warp

Meaning

1. The state, quality, or condition of being twisted, physically or mentally:
2. The state, quality, or condition of being twisted, physically or mentally:
3. A distortion:
4. A distortion:
5. The threads that run lengthwise in a woven fabric; crossed by the woof or weft.
6. The foundation, the basis, the undergirding.
7. 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. A theoretical construct that permits travel across a medium without passing through it normally, such as a teleporter or time warp.
9. A situation or place which is or seems to be from another era; a time warp.
10. 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. (obsolete) 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.

bend

twist

be warped

bulge out

yield

make ugly

make crooked

bend backwards

throw out the chest

be curved

be arched

be distorted

be perverted

be gross-grained

get bent

meridianus

housing

optical distortion

concave convex

longitude meridian

oblique setting

skeller

warf

distord

become bent

be bent

be crooked

be strained

Frequency

Pronounced as (IPA)

/wɔːp/

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 Warf, Danish varp, Swedish varp.