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Warm-Up Exercise
A warm-up exercise is physical activity done before exercise or competition to prepare the body, through temperature-related, metabolic, and nervous-system effects, improving performance in most studies.
Warmadewa dynasty
The Warmadewa dynasty was a royal lineage that ruled Bali from the early tenth century; its founder Sri Kesari Warmadewa is named on the Blanjong pillar of 913.
Warmate
The Warmate is a Polish loitering munition, a kamikaze drone produced by WB Electronics that carries an explosive payload to targets up to 20 km away.
Warmelo
Warmelo, also Het Warmelo or Kasteel Warmelo, is a historic moated manor in Diepenheim, Overijssel, known for its gardens; Princess Armgard lived there from 1952 to 1971.
Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship
Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship (województwo warmińsko-mazurskie), Polish province created 1999, capital Olsztyn, NUTS PL62, bordering Kaliningrad Oblast; 24,173 km², about 1.34 million people, lake-and-forest region with agricultural and tourist economy.
Warming center
A warming center, also called a warm bank, is a short-term heated facility opened during extreme cold, primarily to protect homeless people from cold-related illness and death.
Warming stripes
Warming stripes, also called climate stripes, are graphics where each colored bar shows one year's temperature, blue for cooler and red for warmer, created in 2018.
Warn-on-Forecast
Warn-on-Forecast is a NOAA research program, begun at the National Severe Storms Laboratory in 2009, that forecasts tornadoes, hail, wind, and flash flooding from individual thunderstorms up to 6 hours ahead.
Warner Bros World Abu Dhabi
Warner Bros World Abu Dhabi is a fully indoor theme park on Yas Island in Abu Dhabi, opened in 2018 with 29 rides across six lands, developed by Miral.
Warner Bros.
Warner Bros., the Hollywood studio founded by Harry, Albert, Sam, and Jack Warner and incorporated April 4, 1923, pioneered Vitaphone talking pictures; in 2026 Paramount Skydance closed an $81 billion takeover and renamed the combined company Skydance.
Warner Bros. Animation
Warner Bros. Animation, also called WB Animation, is Warner Bros.' television animation studio, distinct from Warner Bros. Pictures Animation; its Looney Tunes legacy began in 1930, and both units now sit under Skydance after the 2026 merger.
Warner Bros. Cartoons
Warner Bros. Cartoons: American animation studio producing Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies shorts for Warner Bros. Pictures, 1930–1969; founded by Leon Schlesinger, sold to Warner Bros. in 1944 for $700,000, home of Tex Avery, Chuck Jones, Friz Freleng, Bugs Bunny, and Daffy Duck.
Warner Bros. Clockwork
Warner Bros. Clockwork is Warner Bros. Pictures' specialty film label, established 2026 and led by former NEON executive Christian Parkes. It acquires and develops indie films and restores classics theatrically; slate includes Sean Baker's Ti Amo! and Park Chan-wook's The Brigands of Rattlecreek; now operates independently under Skydance.
Warner Bros. Discovery
Warner Bros. Discovery was an American media and entertainment company formed in 2022 from WarnerMedia and Discovery, spanning Warner Bros. studios, HBO, CNN, and cable networks.
Warner Bros. Games
Warner Bros. Games is the video game publishing and development division of Warner Bros. Discovery, best known for Hogwarts Legacy, the top-selling game of 2023, and the Mortal Kombat franchise.
Warner Bros. Movie World
Warner Bros. Movie World, also called Movie World, is a Village Roadshow movie-themed theme park at Oxenford on the Gold Coast, Australia, opened June 1991, home of the DC Rivals HyperCoaster and a Wizard of Oz precinct.
Warner Bros. Museum
The Warner Bros. Museum, opened 1996 in Burbank, is a 7,000-square-foot exhibit space on the VIP Studio Tour, distinct from the WB Archives and the London Harry Potter tour, displaying costumes, props, Batmobiles, and Oscars.
Warner Bros. Pictures
Warner Bros. Pictures is the Hollywood film studio founded by the four Warner brothers, from 1903 nickelodeons and The Jazz Singer to its 2026 position under Paramount Skydance, with Casablanca, Harry Potter, and Dune among its library and slate.
Warner Bros. Studio Tour London – The Making of Harry Potter
Warner Bros. Studio Tour London – The Making of Harry Potter is a permanent behind-the-scenes attraction at Warner Bros. Studios Leavesden, near Watford, opened 31 March 2012, displaying original sets, props, and costumes from all eight Harry Potter films.
Warner Bros. Studio Tour Tokyo – The Making of Harry Potter
Warner Bros. Studio Tour Tokyo – The Making of Harry Potter (ワーナー ブラザース スタジオツアー東京) is a walk-through Harry Potter film-set attraction in Nerima, Tokyo, opened June 16, 2023 on the former Toshimaen site; the largest indoor Harry Potter attraction and first Warner Bros. Studio Tour in Asia, with a Tokyo-exclusive Ministry of Magic set.
Warner Bros. Studios Leavesden
Warner Bros. Studios Leavesden is a film and television studio complex in Leavesden, Hertfordshire, England, converted from a wartime aircraft factory and home to the Harry Potter films.
Warner Bros.-Seven Arts
Warner Bros.-Seven Arts, also known as Warner Seven Arts, was a film studio that operated from 1967 to 1969. It was the parent company for Warner Music Group.
Warner C Greene
Warner C Greene is an American virologist and physician-scientist at the Gladstone Institutes and UCSF known for working out how HIV infection kills CD4 T cells.
Warner Craig Greene
Warner Craig Greene, known as Warner C. Greene, is an American virologist at the Gladstone Institutes in San Francisco known for his research on HIV and AIDS.
Warner Leisure Hotels
Warner Leisure Hotels, trading as Warner Hotels, is a British adults-only hotel chain with 16 countryside and coastal properties across England and Wales, owned by Bourne Leisure.
Warner Music Group
Warner Music Group (WMG), also known historically as WEA (Warner-Elektra-Atlantic), is one of the big three music companies, operating Atlantic, Warner Records, Elektra, Parlophone, and Warner Chappell publishing; NASDAQ-listed since June 2020.
Warner Music Indonesia
Warner Music Indonesia is the Indonesian branch of Warner Music Group, operating under its own name since 1996 and signing artists from Krisdayanti to The Lantis.
Warner Music México
Warner Music México is the Mexican subsidiary of Warner Music Group, based in Mexico City, with a regional Mexican roster including Codiciado, El Komander, and DannyLux.
Warner Music Russia
Warner Music Russia was the Moscow-based Russian branch of Warner Music Group, established in 2013 through the acquisition of Gala Records, with operations suspended in 2022 after the invasion of Ukraine.
Warner Oland
Warner Oland (Johan Verner Ölund, 1879–1938), Swedish-American actor who emigrated in 1892, played the cantor in The Jazz Singer and starred as Charlie Chan in sixteen Fox films from 1931, Hollywood's best-known yellowface casting.