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warp

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1. warp - Noun

2. warp - Verb

Meaning

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

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

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

To weave; to fabricate.

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

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

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

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

To arrange (yarns) on a warp beam.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

A premature casting of young; -- said of cattle, sheep, etc.

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

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

Source: Webster's dictionary

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I wouldn't know a space-time continuum or warp core breach if they got into bed with me. Patrick Stewart

If you would see how interwoven it is in the warp and woof of civilization ... go at night-fall to the top of one of the down-town steel giants and you may see how in the image of material man, at once his glory and his menace, is this thing we call a city. Frank Lloyd Wright

Life's warp of Heaven and woof of Hell. Coventry Patmore

When the cucumber is small, you can warp it easier. Portuguese Proverb

Do not put in more warp than you can weave. Danish Proverb

When the cucumber is small, you can warp it easier. Brazilian Proverb

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