Warp

Definition: Warp

Warp

Noun

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

2. A shape distorted by twisting or folding.

3. A moral or mental distortion.

4. Yarn arranged lengthways on a loom and crossed by the woof.

Verb

1. Make false by mutilation or addition; as of a message or story.

2. Bend out of shape, as under pressure or from heat; "The highway buckled during the heatwave".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "warp" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1010. (references)

Computing

Building & Civil Engineering

Food & Agriculture

Industry

Literature

Mining

Transportation

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Synonyms: Warp

Change

Verb: change, alter, vary, wax and wane; modulate, diversify, qualify, tamper with; turn, shift, veer, tack, chop, shuffle, swerve, warp, deviate, turn aside, evert, intervert; pass to, take a turn, turn the corner, resume.

Contraction

Render smaller, lessen, diminish, contract, draw in, narrow, coarctate; boil down; constrict, constringe; condense, compress, squeeze, corrugate, crimp, crunch, crush, crumple up, warp, purse up, pack, squeeze, stow; pinch, tighten, strangle; cramp; dwarf, bedwarf; shorten; circumscribe; restrain.

Deterioration

Wound, stab, pierce, maim, lame, surbate, cripple, hough, hamstring, hit between wind and water, scotch, mangle, mutilate, disfigure, blemish, deface, warp.

Deviation

Noun: deviation; swerving; Verb: obliquation, warp, refraction; flection, flexion; sweep; deflection, deflexure; declination.

Intervert; deflect; divert, divert from its course; put on a new scent, shift, shunt, draw aside, crook, warp.

Distortion

Verb: distort, contort, twist, warp, wrest, writhe, make faces, deform, misshape.

Misjudgment

Give a bias, give a twist; bias, warp, twist; prejudice, prepossess.

Bias, bigotry, warp, twist; hobby, fad, quirk, crotchet, partiality, infatuation, blind side, mote in the eye.

Navigation

Navigate, warp, luff, scud, boom, kedge; drift, course, cruise, coast; hug the shore, hug the land; circumnavigate.

Texture

Texture, surface texture; intertexture, contexture; tissue, grain, web, surface; warp and woof, warp and weft; tooth, nap. (roughness); flatness (smoothness); fineness of grain; coarseness of grain, dry goods.

Crosswords: Warp

Manx (trio, trio of herrings, warp).

Burn rubber does not mean warp speed (The Lost Boys; writing credit: Jeffrey Boam, Janice Fischer, and James Jeremias.)

Won't that warp him (The Simpsons; writing credit: Artur Brauner; Paul Hengge)

I feel like I've been in a time warp. There's no jets, planes, telephone polls, or power lines (Deadly Blessing; writing credit: Glenn M. Benest; Matthew Barr)

There's nothing like cotton candy up your nose at warp 10. (Sabrina the Animated Series; writing credit: Josh Stolberg)

Let's do the time warp again (The Rocky Horror Picture Show; writing credit: Richard O'Brien; Jim Sharman)

Warp and Weft (1952)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

References

• The 2001 Report on Broadwoven, Weft, Lace and Warp Knit: World Market Segmentation by City (reference)

• The 2001 Long-Run Global Growth Prospects for Broadwoven, Weft, Lace and Warp Knit: A Physioeconomic Perspective (reference)

• The 2000-2005 Outlook for Broadwoven, Weft, Lace and Warp Knit in Asia (reference)

• The World Market for Narrow Woven Fabrics and Narrow Fabrics Consisting of Warp without Weft Assembled by Means of an Adhesive: A 2004 Global Trade Perspective (reference)

  (more reference examples)

Books

• The Not-So-Jolly Roger (Time Warp Trio, 2) (reference)

• Viking It and Liking It (Time Warp Trio, 11) (reference)

• It's All Greek to Me (Time Warp Trio, 8) (reference)

• Knights of the Kitchen Table (Time Warp Trio, 1) (reference)

• Summer Reading Is Killing Me! (Time Warp Trio, 7) (reference)

  (more book examples)

