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Warp

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Noun

1. deflection, warp

a twist or aberration; especially a perverse or abnormal way of judging or acting

2. buckle, warp

a shape distorted by twisting or folding

3. warp, warping

a moral or mental distortion

4. warp

yarn arranged lengthways on a loom and crossed by the woof

Verb

5. distort, falsify, garble, warp

make false by mutilation or addition; as of a message or story

6. buckle, heave, warp

bend out of shape, as under pressure or from heat

Example Sentences:
'The highway buckled during the heat wave'

WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.

Warp

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verb
1. 
to twist or cause to twist out of shape, as from heat, damp, etc
2. 
to turn or cause to turn from a true, correct, or proper course
3. 
to pervert or be perverted
4. (transitive)
to prepare (yarn) as a warp
5. nautical
to move (a vessel) by hauling on a rope fixed to a stationary object ashore or (of a vessel) to be moved thus
6. (transitive)
(formerly) to curve or twist (an aircraft wing) in order to assist control in flight
7. (transitive)
to flood (land) with water from which alluvial matter is deposited
noun
8. 
the state or condition of being twisted out of shape
9. 
a twist, distortion, or bias
10. 
a mental or moral deviation
11. 
the yarns arranged lengthways on a loom, forming the threads through which the weft yarns are woven
12. 
the heavy threads used to reinforce the rubber in the casing of a pneumatic tyre
13. nautical
a rope used for warping a vessel
14. 
alluvial sediment deposited by water

Collins English Dictionary. Copyright © HarperCollins Publishers

Warp

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noun
1. 
a. 
a distortion, as a twist or bend, in wood or in an object made of wood, caused by contraction in drying
b. 
any similar distortion, as in metal
c. 
the state or fact of being so distorted
2. 
a mental twist, quirk, aberration, or bias
3. 
a. 
silt, sediment, or mud deposited as by a stream
b. 
a deposit of this
4.  Nautical
a rope or line run from a boat, etc. to a dock, buoy, anchor, etc., and used to warp the vessel into position
5. 
a.  Weaving
the set of threads running lengthwise in the loom and crossed by the weft, or woof
b. 
the very fiber or essential part of something; foundation; base
verb transitive
6. 
to bend, curve, or twist out of shape; distort
7. 
a. 
to turn from the true, natural, or right course
b. 
to turn from a healthy, sane, or normal condition; pervert; bias
said of the mind, character, judgment, etc.
c. 
to twist or distort in telling; misinterpret
a warped account
8.  Nautical
to move (a boat, etc.) by hauling on a line fastened to a pile, dock, anchor, etc.
9.  Weaving
to arrange (threads or yarns) so as to form a warp
verb intransitive
10. 
to become bent or twisted out of shape, as wood does in drying
11. 
to turn aside from the true, natural, or right course
12.  Nautical
to move into position by warping or being warped
said as of a boat

Webster’s New World College Dictionary, 4th Edition. Copyright © 2010 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. All rights reserved.

Warp

see synonyms of warp
v. warped, warp·ing, warps
v.tr.
1. To turn or twist (wood, for example) out of shape; deform.
2. To alter from a normal, proper, or healthy state; twist or pervert: "He was ruthlessly vindictive and allowed personal grudges to warp his political perspective" (Julian E. Zelizer). See Synonyms at distort.
3. To arrange strands of yarn or thread lengthwise onto (a loom) in preparation for weaving.
4. Nautical To move (a vessel) by hauling on a line that is fastened to or around a piling, anchor, or pier.
v.intr.
1. To become bent or twisted out of shape: The wooden frame warped in the humidity.
2. To become altered from what is normal, proper, or healthy.
3. Nautical To move a vessel by hauling on a line that is fastened to or around a piling, anchor, or pier.
n.
1. The state of being twisted or bent out of shape.
2. A distortion or twist, especially in a piece of wood.
3. A mental or moral twist, aberration, or deviation.
4. The threads that run lengthwise in a woven fabric, crossed at right angles to the woof.
5. Warp and woof.
6. Nautical A towline used in warping a vessel.

The American Heritage ® Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition copyright ©2018 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

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