| 释义 |
warp /wörp/ transitive verb- To twist out of shape
- To turn from the right course
- To distort
- To cause to contract or wrinkle (Shakespeare)
- To pervert (eg the mind or character)
- To misinterpret or give a deliberately false meaning to
- To arrange (threads) so as to form a warp
- To entwine (obsolete)
- To move (a vessel) by hauling on ropes attached to posts on a wharf, etc
- To improve (land) by flooding so that it is covered by a deposit of alluvial mud
- To choke (eg a channel) with alluvial mud
- In rope-making, to stretch into lengths for tarring
- To cast, throw (obsolete)
- To lay (eggs) or to bring forth (young), esp prematurely (dialect)
intransitive verb- To be twisted out of shape
- To become perverted or distorted (figurative)
- To swerve
- To move with effort, or on a zigzag course
- (of cattle, sheep, etc) to miscarry
noun- The state or fact of being warped
- The permanent distortion of a timber, etc
- A mental twist or bias
- The threads stretched out lengthways in a loom to be crossed by a woof (also figurative)
- A twist, shift or displacement to a different or parallel position within a (usu conceptual) framework or scale, etc (as in time warp)
- A rope used in towing, one end being fastened to a fixed object
- Alluvial sediment
- A reckoning of four (herrings, oysters, etc), thirty-three warps making a long hundred, and five long hundreds a mease or maze
ORIGIN: OE weorpan, werpan to throw, cast; cf Ger werfen, ON verpa warˈpage noun warped adjective - Twisted by shrinking
- Distorted
- Perverted
- Covered or filled with a deposit of alluvial sediment
warˈper noun warˈping noun warp drive noun (in science fiction) an engine or power source that enables matter to be transported over thousands of light years in a few hours, supposedly achieved by the warping of space |