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warp

(wôrp)

v. warped, warp·ing, warps

v.tr.

1. To turn or twist (wood, for example) out of shape; deform.

2. To alter from a normal, proper, or healthy state; twist or pervert: "He was ruthlessly vindictive and allowed personal grudges to warp his political perspective" (Julian E. Zelizer). See Synonyms at distort.

3. To arrange strands of yarn or thread lengthwise onto (a loom) in preparation for weaving.

4. Nautical To move (a vessel) by hauling on a line that is fastened to or around a piling, anchor, or pier.

v.intr.

1. To become bent or twisted out of shape: The wooden frame warped in the humidity.

2. To become altered from what is normal, proper, or healthy.

3. Nautical To move a vessel by hauling on a line that is fastened to or around a piling, anchor, or pier.

1. The state of being twisted or bent out of shape.

2. A distortion or twist, especially in a piece of wood.

3. A mental or moral twist, aberration, or deviation.

4. The threads that run lengthwise in a woven fabric, crossed at right angles to the woof.

5. Warp and woof.

6. Nautical A towline used in warping a vessel.

[Middle English werpen, from Old English weorpan, to throw away; see wer- in Indo-European roots.]

warp′er n.

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warp

(wɔːp)

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. (Textiles) (tr) to prepare (yarn) as a warp

5. (Nautical Terms) 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. (Aeronautics) (tr) (formerly) to curve or twist (an aircraft wing) in order to assist control in flight

7. (Physical Geography) (tr) to flood (land) with water from which alluvial matter is deposited

8. the state or condition of being twisted out of shape

9. a twist, distortion, or bias

10. (Psychology) a mental or moral deviation

11. (Textiles) the yarns arranged lengthways on a loom, forming the threads through which the weft yarns are woven

12. (Automotive Engineering) the heavy threads used to reinforce the rubber in the casing of a pneumatic tyre

13. (Nautical Terms) nautical a rope used for warping a vessel

14. (Physical Geography) 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]

ˈwarpage n

warped adj

ˈwarper n

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warp

(wɔrp)

v.t.

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, etc.; bias; falsify.

4. 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.

v.i.

5. to become bent or twisted out of shape, esp. out of a straight or flat form.

6. to hold or change an opinion due to prejudice, influence, etc.

a. to warp a ship or boat into position.

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

8. a bend or other variation from a straight or flat form.

9. a mental twist, bias, or quirk.

10. the set of yarns placed lengthwise in a loom, crossed by and interlaced with the filling, and forming the lengthwise threads in a woven fabric..

11. a hypothetical eccentricity or discontinuity in the space-time continuum: a space warp.

12. a situation, environment, etc., that seems characteristic of another era and out of touch with contemporary life.

13. a rope for warping or hauling a ship or boat along or into position.

[before 900; Middle English werpen, Old English weorpan to throw, c. Old Saxon werpan, Old High German werfan, Old Norse verpa, Gothic wairpan]

warp′age, n.

warp′er, n.

warp

To haul a ship ahead by line or anchor.

Dictionary of Military and Associated Terms. US Department of Defense 2005.

Warp

a throw or cast; a set of four items.

Examples: warp of cod, 1533; of fish, 1598; of herrings, 1894; of oysters, 1796; of salt-fish, 1436; of weeks (four weeks), 1599.

warp

Past participle: warped
Gerund: warping

Imperative
warp
warp

Present
I warp
you warp
he/she/it warps
we warp
you warp
they warp

Preterite
I warped
you warped
he/she/it warped
we warped
you warped
they warped

Present Continuous
I am warping
you are warping
he/she/it is warping
we are warping
you are warping
they are warping

Present Perfect
I have warped
you have warped
he/she/it has warped
we have warped
you have warped
they have warped

Past Continuous
I was warping
you were warping
he/she/it was warping
we were warping
you were warping
they were warping

Past Perfect
I had warped
you had warped
he/she/it had warped
we had warped
you had warped
they had warped

Future
I will warp
you will warp
he/she/it will warp
we will warp
you will warp
they will warp

