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warped

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verb (used with object)

to bend or twist out of shape, especially from a straight or flat form, as timbers or flooring.

to bend or turn from the natural or true direction or course.

to distort or cause to distort from the truth, fact, true meaning, etc.; bias; falsify: Prejudice warps the mind.

Aeronautics. to curve or bend (a wing or other airfoil) at the end or ends to promote equilibrium or to secure lateral control.

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.

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Agriculture. to fertilize (land) by inundation with water that deposits alluvial matter.

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verb (used without object)

to become bent or twisted out of shape, especially out of a straight or flat form: The wood has warped in drying.

to be or become biased; hold or change an opinion due to prejudice, external influence, or the like.

Nautical.

to warp a ship or boat into position.

(of a ship or boat) to move by being warped.

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

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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.

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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.

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time warp.

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a situation, environment, etc., that seems characteristic of another era, especially in being out of touch with contemporary life or attitudes, etc.

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Also called spring, spring line. Nautical. a rope for warping or hauling a ship or boat along or into position.

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alluvial matter deposited by water, especially water let in to inundate low land so as to enrich it.

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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

Related forms

warp·age, noun

un·warp·ing, adjective

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

Antonyms
1, 7. straighten.

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Example Sentences

When they solved the equations for this setup, they discovered that the space between the branes would be warped.

The push for more prestige has warped the admissions process, the report says, at a cost to both colleges and the nation.

Workers have aching backs and hands warped by machinery.

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When they solved the equations for this setup, they discovered that the space between the branes would be warped.

The push for more prestige has warped the admissions process, the report says, at a cost to both colleges and the nation.

Workers have aching backs and hands warped by machinery.

Explore a warped galaxy, the birth and death of stars, and other mysteries of deep space.

Yet this conjuring trick produced only a single dimension of highly warped space.

But the firestorm's heat warped the sandstone walls and pillars.

Light traveling through the matter clump is warped and distorted, a phenomenon called gravitational lensing.

If the boards are so badly warped that they can't be.

Russian foreign policy is still warped by the phantom pain of its lost empire.

Discard any wood that is too warped for your project, is soft or has black mold on it.

In this version, it's a tiny spiral warped away from the surface of the silicon chip.

Alongside them were pitchers that seemed deliberately twisted and vases warped as if melted in the kiln.

Some of it could be warped to promote homophobia and intolerance of people who don't toe the line.

With a plane, the fit of swollen doors and warped drawers can.

The second lesson of the past few weeks is that securitisation has warped financiers' incentives.

In front of a cheering crowd, the two men strap into the new, warped contraption for a thrilling ride in the desert.

It interesting that there are so many articles about warped space but there are none who understand the real meaning.

They are hidden from us in some way, perhaps because they're tiny or warped.

It looks pretty warped and messed up, but sure enough it's reusable.

Once you decide that some group is your implacable enemy, your mind gets a little warped.

Then there are the costs to the country: a warped education system and disrupted labour market, among others.

The serial-killer stare, the obscene grimace of warped teeth, the bloody feeding frenzies-it's no wonder they.

Such warped perceptions help researchers understand the neuroscience of selfhood.

They have a warped perception of how mediadistribution should work in our high-tech world.

Our minds have been warped by relentless marketing designed to engender false consciousness of stark political brand contrasts.

Beneath the sagging blades of a ceiling fan warped by floodwaters, the men chant rhythmically to the beat of tambourines.

The integrated fabric of space-time thus becomes curved or warped accounting for relativity effects.

And it makes sense that their humor would be rather dark and warped.

The interior needs a little more work as the dash pad is a little warped and the center console isn't attached properly.

Well, that's the problem with the warped incentives, too.

All it does is make him a guy who has a really warped view on what being a man is about.

Take an impulsive young male with too much time on his hands and a warped sense of right and wrong.

The play is a thriller that milks its chills not from dramatic action, but rather from the subtle interplay of warped intellects.

Any nation with such a warped distribution of income does not deserve that appellation.

If the door rubs against the door frame in the middle, either the door or the frame may be warped.

Sandford obliges by galvanizing a villain whose warped psyche hot-wires the action and has all the mighty hunters climbing trees.

But his guests were drawn to the cracked floors and warped walls, and to a small box in the corner.

It was a thin piece of veal, warped from the heat of the sauté pan.

They have warped an exercise in paying off current debt into an argument about future spending.

Warped sheets of metal were wrapped around whatever poles were left standing.

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World English Dictionary

warp (wɔːp)

—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

"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"

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of space-time, popularized in noun phrase warp speed by 1960s TV series "Star Trek."

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Slang Dictionary

warped definition

mod.
drug intoxicated. (A variant of bent.) : Too many yellows made Jerry warped as the dickens.

Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions by Richard A. Spears.Fourth Edition.
Copyright 2007. Published by McGraw Hill.
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