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I'm not perfect and I know it. I've done all sorts of things that are frowned upon these days - big-game hunting, fishing. I still enjoy fishing but I don't kill warm-blooded animals any more - I make an exception with birds sometimes.
Wilbur Smith

Meaning of "warm-blooded" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF WARM-BLOODED

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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF WARM-BLOODED

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Warm-Blooded is an adjective.
The adjective is the word that accompanies the noun to determine or qualify it.

WHAT DOES WARM-BLOODED MEAN IN ENGLISH?

warm-blooded

Warm-blooded

The term warm-blooded is a colloquial term to describe animal species that have a relatively higher blood temperature, and maintain thermal homeostasis primarily through internal metabolic processes. These are characteristics of mammals and birds. Both the terms "warm-blooded" and "cold-blooded" have fallen out of favour with scientists because of the vagueness of the terms and an increased understanding of the field. Body temperature types are not discrete categories. Each term may be replaced with one or more variants. Body temperature maintenance incorporates a wide range of different techniques that result in a body temperature continuum.

Definition of warm-blooded in the English dictionary

The definition of warm-blooded in the dictionary is ardent, impetuous, or passionate. Other definition of warm-blooded is having a constant body temperature, usually higher than the temperature of the surroundings Technical name: homoiothermic.

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE WARM-BLOODED

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warman
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WORDS THAT END LIKE WARM-BLOODED

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highblooded
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hot-blooded
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red-blooded
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unwooded
well-wooded
wooded

Synonyms and antonyms of warm-blooded in the English dictionary of synonyms

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SYNONYMS OF «WARM-BLOODED»

The following words have a similar or identical meaning as «warm-blooded» and belong to the same grammatical category.
synonyms of warm-blooded

Translation of «warm-blooded» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF WARM-BLOODED

Find out the translation of warm-blooded to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of warm-blooded from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «warm-blooded» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

热血
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

de sangre caliente
570 millions of speakers

English

warm-blooded
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

गर्म खून वाले
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

من ذوات الدم الحار
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

теплокровными
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

de sangue quente
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

উষ্ণশোণিত
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

à sang chaud
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Berdarah panas
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

warmblütig
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

温血の
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

온혈
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Anget
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

tánh nóng nảy
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

வெப்பக்குருதி
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

उबदार रक्ताचा
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

sıcakkanlı
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

a sangue caldo
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

stałocieplne
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

теплокровними
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

cu sânge cald
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

θερμόαιμα
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

warmbloedige
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

varmblodigt
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

varmblodige
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of warm-blooded

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «WARM-BLOODED»

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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «WARM-BLOODED» OVER TIME

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about warm-blooded

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QUOTES WITH «WARM-BLOODED»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word warm-blooded.
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Wilbur Smith
I'm not perfect and I know it. I've done all sorts of things that are frowned upon these days - big-game hunting, fishing. I still enjoy fishing but I don't kill warm-blooded animals any more - I make an exception with birds sometimes.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «WARM-BLOODED»