Future Perfect
I will have warped
you will have warped
he/she/it will have warped
we will have warped
you will have warped
they will have warped

Future Continuous
I will be warping
you will be warping
he/she/it will be warping
we will be warping
you will be warping
they will be warping

Present Perfect Continuous
I have been warping
you have been warping
he/she/it has been warping
we have been warping
you have been warping
they have been warping

Future Perfect Continuous
I will have been warping
you will have been warping
he/she/it will have been warping
we will have been warping
you will have been warping
they will have been warping

Past Perfect Continuous
I had been warping
you had been warping
he/she/it had been warping
we had been warping
you had been warping
they had been warping

Conditional
I would warp
you would warp
he/she/it would warp
we would warp
you would warp
they would warp

Past Conditional
I would have warped
you would have warped
he/she/it would have warped
we would have warped
you would have warped
they would have warped

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Noun	1.	warp - a twist or aberration; especially a perverse or abnormal way of judging or acting deflection aberrance, aberrancy, aberration, deviance - a state or condition markedly different from the norm
	2.	warp - a shape distorted by twisting or folding buckle distorted shape, distortion - a shape resulting from distortion
	3.	warp - a moral or mental distortion warping deformation, distortion - a change for the worse
	4.	warp - yarn arranged lengthways on a loom and crossed by the woof cloth, fabric, textile, material - artifact made by weaving or felting or knitting or crocheting natural or synthetic fibers; "the fabric in the curtains was light and semitransparent"; "woven cloth originated in Mesopotamia around 5000 BC"; "she measured off enough material for a dress" thread, yarn - a fine cord of twisted fibers (of cotton or silk or wool or nylon etc.) used in sewing and weaving weave - pattern of weaving or structure of a fabric
Verb	1.	warp - make false by mutilation or addition; as of a message or story distort, falsify, garble murder, mutilate, mangle - alter so as to make unrecognizable; "The tourists murdered the French language" misrepresent, belie - represent falsely; "This statement misrepresents my intentions"
	2.	warp - bend out of shape, as under pressure or from heat; "The highway buckled during the heat wave" buckle, heave change surface - undergo or cause to undergo a change in the surface lift - rise upward, as from pressure or moisture; "The floor is lifting slowly"

warp

verb

1. distort, bend, twist, buckle, deform, disfigure, contort, misshape, malform Rainwater had warped the door's timber.

2. become distorted, bend, twist, contort, become deformed, become misshapen Plastic can warp in the sun.

3. pervert, twist, corrupt, degrade, deprave, debase, desecrate, debauch, lead astray Their minds have been warped by their experiences.

noun

1. twist, turn, bend, defect, flaw, distortion, deviation, quirk, imperfection, kink, contortion, deformation small warps in the planking

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warp

verb

1. To ruin utterly in character or quality:

animalize, bastardize, bestialize, brutalize, canker, corrupt, debase, debauch, demoralize, deprave, pervert, stain, vitiate.

2. To give an inaccurate view of by representing falsely or misleadingly:

belie, color, distort, falsify, load, misrepresent, misstate, pervert, twist, wrench, wrest.

Idiom: give a false coloring to.

3. To cause to have a prejudiced view:

bias, jaundice, prejudice, prepossess.

Translations

إنْفِتال، إعْوِجاجيَفْتِل، يَلْوي

forkvakleskævhedtrend

Kette Krümmung nachteilig beeinflussen sich verziehen verziehen

gauchir gauchissement tordre

brenglalangòræîirvinda , skekkja , verpastvindingur, skekkja

ordito piegare tonneggiarsi tonneggio alterare

izkropļotmetisamešanāssamestiessamežģīt

bli bøyd forkvakle renning vindskjevhet

основа

ohnúť sapokriviť

arışbozmakçarpıklıkçözgüeğ mek

使不正常使歪曲变形织布中的经线翘曲

warp

[wɔːp]

A. N

1. (in weaving) → urdimbre f

2. [in wood] → alabeo m, comba f

B. VT

1. [+ wood] → alabear, combar

2. (fig) [+ mind] → pervertir

C. VI [wood] → alabearse, combarse

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warp

[ˈwɔː^rp]

