Definition of warp in English:

warp

verb wɔːpwɔrp

1Make or become bent or twisted out of shape, typically as a result of the effects of heat or damp.
with object moisture had warped the box
no object wood has a tendency to warp
Example sentencesExamples
- There is a grade for every use, and redwood is a good choice for railings because its dimensional stability means that components will stay in place and not warp, cup or bend.
- The advantage here is that the action remains true and is not warped by heat treat after machining.
- At another house the high-density polyethylene pipe warped by heat was attached to the downlet pipe jutting from the terrace.
- For one thing, after only a couple of uses, wood forms get warped, twisted, and crusted over with concrete, which means you have to replace them.
- Past removalists have chipped it, put nicks in the door, and mysteriously warped one handle out of shape.
- It looks like wood but is actually a fiber cement material that can withstand the summer heat without cracking, warping, or peeling.
- The boiler had cooled since yesterday, the outer insulating jacket stained and warped from heat.
- Celluloid had some of the same disadvantages of tortoise shell: it had to be shaped by hand; it could be warped in heat, and so on.
- The bag was beginning to lose its resistance, and so the box was a little warped where the damp had seeped through.
- If the cylinder does not line up with the bore vertically, you are plumb out of luck since the base pin frame holes could be drilled crooked or the frame warped from heat treatment or stress.
- His special contribution was a circle of wire sewn inside the rim to reduce warping from the heat and moisture to which the hats were subjected.
- When coupled with a synthetic stock to prevent warping from moisture, it retains zero well and can withstand substantial abuse.
- It is a very stable material, which is unlikely to warp or crack even if excessive heat is applied.
- When it touched the feet of any demon, its body began to warp, twist into odd shapes, and then after a few moments it exploded, sending bloody chunks of flesh in all directions.
- The metal ladder was cooperative enough against rubber-soled boots, but moisture and time had warped the blind door, and there was no other way into the box.
- We are pleased to announce that we have addressed the two major problems with the Flytec Racing Pod warping with heat and stability in turbulence.
- Woods tendency to warp and twist can cause any gate design to become misaligned.
- The windshield was, of course, new too and had not yet been warped up from the heat from the defroster.
- If wood frames are not properly protected from moisture, they can warp, crack, and stick.
- A peaked shingle roof, weather-bleached wooden walls, the planks warped and twisted.
Synonyms
buckle, twist, bend, distort, deform, misshape, malform, curve, make/become crooked/curved, flex, bow, arch, contort, gnarl, kink, wrinkle
1. 1.1with object Make abnormal or strange; distort.
  your judgement has been warped by your obvious dislike of him
  Example sentencesExamples
  Forget the outlandish demands and warped sense of value.
  Something amusing I thought of this morning though - I dare say other people have the same warped sense of humour I do and thought of it as well.
  My sense of humour tended to warp a little bit when I was faced with actual life-threatening danger.
  Beyond the obviously warped people though are those who simply think they play much better than they do, and who don't appreciate how truly much they need to learn.
  Might this have warped his journalistic judgment a wee bit?
  Well, you know, John has a very warped sense of humor, and we're old buddies.
  I don't know if it's any good, but at least it has a deliciously warped sense of humor.
  As for Thomas not telling: stupidity, pride, warped sense of loyalty, take your pick.
  God must have a pretty warped sense of humour, because with our differences, its a miracle that men and women ever manage to hook up at all.
  When the dictatorship stepped back from the direct exercise of power, a half-democracy was left in its place, a system designed by the dictatorship and warped by the regime's distortions.
  Both out of curiosity and whatever warped sense of ‘duty’ she seemed to be deluding herself with.
  In fact, she had been so alone that even her language had been warped into an unorthodox state.
  Indeed, it seems that their priorities were strangely warped.
  Though opposite in rhythmic conceits, both seem to warp one's sense of movement through space.
  It is only Britain's curious parsimony and warped misunderstanding of free trade ideas that has failed to establish laws and a tax regime that make export of art treasures unthinkable.
  It is not just demand for consumer durables that has been warped by Iraq's strange new economy.
  Beyond the devices agents use to secure and conduct auctions, the problem is that many buyers allow emotion to warp their judgment.
  In both cases, Emma knows better, but prejudice warps her judgment.
  It seems they have a strangely warped sense of what they think is funny as well.
  An angular skeletal frame and warped planes give a strong sense of the building being poised to take flight over the vastness of the wilderness that it surveys.
  Synonyms
  corrupt, twist, pervert, deprave, bend, skew
2(with reference to a ship) move or be moved along by hauling on a rope attached to a stationary object ashore.
with object and adverbial of direction crew and passengers helped warp the vessels through the shallow section
3with object (in weaving) arrange (yarn) so as to form the warp of a piece of cloth.
cotton string will be warped on the loom in the rug-weaving process
4with object Cover (land) with a deposit of alluvial soil by natural or artificial flooding.
the main canal may be cut so as to warp the lands on each side of it

