Definitions for WARP
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Princeton's WordNetRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. deflection, warpnoun

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

2. warp, bucklenoun

   a shape distorted by twisting or folding

3. warp, warpingnoun

   a moral or mental distortion

4. warpverb

   yarn arranged lengthways on a loom and crossed by the woof

5. falsify, distort, garble, warpverb

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

6. heave, buckle, warpverb

   bend out of shape, as under pressure or from heat

   "The highway buckled during the heat wave"

Samuel Johnson's DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Warpnoun

   That order of thread in a thing woven that crosses the woof.

   Etymology: wearp , Saxon; werp, Dutch.

   The fourteenth is the placing of the tangible parts in length or transverse, as it is in the warp and the woof of texture, more inward or more outward. Francis Bacon, Natural History.

2. To Warpverb

   1. To contract; to shrivel.2. To turn aside from the true direction.

   This first avow’d, nor folly warp’d my mind;
   Nor the frail texture of the female kind
   Betray’d my virtue. Dryden.

   Not foreign or domestick treachery
   Could warp thy soul to their unjust decree. Dryden.

   A great argument of the goodness of his cause, which required in its defender zeal, to a degree of warmth able to warp the sacred rule of the word of God. John Locke.

   I have no private considerations to warp me in this controversy, since my first entering upon it. Addison.

   Not warp’d by passion, aw’d by rumour,
   Not grave through pride, or gay through folly;
   An equal mixture of good humour,
   And sensible soft melancholy. Jonathan Swift.

   A constant watchfulness against all those prejudices that might warp the judgment aside from truth. Isaac Watts.

   3. It is used by William Shakespeare to express the effect of frost.

   Freeze, freeze, thou bitter sky,
   Thou do’st not bite so nigh
   As benefits forgot:
   Though thou the waters warp,
   Thy sting is not so sharp
   As friends remember’d not. William Shakespeare, As you like it.

3. To Warpverb

   whence we sometimes say, the work casts. To change from the true situation by intestine motion; to change the position of one part to another.

   Etymology: weorpan , Saxon; werpen, Dutch, to throw;

   This fellow will but join you together as they join wainscot, then one of you will prove a shrunk pannel, and like green timber warp. William Shakespeare, As you like it.

   They clamp one piece of wood to the end of another piece, to keep it from casting or warping. Joseph Moxon, Mech. Exercise.

   2. To lose its proper course or direction.

   There’s our commission
   From which we would not have you warp. William Shakespeare.

   This is strange! methinks
   My favour here begins to warp. William Shakespeare.

   All attest this doctrine, that the pope can give away the right of any sovereign, if he shall never so little warp. Dryden.

   This we should do as directly as may be, with as little warping and declension towards the creature as is possible. John Norris.

   3. To turn.

   The potent rod
   Of Amram’s son in Egypt’s evil day
   Wav’d round the coast, up call’d a pitchy cloud
   Of locusts, warping on the eastern wind,
   That o’er the realm of impious Pharaoh hung
   Like night. John Milton, Paradise Lost.

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1. warp

   Warp refers to a change or distortion in shape, form, or nature often caused by external forces, stress, or conditions. This term can be used in various contexts such as material science, image manipulation or time and space concepts in physics.

Webster DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Warpverb

   to throw; hence, to send forth, or throw out, as words; to utter

2. Warpverb

   to turn or twist out of shape; esp., to twist or bend out of a flat plane by contraction or otherwise

3. Warpverb

   to turn aside from the true direction; to cause to bend or incline; to pervert

4. Warpverb

   to weave; to fabricate

5. Warpverb

   to tow or move, as a vessel, with a line, or warp, attached to a buoy, anchor, or other fixed object

6. Warpverb

   to cast prematurely, as young; -- said of cattle, sheep, etc

7. Warpverb

   to let the tide or other water in upon (lowlying land), for the purpose of fertilization, by a deposit of warp, or slimy substance

8. Warpverb

   to run off the reel into hauls to be tarred, as yarns

9. Warpverb

   to arrange (yarns) on a warp beam

10. Warpverb

    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

11. Warpverb

    to turn or incline from a straight, true, or proper course; to deviate; to swerve

12. Warpverb

    to fly with a bending or waving motion; to turn and wave, like a flock of birds or insects

13. Warpverb

    to cast the young prematurely; to slink; -- said of cattle, sheep, etc

14. Warpverb

    to wind yarn off bobbins for forming the warp of a web; to wind a warp on a warp beam

15. Warp

    the threads which are extended lengthwise in the loom, and crossed by the woof

16. Warp

    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

17. Warp

    a slimy substance deposited on land by tides, etc., by which a rich alluvial soil is formed

18. Warp

    a premature casting of young; -- said of cattle, sheep, etc

19. Warp

    four; esp., four herrings; a cast. See Cast, n., 17

20. Warp

    the state of being warped or twisted; as, the warp of a board

21. Etymology: [OE. warpen; fr. Icel. varpa to throw, cast, varp a casting, fr. verpa to throw; akin to Dan. varpe to warp a ship, Sw. varpa, AS. weorpan to cast, OS. werpan, OFries. werpa, D. & LG. werpen, G. werfen, Goth. warpan; cf. Skr. vj to twist. 144. Cf. Wrap.]

