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beat, bend, bias, buckle, bulge, contort, damage, debase, deflect, deform, distort, fasten

Warp

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warp

[wawrp] Pronunciation Key

–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.

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) Pronunciation Key
v.   warped, warp·ing, warps

v.   tr.

To turn or twist (wood, for example) out of shape.
To turn from a correct or proper course; deflect.
To affect unfavorably, unfairly, or wrongly; bias. See Synonyms at bias.
To arrange (strands of yarn or thread) so that they run lengthwise in weaving.
Nautical To move (a vessel) by hauling on a line that is fastened to or around a piling, anchor, or pier.

v. intr.

To become bent or twisted out of shape: The wooden frame warped in the humidity.
To turn aside from a true, correct, or natural course; go astray. See Synonyms at distort.
Nautical To move a vessel by hauling on a line that is fastened to or around a piling, anchor, or pier.

The state of being twisted or bent out of shape.
A distortion or twist, especially in a piece of wood.
A mental or moral twist, aberration, or deviation.
The threads that run lengthwise in a woven fabric, crossed at right angles to the woof.
Warp and woof.
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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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.

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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."

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warp
noun
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
3.	a moral or mental distortion
4.	yarn arranged lengthways on a loom and crossed by the woof
verb
1.	make false by mutilation or addition; as of a message or story [syn: falsify]
2.	bend out of shape, as under pressure or from heat; "The highway buckled during the heat wave" [syn: heave]

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warp

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

The American Heritage® Dictionary of Idioms by Christine Ammer.
Copyright © 1997 by The Christine Ammer 1992 Trust. Published by Houghton Mifflin Company.

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Warp

Mold"warp\, Mouldwarp \Mould"warp\, n. [OE. moldwerp: AS. molde soil + weorpan to throw up; cf. OD. molworp, G. maulwurf, Icel. moldvarpa, Dan. muldvarp. See Mold soil, Warp, and cf. Mole the animal.] (Zo["o]l.) See Mole the animal. --Spenser.

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Warp

Warp\, v. t. (A["e]ronautics) To twist the end surfaces of (an a["e]rocurve in an a["e]roplane) in order to restore or maintain equilibrium.

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Warp\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Warped; 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. vrj to twist. ????. Cf. Wrap.]

1. To throw; hence, to send forth, or throw out, as words; to utter. [Obs.] --Piers Plowman.

2. To turn or twist out of shape; esp., to twist or bend out of a flat plane by contraction or otherwise.

The planks looked warped. --Coleridge.

Walter warped his mouth at this To something so mock solemn, that I laughed. --Tennyson.

3. To turn aside from the true direction; to cause to bend or incline; to pervert.

This first avowed, nor folly warped my mind. --Dryden.

I have no private considerations to warp me in this controversy. --Addison.

We are divested of all those passions which cloud the intellects, and warp the understandings, of men. --Southey.

4. To weave; to fabricate. [R. & Poetic.] --Nares.

While doth he mischief warp. --Sternhold.

5. (Naut.) To tow or move, as a vessel, with a line, or warp, attached to a buoy, anchor, or other fixed object.

6. To cast prematurely, as young; -- said of cattle, sheep, etc. [Prov. Eng.]

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.]

8. (Rope Making) To run off the reel into hauls to be tarred, as yarns.

9. (Weaving) To arrange (yarns) on a warp beam.

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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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.

One of you will prove a shrunk panel, and, like green timber, warp, warp. --Shak.

They clamp one piece of wood to the end of another, to keep it from casting, or warping. --Moxon.

2. to turn or incline from a straight, true, or proper course; to deviate; to swerve.

There is our commission, From which we would not have you warp. --Shak.

3. To fly with a bending or waving motion; to turn and wave, like a flock of birds or insects.

A pitchy cloud Of locusts, warping on the eastern wind. --Milton.

4. To cast the young prematurely; to slink; -- said of cattle, sheep, etc. [Prov. Eng.]

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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