noun wɔːpwɔrp

1A twist or distortion in the shape of something.
the head of the racket had a curious warp
Example sentencesExamples
- Everybody sees through their warp, through their bias, through their pretensions, through their needs all of that.
Synonyms
distortion, malformation, contortion, buckling, twisting, warping, bending, wrenching, misshaping
1. 1.1as modifier Relating to or denoting (fictional or hypothetical) space travel by means of distorting space–time.
  warp speed
  Example sentencesExamples
  She's doing warp speed and I'm glad everybody picked up on her even though she's weird and British and crazy.
  At 190 mph the car feels imperiously stable, like the USS Enterprise at warp speed.
  A deafening cheer arose from the cockpit as the Snow Eagle dropped out of warp space right next to them.
  The old machine was soon cruising at warp speed and we sat back and reminisced about the old times.
  The game contains smooth graphics whilst playing although you notice very little at warp speed, and the cut scenes do a good job without creating too much fuss.
  Once I reached warp speed, I never saw two of the dogs again but one of the white and black mutts was persistent and kept up an impressive pace.
  He has rebuilt programs at warp speed at every previous stop.
  Unlike zooming through the countryside in a car at warp speed, hoping that a wonderful vista will pop up beside you, trekking a city's streets immerses you in its most intimate details.
  But time is fickle and not particularly friendly to me and the fecker will go all warp speed.
  I am not sure of how it works or what it's made of because I work as an engineer in NASA and I specialize in warp drives, not beams.
  My nan had one of those salad spinners, which sent leaves hurtling through space at warp speed and produced enough water to irrigate a smallholding.
  Whether science fiction novels refer to it as warp speed, hyperspeed, or lightspeed, the prospect of traveling at the speed of light or faster has enthralled humanity for decades.
  That would have been great if it wasn't for the another squadron of Zylons popping out of warp space behind me.
  This just goes with the other pointless stuff, space ships without laser guns or warp drives, broken inter-galactic telescopes, and an international space station that only the privileged can visit.
  Captain, we shall be exiting warp space in ten seconds.
  Those are in normal space not warp space engines.
  Its benefits included intergalactic space travel at warp speed.
  I'm supposed to be chastened by this, but to be honest my first reaction is start working on that warp drive, Zephraim; we're going to need lots of class M planets.
  The Devil Star screamed through the portal and they entered warp space.
  I want to disengage the warp drive, make a course alteration to two-six-five mark fourteen, then reactivate the warp drive at current speed.
2. 1.2 An abnormality or perversion in a person's character.
  no mind is more capable of warps than his
2in singular (in weaving) the threads on a loom over and under which other threads (the weft) are passed to make cloth.
the warp and weft are the basic constituents of all textiles
figurative rugby is woven into the warp and weft of South African society
Example sentencesExamples
- Unless the carpet is badly worn, or the pile is carefully separated to allow examination, neither weft nor warp will show from the front.
- The warp is stretched between two sticks, one is attached to a fixed point and the other to the waist of the weaver who controls the tension of the warp by sitting or standing upright.
- Fischer's argument is that American society has permanent threads that form the warp of the woven cloth of American history.
- Depending on the arrangement of the loom the warps run vertically (high-warp) or horizontally (low-warp) but in both cases the weaver works from the back of the textile.
- But you should go see it, and not only that, you should look at it closely, the warp and weft of details that make it all hang together in such a unique way.
- The jali normally worked by tearing apart the warp and weft threads of the cloth and by preparing minute button hole stitches.
- The wraiths and phantoms creep under your carpets and between the warp and weft of fabric, they lurk in wardrobes and lie flat under drawer-liners.
- Fear and violence are the warp and weft of life in Kashmir.
- The warp and woof fibers of the organza, which were of the same diameter, thus formed right- and left-handed helices around the tube.
- Wool and linen could be mixed on a loom, with the wool creating the warp threads and the linen the weft.
- Pluralism was woven into the warp and woof of Indian society.
- Women in blue plastic capes weave wool through the fence, using it as warp and weft.
- The double ikat entails yarn with more than one colour on the weft or the warp (for parallel threads) or both.
- Merina weavers use a technique known as akotyfahana, produced on a horizontal, fixed-heddle loom with a continuous weft and warp.
- Woven from copper and lead strips, two new works, constructed as grids, swollen with empty pregnancies, provide a text, censoring itself, in rhythms of weft and warp.
- In many cases, the muted hues of her warp and weft don't quite match up, lending each work a subtle textural richness.
- Such is his passion for the warp and weft, weave and print, and all things textile, that designer Mukesh is a veritable encyclopaedia of the rich and varied textile traditions of India.
- The Pattushalis and the Devangis weave both warp and weft since centuries and the Pattushalis are the fine khadi weavers.
- Grant us the strength to love creation not merely for what it can give us, but because our health and holiness is woven - warp and weft - with its health and holiness.
- It would be a cunning weave - the warp and the weft so utterly tangled that the thugs set loose on the streets would flail themselves.
- What makes me teary-eyed is the strange melancholy the duo produce through the warp and weave of these contrasting elements.
- The undyed warps were attached to the top of the loom and the ends were allowed to hang freely The weaving involves a variety of twining techniques to enable the weaver to create curvilinear designs.
- Separating out the various frequencies and rhythms we garner and seek to discern the pattern being created before us from the skein of sounds as warp and weft are woven and unwoven.
3A rope attached at one end to a fixed point and used for moving or mooring a ship.
4archaic mass noun Alluvial sediment; silt.
the warp or muddy deposit dug from an old riverbed

Derivatives

warpage

noun ˈwɔːpɪdʒˈwɔrpɪdʒ

mass noun

The extent or result of being bent or twisted out of shape, typically as a result of the effects of heat or damp.
the warpage of the wood increased as the temperature increased
Example sentencesExamples
- A low moisture content translates into a material that is very stable after installation - no warpage or excessive movement - and one that promotes excellent paint adhesion.
- Although the wood is sealed, water or even excessive dampness may cause warpage or discoloration of the slats.
- This warpage can be removed by gentle heating (usually with steam from a kettle or similar) and carefully bent back to straightness.

warper

noun ˈwɔːpəˈwɔrpər

Mr Clark, now 73, worked as a plumber and Mrs Clark, 69, as a warper at a textiles firm.
Example sentencesExamples
- June's friend retired from Harris Plant as a cloth warper.
- Ellen Conroy (probably their daughter) - a silk warper who died at the age of 35 in 1863.