Discover the use of warm-blooded in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to warm-blooded and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Warm-Blooded Or Cold-Blooded?
Provides information on the behavior, habitats, and characteristics of cold-blooded and warm-blooded animals.
Bobbie Kalman, 2008
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Warm-Blooded Animals
A reference book dealing with birds and specific mammal groups such as rodents, carnivores, and ungulates.
‎1987
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Proceedings of the Sixteenth Annual Conference of the ...
The warm-blooded theory passage began with the initial information describing the differences between warm-blooded and cold-blooded animals and then continued by giving a variety of arguments and data supporting the position that ...
Ashwin Ram, Kurt Eiselt, 1994
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Sea mammals: the warm-blooded ocean explorers
Presents information about the four groups of sea mammals, which include earless and eared whales, walruses, sea otters, sea cows, baleen whales, toothed whales, dolphins, and porpoises.
Jean H. Sibbald, 1988
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The Everything Kids' Dinosaurs Book: Stomp, Crash, And ...
Warm-Blooded Versus Gold-Blooded °" J' O \ 9 ° \\ At one time, all reptiles, including the dinosaurs, Q \ \ were thought to be cold-blooded, which meant that their bodies were the same temperature as their surroundings. That is why you see ...
Kathi Wagner, Sheryl Racine, 2005
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Animal Science
What are warm-blooded and cold-blooded animals? Birds and mammals are warm-blooded animals. They are called endotherms. Warm-blooded animals keep their body temperature about the same, whatever the weather outside. Their body ...
Anita Ganeri, 1992
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The Living Age ...
Precisely as too intense a degree of heat diminishes the respiration of the frog, by enfeebling its vital activity, does too intense a degree of cold diminish the respiration of a warm-blooded animnl by enfeebling its vital activity. There are certain ...
Eliakim Littell, Robert S. Littell, 1858
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Tracts on the Natural History of Animals and Vegetables
Cold blooded animals are not only more tenacious of life, but they have incomparably less necessity to respire than the warm blooded have. How much longer will a frog, a viper, or a toad, survive in vacuo than a bird ? Not being under the ...
Lazzaro Spallanzani, Charles Bonnet, 1803
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Historical Dictionary of Bertrand Russell's Philosophy
Thus the molecular proposition 'Trigger is a creature with a heart and is warm blooded' emerges from conjoining two atomic ones: 'Trigger is a creature with a heart' and 'Trigger is warm blooded.' Wittgenstein's thesis allows a proposition to  ...
Rosalind Carey, John Ongley, 2009
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A System of Logic, Ratiocinative and Inductive Being a ...
When we say, that all quadrupeds are warm-blooded, we assert, not only that the attributes connoted by “ quadruped” and those connoted by “ warmblooded” sometimes coexist, but that the former never exist without the latter: now the ...
‎1851

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «WARM-BLOODED»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term warm-blooded is used in the context of the following news items.
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Scientists Can't Agree If Dinosaurs Were Warm-Blooded or Cold …
He contends that the original authors didn't analyze the data correctly, and that dinosaurs were really warm-blooded, just like mammals. Advertisement. «Gizmodo, Jun 15»
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Were Dinosaurs Warm-Blooded? New Study Fuels Debate
But new research on their growth rates suggests the prehistoric beasts grew just as fast as mammals, indicating they were warm-blooded creatures. However ... «Live Science, Jun 15»
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Were Dinosaurs Warm-Blooded?
The word dinosaur may mean “terrible lizard” in Greek, but these creatures may have had a lot more in common with warm-blooded animals than their ... «Discover Magazine, Jun 15»
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Warm-blooded fish has an edge in chilly water; fruit flies appear to …
Warm-blooded fish has an edge in chilly water. The moonfish, or opah, is the first fish shown to be fully warm-blooded, researchers report in the journal Science. «Buffalo News, May 15»
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How Did I Miss That? Warm-Blooded Fish; Apple Watch Dog
Scientific American reported on the discovery of the first endotherm (“warm blooded”) fish, Lampris guttatus aka opah aka moonfish. My cousin Ray Sixkiller is as ... «Indian Country Today Media Network, May 15»
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Dinosaurs May Have Been Warm-Blooded
Dinosaurs were warm-blooded animals that had many traits in common with mammals, finds controversial new research. The study, published in the journal ... «Discovery News, May 15»
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the world's first warm-blooded fish
One of the first things children learn in biology lessons is that mammals and birds are warm-blooded while reptiles, amphibians and fish are cold-blooded. «Financial Times, May 15»
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Warm-Blooded Fish? Wow! Here Are Some Of The Weirdest And …
The warm-blooded fish known as opah defies conventional knowledge about fishes but it isn't the only weird creature found underwater. Here are some other ... «Tech Times, May 15»
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First in fish: 'Fully warm-blooded' moonfish prowls the deep seas
Researchers say the opah is the first fish known to be fully warm-blooded, circulating heated blood throughout its body. NOAA/Reuters /Landov. Over decades of ... «89.3 KPCC, May 15»
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Warm-blooded opah fish flaps its fins – video
Footage from Science magazine, released on Thursday, shows the first warm-blooded fish to be discovered. The opah, found off the US, Australia and other ... «The Guardian, May 15»

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