Nice vs. Warm — What's the Difference?

Nice ( NEESS, French: [nis]; Nissard Occitan: Niça, classical norm, or Nissa, nonstandard, pronounced [ˈnisa]; Italian: Nizza [ˈnittsa]; Ancient Greek: Νίκαια; Latin: Nicaea) is the seventh most populous urban area in France and the capital of the Alpes-Maritimes department. The metropolitan area of Nice extends beyond the administrative city limits, with a population of nearly 1 million on an area of 744 km2 (287 sq mi).

Of or at a fairly or comfortably high temperature

Giving pleasure or satisfaction; pleasant or attractive

Having or showing enthusiasm, affection, or kindness

(especially of a difference) slight or subtle

(of a colour) containing red, yellow, or orange tones

Fastidious; scrupulous.

(of a scent or trail) fresh; strong.

A resort city on the French Riviera, near the border with Italy; population 348,721 (2007).

Make or become warm

Pleasing and agreeable in nature

A warm place or area

Having a pleasant or attractive appearance

Short for British warm

Exhibiting courtesy and politeness

Somewhat hotter than temperate; having or producing a comfortable and agreeable degree of heat; moderately hot

Of good character and reputation; respectable.

Having the natural heat of living beings

Overdelicate or fastidious; fussy.

Preserving or imparting heat

Showing or requiring great precision or sensitive discernment; subtle

Having or causing a sensation of unusually high body heat, as from exercise or hard work; overheated.

Done with delicacy and skill

Marked by enthusiasm; ardent

Used as an intensive with and

Characterized by liveliness, excitement, or disagreement; heated

Wanton; profligate

Marked by or revealing friendliness or sincerity; cordial

Affectedly modest; coy

Loving; passionate

Pleasant, satisfactory.

Excitable, impetuous, or quick to be aroused

Of a person: friendly, attractive.

Predominantly red or yellow in tone

Respectable; virtuous.

Recently made; fresh

Shows that the given adjective is desirable, or acts as a mild intensifier; pleasantly, quite.

Close to discovering, guessing, or finding something, as in certain games.

Showing refinement or delicacy, proper, seemly

(Informal) Uncomfortable because of danger or annoyance

(obsolete) Silly, ignorant; foolish.

To raise slightly in temperature; make warm

Particular in one's conduct; scrupulous, painstaking; choosy.

To make zealous or ardent; enliven.

(dated) Having particular tastes; fussy, fastidious.

To fill with pleasant emotions

(obsolete) Particular as regards rules or qualities; strict.

To become warm

Showing or requiring great precision or sensitive discernment; subtle.

To become ardent, enthusiastic, or animated

(obsolete) Easily injured; delicate; dainty.

To become kindly disposed or friendly

(obsolete) Doubtful, as to the outcome; risky.

A warming or heating.

(colloquial) Nicely.

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

Used to signify a job well done.

Caring and friendly, of relations to another person.

Used to signify approval.

Having a color in the red-orange-yellow part of the visible electromagnetic spectrum.

Niceness.

Close, often used in the context of a game in which "warm" and "cold" are used to indicate nearness to the goal.

To run a process with a specified (usually lower) priority.

Fresh, of a scent; still able to be traced.

Foolish; silly; simple; ignorant; also, weak; effeminate.

(figurative) Communicating a sense of comfort, ease, or pleasantness

Of trifling moment; unimportant; trivial.

(archaic) Ardent, zealous.

Overscrupulous or exacting; hard to please or satisfy; fastidious in small matters.

Well off as to property, or in good circumstances; prosperous.

Delicate; refined; dainty; pure.

(archaic) Requiring arduous effort.

Apprehending slight differences or delicate distinctions; distinguishing accurately or minutely; carefully discriminating; as, a nice taste or judgment.

(transitive) To make or keep warm.

Done or made with careful labor; suited to excite admiration on account of exactness; evidencing great skill; exact; fine; finished; as, nice proportions, nice workmanship, a nice application; exactly or fastidiously discriminated; requiring close discrimination; as, a nice point of law, a nice distinction in philosophy.

(intransitive) To become warm, to heat up.

Pleasing; agreeable; gratifying; delightful; good; as, a nice party; a nice excursion; a nice day; a nice sauce, etc.

Sometimes in the form warm up To favour increasingly.

Pleasant; kind; as, a nice person.

(intransitive) To become ardent or animated.

Well-mannered; well-behaved; as, nice children.

(transitive) To make engaged or earnest; to interest; to engage; to excite ardor or zeal in; to enliven.

A city in southeastern France on the Mediterranean; the leading resort on the French Riviera

To beat or spank.

Pleasant or pleasing or agreeable in nature or appearance;

To prepopulate (a cache) so that its contents are ready for other users.

Socially or conventionally correct; refined or virtuous;

(colloquial) The act of warming, or the state of being warmed; a heating.

Done with delicacy and skill;

Having heat in a moderate degree; not cold as, warm milk.

Excessively fastidious and easily disgusted;

Having a sensation of heat, esp. of gentle heat; glowing.

Noting distinctions with nicety;

Subject to heat; having prevalence of heat, or little or no cold weather; as, the warm climate of Egypt.

Exhibiting courtesy and politeness;

Fig.: Not cool, indifferent, lukewarm, or the like, in spirit or temper; zealous; ardent; fervent; excited; sprightly; irritable; excitable.

Violent; vehement; furious; excited; passionate; as, a warm contest; a warm debate.

Being well off as to property, or in good circumstances; forehanded; rich.

In children's games, being near the object sought for; hence, being close to the discovery of some person, thing, or fact concealed.

Having yellow or red for a basis, or in their composition; - said of colors, and opposed to cold which is of blue and its compounds.

To communicate a moderate degree of heat to; to render warm; to supply or furnish heat to; as, a stove warms an apartment.

To make engaged or earnest; to interest; to engage; to excite ardor or zeal; to enliven.

To become warm, or moderately heated; as, the earth soon warms in a clear day summer.

To become ardent or animated; as, the speake warms as he proceeds.

The act of warming, or the state of being warmed; a warming; a heating.

Get warm or warmer;

Make warm or warmer;

Having or producing a comfortable and agreeable degree of heat or imparting or maintaining heat;

Psychologically warm; friendly and responsive;

(color) inducing the impression of warmth; used especially of reds and oranges and yellows;

Having or displaying warmth or affection;

Freshly made or left;

Easily aroused or excited;

Characterized by strong enthusiasm;

Characterized by liveliness or excitement or disagreement;

Uncomfortable because of possible danger or trouble;

Of a seeker; near to the object sought;

In a warm manner;