Warp \Warp\ (w[add]rp), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Warped
(w[add]rpt); p. pr. & vb. n. Warping.] [OE. warpen; fr.
Icel. varpa to throw, cast, varp a casting, fr. verpa to
throw; akin to Dan. varpe to warp a ship, Sw. varpa, AS.
weorpan to cast, OS. werpan, OFries. werpa, D. & LG. werpen,
G. werfen, Goth. wa['i]rpan; cf. Skr. v[.r]j to twist.
[root]144. Cf. Wrap.]
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1. To throw; hence, to send forth, or throw out, as words; to
utter. [Obs.] --Piers Plowman.
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2. To turn or twist out of shape; esp., to twist or bend out
of a flat plane by contraction or otherwise.
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The planks looked warped. --Coleridge.
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Walter warped his mouth at this
To something so mock solemn, that I laughed.
--Tennyson.
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3. To turn aside from the true direction; to cause to bend or
incline; to pervert.
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This first avowed, nor folly warped my mind.
--Dryden.
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I have no private considerations to warp me in this
controversy. --Addison.
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We are divested of all those passions which cloud
the intellects, and warp the understandings, of men.
--Southey.
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4. To weave; to fabricate. [R. & Poetic.] --Nares.
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While doth he mischief warp. --Sternhold.
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5. (Naut.) To tow or move, as a vessel, with a line, or warp,
attached to a buoy, anchor, or other fixed object.
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6. To cast prematurely, as young; -- said of cattle, sheep,
etc. [Prov. Eng.]
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7. (Agric.) To let the tide or other water in upon (lowlying
land), for the purpose of fertilization, by a deposit of
warp, or slimy substance. [Prov. Eng.]
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8. (Rope Making) To run off the reel into hauls to be tarred,
as yarns.
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9. (Weaving) To arrange (yarns) on a warp beam.
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10. (Aeronautics) To twist the end surfaces of (an aerocurve
in an airfoil) in order to restore or maintain
equilibrium.
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Warped surface (Geom.), a surface generated by a straight
line moving so that no two of its consecutive positions
shall be in the same plane. --Davies & Peck.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Warp \Warp\, v. i.
1. To turn, twist, or be twisted out of shape; esp., to be
twisted or bent out of a flat plane; as, a board warps in
seasoning or shrinking.
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One of you will prove a shrunk panel, and, like
green timber, warp, warp. --Shak.
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They clamp one piece of wood to the end of another,
to keep it from casting, or warping. --Moxon.
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2. to turn or incline from a straight, true, or proper
course; to deviate; to swerve.
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There is our commission,
From which we would not have you warp. --Shak.
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3. To fly with a bending or waving motion; to turn and wave,
like a flock of birds or insects.
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A pitchy cloud
Of locusts, warping on the eastern wind. --Milton.
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4. To cast the young prematurely; to slink; -- said of
cattle, sheep, etc. [Prov. Eng.]
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5. (Weaving) To wind yarn off bobbins for forming the warp of
a web; to wind a warp on a warp beam.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Warp \Warp\, n. [AS. wearp; akin to Icel. varp a casting,
throwing, Sw. varp the draught of a net, Dan. varp a towline,
OHG. warf warp, G. werft. See Warp, v.]
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1. (Weaving) The threads which are extended lengthwise in the
loom, and crossed by the woof.
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2. (Naut.) A rope used in hauling or moving a vessel, usually
with one end attached to an anchor, a post, or other fixed
object; a towing line; a warping hawser.
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3. (Agric.) A slimy substance deposited on land by tides,
etc., by which a rich alluvial soil is formed. --Lyell.
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4. A premature casting of young; -- said of cattle, sheep,
etc. [Prov. Eng.]
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5. Four; esp., four herrings; a cast. See Cast, n., 17.
[Prov. Eng.] --Wright.
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6. [From Warp, v.] The state of being warped or twisted;
as, the warp of a board.
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Warp beam, the roller on which the warp is wound in a loom.
Warp fabric, fabric produced by warp knitting.
Warp frame, or Warp-net frame, a machine for making warp
lace having a number of needles and employing a thread for
each needle.
Warp knitting, a kind of knitting in which a number of
threads are interchained each with one or more contiguous
threads on either side; -- also called warp weaving.