Origin

Old English weorpan (verb), wearp (noun), of Germanic origin; related to Dutch werpen and German werfen 'to throw'. Early verb senses included 'throw' and 'hit with a missile'; the sense 'bend' dates from late Middle English. The noun was originally a term in weaving (see sense 2 of the noun).

This is from a Germanic source with a basic sense of ‘to throw, twist’. Early verb senses included ‘throw’, ‘fling open’, and ‘hit (with a missile)’; the sense ‘bend’ dates from late Middle English. The noun was originally a term in weaving, reflecting the way threads go backwards and forwards.

Rhymes

dorp, gawp, scaup, scorp, Thorpe, whaup, yawp

Definition of warp in US English:

warp

verbwɔrpwôrp

1Become or cause to become bent or twisted out of shape, typically as a result of the effects of heat or dampness.
with object moisture had warped the box
no object wood has a tendency to warp
Example sentencesExamples
- Woods tendency to warp and twist can cause any gate design to become misaligned.
- When it touched the feet of any demon, its body began to warp, twist into odd shapes, and then after a few moments it exploded, sending bloody chunks of flesh in all directions.
- The advantage here is that the action remains true and is not warped by heat treat after machining.
- It looks like wood but is actually a fiber cement material that can withstand the summer heat without cracking, warping, or peeling.
- Celluloid had some of the same disadvantages of tortoise shell: it had to be shaped by hand; it could be warped in heat, and so on.
- His special contribution was a circle of wire sewn inside the rim to reduce warping from the heat and moisture to which the hats were subjected.
- Past removalists have chipped it, put nicks in the door, and mysteriously warped one handle out of shape.
- If the cylinder does not line up with the bore vertically, you are plumb out of luck since the base pin frame holes could be drilled crooked or the frame warped from heat treatment or stress.
- When coupled with a synthetic stock to prevent warping from moisture, it retains zero well and can withstand substantial abuse.
- We are pleased to announce that we have addressed the two major problems with the Flytec Racing Pod warping with heat and stability in turbulence.
- There is a grade for every use, and redwood is a good choice for railings because its dimensional stability means that components will stay in place and not warp, cup or bend.
- A peaked shingle roof, weather-bleached wooden walls, the planks warped and twisted.
- The boiler had cooled since yesterday, the outer insulating jacket stained and warped from heat.
- If wood frames are not properly protected from moisture, they can warp, crack, and stick.
- The metal ladder was cooperative enough against rubber-soled boots, but moisture and time had warped the blind door, and there was no other way into the box.
- It is a very stable material, which is unlikely to warp or crack even if excessive heat is applied.
- At another house the high-density polyethylene pipe warped by heat was attached to the downlet pipe jutting from the terrace.
- The windshield was, of course, new too and had not yet been warped up from the heat from the defroster.
- For one thing, after only a couple of uses, wood forms get warped, twisted, and crusted over with concrete, which means you have to replace them.
- The bag was beginning to lose its resistance, and so the box was a little warped where the damp had seeped through.
Synonyms
buckle, twist, bend, distort, deform, misshape, malform, curve, become crooked, become curved, make crooked, make curved, flex, bow, arch, contort, gnarl, kink, wrinkle
1. 1.1with object Cause to become abnormal or strange; have a distorting effect on.
  your judgment has been warped by your obvious dislike of him
  Example sentencesExamples
  It is not just demand for consumer durables that has been warped by Iraq's strange new economy.
  An angular skeletal frame and warped planes give a strong sense of the building being poised to take flight over the vastness of the wilderness that it surveys.
  Something amusing I thought of this morning though - I dare say other people have the same warped sense of humour I do and thought of it as well.
  When the dictatorship stepped back from the direct exercise of power, a half-democracy was left in its place, a system designed by the dictatorship and warped by the regime's distortions.
  My sense of humour tended to warp a little bit when I was faced with actual life-threatening danger.
  In fact, she had been so alone that even her language had been warped into an unorthodox state.
  Both out of curiosity and whatever warped sense of ‘duty’ she seemed to be deluding herself with.
  Though opposite in rhythmic conceits, both seem to warp one's sense of movement through space.
  In both cases, Emma knows better, but prejudice warps her judgment.
  Beyond the obviously warped people though are those who simply think they play much better than they do, and who don't appreciate how truly much they need to learn.
  I don't know if it's any good, but at least it has a deliciously warped sense of humor.
  Indeed, it seems that their priorities were strangely warped.
  Beyond the devices agents use to secure and conduct auctions, the problem is that many buyers allow emotion to warp their judgment.
  It is only Britain's curious parsimony and warped misunderstanding of free trade ideas that has failed to establish laws and a tax regime that make export of art treasures unthinkable.
  As for Thomas not telling: stupidity, pride, warped sense of loyalty, take your pick.
  God must have a pretty warped sense of humour, because with our differences, its a miracle that men and women ever manage to hook up at all.
  Well, you know, John has a very warped sense of humor, and we're old buddies.
  Might this have warped his journalistic judgment a wee bit?
  It seems they have a strangely warped sense of what they think is funny as well.
  Forget the outlandish demands and warped sense of value.
  Synonyms
  corrupt, twist, pervert, deprave, bend, skew
2with object Move (a ship) along by hauling on a rope attached to a stationary object on shore.
1. 2.1no object (of a ship) move by being hauled on a rope attached to a stationary object.
3with object (in weaving) arrange (yarn) so as to form the warp of a piece of cloth.
4with object Cover (land) with a deposit of alluvial soil by natural or artificial flooding.