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1. Warp

   In weaving cloth, the warp is the set of lengthwise yarns that are held in tension on a frame or loom. The yarn that is inserted over-and-under the warp threads is called the weft, woof, or filler. Each individual warp thread in a fabric is called a warp end or end. Warp means "that which is thrown across". Very simple looms use a spiral warp, in which a single, very long yarn is wound around a pair of sticks or beams in a spiral pattern to make up the warp. Because the warp is held under high tension during the entire process of weaving and warp yarn must be strong. Yarn for warp ends is usually spun and plied fibre. Traditional fibres for warping are wool, linen and silk. With the improvements in spinning technology during the Industrial Revolution, it became possible to make cotton yarn of sufficient strength to be used as the warp in mechanized weaving. Later, artificial or man-made fibres such as nylon or rayon were employed. Warping machines have been invented to provide solutions for gauging yarn strength, length measurement and count measurement. Just like a sewing machine, warping machinery is manually operated for preparing leas yarn. Additionally, the machine is made available in two model options: the metric and the imperial system.

Chambers 20th Century DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Warp

   wawrp, v.t. to turn: to twist out of shape: to turn from the right course: to pervert: to move a vessel by hauling on warps or ropes attached to buoys, other ships, anchors, &c.: to improve land by distributing on it, by means of embankments, canals, flood-gates, &c., the alluvial mud brought down by rivers: (rare) to change.—v.i. to be twisted out of a straight direction: to bend: to swerve: to move with a bending motion.—n. alluvial sediment: the threads stretched out lengthwise in a loom to be crossed by a woof: a rope used in towing.—adj. Warped, twisted by shrinking: perverted.—ns. War′per; War′ping; War′ping-bank, a bank to retain water in the process of warping land; War′ping-hook, a ropemakers' hook used in twisting rope-yarns; War′ping-post, a post in a rope-walk, used in warping rope-yarn. [A.S. weorpan, werpan; Ger. werfen, to cast; conn. with Ice. varpa, to throw—varp, a casting, a throw with a net.]

Dictionary of Military and Associated TermsRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. warp

   To haul a ship ahead by line or anchor.

Dictionary of Nautical TermsRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. warp

   A rope or light hawser, employed occasionally to transport a ship from one place to another in a port, road, or river. Also, an east-coast term for four herrings. Also, land between the sea-banks and the sea.--Warp of lower rigging. A term used in the rigging-loft, as, before cutting out a gang of rigging, it is warped. Also, to form the warp of spun-yarn in making sword-mats for the rigging-gripes, slings, &c.--To warp. To move a vessel from one place to another by warps, which are attached to buoys, to other ships, to anchors, or to certain fixed objects on shore. Also, to flood the lands near rivers in Yorkshire.

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1. WARP

   What does WARP stand for? -- Explore the various meanings for the WARP acronym on the Abbreviations.com website.

Surnames Frequency by Census RecordsRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. WARP

   According to the U.S. Census Bureau, Warp is ranked #82908 in terms of the most common surnames in America.
   
   The Warp surname appeared 227 times in the 2010 census and if you were to sample 100,000 people in the United States, approximately 0 would have the surname Warp.
   
   80.6% or 183 total occurrences were White.
   14.5% or 33 total occurrences were Black.

Matched Categories

1. • Change Surface
   • Distorted Shape
   • Distortion

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1. wrap

How to pronounce WARP?

1. Alex

   US English

   David

   US English

   Mark

   US English

   Daniel

   British

   Libby

   British

   Mia

   British

   Karen

   Australian

   Hayley

   Australian

   Natasha

   Australian

   Veena

   Indian

   Priya

   Indian

   Neerja

   Indian

   Zira

   US English

   Oliver

   British

   Wendy

   British

   Fred

   US English

   Tessa

   South African

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Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of WARP in Chaldean Numerology is: 8

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of WARP in Pythagorean Numerology is: 4

Examples of WARP in a Sentence

1. Martin Nolan:

   That's a really neat piece and it's like a time warp right back to the 1940s when Marilyn was just becoming famous.

2. James Stewart:

   Fear is an insidious and deadly thing. It can warp judgment, freeze reflexes, breed mistakes. Worse, it's contagious.

3. Robert Sheaffer:

   So, according to Masters, you just spin something fast enough and it will begin to warp space, and even send stuff backwards in time. This is a highly dubious claim.

4. Kathleen Sebelius:

   There's no question that Operation Warp Speed has been a great success getting to the point in a very rapid period of time of manufacturing a vaccine.

5. Anthony Fauci:

   We certainly need people to be rational about vaccines. They eradicated smallpox, they saved millions and millions of lives, they are very complex to design, and that's why, you know, saying it's being done at Warp Speed is a little scary, because you really need to do the safety checks very, very carefully.

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References

1. ^ Princeton's WordNet
   http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=WARP
2. ^ Samuel Johnson's Dictionary
   https://johnsonsdictionaryonline.com/views/search.php?term=WARP
3. ^ ChatGPT
   https://chat.openai.com
4. ^ Webster Dictionary
   https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/WARP
5. ^ Wikidata
   https://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?search=WARP
6. ^ Chambers 20th Century Dictionary
   https://www.gutenberg.org/files/37683/37683-h/37683-h.htm#:~:text=WARP
7. ^ Dictionary of Military and Associated Terms
   https://www.tradoc.army.mil/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/AD1029823-DOD-Dictionary-of-Military-and-Associated-Terms-2017.pdf
8. ^ Dictionary of Nautical Terms
   https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/26000/pg26000-images.html#:~:text=WARP
9. ^ Surnames Frequency by Census Records
   https://www.census.gov/topics/population/genealogy/data/2010_surnames.html