verb (used with object)
1.
to bend or twist out of shape, especially 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.
verb (used without object)
7.
to become bent or twisted out of shape, especially 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.
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Warp
is always a great word to know.
So is amplitude. Does it mean:
| maximum deviation of an alternating current from its average value |
| contends extension of a spring is proportional with the load applied to it |
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.
14.
15.
a situation, environment, etc., that seems characteristic of another era, especially in being out of touch with contemporary life or attitudes, etc.
Origin:
before 900; (v.) Middle English werpen, Old English weorpan to throw; cognate with German werfen, Old Norse verpa, Gothic wairpan; (noun) Middle English warpe, Old English wearp; cognate with German Warf, Old Norse varp
before 900; (v.) Middle English werpen, Old English weorpan to throw; cognate with German werfen, Old Norse verpa, Gothic wairpan; (noun) Middle English warpe, Old English wearp; cognate with German Warf, Old Norse varp
Related forms
warp·age, noun
un·warp·ing, adjective
Synonyms
1. turn, contort, distort. 2. swerve, deviate.
1. turn, contort, distort. 2. swerve, deviate.
Antonyms
1, 7. straighten.
1, 7. straighten.
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warp (wɔːp) ![[Click for IPA pronunciation guide]](http://static.sfdict.com/dictstatic/g/d/dictionary_questionbutton_default.gif) | |
| —vb | |
| 1. | to twist or cause to twist out of shape, as from heat, damp, etc |
| 2. | to turn or cause to turn from a true, correct, or proper course |
| 3. | to pervert or be perverted |
| 4. | (tr) to prepare (yarn) as a warp |
| 5. | nautical to move (a vessel) by hauling on a rope fixed to a stationary object ashore or (of a vessel) to be moved thus |
| 6. | (tr) (formerly) to curve or twist (an aircraft wing) in order to assist control in flight |
| 7. | (tr) to flood (land) with water from which alluvial matter is deposited |
| —n | |
| 8. | the state or condition of being twisted out of shape |
| 9. | a twist, distortion, or bias |
| 10. | a mental or moral deviation |
| 11. | the yarns arranged lengthways on a loom, forming the threads through which the weft yarns are woven |
| 12. | the heavy threads used to reinforce the rubber in the casing of a pneumatic tyre |
| 13. | nautical a rope used for warping a vessel |
| 14. | alluvial sediment deposited by water |
| [Old English wearp a throw; related to Old High German warf, Old Norse varp throw of a dragging net, Old English weorpan to throw] | |
| 'warpage | |
| —n | |
| warped | |
| —adj | |
| 'warper | |
| —n | |
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Word Origin & History
warp
"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
"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."
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The American Heritage® Dictionary of Idioms by Christine Ammer.
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Example sentences
But it is stuck in a time warp behind protectionist barriers, with little foreign investment to drag it into the present.
But the current war can make tribes seem as if they belong in a time warp.
Transplants from the corporate world might have concluded they were in a time warp.
The venerable warp drive is science fiction no longer.
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