nounwɔrpwôrp

1A twist or distortion in the shape or form of something.
the head of the racket had a curious warp
Example sentencesExamples
- Everybody sees through their warp, through their bias, through their pretensions, through their needs all of that.
Synonyms
distortion, malformation, contortion, buckling, twisting, warping, bending, wrenching, misshaping
1. 1.1as modifier Relating to or denoting (fictional or hypothetical) space travel by means of distorting space-time.
  warp speed
  the craft possessed warp drive
  Example sentencesExamples
  Whether science fiction novels refer to it as warp speed, hyperspeed, or lightspeed, the prospect of traveling at the speed of light or faster has enthralled humanity for decades.
  The game contains smooth graphics whilst playing although you notice very little at warp speed, and the cut scenes do a good job without creating too much fuss.
  Once I reached warp speed, I never saw two of the dogs again but one of the white and black mutts was persistent and kept up an impressive pace.
  The old machine was soon cruising at warp speed and we sat back and reminisced about the old times.
  Unlike zooming through the countryside in a car at warp speed, hoping that a wonderful vista will pop up beside you, trekking a city's streets immerses you in its most intimate details.
  But time is fickle and not particularly friendly to me and the fecker will go all warp speed.
  I am not sure of how it works or what it's made of because I work as an engineer in NASA and I specialize in warp drives, not beams.
  My nan had one of those salad spinners, which sent leaves hurtling through space at warp speed and produced enough water to irrigate a smallholding.
  I'm supposed to be chastened by this, but to be honest my first reaction is start working on that warp drive, Zephraim; we're going to need lots of class M planets.
  The Devil Star screamed through the portal and they entered warp space.
  This just goes with the other pointless stuff, space ships without laser guns or warp drives, broken inter-galactic telescopes, and an international space station that only the privileged can visit.
  At 190 mph the car feels imperiously stable, like the USS Enterprise at warp speed.
  He has rebuilt programs at warp speed at every previous stop.
  Its benefits included intergalactic space travel at warp speed.
  She's doing warp speed and I'm glad everybody picked up on her even though she's weird and British and crazy.
  A deafening cheer arose from the cockpit as the Snow Eagle dropped out of warp space right next to them.
  That would have been great if it wasn't for the another squadron of Zylons popping out of warp space behind me.
  Captain, we shall be exiting warp space in ten seconds.
  I want to disengage the warp drive, make a course alteration to two-six-five mark fourteen, then reactivate the warp drive at current speed.
  Those are in normal space not warp space engines.
2. 1.2 An abnormality or perversion in a person's character.
2in singular (in weaving) the threads on a loom over and under which other threads (the weft) are passed to make cloth.
the warp and weft are the basic constituents of all textiles
figurative rugby is woven into the warp and weft of South African society
Example sentencesExamples
- Women in blue plastic capes weave wool through the fence, using it as warp and weft.
- Depending on the arrangement of the loom the warps run vertically (high-warp) or horizontally (low-warp) but in both cases the weaver works from the back of the textile.
- Fischer's argument is that American society has permanent threads that form the warp of the woven cloth of American history.
- In many cases, the muted hues of her warp and weft don't quite match up, lending each work a subtle textural richness.
- Unless the carpet is badly worn, or the pile is carefully separated to allow examination, neither weft nor warp will show from the front.
- The jali normally worked by tearing apart the warp and weft threads of the cloth and by preparing minute button hole stitches.
- The warp is stretched between two sticks, one is attached to a fixed point and the other to the waist of the weaver who controls the tension of the warp by sitting or standing upright.
- The warp and woof fibers of the organza, which were of the same diameter, thus formed right- and left-handed helices around the tube.
- The undyed warps were attached to the top of the loom and the ends were allowed to hang freely The weaving involves a variety of twining techniques to enable the weaver to create curvilinear designs.
- The Pattushalis and the Devangis weave both warp and weft since centuries and the Pattushalis are the fine khadi weavers.
- Separating out the various frequencies and rhythms we garner and seek to discern the pattern being created before us from the skein of sounds as warp and weft are woven and unwoven.
- The double ikat entails yarn with more than one colour on the weft or the warp (for parallel threads) or both.
- The wraiths and phantoms creep under your carpets and between the warp and weft of fabric, they lurk in wardrobes and lie flat under drawer-liners.
- Such is his passion for the warp and weft, weave and print, and all things textile, that designer Mukesh is a veritable encyclopaedia of the rich and varied textile traditions of India.
- Pluralism was woven into the warp and woof of Indian society.
- Fear and violence are the warp and weft of life in Kashmir.
- Woven from copper and lead strips, two new works, constructed as grids, swollen with empty pregnancies, provide a text, censoring itself, in rhythms of weft and warp.
- Grant us the strength to love creation not merely for what it can give us, but because our health and holiness is woven - warp and weft - with its health and holiness.
- Wool and linen could be mixed on a loom, with the wool creating the warp threads and the linen the weft.
- But you should go see it, and not only that, you should look at it closely, the warp and weft of details that make it all hang together in such a unique way.
- What makes me teary-eyed is the strange melancholy the duo produce through the warp and weave of these contrasting elements.
- It would be a cunning weave - the warp and the weft so utterly tangled that the thugs set loose on the streets would flail themselves.
- Merina weavers use a technique known as akotyfahana, produced on a horizontal, fixed-heddle loom with a continuous weft and warp.
3A rope attached at one end to a fixed point and used for moving or mooring a ship.
4archaic Alluvial sediment; silt.