[cloth] → chaîne f

[wood] → gauchir

vt [+ wood] → gauchir

[+ character, person] → pervertirwar paint warpaint [ˈwɔː^rpeɪnt] n → peintures fpl de guerre

warp

(in weaving) → Kette f

(in wood etc) → Welle f; the warp makes it impossible to use this wood → das Holz ist zu verzogen or wellig, als dass man es noch verwenden könnte

(= towing cable) → Schleppleine f

(of mind) hatred of his mother had given his mind an evil warp → der Hass, den er gegen seine Mutter hegte, hatte seinen ganzen Charakter entstellt or verbogen; the warp in his personality → das Abartige in seinem Wesen

vt wood → wellig werden lassen, wellen; character → verbiegen, entstellen; judgement → verzerren; (Aviat) → verwinden

vi (wood) → sich wellen, sich verziehen, sich werfen

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warp

[wɔːp]

1. n (in weaving) → ordito; (of wood) → curvatura, deformazione f

2. vt (wood) → deformare, curvare (fig) (mind, personality, judgment) → influenzare negativamente

3. vi (wood) → deformarsi, curvarsi

warp¹

(woːp) verb

1. to make or become twisted out of shape. The door has been warped by all the rain we've had lately.

2. to cause to think or act in an abnormal way. His experiences had warped his judgement/mind.

noun

the shape into which something is twisted by warping. The rain has given this wood a permanent warp.

warped adjective

warp²

(woːp) noun

(usually with the) the set of threads lying lengthwise in a loom during weaving (the other being the weft (weft) ).

warp

n. torcedura; torcimiento; v. torcer; retorcer; perder la forma.

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As I kept passing and repassing the filling or woof of marline between the long yarns of the warp, using my own hand for the shuttle, and as Queequeg, standing sideways, ever and anon slid his heavy oaken sword between the threads, and idly looking off upon the water, carelessly and unthinkingly drove home every yarn: I say so strange a dreaminess did there then reign all over the ship and all over the sea, only broken by the intermitting dull sound of the sword, that it seemed as if this were the Loom of Time, and I myself were a shuttle mechanically weaving and weaving away at the Fates.

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It is furnished with a small rope called a warp, of considerable length, by which it can be hauled back to the hand after darting.

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He has also neglected in that treatise to point out how the governors are to be distinguished from the governed; for he says, that as of one sort of wool the warp ought to be made, and of another the woof, so ought some to govern, and others to be governed.

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I took down this dwelling the same morning, drawing the nails, and removed it to the pond-side by small cartloads, spreading the boards on the grass there to bleach and warp back again in the sun.

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Till it comes give people cash, for it is the warp of civilization, whatever the woof may be.

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Captain Marsh and Famine and Pestilence the baby COYOTES, and Sour-Mash and her pups, and Sardanapalus and her kittens - hang these names she gives the creatures, they warp my jaw - and Potter: you - all sitting around in the house, and Soldier Boy at the window the entire time, it's a wonder to me she comes along as well as she does.

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He accepted the deformity which had made life so hard for him; he knew that it had warped his character, but now he saw also that by reason of it he had acquired that power of introspection which had given him so much delight.

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The planks looked warped! and see those sails, How thin they are and sere!

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But your mind is warped by an innate principle of general integrity, and therefore not accessible to the cool reasonings of family partiality, or a desire of revenge."

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We had a dreary morning's work before us, for there was no sign of any wind, and the boats had to be got out and manned, and the ship warped three or four miles round the corner of the island and up the narrow passage to the haven behind Skeleton Island.

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In applying thus particularly to the Senate a general observation suggested by the situation of the country, I am governed by the consideration, that the credulous votaries of State power cannot, upon their own principles, suspect, that the State legislatures would be warped from their duty by any external influence.

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Here, moved by curiosity, I turned aside to find, among a tangle of red fronds, the warped and broken dog cart with the whitened bones of the horse scattered and gnawed.

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