Theater & Movies

• Dragon's Lair 2-Time Warp (reference)

  (more DVD examples; more video examples)

Music

• Time Warp [SOUNDTRACK] (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

High Tech

• Dragon's Lair 2: Time Warp (reference)

• Warp Speed (reference)

• Play Addl 2D/3D Warp Engine Dve Multi-Channel Card 32-Bit F/Trinity (reference)

• OS/2 Warp 4.0 CD-ROM (reference)

  (more camera examples; more video game examples; more computer examples; more electronic examples; more software examples)

Consumer Goods

• Warp Brothers 4mil Black Plastic Poly Film (reference)

• Warp Brothers SF-6425 64" x 25' Shrink-It Window Insulation Kit (reference)

• Warp Brothers 6CH20-C Plastic Sheeting (reference)

  (more baby examples; more wireless phone examples; more garden examples; more kitchen examples; more tool examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

A telltale new warp uncovered in a vast, thin disk of dust encircling the star Beta Pictoris ... Credit: NASA.

Production. Parachute cloth and shrouds. An Eastern manufacturer uses this 5B spinning machine of the older type in manufacturing warp threads for weaving into parachute cloth. Credit: Library of Congress.

Madame Dronet using shuttle in making the warp of homespun material. Erath, Louisiana. Credit: Library of Congress.

Running shuttle through warp in making rag rug at WPA (Works Progress Administration/Work Projects Administration) project at Costilla, New Mexico. Credit: Library of Congress.

Spanish-American woman passing shuttle through warp in weaving rag rug. WPA (Works Progress Administration/Work Projects Administration) project. Costilla, New Mexico. Credit: Library of Congress.

Operator repairing break in thread in warp winding. Laurel cotton mills, Laurel, Mississippi. Credit: Library of Congress.

Warp winding machine with operator. Laurel mills, Laurel Mississippi. Credit: Library of Congress.

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

Expressions using "warp": Guess warp ♦ guest warp ♦ guest warp boom ♦ low warp loom ♦ trawl warp ♦ warp and woof ♦ warp beam ♦ warp drawer ♦ warp drum ♦ warp fabric ♦ warp frame ♦ warp knitted piqué ♦ warp knitting ♦ warp lace ♦ warp net ♦ warp of the mind ♦ warp reel ♦ warp shed ♦ warp speed ♦ warp thread ♦ warp tyer ♦ warp up ♦ warp winder ♦ warp yarn. Additional references.

Beginning with "warp": warp-drive, warp-eddy, warp-eye, warp-form, warp-knitted, warp-knitting, warp-monkeys, Warp-net frame, warp-psychosis, warp-scope, warp-sharing, warp-ship, warp-space, warp-threads, warp-time, warp-vanes, warp-walking, warp-world.

Ending with "warp": time-warp.

Containing "warp": high-warp loom, low-warp loom, low-warp-loom.

Albanian

tërheq me litar, shtrembëroj (bevel, contort, deface, deform, deprave, distort, falsify, mutilate, skew, slant, sophisticate, travesty), shtrembërim (contortion, defacement, deflection, deflexion, deformation, distortion, misrepresentation, mutilation, perversion), prishje (abolition, annulment, blasting, breach, breaking, breakup, chasm, collapse, corruption, damage, debasement, decay, decomposition, defacement, defeat, defilement, depravation, depravity, deterioration, discord, dissolution, failure, obliteration, quarrel, rancidity, rancidness, rot, split up, spoilage, stymie, taint, vitiation, wrecking), prish (alloy, annul, baffle, blast, blow, botch, break, cancel, collapse, consume, corrode, corrupt, damn, darken, debase, debauch, deface, deflower, denounce, deprave, derogate, destroy, deteriorate, disarrange, disestablish, dissipate, dissolve, fester, fritter, frustrate, go, gum up, infringe, injure, mammock, mess, misguide, misspend, nip, obliterate, pervert, pollute, pull down, quash, queer, rot, ruin, shatter, sophisticate, spend, split, spoil, stymie, take away, thwack, trouble, undo, unmake, unsettle, upset, violate, vitiate, wear, wreck, zap), pjesë e shtrembër, përkulje (bend, Bob, bow, crouch, curtsey, curtsy, curvature, droop, flection, flex, flexion, flexure, incurvation, incurvature, inflection, reverence, sag, stoop), përkul (bend, crook, curve, decline, double, flex, hunch, incline, inflect, overarch, weigh down), përdredh (curl, intertwist, luxate, screw, sprain, turn, twine, wrick, wring), litar për tërheqje të anijes, deformoj (deform). (various references)