Origin

Old English weorpan (verb), wearp (noun), of Germanic origin; related to Dutch werpen and German werfen ‘to throw’. Early verb senses included ‘throw’ and ‘hit with a missile’; the sense ‘bend’ dates from late Middle English. The noun was originally a term in weaving (see warp (sense 2 of the noun)).

单词	warp
释义	Definition of warp in English: warp verb wɔːpwɔrp 1Make or become bent or twisted out of shape, typically as a result of the effects of heat or damp. with object moisture had warped the box no object wood has a tendency to warp Example sentencesExamples There is a grade for every use, and redwood is a good choice for railings because its dimensional stability means that components will stay in place and not warp, cup or bend. The advantage here is that the action remains true and is not warped by heat treat after machining. At another house the high-density polyethylene pipe warped by heat was attached to the downlet pipe jutting from the terrace. For one thing, after only a couple of uses, wood forms get warped, twisted, and crusted over with concrete, which means you have to replace them. Past removalists have chipped it, put nicks in the door, and mysteriously warped one handle out of shape. It looks like wood but is actually a fiber cement material that can withstand the summer heat without cracking, warping, or peeling. The boiler had cooled since yesterday, the outer insulating jacket stained and warped from heat. Celluloid had some of the same disadvantages of tortoise shell: it had to be shaped by hand; it could be warped in heat, and so on. The bag was beginning to lose its resistance, and so the box was a little warped where the damp had seeped through. If the cylinder does not line up with the bore vertically, you are plumb out of luck since the base pin frame holes could be drilled crooked or the frame warped from heat treatment or stress. His special contribution was a circle of wire sewn inside the rim to reduce warping from the heat and moisture to which the hats were subjected. When coupled with a synthetic stock to prevent warping from moisture, it retains zero well and can withstand substantial abuse. It is a very stable material, which is unlikely to warp or crack even if excessive heat is applied. When it touched the feet of any demon, its body began to warp, twist into odd shapes, and then after a few moments it exploded, sending bloody chunks of flesh in all directions. The metal ladder was cooperative enough against rubber-soled boots, but moisture and time had warped the blind door, and there was no other way into the box. We are pleased to announce that we have addressed the two major problems with the Flytec Racing Pod warping with heat and stability in turbulence. Woods tendency to warp and twist can cause any gate design to become misaligned. The windshield was, of course, new too and had not yet been warped up from the heat from the defroster. If wood frames are not properly protected from moisture, they can warp, crack, and stick. A peaked shingle roof, weather-bleached wooden walls, the planks warped and twisted. Synonyms buckle, twist, bend, distort, deform, misshape, malform, curve, make/become crooked/curved, flex, bow, arch, contort, gnarl, kink, wrinkle 1.1with object Make abnormal or strange; distort. your judgement has been warped by your obvious dislike of him Example sentencesExamples Forget the outlandish demands and warped sense of value. Something amusing I thought of this morning though - I dare say other people have the same warped sense of humour I do and thought of it as well. My sense of humour tended to warp a little bit when I was faced with actual life-threatening danger. Beyond the obviously warped people though are those who simply think they play much better than they do, and who don't appreciate how truly much they need to learn. Might this have warped his journalistic judgment a wee bit? Well, you know, John has a very warped sense of humor, and we're old buddies. I don't know if it's any good, but at least it has a deliciously warped sense of humor. As for Thomas not telling: stupidity, pride, warped sense of loyalty, take your pick. God must have a pretty warped sense of humour, because with our differences, its a miracle that men and women ever manage to hook up at all. When the dictatorship stepped back from the direct exercise of power, a half-democracy was left in its place, a system designed by the dictatorship and warped by the regime's distortions. Both out of curiosity and whatever warped sense of ‘duty’ she seemed to be deluding herself with. In fact, she had been so alone that even her language had been warped into an unorthodox state. Indeed, it seems that their priorities were strangely warped. Though opposite in rhythmic conceits, both seem to warp one's sense of movement through space. It is only Britain's curious parsimony and warped misunderstanding of free trade ideas that has failed to establish laws and a tax regime that make export of art treasures unthinkable. It is not just demand for consumer durables that has been warped by Iraq's strange new economy. Beyond the devices agents use to secure and conduct auctions, the problem is that many buyers allow emotion to warp their judgment. In both cases, Emma knows better, but prejudice warps her judgment. It seems they have a strangely warped sense of what they think is funny as well. An angular skeletal frame and warped planes give a strong sense of the building being poised to take flight over the vastness of the wilderness that it surveys. Synonyms corrupt, twist, pervert, deprave, bend, skew 2(with reference to a ship) move or be moved along by hauling on a rope attached to a stationary object ashore. with object and adverbial of direction crew and passengers helped warp the vessels through the shallow section 3with object (in weaving) arrange (yarn) so as to form the warp of a piece of cloth. cotton string will be warped on the loom in the rug-weaving process 4with object Cover (land) with a deposit of alluvial soil by natural or artificial flooding. the main canal may be cut so as to warp the lands on each side of it noun wɔːpwɔrp 1A twist or distortion in the shape of something. the head of the racket had a curious warp Example sentencesExamples Everybody sees through their warp, through their bias, through their pretensions, through their needs all of that. Synonyms distortion, malformation, contortion, buckling, twisting, warping, bending, wrenching, misshaping 1.1as modifier Relating to or denoting (fictional or hypothetical) space travel by means of distorting space–time. warp speed Example sentencesExamples She's doing warp speed and I'm glad everybody picked up on her even