Definitions for Warp

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Warp warp

Spelling: [wawrp]

IPA: /wɔrp/

Warp is a 4 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 9 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 10 points.

You can make 28 anagrams from letters in Warp (aprw).

Definitions for Warp

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 Warp

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 Warp

Of this warp and woof have all the strange patterns of Spanish life been woven.

One of my favorite moments in that film was when Spock mends the warp core and Captain Kirk goes down to see him.

But the thugs are numerous enough to be part of the warp and woof of the community.

How to get Fitzgerald house trained before the floorboards begin to warp?

And as a shuttle separates the warp from the woof, so a name distinguishes the natures of things.

That helplessness, which I felt rather than saw, wove into the warp of my love.

It is not affected by moisture and it is therefore not so liable to warp and lose its shape.

As in a web the warp is stronger than the woof, so should the rulers be stronger than their half-educated subjects.

Instead, now we have a political science case-study proving how political fortunes can shift and change at warp speed.

But the warp and woof of the business changed hardly at all, nor should it have.