'WARP' definitions:
Definition of 'warp'
(from WordNet)
noun
A twist or aberration; especially a perverse or abnormal way of judging or acting [syn: deflection, warp]
noun
A shape distorted by twisting or folding [syn: warp, buckle]
noun
A moral or mental distortion [syn: warp, warping]
noun
Yarn arranged lengthways on a loom and crossed by the woof
verb
Make false by mutilation or addition; as of a message or story [syn: falsify, distort, garble, warp]
verb
Definition of 'Warp'
From: GCIDE
- Warp \Warp\ (w[add]rp), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Warped (w[add]rpt); 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. v[.r]j to twist. [root]144. Cf. Wrap.] [1913 Webster]
- 1. To throw; hence, to send forth, or throw out, as words; to utter. [Obs.] --Piers Plowman. [1913 Webster]
- 2. To turn or twist out of shape; esp., to twist or bend out of a flat plane by contraction or otherwise. [1913 Webster]
- The planks looked warped. --Coleridge. [1913 Webster]
- Walter warped his mouth at this To something so mock solemn, that I laughed. --Tennyson. [1913 Webster]
- 3. To turn aside from the true direction; to cause to bend or incline; to pervert. [1913 Webster]
- This first avowed, nor folly warped my mind. --Dryden. [1913 Webster]
- I have no private considerations to warp me in this controversy. --Addison. [1913 Webster]
- We are divested of all those passions which cloud the intellects, and warp the understandings, of men. --Southey. [1913 Webster]
- 4. To weave; to fabricate. [R. & Poetic.] --Nares. [1913 Webster]
- While doth he mischief warp. --Sternhold. [1913 Webster]
- 5. (Naut.) To tow or move, as a vessel, with a line, or warp, attached to a buoy, anchor, or other fixed object. [1913 Webster]
- 6. To cast prematurely, as young; -- said of cattle, sheep, etc. [Prov. Eng.] [1913 Webster]
- 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.] [1913 Webster]
- 8. (Rope Making) To run off the reel into hauls to be tarred, as yarns. [1913 Webster]
- 9. (Weaving) To arrange (yarns) on a warp beam. [1913 Webster]
- 10. (Aeronautics) To twist the end surfaces of (an aerocurve in an airfoil) in order to restore or maintain equilibrium. [Webster 1913 Suppl.]
- 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. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Warp'
From: GCIDE
- Warp \Warp\, n. [AS. wearp; akin to Icel. varp a casting, throwing, Sw. varp the draught of a net, Dan. varp a towline, OHG. warf warp, G. werft. See Warp, v.] [1913 Webster]
- 1. (Weaving) The threads which are extended lengthwise in the loom, and crossed by the woof. [1913 Webster]
- 2. (Naut.) A rope used in hauling or moving a vessel, usually with one end attached to an anchor, a post, or other fixed object; a towing line; a warping hawser. [1913 Webster]
- 3. (Agric.) A slimy substance deposited on land by tides, etc., by which a rich alluvial soil is formed. --Lyell. [1913 Webster]
- 4. A premature casting of young; -- said of cattle, sheep, etc. [Prov. Eng.] [1913 Webster]
- 5. Four; esp., four herrings; a cast. See Cast, n., 17. [Prov. Eng.] --Wright. [1913 Webster]
- 6. [From Warp, v.] The state of being warped or twisted; as, the warp of a board. [1913 Webster]
- Warp beam, the roller on which the warp is wound in a loom.
- Warp fabric, fabric produced by warp knitting.
- Warp frame, or Warp-net frame, a machine for making warp lace having a number of needles and employing a thread for each needle.
- Warp knitting, a kind of knitting in which a number of threads are interchained each with one or more contiguous threads on either side; -- also called warp weaving.