though she's weird and British and crazy. At 190 mph the car feels imperiously stable, like the USS Enterprise at warp speed. A deafening cheer arose from the cockpit as the Snow Eagle dropped out of warp space right next to them. The old machine was soon cruising at warp speed and we sat back and reminisced about the old times. The game contains smooth graphics whilst playing although you notice very little at warp speed, and the cut scenes do a good job without creating too much fuss. Once I reached warp speed, I never saw two of the dogs again but one of the white and black mutts was persistent and kept up an impressive pace. He has rebuilt programs at warp speed at every previous stop. Unlike zooming through the countryside in a car at warp speed, hoping that a wonderful vista will pop up beside you, trekking a city's streets immerses you in its most intimate details. But time is fickle and not particularly friendly to me and the fecker will go all warp speed. I am not sure of how it works or what it's made of because I work as an engineer in NASA and I specialize in warp drives, not beams. My nan had one of those salad spinners, which sent leaves hurtling through space at warp speed and produced enough water to irrigate a smallholding. Whether science fiction novels refer to it as warp speed, hyperspeed, or lightspeed, the prospect of traveling at the speed of light or faster has enthralled humanity for decades. That would have been great if it wasn't for the another squadron of Zylons popping out of warp space behind me. This just goes with the other pointless stuff, space ships without laser guns or warp drives, broken inter-galactic telescopes, and an international space station that only the privileged can visit. Captain, we shall be exiting warp space in ten seconds. Those are in normal space not warp space engines. Its benefits included intergalactic space travel at warp speed. I'm supposed to be chastened by this, but to be honest my first reaction is start working on that warp drive, Zephraim; we're going to need lots of class M planets. The Devil Star screamed through the portal and they entered warp space. I want to disengage the warp drive, make a course alteration to two-six-five mark fourteen, then reactivate the warp drive at current speed. 1.2 An abnormality or perversion in a person's character. no mind is more capable of warps than his 2in singular (in weaving) the threads on a loom over and under which other threads (the weft) are passed to make cloth. the warp and weft are the basic constituents of all textiles figurative rugby is woven into the warp and weft of South African society Example sentencesExamples Unless the carpet is badly worn, or the pile is carefully separated to allow examination, neither weft nor warp will show from the front. The warp is stretched between two sticks, one is attached to a fixed point and the other to the waist of the weaver who controls the tension of the warp by sitting or standing upright. Fischer's argument is that American society has permanent threads that form the warp of the woven cloth of American history. Depending on the arrangement of the loom the warps run vertically (high-warp) or horizontally (low-warp) but in both cases the weaver works from the back of the textile. But you should go see it, and not only that, you should look at it closely, the warp and weft of details that make it all hang together in such a unique way. The jali normally worked by tearing apart the warp and weft threads of the cloth and by preparing minute button hole stitches. The wraiths and phantoms creep under your carpets and between the warp and weft of fabric, they lurk in wardrobes and lie flat under drawer-liners. Fear and violence are the warp and weft of life in Kashmir. The warp and woof fibers of the organza, which were of the same diameter, thus formed right- and left-handed helices around the tube. Wool and linen could be mixed on a loom, with the wool creating the warp threads and the linen the weft. Pluralism was woven into the warp and woof of Indian society. Women in blue plastic capes weave wool through the fence, using it as warp and weft. The double ikat entails yarn with more than one colour on the weft or the warp (for parallel threads) or both. Merina weavers use a technique known as akotyfahana, produced on a horizontal, fixed-heddle loom with a continuous weft and warp. Woven from copper and lead strips, two new works, constructed as grids, swollen with empty pregnancies, provide a text, censoring itself, in rhythms of weft and warp. In many cases, the muted hues of her warp and weft don't quite match up, lending each work a subtle textural richness. Such is his passion for the warp and weft, weave and print, and all things textile, that designer Mukesh is a veritable encyclopaedia of the rich and varied textile traditions of India. The Pattushalis and the Devangis weave both warp and weft since centuries and the Pattushalis are the fine khadi weavers. Grant us the strength to love creation not merely for what it can give us, but because our health and holiness is woven - warp and weft - with its health and holiness. It would be a cunning weave - the warp and the weft so utterly tangled that the thugs set loose on the streets would flail themselves. What makes me teary-eyed is the strange melancholy the duo produce through the warp and weave of these contrasting elements. The undyed warps were attached to the top of the loom and the ends were allowed to hang freely The weaving involves a variety of twining techniques to enable the weaver to create curvilinear designs. Separating out the various frequencies and rhythms we garner and seek to discern the pattern being created before us from the skein of sounds as warp and weft are woven and unwoven. 