warp

Meaning

Noun

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.

Verb

1. To twist or become twisted, physically or mentally.
2. To twist or become twisted, physically or mentally.
3. To twist or become twisted, physically or mentally.
4. To twist or become twisted, physically or mentally.
5. (obsolete) To run (yarn) off the reel into hauls to be tarred.
6. To arrange (strands of thread, etc) so that they run lengthwise in weaving.
7. (obsolete) To plot; to fabricate or weave (a plot or scheme).
8. (obsolete) To change or fix (make fixed, for example by freezing).
9. To move:
10. To move:
11. To move:
12. To move:
13. (obsolete) To bring forth (young) prematurely.
14. 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) To throw.

Concepts

warp

bend

twist

curve

distort

buckle

contort

be warped

wrench

deform

falsify

garble

distortion

wrest

curvature

warping

cast

curl

thread

roll up

bulge out

protrude

mangle

sprain

wrick

wring

arch

wind

deflect

yield

bow

heave

deflection

sag

pervert

meridian

disfigure

make ugly

bending

curved

swell

distord

turn

break

misshape

bend backwards

throw out the chest

be arched

be curved

be bent

be crooked

be distorted

be gross-grained

be perverted

be strained

get bent

incline

slant

swerve

crook

shrink

belie

blind

make crooked

optical distortion

concave convex

crimp

crinkly

channel

longitude

pass through

end

longitude meridian

meridianus

raise

drunken

hogging

oblique setting

skeller

warpage

cotton

perversion

bard

caparison

housing

manta

trapping

bastardise

bastardize

scramble

scriptures

arc

arched

become bent

misinterpret

crooked

throw

warf

Pronounced as (IPA)

/wɔːp/

Etymology

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.

Sentences

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