English Explanatory Dictionary

warp

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. The state, quality, or condition of being twisted, physically or mentally:
  2. The state, quality, or condition of being physically bent or twisted out of shape.
  3. The state, quality, or condition of being deviant from what is right or proper morally or mentally.
  4. A distortion:
  5. A distortion or twist, such as in a piece of wood (also used figuratively).
  6. A mental or moral distortion, deviation, or aberration.
  7. The threads that run lengthwise in a woven fabric; crossed by the woof or weft.
  8. The foundation, the basis, the undergirding.
  9. 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.
  10. A theoretical construct that permits travel across a medium without passing through it normally, such as a teleporter or time warp.
  11. A situation or place which is or seems to be from another era; a time warp.
  12. 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.
verb
  1. To twist or become twisted, physically or mentally.
  2. To twist or turn (something) out of shape; to deform.
  3. To become twisted out of shape; to deform.
  4. To deflect or turn (something) away from a true, proper or moral course; to pervert; to bias.
  5. To go astray or be deflected from a true, proper or moral course; to deviate.
  6. To run (yarn) off the reel into hauls to be tarred.
  7. To arrange strands of thread lengthwise on a loom.
  8. To plot; to fabricate or weave (a plot or scheme).
  9. To change or fix (make fixed, for example by freezing).
  10. To move:
  11. To move a vessel by hauling on a line or cable that is fastened to an anchor or pier; (especially) to move a sailing ship through a restricted place such as a harbour.
  12. To move or be moved by this method.

Pronunciation

/wɔːp/ /wɔɹp/ /woːp/ en-us-warp.ogg

Word forms

warp warps warping warped

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”). Cognate with Middle Dutch warp, Middle Low German warp, German werfen, Danish varp, Swedish varp.

Synonyms

corrupt lead astray warp adulterate debauch demoralize detort file immoralize pervert pollute preposterate seduce sophisticate suborn subvert tamper unmoralize vitiate fling hurl bung cast chuck chunk cook dash dump feck jerk heave hield hoy huck hurtle launch lob peck peg pick pitch precipitate project quoit shy slight skew sling thrill throw toss traject whang whip whop wing

Derived words

credits warp guess warp time warp warp and weft warp and woof warp beam warp bubble warp drive warp end warp factor warp knit warp knitting warp lace warp speed warpwise mind-warping warped
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