warp

Meaning

Noun

1. (uncountable) The state, quality, or condition of being twisted, physically or mentally:
2. (uncountable) The state, quality, or condition of being twisted, physically or mentally:
3. (countable) A distortion:
4. (countable) A distortion:
5. (countable, uncountable) The threads that run lengthwise in a woven fabric; crossed by the woof or weft.
6. (countable, figuratively, uncountable) The foundation, the basis, the undergirding.
7. (countable, uncountable) A line or cable or rode as is used in warping (mooring or hauling) a ship, and sometimes for other purposes such as deploying a seine or creating drag.
8. (countable, uncountable) A theoretical construct that permits travel across a medium without passing through it normally, such as a teleporter or time warp.
9. (countable, uncountable) A situation or place which is or seems to be from another era; a time warp.
10. (countable, uncountable) The sediment which subsides from turbid water; the alluvial deposit of muddy water artificially introduced into low lands in order to enrich or fertilise them.
11. (countable, dialectal, obsolete, uncountable) A throw or cast, as of fish (in which case it is used as a unit of measure: about four fish, though sometimes three or even two), oysters, etc.

Verb

1. (transitive) To twist or become twisted, physically or mentally.
2. (intransitive) To twist or become twisted, physically or mentally.
3. (transitive) To twist or become twisted, physically or mentally.
4. (intransitive) To twist or become twisted, physically or mentally.
5. (ambitransitive, obsolete) To run (yarn) off the reel into hauls to be tarred.
6. (transitive) To arrange (strands of thread, etc) so that they run lengthwise in weaving.
7. (ambitransitive, figuratively, obsolete, rare) To plot; to fabricate or weave (a plot or scheme).
8. (obsolete, poetic, rare, transitive) To change or fix (make fixed, for example by freezing).
9. (transitive) To move:
10. (intransitive) To move:
11. (dated, intransitive, rare) To move:
12. (ambitransitive) To move:
13. (ambitransitive, dialectal, obsolete) To bring forth (young) prematurely.
14. (ambitransitive) To fertilize (low-lying land) by letting the tide, a river, or other water in upon it to deposit silt and alluvial matter.
15. (obsolete, rare, transitive) To throw.

Synonyms

bend

twist

curve

distort

buckle

be warped

contort

falsify

wrench

🔧

distortion

garble

deform

protrude

thread

🧵

roll up

warping

cast

bulge out

curvature

curl

wrest

bow

🙇

sprain

swell

arch

wind

wrick

wring

yield

heave

disfigure

make ugly

mangle

meridian

bending

pervert

curved

sag

deflect

deflection

make crooked

bend backwards

throw out the chest

be curved

be arched

be distorted

be perverted

be gross-grained

get bent

meridianus

Translations

urdimbre

ordito

Kette

tordre

chaîne

schering

ordire

verdraaien

ordit

Kettfaden

voilement

piegare

verdrehen

στραβώνω

courber

Pronounced as (IPA)

/wɔːp/

Etymology

Inherited from Middle English: warp

Inherited from Old English: wearp

Cognate with Middle Dutch: warp

Cognate with Middle Low German: warp

Cognate with German: Warf

Cognate with Danish: varp

Cognate with Swedish: varp

Inherited from Middle English: werpen

Inherited from Old English: weorpan

Cognate with Scots: warp

Cognate with Northern Frisian: werpen

Cognate with Dutch: werpen

Cognate with German: werfen

Cognate with Icelandic: verpa

In summary

From Middle English warp, werp, from Old English wearp, warp (“a warp, threads stretched lengthwise in a loom, twig, osier”), from Proto-Germanic *warpą (“a warp”), from Proto-Indo-European *werb- (“to turn, bend”).
Cognate with Middle Dutch warp, Middle Low German warp, German werfen, Danish varp, Swedish varp.

Sentences

Meanwhile , the Bynars discreetly create a catastrophic failure in the ship's warp core .