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warp Audio Help   (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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warping
noun
a moral or mental distortion [syn: warp]

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Warping

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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