Arabic 

‏نجر المركب, ‏حبل مشدود لمرساة, ‏تشويه (defacement, deformation, deformity, disfiguration, disfigurement, distortion, falsification, malformation, misrepresentation, perversion, torture), ‏سدى يرتب الخطوط, ‏سداة في النسيج, ‏طمي راسب غريني, ‏انفتال, ‏التواء (contortion, offset, rick, sprain, strain), ‏اعوجاج, ‏إنفتل, ‏إنعطف عن السبيل, ‏شوه (assassinate, blemish, color, colour, deface, defile, deform, denigrate, distort, falsify, garble, harm, maim, mangle, mar, misrepresent, mutilate, pervert, queer, skew, slant, slur, spoil, tinker, torment, torture, twist, wrench). (various references)

Bulgarian 

нанос (alluvion, alluvium, blanket, debris, deposit, deposition, drift, float, silt, wash), извратявам, изкорубвам (dish up), изкорубване, изкривеност (tortuousity), придвижвам с въже, деформирам (deform), алувиална почва, утайка (crust, deposit, drains, dregs, faeces, feculence, grouts, offscourings, precipitate, precipitation, ragtag, residue, residuum, rinsings, sediment, sludge), наторявам с наносна тиня, насновавам основа, отклонение от нормата, основа (accidence, alkali, base, basis, bed, foot, footing, foundation, fundamental, grounding, groundwork, joint, lye, pedestal, radix, seat, seating, sole, staff, stem, substratum, substructure, theme, underpinning, warp and woof), вид корабно въже, свивам (bend, constrict, contract, convulse, cop, double, double up, draw, knap, knit, knit together, knot, neck, pinch, pucker, roll, screw, screw up, set, shorten, snitch, swing, turn, turn down, twist, wad, work), база (base, basis, groundwork, home, jumping-off-place, substratum, warp and woof). (various references)

Chinese 

经线, 彎曲 (bend, bent, curve, wind). (various references)

Czech

zvlnit, zvlnìní (ruffle up), zprohýbat, zprohýbáni, zkroutit se (curl up), zkroucení (contortion, twist), zbortit se (sag), zavést (adopt, bring up, carry, download, inaugurate, introduce, lead on), osnova (gist), odchýlit (deflect, divert, swerve, turn away). (various references)

Danish

wire (stay, stay rope, stay wire, steel wire stay, trawl warp, wire, wire back-tie), varpe, trawlwire (trawl warp), slik, slæbewire (trawl warp), optisk forstyrrelse (distortion), klaeg, kaedegarn (chain), kæde (chain), forhale, boeje. (various references)

Dutch

werplijn, warp, vormfout door kromming, vislijn (line), vertekening (bias, distortion, geometrical distortion, non-sampling error, systematic error), verhalen (narrate, relate, tell), trawllijn (trawl warp), schering (chain), ketting (chain), jouage (distortion), grond ophogen door het doen bezinken van slib. (various references)

Farsi 

پیچ وتاب , منحرف کردن (Alienate, Bend, Calloff, Deflect, Divert, Pervert, Shunt, Swerve, Wring), تاب دارکردن , تاب برداشتن , ریسمان (Chord, Cord, Line, Rope, String, Thread). (various references)

Finnish

loimi (blanket). (various references)

French

chaîne (warp yarn). (various references)

