Meaning of warming center | Babel Free

Definitions

1. An artificially warmed emergency shelter that operates during dangerously cold weather to provide care and relief for people affected by the low temperature.
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2. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see warming, center.

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Examples

“It is known that the warming center formed in the Atlantic and moved northwestward across the Hudson Bay to a position northeast of Alaska.”

“On such days the fireplace was a cheerful, warming center of activity and Alice would often spread⟳ a quilt on the floor in front of it where boy and dog could play⟳.”

“Part of the reason⟳ Thoreau lights on fireplaces, chimneys, and hearths as indexical locations has to do with all that they mean⟳ in terms of warming centers.”

“We can see⟳ from the reanalysis that two anomalous warming centers in the tropical eastern Pacific straddle the equator and extend⟳ eastward.”

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