| 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. |
| 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.
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| 10. | (of a stratum in the earth's crust) to bend slightly, to a degree that no fold or fault results. |
| 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. |

warp (wôrp) v. warped, warp·ing, warps v. tr.
[Middle English werpen, from Old English weorpan, to throw away; see wer-2 in Indo-European roots.] warp'er n. |
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