German

verzerren (blur, contort, distort, skew, to distort), Verwerfung (condemnation, discarding, dismissal, fault, quashing, rejection, warping), Kette (catena, chain, chain track, Covey, file, line, mountain range, range, rank, row, series, set, shackle, skein, string, succession, train, turn). (various references)

Greek 

στημόνι (harness, heald, heddle, wire heald). (various references)

Hebrew 

מסכת (chapter, context, texture, tissue, tract, weaving, web, woof), לעות (contort, corrupt, distort, falsify, pervert, strain, subvert, twist), לעקם (bend, contort, curve, distort, flex, twist), ל�"שתות (establish, found, weave), עוות (contortion, falsification, perversion), עקום (bending, contortion, crooked, crooking, curvature, distortion, twist, wry). (various references)

Hungarian

vontatókötél (drag, guess-rope, hawser, painter, tow, tow rope, towing line, towing rope, tow-line), vetemedés (buckle, cast, warpage). (various references)

Indonesian

membengkokkan (clamp, decline), geleding, anian. (various references)

Italian

ordito (cloth, fabric, net, network, note, schedele, slip, slip of paper, texture, tissue). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

経糸 , 経 (Buddhist scriptures, sutra), 縦糸 , ワーク取り付け台 (fixtures, wardrobe, warning, word, word processor, word-processor, worst), 曲がり (bend, curvature), 反り (arch, curvature, curve). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

たていと, ワープ , そり (arch, curvature, curve, sled, sleigh), まがり (bend, curvature, renting a room). (various references)

Korean 

� 실. (various references)

Manx

warp (trio, trio of herrings), tead tayrnee (heaving line, tow), cassey (change, curl, distort, flick, flounce, involve, pervert, screw, spin, squirm, swing, swirl, tangle, turn, turn over, twist, whip-round, wrench, wring), carral (twine, twirl, twist). (various references)

Pig Latin

arpway.(various references)

Portuguese

rebocar (anoint, drag, grout, haul, kedge, parget, plaster, roughcast, smear, spread, to tow, tow, track, tug), empenamento (curling, warpage). (various references)

Romanian

urzi (brew, cause, devise, hatch, plot), urzealã (netting, scheming, structure, texture, tissue), strâmbare (contortion), se încovoia (crook, flex, recurve, sag, stoop, yield), scoroji (cast, shrink, shrivel), odgon de remorcã, deviere (aberration, abnormality, deflection, deflexion, departure from, diversion, obliquity, swerve), devia (deflect, depart, digress, diverge, drift, glance, straggle, swerve, wander), denaturare (corruption, distortion, misrepresentation, perversion, sophistication), denatura (angle, denaturalize, denature, distort, falsify, give false colour to, mangle, misrepresent, palter with, pervert, sophisticate, torture, transfigure, wrest), burduşi (lay in, pommel, sandbag, shrink, stuff, tan), aluviune (alluvia, alluvium, drift, ooze, silt), încovoiere a lemnului, încovoia (bend, crook, hunch, inflect, recurve). (various references)

Russian 

сновать, коробление (casting, contraction, hogging), коробиться (cockle, deform), коробить основа, коробить (deform), основа ткани, основа (backbone, base, basics, basis, essentials, framework, fundamentals, grassroots, groundwork, medulla, pivot, rudiments), набирать основу, извращенность (perversion, perversity), деформация (alteration, crippling, deformation, deformity, strain), деформироваться (deform). (various references)

Scottish

dlùth (close, close; confined, nigh, the warp of a web, tight, warp of a web). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

vitoperiti, predrasuda (preconception, prejudice, prepossession, slant), osnova (base, basis, bottom, footing, foundation, grassroots, ground, plane, radix, stem, substruction), krivljenje (incurvation), izvitoperiti (bend), izvitoperenost, izbaciti (belch, cut out, delete, dispose, dispose of, eject, jerk, scavenge, throw, throw out, turf out), iskriviti (bend, contort, curve, distort, spring, turn aside, wry), širom otvoriti (pop, pop out). (various references)

