Definitions for warps

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warps warp

Spelling: [wawrp]

IPA: /wɔrp/

Warps is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 12 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 13 points.

You can make 63 anagrams from letters in warps (aprsw).

Definitions for warps

noun

1. a bend, twist, or variation from a straight or flat form in something, as in wood that has dried unevenly.
2. a mental twist, bias, or quirk, or a biased or twisted attitude or judgment.
3. the set of yarns placed lengthwise in the loom, crossed by and interlaced with the weft, and forming the lengthwise threads in a woven fabric.
4. time warp.
5. a situation, environment, etc., that seems characteristic of another era, especially in being out of touch with contemporary life or attitudes, etc.
6. Also called spring, spring line. Nautical. a rope for warping or hauling a ship or boat along or into position.
7. alluvial matter deposited by water, especially water let in to inundate low land so as to enrich it.

verb (used with object)

1. to bend or twist out of shape, especially from a straight or flat form, as timbers or flooring.
2. to bend or turn from the natural or true direction or course.
3. to distort or cause to distort from the truth, fact, true meaning, etc.; bias; falsify:
4. Aeronautics. to curve or bend (a wing or other airfoil) at the end or ends to promote equilibrium or to secure lateral control.
5. Nautical. to move (a vessel) into a desired place or position by hauling on a rope that has been fastened to something fixed, as a buoy or anchor.
6. Agriculture. to fertilize (land) by inundation with water that deposits alluvial matter.

verb (used without object)

1. to become bent or twisted out of shape, especially out of a straight or flat form:
2. to be or become biased; hold or change an opinion due to prejudice, external influence, or the like.
3. Nautical. to warp a ship or boat into position. (of a ship or boat) to move by being warped.
4. (of a stratum in the earth's crust) to bend slightly, to a degree that no fold or fault results.

Origin of warps

before 900; (v.) Middle English werpen, Old English weorpan to throw; cognate with German werfen, Old Norse verpa, Gothic wairpan; (noun) Middle English warpe, Old English wearp; cognate with

Examples for warps

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The schooner might well have been warped to a dock in some port of the dead.

This warped ideology, Bayor argues, trickled down into all facets of American immigration policy.

If the pressing hand has a twisting motion, the book will be warped.

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Your money had, in a way, warped your estimate of people and things.

The rudder may also be curved or warped in similar manner by lever action.

He wasn't going to be taken in by any warped sense of humor.