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Warp   /wɔrp/   Listen
noun
Warp  n.  
1.
(Weaving) The threads which are extended lengthwise in the loom, and crossed by the woof.
2.
(Naut.) A rope used in hauling or moving a vessel, usually with one end attached to an anchor, a post, or other fixed object; a towing line; a warping hawser.
3.
(Agric.) A slimy substance deposited on land by tides, etc., by which a rich alluvial soil is formed.
4.
A premature casting of young; said of cattle, sheep, etc. (Prov. Eng.)
5.
Four; esp., four herrings; a cast. See Cast, n., 17. (Prov. Eng.)
6.
The state of being warped or twisted; as, the warp of a board.
Warp beam, the roller on which the warp is wound in a loom.
Warp fabric, fabric produced by warp knitting.
Warp frame, or Warp-net frame, a machine for making warp lace having a number of needles and employing a thread for each needle.
Warp knitting, a kind of knitting in which a number of threads are interchained each with one or more contiguous threads on either side; also called warp weaving.
Warp lace, or Warp net, lace having a warp crossed by weft threads.


verb
Warp  v. t.  (past & past part. warped; pres. part. warping)  
1.
To throw; hence, to send forth, or throw out, as words; to utter. (Obs.)
2.
To turn or twist out of shape; esp., to twist or bend out of a flat plane by contraction or otherwise. "The planks looked warped." "Walter warped his mouth at this To something so mock solemn, that I laughed."
3.
To turn aside from the true direction; to cause to bend or incline; to pervert. "This first avowed, nor folly warped my mind." "I have no private considerations to warp me in this controversy." "We are divested of all those passions which cloud the intellects, and warp the understandings, of men."
4.
To weave; to fabricate. (R. & Poetic.) "While doth he mischief warp."
5.
(Naut.) To tow or move, as a vessel, with a line, or warp, attached to a buoy, anchor, or other fixed object.
6.
To cast prematurely, as young; said of cattle, sheep, etc. (Prov. Eng.)
7.
(Agric.) To let the tide or other water in upon (lowlying land), for the purpose of fertilization, by a deposit of warp, or slimy substance. (Prov. Eng.)
8.
(Rope Making) To run off the reel into hauls to be tarred, as yarns.
9.
(Weaving) To arrange (yarns) on a warp beam.
10.
(Aeronautics) To twist the end surfaces of (an aerocurve in an airfoil) in order to restore or maintain equilibrium.
Warped surface (Geom.), a surface generated by a straight line moving so that no two of its consecutive positions shall be in the same plane.


Warp  v. i.  
1.
To turn, twist, or be twisted out of shape; esp., to be twisted or bent out of a flat plane; as, a board warps in seasoning or shrinking. "One of you will prove a shrunk panel, and, like green timber, warp, warp." "They clamp one piece of wood to the end of another, to keep it from casting, or warping."
2.
To turn or incline from a straight, true, or proper course; to deviate; to swerve. "There is our commission, From which we would not have you warp."
3.
To fly with a bending or waving motion; to turn and wave, like a flock of birds or insects. "A pitchy cloud Of locusts, warping on the eastern wind."
4.
To cast the young prematurely; to slink; said of cattle, sheep, etc. (Prov. Eng.)
5.
(Weaving) To wind yarn off bobbins for forming the warp of a web; to wind a warp on a warp beam.





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"Warp" Quotes from Famous Books



... articles of clothing to supply the demand of the Salesroom of the institution, the lesson in English has a natural, practical bearing, arising from the fact that one hour has been spent with the theory class of the workroom studying the warp and woof of the materials used, perhaps the sixth or seventh lesson in a series on cotton, introduced to the class first in its native heath. Correlation comes in wherever it may, and the association of ideas obtained in class-room and workroom is ...
— Tuskegee & Its People: Their Ideals and Achievements • Various
... affectations; he must even have a special and peculiar garb in which to write. All these eccentricities and his outside distractions and ambitions, as well as his noble and pathetic love affair, entered into the warp and woof of his work with effects that can easily be detected by the careful student, who should remember, however, that the master's foibles and peculiarities never for one moment set him outside the small circle of the men of supreme genius. He belongs ...
— Library Of The World's Best Literature, Ancient And Modern, Vol 3 • Various
... arms! Truly say the philosophers, that the universe is magical in itself, and by mysterious sympathies links like to like. The prophetic instinct of thy future benefits towards me drew me to thee as by an invisible warp, hawser, or chain-cable, from the moment I beheld thee. Thou went a kindred spirit, my brother, though thou knewest it not. Therefore I do not praise thee—no, nor thank thee in the least, though thou hast preserved for me the one palm which shadows my weary steps—the single lotus-flower (in ...
— Hypatia - or, New Foes with an Old Face • Charles Kingsley
... yarn thou needest, With thy fingers do thou spin it, Let the yarn be loosely twisted, But the flaxen thread more closely. 380 Closely in a ball then wind it, On the winch securely twist it, Fix it then upon the warp-beam, And upon the loom secure it, Then the shuttle fling thou sharply, But the yarn do thou draw gently. Weave the thickest woollen garments, Woollen gowns construct thou likewise, From a single fleece prepare them, From a winter fleece construct ...
— Kalevala, Volume I (of 2) - The Land of the Heroes • Anonymous
... of sex defeat the ends of justice? To answer this question it is necessary to determine how far juries are liable to favor the testimony of a woman plaintiff merely because she is a woman, and how far sympathy for a woman arraigned as a prisoner is likely to warp their judgment. ...
— Courts and Criminals • Arthur Train


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