| 单词 | warp |
| 释义 | warp (once / 1140 pages) vn To warp is to bend, twist, or otherwise become misshapen. Wooden furniture left outside in the rain will often warp from the moisture. Getting wet makes some things warp, while plastic has a tendency to warp in the hot sun. Sometimes people use the word colloquially to mean "have a bad or distorting influence on," as when a politician insists that video games warp kids' minds. In weaving, the warp is all of the threads running one direction — the ones that are woven over and under the warp are called the weft. WORD FAMILYwarp: warped, warping, warps+/warping: warpings USAGE EXAMPLESI wanted warp drive, I wanted to travel to other planets and star systems. The Guardian(Jan 02, 2017) The pressure warped the way officers and residents saw each other. New York Times(Dec 31, 2016) Nabokov dismissed Wilson’s analysis as “figments of his warped fancy.” Washington Post(Nov 29, 2016) 1v bend out of shape, as under pressure or from heat Syn|Hypo|Hyper buckle, heave lift rise upward, as from pressure or moisture change surface undergo or cause to undergo a change in the surface 2v make false by mutilation or addition; as of a message or story Syn|Hypo|Hyper distort, falsify, garble mangle, murder, mutilate alter so as to make unrecognizable belie, misrepresent represent falsely 3n a shape distorted by twisting or folding Syn|Hyper buckle distorted shape, distortion a shape resulting from distortion 4n yarn arranged lengthways on a loom and crossed by the woof Hyper thread, yarn a fine cord of twisted fibers (of cotton or silk or wool or nylon etc.) used in sewing and weaving 5n a twist or aberration; especially a perverse or abnormal way of judging or acting Syn|Hyper deflection aberrance, aberrancy, aberration, deviance a state or condition markedly different from the norm 6n a moral or mental distortion Syn|Hyper warping deformation, distortion a change for the worse |
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