3A rope attached at one end to a fixed point and used for moving or mooring a ship. 4archaic mass noun Alluvial sediment; silt. the warp or muddy deposit dug from an old riverbed Derivatives warpage noun ˈwɔːpɪdʒˈwɔrpɪdʒ mass noun The extent or result of being bent or twisted out of shape, typically as a result of the effects of heat or damp. the warpage of the wood increased as the temperature increased Example sentencesExamples A low moisture content translates into a material that is very stable after installation - no warpage or excessive movement - and one that promotes excellent paint adhesion. Although the wood is sealed, water or even excessive dampness may cause warpage or discoloration of the slats. This warpage can be removed by gentle heating (usually with steam from a kettle or similar) and carefully bent back to straightness. warper noun ˈwɔːpəˈwɔrpər Mr Clark, now 73, worked as a plumber and Mrs Clark, 69, as a warper at a textiles firm. Example sentencesExamples June's friend retired from Harris Plant as a cloth warper. Ellen Conroy (probably their daughter) - a silk warper who died at the age of 35 in 1863. Origin Old English weorpan (verb), wearp (noun), of Germanic origin; related to Dutch werpen and German werfen 'to throw'. Early verb senses included 'throw' and 'hit with a missile'; the sense 'bend' dates from late Middle English. The noun was originally a term in weaving (see sense 2 of the noun). This is from a Germanic source with a basic sense of ‘to throw, twist’. Early verb senses included ‘throw’, ‘fling open’, and ‘hit (with a missile)’; the sense ‘bend’ dates from late Middle English. The noun was originally a term in weaving, reflecting the way threads go backwards and forwards. Rhymes dorp, gawp, scaup, scorp, Thorpe, whaup, yawp Definition of warp in US English: warp verbwɔrpwôrp 1Become or cause to become bent or twisted out of shape, typically as a result of the effects of heat or dampness. with object moisture had warped the box no object wood has a tendency to warp Example sentencesExamples Woods tendency to warp and twist can cause any gate design to become misaligned. When it touched the feet of any demon, its body began to warp, twist into odd shapes, and then after a few moments it exploded, sending bloody chunks of flesh in all directions. The advantage here is that the action remains true and is not warped by heat treat after machining. It looks like wood but is actually a fiber cement material that can withstand the summer heat without cracking, warping, or peeling. Celluloid had some of the same disadvantages of tortoise shell: it had to be shaped by hand; it could be warped in heat, and so on. His special contribution was a circle of wire sewn inside the rim to reduce warping from the heat and moisture to which the hats were subjected. Past removalists have chipped it, put nicks in the door, and mysteriously warped one handle out of shape. If the cylinder does not line up with the bore vertically, you are plumb out of luck since the base pin frame holes could be drilled crooked or the frame warped from heat treatment or stress. When coupled with a synthetic stock to prevent warping from moisture, it retains zero well and can withstand substantial abuse. We are pleased to announce that we have addressed the two major problems with the Flytec Racing Pod warping with heat and stability in turbulence. There is a grade for every use, and redwood is a good choice for railings because its dimensional stability means that components will stay in place and not warp, cup or bend. A peaked shingle roof, weather-bleached wooden walls, the planks warped and twisted. The boiler had cooled since yesterday, the outer insulating jacket stained and warped from heat. If wood frames are not properly protected from moisture, they can warp, crack, and stick. The metal ladder was cooperative enough against rubber-soled boots, but moisture and time had warped the blind door, and there was no other way into the box. It is a very stable material, which is unlikely to warp or crack even if excessive heat is applied. At another house the high-density polyethylene pipe warped by heat was attached to the downlet pipe jutting from the terrace. The windshield was, of course, new too and had not yet been warped up from the heat from the defroster. For one thing, after only a couple of uses, wood forms get warped, twisted, and crusted over with concrete, which means you have to replace them. The bag was beginning to lose its resistance, and so the box was a little warped where the damp had seeped through. Synonyms buckle, twist, bend, distort, deform, misshape, malform, curve, become crooked, become curved, make crooked, make curved, flex, bow, arch, contort, gnarl, kink, wrinkle 1.1with object Cause to become abnormal or strange; have a distorting effect on. your judgment has been warped by your obvious dislike of him Example sentencesExamples It is not just demand for consumer durables that has been warped by Iraq's strange new economy. An angular skeletal frame and warped planes give a strong sense of the building being poised to take flight over the vastness of the wilderness that it surveys. Something amusing I thought of this morning though - I dare say other people have the same warped sense of humour I do and thought of it as well. When the dictatorship stepped back from the direct exercise of power, a half-democracy was left in its place, a system designed by the dictatorship and warped by the regime's distortions. My sense of humour tended to warp a little bit when I was faced with actual life-threatening danger. In fact, she had been so alone that even her language had been warped into an unorthodox state. Both out of curiosity and whatever warped sense of ‘duty’ she seemed to be deluding herself with. Though opposite in rhythmic conceits, both seem to warp one's sense of movement through space. In both cases, Emma knows better, but prejudice warps her judgment. Beyond the obviously warped people though are those who simply think they play much better than they do, and who don't appreciate how truly much they need to learn. I don't know if it's any good, but at least it has a deliciously warped sense of humor. Indeed, it seems that their priorities were strangely warped. Beyond the devices agents use to secure and conduct auctions, the problem is that many buyers allow emotion to warp their judgment. It is only Britain's curious parsimony and warped misunderstanding of free trade ideas that has failed to establish laws and a tax regime that make export of art treasures unthinkable. As for Thomas not telling: stupidity, pride, warped sense of loyalty, take your pick. God must have a pretty warped sense of humour, because with our differences, its a miracle that men and women ever manage to hook up at all. Well, you know, John has a very warped sense of humor, and we're old buddies. Might this have warped his journalistic judgment a wee bit? It seems they have a strangely warped sense of what they think is funny as well. Forget the outlandish demands and warped sense of value. Synonyms corrupt, twist, pervert, deprave, bend, skew 2with object Move (a ship) along by hauling on a rope attached to a stationary object on shore. 2.1no object (of a ship) move by being hauled on a rope attached to a stationary object. 3with object (in weaving) arrange (yarn) so as to form the warp of a piece of cloth. 