire planet up by 1.5 degrees Celsius

requires a lot of heat.

All this extra heat melts glaciers, which raise sea levels.

If the ice sheets of Antarctica and Greenland melt completely,

millions of people's homes will be under water.

The extra heat also intensifies weather,

making wet places wetter, dry places drier

and increasing the ferocity of storms.

That 1.5-degree increase also won't be distributed evenly.

The coldest nights in the Arctic might get 10 degrees warmer.

The warmest days in Mumbai might get five degrees hotter.

Over the past 10,000 years, we've been lucky.

Earth's climate was stable and our civilizations flourished.

But as our climate gets more unstable, so will our economies and our societies.

We'll all suffer,

and the vulnerable will be hit hardest,

unless we act now.

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Phonetic Breakdown of "warmest"

Learn how to break down "warmest" into its phonetic components. Understanding syllables and phonetics helps with pronunciation, spelling, and language learning.

IPA Phonetic Pronunciation:

W AO1 R M AH0 S T

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Definition of "warmest"

Adjective

Having a temperature slightly higher than usual, but still pleasant; mildly hot.

Example: "The tea is still warm."
Caring and friendly, of relations to another person.

Example: "We have a warm friendship."
Having a color in the red-orange-yellow part of the visible electromagnetic spectrum.
Close, often used in the context of a game in which "warm" and "cold" are used to indicate nearness to the goal.
Fresh, of a scent; still able to be traced.
Communicating a sense of comfort, ease, or pleasantness

Example: "a warm piano sound"
Ardent, zealous.

Example: "a warm debate, with strong words exchanged"
Well off as to property, or in good circumstances; rich.
Requiring arduous effort.

Verb

To make or keep warm.
To become warm, to heat up.

Example: "My socks are warming by the fire."
To favour increasingly.

Example: "He is warming to the idea."
To become ardent or animated.

Example: "The speaker warms as he proceeds."
To make engaged or earnest; to interest; to engage; to excite ardor or zeal in; to enliven.
To beat or spank.