- Warp lace, or Warp net, lace having a warp crossed by weft threads. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Warp'
From: GCIDE
- Warp \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. [1913 Webster]
- One of you will prove a shrunk panel, and, like green timber, warp, warp. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
- They clamp one piece of wood to the end of another, to keep it from casting, or warping. --Moxon. [1913 Webster]
- 2. to turn or incline from a straight, true, or proper course; to deviate; to swerve. [1913 Webster]
- There is our commission, From which we would not have you warp. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
- 3. To fly with a bending or waving motion; to turn and wave, like a flock of birds or insects. [1913 Webster]
- A pitchy cloud Of locusts, warping on the eastern wind. --Milton. [1913 Webster]
- 4. To cast the young prematurely; to slink; -- said of cattle, sheep, etc. [Prov. Eng.] [1913 Webster]
- 5. (Weaving) To wind yarn off bobbins for forming the warp of a web; to wind a warp on a warp beam. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'warp'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- a thing for,
- aberrancy,
- aberration,
- adulterate,
- affinity,
- alloy,
- alter,
- ameliorate,
- anamorphism,
- anamorphosis,
- animus,
- aptitude,
- aptness,
- asymmetry,
- bastardize,
- be changed,
- be converted into,
- be renewed,
- belie,
- bend,
- bend to,
- bent,
- bias,
- birthmark,
- blackhead,
- bleb,
- blemish,
- blister,
- board,
- boom,
- bottom out,
- branching off,
- break,
- brutalize,
- buckle,
- bulla,
- burlesque,
- camouflage,
- canker,
- caricature,
- cast,
- cast loose,
- change,
- character,
- cheapen,
- check,
- checker,
- chop,
- chop and change,
- cicatrix,
- cicatrize,
- circuitousness,
- clap on ratlines,
- clear hawse,
- coarsen,
- color,
- come about,
- come around,
- come round,
- comedo,
- conatus,
- conduce,
- conduciveness,
- confound,
- confuse,
- constitution,
- contaminate,
- contort,
- contortion,
- contribute,
- corner,
- corrupt,
- crack,
- crater,
- craze,
- crook,
- crookedness,
- crumple,
- curve,
- cut loose,
- debase,
- debauch,
- declination,
- deface,
- defacement,
- defect,
- defile,
- deflect,
- deflower,
- deform,
- deformation,
- deformity,
- degenerate,
- degrade,
- delight,
- demoralize,
- denature,
- departure,
- deprave,
- desecrate,
- despoil,
- deteriorate,
- detorsion,
- detour,
- devalue,
- deviance,
- deviancy,
- deviate,
- deviation,
- deviousness,
- diathesis,
- diffract,
- diffuse,
- digression,
- discursion,
- disfiguration,
- disfigure,
- disfigurement,
- disguise,
- disperse,
- dispose,
- disposition,
- disproportion,
- distort,
- distortion,
- divagation,
- divarication,
- diverge,
- divergence,
- diversify,
- diversion,
- divert,
- dogleg,
- double,
- dress up,
- drift,
- drifting,
- eagerness,
- eccentricity,
- embellish,
- embroider,
- errantry,
- exaggerate,
- excursion,
- excursus,
- exorbitation,
- falsify,
- fault,
- feeling for,
- filling,
- flaw,
- flop,
- freckle,
- fudge,
- garble,
- gild,
- gloss,
- gloss over,
- gnarl,
- go,
- grain,
- hairpin,
- haul,
- haul around,
- haul down,
- have a tendency,
- head,
- heave,
- heave apeak,
- heave round,
- heave short,
- hemangioma,
- hickey,
- idiosyncrasy,
- imbalance,
- improve,
- inclination,
- incline,
- indirection,
- individualism,
- infect,
- irregularity,
- jaundice,
- jibe,
- kedge,
- keloid,
- kidney,
- kink,
- knot,
- lay,
- lay aloft,
- lead,
- lean,
- leaning,
- lentigo,
- liability,
- liking,
- log,
- look to,
- lopsidedness,
- lurch,
- make,
- makeup,
- mar,
- mask,
- meliorate,
- mental set,
- mettle,
- milium,
- mind,
- mind-set,
- miscite,
- miscolor,
- misquote,
- misreport,
- misrepresent,
- misshape,
- misstate,
- misteach,
- misuse,
- mitigate,
- modulate,
- mold,
- mole,
- mutate,
- nature,
- needle scar,
- nevus,
- obliquity,
- overdraw,
- overstate,
- parody,
- penchant,
- pererration,
- pervert,
- pick,
- pimple,
- pit,
- pock,
- pockmark,
- point,
- point to,
- poison,
- pollute,
- port-wine mark,
- port-wine stain,
- predilection,
- predisposition,
- preference,
- prejudice,
- prejudice against,
- prejudice the issue,
- prepossess,
- probability,
- proclivity,
- proneness,
- propensity,
- prostitute,
- pull,
- pustule,
- quirk,
- rambling,
- ratline down,
- ravage,
- ravish,
- readiness,
- redound to,
- refract,
- revive,
- rift,
- scab,
- scar,
- scarify,
- scatter,
- scratch,
- screw,
- sebaceous cyst,
- sensitivity to,
- serve,
- set,
- set toward,
- sheer,
- shift,
- shifting,
- shifting course,
- shifting path,
- shoot,
- show a tendency,
- skew,
- slant,
- slue,
- soft spot,
- spar down,
- split,
- spring,
- stamp,
- strain,
- strawberry mark,
- straying,
- streak,
- stream the log,
- stripe,
- sty,
- susceptibility,
- sweep,
- swerve,
- swerving,
- swinging,
- tack,
- taint,
- take a turn,
- temper,
- temperament,
- tend,
- tendency,
- titivate,
- torsion,
- tortuosity,
- torture,
- track,
- traverse a yard,
- travesty,
- trend,
- trick out,
- tropism,
- turn,
- turn aside,
- turn awry,
- turn into,
- turn of mind,
- turn the corner,
- turning,
- twist,
- type,
- ulcerate,
- undergo a change,
- understate,
- unlash,
- unsymmetry,
- variation,
- varnish,
- vary,
- veer,
- verge,
- verruca,
- vesicle,
- violate,
- vitiate,
- vulgarize,
- wale,
- wandering,
- wart,
- weakness,
- weal,
- weft,
- welt,
- wen,
- whitehead,
- whitewash,
- willingness,
- wind,
- woof,
- work toward,
- worsen,
- wrench,
- wrest,
- wring,
- writhe,
- yaw,
- zigzag
Acronyms for 'warp'
From: V.E.R.A.
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