Warp lace, or Warp net, lace having a warp crossed by
weft threads.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
warp
n 1: a twist or aberration; especially a perverse or abnormal way
of judging or acting [syn: deflection]
2: a shape distorted by twisting or folding [syn: buckle]
3: a moral or mental distortion [syn: warping]
4: yarn arranged lengthways on a loom and crossed by the woof
v 1: make false by mutilation or addition; as of a message or
story [syn: falsify, distort, garble]
2: bend out of shape, as under pressure or from heat; "The
highway buckled during the heatwave" [syn: heave, buckle]
WordNet (r) 2.0
370 Moby Thesaurus words for "warp":
a thing for, aberrancy, aberration, adulterate, affinity, alloy,
alter, ameliorate, anamorphism, anamorphosis, animus, aptitude,
aptness, asymmetry, bastardize, be changed, be converted into,
be renewed, belie, bend, bend to, bent, bias, birthmark, blackhead,
bleb, blemish, blister, board, boom, bottom out, branching off,
break, brutalize, buckle, bulla, burlesque, camouflage, canker,
caricature, cast, cast loose, change, character, cheapen, check,
checker, chop, chop and change, cicatrix, cicatrize,
circuitousness, clap on ratlines, clear hawse, coarsen, color,
come about, come around, come round, comedo, conatus, conduce,
conduciveness, confound, confuse, constitution, contaminate,
contort, contortion, contribute, corner, corrupt, crack, crater,
craze, crook, crookedness, crumple, curve, cut loose, debase,
debauch, declination, deface, defacement, defect, defile, deflect,
deflower, deform, deformation, deformity, degenerate, degrade,
delight, demoralize, denature, departure, deprave, desecrate,
despoil, deteriorate, detorsion, detour, devalue, deviance,
deviancy, deviate, deviation, deviousness, diathesis, diffract,
diffuse, digression, discursion, disfiguration, disfigure,
disfigurement, disguise, disperse, dispose, disposition,
disproportion, distort, distortion, divagation, divarication,
diverge, divergence, diversify, diversion, divert, dogleg, double,
dress up, drift, drifting, eagerness, eccentricity, embellish,
embroider, errantry, exaggerate, excursion, excursus, exorbitation,
falsify, fault, feeling for, filling, flaw, flop, freckle, fudge,
garble, gild, gloss, gloss over, gnarl, go, grain, hairpin, haul,
haul around, haul down, have a tendency, head, heave, heave apeak,
heave round, heave short, hemangioma, hickey, idiosyncrasy,
imbalance, improve, inclination, incline, indirection,
individualism, infect, irregularity, jaundice, jibe, kedge, keloid,
kidney, kink, knot, lay, lay aloft, lead, lean, leaning, lentigo,
liability, liking, log, look to, lopsidedness, lurch, make, makeup,
mar, mask, meliorate, mental set, mettle, milium, mind, mind-set,
miscite, miscolor, misquote, misreport, misrepresent, misshape,
misstate, misteach, misuse, mitigate, modulate, mold, mole, mutate,
nature, needle scar, nevus, obliquity, overdraw, overstate, parody,
penchant, pererration, pervert, pick, pimple, pit, pock, pockmark,
point, point to, poison, pollute, port-wine mark, port-wine stain,
predilection, predisposition, preference, prejudice,
prejudice against, prejudice the issue, prepossess, probability,
proclivity, proneness, propensity, prostitute, pull, pustule,
quirk, rambling, ratline down, ravage, ravish, readiness,
redound to, refract, revive, rift, scab, scar, scarify, scatter,
scratch, screw, sebaceous cyst, sensitivity to, serve, set,
set toward, sheer, shift, shifting, shifting course, shifting path,
shoot, show a tendency, skew, slant, slue, soft spot, spar down,
split, spring, stamp, strain, strawberry mark, straying, streak,
stream the log, stripe, sty, susceptibility, sweep, swerve,
swerving, swinging, tack, taint, take a turn, temper, temperament,
tend, tendency, titivate, torsion, tortuosity, torture, track,
traverse a yard, travesty, trend, trick out, tropism, turn,
turn aside, turn awry, turn into, turn of mind, turn the corner,
turning, twist, type, ulcerate, undergo a change, understate,
unlash, unsymmetry, variation, varnish, vary, veer, verge, verruca,
vesicle, violate, vitiate, vulgarize, wale, wandering, wart,
weakness, weal, weft, welt, wen, whitehead, whitewash, willingness,
wind, woof, work toward, worsen, wrench, wrest, wring, writhe, yaw,
zigzag
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
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