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warp

  [wawrp]
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–verb (used with object)
1. to bend or twist out of shape, esp. from a straight or flat form, as timbers or flooring.
2. to bend or turn from the natural or true direction or course.
3. to distort or cause to distort from the truth, fact, true meaning, etc.; bias; falsify: Prejudice warps the mind.
4. Aeronautics. to curve or bend (a wing or other airfoil) at the end or ends to promote equilibrium or to secure lateral control.
5. Nautical. to move (a vessel) into a desired place or position by hauling on a rope that has been fastened to something fixed, as a buoy or anchor.
6. Agriculture. to fertilize (land) by inundation with water that deposits alluvial matter.
–verb (used without object)
7. to become bent or twisted out of shape, esp. out of a straight or flat form: The wood has warped in drying.
8. to be or become biased; hold or change an opinion due to prejudice, external influence, or the like.
9. Nautical.
a. to warp a ship or boat into position.
b. (of a ship or boat) to move by being warped.
10. (of a stratum in the earth's crust) to bend slightly, to a degree that no fold or fault results.
–noun
11. a bend, twist, or variation from a straight or flat form in something, as in wood that has dried unevenly.
12. a mental twist, bias, or quirk, or a biased or twisted attitude or judgment.
13. the set of yarns placed lengthwise in the loom, crossed by and interlaced with the weft, and forming the lengthwise threads in a woven fabric.
14. time warp.
15. a situation, environment, etc., that seems characteristic of another era, esp. in being out of touch with contemporary life or attitudes, etc.
16. Also called spring, spring line. Nautical. a rope for warping or hauling a ship or boat along or into position.
17. alluvial matter deposited by water, esp. water let in to inundate low land so as to enrich it.
Origin:
bef. 900; (v.) ME werpen, OE weorpan to throw; c. G werfen, ON verpa, Goth wairpan; (n.) ME warpe, OE wearp; c. G Warf, ON varp

Related forms:
warpage, noun

Synonyms:
1. turn, contort, distort. 2. swerve, deviate.

Antonyms:
1, 7. straighten.
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warp   (wôrp)   
v.   warped, warp·ing, warps

v.   tr.

  1. To turn or twist (wood, for example) out of shape.

  2. To turn from a correct or proper course; deflect.

  3. To affect unfavorably, unfairly, or wrongly; bias. See Synonyms at bias.

  4. To arrange (strands of yarn or thread) so that they run lengthwise in weaving.

  5. Nautical To move (a vessel) by hauling on a line that is fastened to or around a piling, anchor, or pier.

v.   intr.

  1. To become bent or twisted out of shape: The wooden frame warped in the humidity.

  2. To turn aside from a true, correct, or natural course; go astray. See Synonyms at distort.

  3. Nautical To move a vessel by hauling on a line that is fastened to or around a piling, anchor, or pier.

n.  

  1. The state of being twisted or bent out of shape.

  2. A distortion or twist, especially in a piece of wood.

  3. A mental or moral twist, aberration, or deviation.

  4. The threads that run lengthwise in a woven fabric, crossed at right angles to the woof.

  5. Warp and woof.

  6. Nautical A towline used in warping a vessel.


[Middle English werpen, from Old English weorpan, to throw away; see wer-2 in Indo-European roots.]
warp'er n.
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Word Origin & History

warp  (v.)
"to bend, twist, distort," O.E. weorpan "to throw, throw away, hit with a missile," from P.Gmc. *werpanan "to fling by turning the arm" (cf. O.S. werpan, O.N. verpa "to throw," Swed. värpa "to lay eggs," O.Fris. werpa, M.L.G., Du. werpen, Ger. werfen, Goth. wairpan "to throw"), from PIE *werb- "to turn, bend" (cf. L. verber "whip, rod;" Gk. rhabdos "rod," rhombos "magic wheel"), from base *wer- "to turn, bend" (see versus). Connection between "turning" and "throwing" is perhaps in the notion of rotating the arm in the act of throwing; cf. Serbo-Cr. obratiti, O.C.S. vreshti "to throw." The meaning "twist out of shape" is first recorded c.1400; intransitive sense is from 1440.

warp  (n.)
"threads running lengthwise in a fabric," O.E. wearp-, from P.Gmc. *warpo- (cf. M.L.G. warp, O.H.G. warf "warp," O.N. varp "cast of a net"), from root *werp- (see warp (v.)). The warp of fabric is that across which the woof is "thrown." Applied in 20c. astrophysics to the "fabric" of space-time, popularized in noun phrase warp speed by 1960s TV series "Star Trek."
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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Computing Dictionary

Warp
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The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing, © 1993-2007 Denis Howe
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Idioms & Phrases

warp

In addition to the idiom beginning with warp, also see time warp.

The American Heritage® Dictionary of Idioms by Christine Ammer.
Copyright © 1997. Published by Houghton Mifflin.
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