Spanish

urdimbre, deformación (deformation, distortion, strain). (various references)

Swedish

varp (banking, chain, rock fill), ränning. (various references)

Turkish

sapma (bias, declension, declination, deflection, deflexion, departure, detour, deviation, divagation, drift, excursion, inequality, lapse, obliqueness, obliquity, perversion, refracting, refractive, spread, swing, turn), çarpılmak, çarpıtmak (angle, color, colour, contort, distort, garble, make awry, make crooked, pervert, skew, slant, strain, torture, twist, wrench, wrest, wring), alüvyonlu tortu, eğilmek (bend, bow, buckle, cant over, curve, dip, double, double up, droop, duck, fall down, hang, hang over, incline, lean, sag, spring, stoop, strain, tilt, tip, yield), eğmek (bend, bow, buckle, cant, contort, curve, decline, droop, flex, incline, incurve, inflect, ply, slant, spring, stoop, sway, tilt), eğrilik (camber, cast, crookedness, curvature, deviousness, obliqueness, skew, slant, tortuosity, unevenness, wryness), çarpıklık (cast, crookedness, distortion, irregularity, obliqueness, perversion, skew, tortuosity, wryness), palamarı çekerek hareket etmek, yoldan sapmak (straggle, stray), saptırmak (angle, call away, color, colour, contort, deflect, demotivate, detour, deviate, distort, draw off, garble, gerrymander, lead away, reroute, strain, sway, swerve, veer, veer round, vitiate, wring), su altında bırakarak verimini artırmak, yamukluk (skew, unevenness), yamulmak, yamultmak (distort), yanlış yorumlamak (give a wrench to, misconstrue, misinterpret, misread, wrench), palamar (cable, hawser, lashing, moorings, moors). (various references)

Ukrainian

верпуватися, викривлятися (crook), викривлення (contortion, curvature, deformation, flexure), основа тканини, наносний мул, зіпсованість (badness, foulness, putridity), збити з шляху, жолоблення (hogging), жолобитися (wind), абортувати, повзти (creep, ramp, snake, worm), перекручувати (bedevil, contort, deform, disguise, distort, garble, kink, misconstrue, mutilate, pervert, sophisticate, torture, travesty, wrest, wring), перлінь. (various references)

Vietnamese 

sự suy đốn, sự sa đoạ tinh thần. (various references)

Welsh

ystofi (plan, weave), ystof, dylif (deluge, flood). (various references)

stamen, stamine, tela, telae, telam, telas. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Derivations

Words beginning with "warp": warpage, warpages, warpath, warpaths, warped, warper, warpers, warping, warplane, warplanes, warpower, warpowers, warps, warpwise. (additional references)

Words ending with "warp": moldwarp. (additional references)

Words containing "warp": moldwarps, unwarped. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Warp" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Aarp, awrp, earp, Eworp, karp, rawp, twarp, waar, waip, waipu, walp, Wapc, Wapi, warb, warg, warl, waro, warpt, warr, warx, warz, werl, wirp, wlap, woap, worp, wraip, wral, wraq, wyap, yarp. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: wrap.

-1 letter: par, paw, rap, raw, wap, war.

-2 letters: ar, aw, pa.

+1 letter: pawer, prawn, warps, wraps, wrapt.

+2 letters: bewrap, enwrap, gawper, inwrap, pawers, pawner, pawnor, prawns, prelaw, prewar, prowar, psywar, rewrap, ripsaw, sprawl, unwrap, upward, warmup, warped, warper, yawper.

+3 letters: bewraps, bewrapt, enwraps, forepaw, gawpers, inwraps, parkway, partway, pawkier, pawners, pawnors, postwar, prawned, prawner, predawn, prewarm, prewarn, prewash, prewrap, psywars, rewraps, rewrapt, ripsaws, ropeway, sparrow, spawner, sprawls, sprawly, swamper, swapper, unwraps, upwards, warmups, warpage, warpath, warpers, warping, warship, waspier, whapper, whipray, wiretap, wrapped, wrapper, yawpers.