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warp

UK /ˈwɔːp/US /ˈwoɹp/

verb 17
noun 13
forms 6

verb17

To twist or become twisted, physically or mentally.
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To twist or turn (something) out of shape; to deform.
- The moisture warped the board badly.
- The trauma had permanently warped her mind.
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To become twisted out of shape; to deform.
- Over the years the post had warped and checked and needed to be replaced.
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To deflect or turn (something) away from a true, proper or moral course; to pervert; to bias.
- Funny how the thought of huge profits can warp your judgment.
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To go astray or be deflected from a true, proper or moral course; to deviate.
- His perspective had warped after his extreme experiences.
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To travel or transport across a medium without passing through it normally, as by using a teleporter or time warp.
- Then we warp a ball of atmosphere right out of the sky into the domes, and some fruit trees to go with them, and we also abduct some livestock. — 2004
To move.
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To move a vessel by hauling on a line or cable that is fastened to an anchor or pier; (especially) to move a sailing ship through a restricted place such as a harbour.
- We had a dreary morning's work before us, for there was no sign of any wind, and the boats had to be got out and manned, and the ship warped three or four miles around the corner of the island.[…] — 1881
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To move or be moved by this method.
- Having all our boats out with anchors and warps in them, which were presently run out, the ship warped into safety, where we dropt anchor for the night. — 1777
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To arrange strands of thread lengthwise on a loom.
- Warp the loom using your preferred method, following the draft in Figure 2 […] — 2026
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To fertilize (low-lying land) by letting the tide, a river, or other water in upon it to deposit silt and alluvial matter.
- Large fields are surrounded by embankments, dykes are cut, and sluice hates placed; when warping is in progress the gates all along the dykes to the tidal river, miles away, are opened. — 1901
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(old-fashioned, rare) To fly with a bending or waving motion, like a flock of birds or insects.
- A pitchy cloud / Of locusts, warping on the eastern wind. — 1667
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(no longer used) To run (yarn) off the reel into hauls to be tarred.
- The usual method is to warp the yarn, either in whole or half hauls, […] — 1830
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(figurative, no longer used) To plot; to fabricate or weave (a plot or scheme).
- whiles lie doth he mischief warp — 1628
(no longer used, rare) To change or fix (make fixed, for example by freezing).
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(dialect, no longer used) To bring forth (young) prematurely.
- Some cows are perhaps by constitutional weakness, or bodily imperfection, more liable to warp than others; […] — 1807
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(no longer used, rare) To throw.
- They warped all his bowels about on the tide. — 1822

noun13

The state, quality, or condition of being twisted, physically or mentally.
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The state, quality, or condition of being physically bent or twisted out of shape.
- All frames found to suffer from warp should be broken up straight away before the printer is tempted during a rush to make use of them. — 1920
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The state, quality, or condition of being deviant from what is right or proper morally or mentally.
- He believed that we were suffering from warp or bias, that a blind spot contorted our mental vision. — 1933
A distortion.
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A distortion or twist, such as in a piece of wood (also used figuratively).
- Wills, too, was struck down by a pole but was saved because a warp in the wood bent upwards, creating a pocket for his body. — 1998
A mental or moral distortion, deviation, or aberration.
A theoretical construct that permits travel across a medium without passing through it normally, such as a teleporter, faster-than-light travel or time warp.
A situation or place which is or seems to be from another era; a time warp.
The threads that run lengthwise in a woven fabric; crossed by the woof or weft.
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(figurative) The foundation, the basis, the undergirding.
- This stretch is typical of the Piedmont section, where the warp of the economic structure is agriculture and the woof industry. — 2013
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A line or cable or rode as is used in warping (mooring or hauling) a ship, and sometimes for other purposes such as deploying a seine or creating drag.
- We finish’d the Raft that Night, and in the Morning sent Mr. Prat, our Chief Mate, and four Men in the Boat with a long Rope for a Warp, to fasten on the Land. — 1743
The sediment which subsides from turbid water; the alluvial deposit of muddy water artificially introduced into low lands in order to enrich or fertilise them.
(dialect, no longer used) A throw or cast, as of fish (in which case it is used as a unit of measure: about four fish, though sometimes three or even two), oysters, etc.

forms

warped · warpt · warping · warpeth · warps · warpest

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