4with object Cover (land) with a deposit of alluvial soil by natural or artificial flooding. nounwɔrpwôrp 1A twist or distortion in the shape or form of something. the head of the racket had a curious warp Example sentencesExamples Everybody sees through their warp, through their bias, through their pretensions, through their needs all of that. Synonyms distortion, malformation, contortion, buckling, twisting, warping, bending, wrenching, misshaping 1.1as modifier Relating to or denoting (fictional or hypothetical) space travel by means of distorting space-time. warp speed the craft possessed warp drive Example sentencesExamples Whether science fiction novels refer to it as warp speed, hyperspeed, or lightspeed, the prospect of traveling at the speed of light or faster has enthralled humanity for decades. The game contains smooth graphics whilst playing although you notice very little at warp speed, and the cut scenes do a good job without creating too much fuss. Once I reached warp speed, I never saw two of the dogs again but one of the white and black mutts was persistent and kept up an impressive pace. The old machine was soon cruising at warp speed and we sat back and reminisced about the old times. Unlike zooming through the countryside in a car at warp speed, hoping that a wonderful vista will pop up beside you, trekking a city's streets immerses you in its most intimate details. But time is fickle and not particularly friendly to me and the fecker will go all warp speed. I am not sure of how it works or what it's made of because I work as an engineer in NASA and I specialize in warp drives, not beams. My nan had one of those salad spinners, which sent leaves hurtling through space at warp speed and produced enough water to irrigate a smallholding. I'm supposed to be chastened by this, but to be honest my first reaction is start working on that warp drive, Zephraim; we're going to need lots of class M planets. The Devil Star screamed through the portal and they entered warp space. This just goes with the other pointless stuff, space ships without laser guns or warp drives, broken inter-galactic telescopes, and an international space station that only the privileged can visit. At 190 mph the car feels imperiously stable, like the USS Enterprise at warp speed. He has rebuilt programs at warp speed at every previous stop. Its benefits included intergalactic space travel at warp speed. She's doing warp speed and I'm glad everybody picked up on her even though she's weird and British and crazy. A deafening cheer arose from the cockpit as the Snow Eagle dropped out of warp space right next to them. That would have been great if it wasn't for the another squadron of Zylons popping out of warp space behind me. Captain, we shall be exiting warp space in ten seconds. I want to disengage the warp drive, make a course alteration to two-six-five mark fourteen, then reactivate the warp drive at current speed. Those are in normal space not warp space engines. 1.2 An abnormality or perversion in a person's character. 2in singular (in weaving) the threads on a loom over and under which other threads (the weft) are passed to make cloth. the warp and weft are the basic constituents of all textiles figurative rugby is woven into the warp and weft of South African society Example sentencesExamples Women in blue plastic capes weave wool through the fence, using it as warp and weft. Depending on the arrangement of the loom the warps run vertically (high-warp) or horizontally (low-warp) but in both cases the weaver works from the back of the textile. Fischer's argument is that American society has permanent threads that form the warp of the woven cloth of American history. In many cases, the muted hues of her warp and weft don't quite match up, lending each work a subtle textural richness. Unless the carpet is badly worn, or the pile is carefully separated to allow examination, neither weft nor warp will show from the front. The jali normally worked by tearing apart the warp and weft threads of the cloth and by preparing minute button hole stitches. The warp is stretched between two sticks, one is attached to a fixed point and the other to the waist of the weaver who controls the tension of the warp by sitting or standing upright. The warp and woof fibers of the organza, which were of the same diameter, thus formed right- and left-handed helices around the tube. The undyed warps were attached to the top of the loom and the ends were allowed to hang freely The weaving involves a variety of twining techniques to enable the weaver to create curvilinear designs. The Pattushalis and the Devangis weave both warp and weft since centuries and the Pattushalis are the fine khadi weavers. Separating out the various frequencies and rhythms we garner and seek to discern the pattern being created before us from the skein of sounds as warp and weft are woven and unwoven. The double ikat entails yarn with more than one colour on the weft or the warp (for parallel threads) or both. The wraiths and phantoms creep under your carpets and between the warp and weft of fabric, they lurk in wardrobes and lie flat under drawer-liners. Such is his passion for the warp and weft, weave and print, and all things textile, that designer Mukesh is a veritable encyclopaedia of the rich and varied textile traditions of India. Pluralism was woven into the warp and woof of Indian society. Fear and violence are the warp and weft of life in Kashmir. Woven from copper and lead strips, two new works, constructed as grids, swollen with empty pregnancies, provide a text, censoring itself, in rhythms of weft and warp. Grant us the strength to love creation not merely for what it can give us, but because our health and holiness is woven - warp and weft - with its health and holiness. Wool and linen could be mixed on a loom, with the wool creating the warp threads and the linen the weft. But you should go see it, and not only that, you should look at it closely, the warp and weft of details that make it all hang together in such a unique way. What makes me teary-eyed is the strange melancholy the duo produce through the warp and weave of these contrasting elements. It would be a cunning weave - the warp and the weft so utterly tangled that the thugs set loose on the streets would flail themselves. Merina weavers use a technique known as akotyfahana, produced on a horizontal, fixed-heddle loom with a continuous weft and warp. 3A rope attached at one end to a fixed point and used for moving or mooring a ship. 4archaic Alluvial sediment; silt. Origin Old English weorpan (verb), wearp (noun), of Germanic origin; related to Dutch werpen and German werfen ‘to throw’. Early verb senses included ‘throw’ and ‘hit with a missile’; the sense ‘bend’ dates from late Middle English. The noun was originally a term in weaving (see warp (sense 2 of the noun)).
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