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To warp something means to bend or twist it out of its normal, flat, straight shape - wood can warp in the heat, and metal can warp under pressure. People also talk about a person's mind or judgment being "warped," meaning it's been twisted into something unhealthy or wrong. In weaving, the "warp" is also the name for the long threads that run up and down on a , crossed by the "" threads - this older, technical meaning is where the everyday idea of "twisting" first came from.
(動) 使彎曲變形；(名) (紡織) 經線。
組成From Old English "weorpan" (to throw), connected to the twisting motion of threads on a loom.
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warpnoun詞源 1/ˈwɔːp/
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The state, quality, or condition of being twisted, physically or mentally:
- All frames found to suffer from warp should be broken up straight away before the printer is tempted during a rush to make use of them.
- Rough lumber is rarely perfectly straight, and may suffer from warp,
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The state, quality, or condition of being twisted, physically or mentally:
- He believed that we were suffering from warp or bias, that a blind spot contorted our mental vision.
- […] and may discover that the potency of this politician-father had so altered the freedom with which corrective authority could be imposed on his son that to an extraordinary extent the person as an adult continues to suffer from warp acquired at home as a child.
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A distortion:
- Wills, too, was struck down by a pole but was saved because a warp in the wood bent upwards, creating a pocket for his body.
- In yet another ironic twist in a story richly endowed with such warps, the Tsar's telegram crossed one despatched in the other direction.
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A distortion:
- It is interesting to note that it has been suggested by Lugaro to partially extirpate the thyroid in cases of moral insanity; an excessive secretion of thyroid being regarded as the cause of excessive amativeness, thieving, and other mental warps […]
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businessmanufacturingtextilesThe threads that run lengthwise in a woven fabric; crossed by the woof or weft.
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The foundation, the basis, the undergirding.
- The sense of sin (enforced by piacular rites) is as important to social integration as the committing of crimes (in due proportion) which alone can cause the mobilization of moral values that is the warp of society and of human conscience.
- This stretch is typical of the Piedmont section, where the warp of the economic structure is agriculture and the woof industry.
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nauticaltransportA line or cable or rode as is used in warping (mooring or hauling) a ship, and sometimes for other purposes such as deploying a seine or creating drag.
- We finish’d the Raft that Night, and in the Morning sent Mr. Prat, our Chief Mate, and four Men in the Boat with a long Rope for a Warp, to fasten on the Land.
- […] trailed one of my sea anchors or at least some warps in order to ease the ship […]
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literaturemediapublishingA theoretical construct that permits travel across a medium without passing through it normally, such as a teleporter, faster-than-light travel or time warp.
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A situation or place which is or seems to be from another era; a time warp.
- If Times Square nevertheless remained a metaphor for the city's changing dynamics, it was stuck in a warp of immobility, unable to push itself forward as it had in the early part of the twentieth century.
- Evolutionary psychology often seems to be stuck in a warp on the grassy African plains, even though we know that early humans didn't stay on the Savannah but moved from around 2 million years ago out of Africa into quite different terrains.
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The sediment which subsides from turbid water; the alluvial deposit of muddy water artificially introduced into low lands in order to enrich or fertilise them.
- The silt is brought down and the strong tide of the Humber brings it up in very large quantities, so that the river the whole way through nearly is exceedingly thick. Added to that I may say that we suffer from warp to a tremendous extent.
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obsoletedialectalA throw or cast, as of fish (in which case it is used as a unit of measure: about four fish, though sometimes three or even two), oysters, etc.
- a warp of fish
warpverb詞源 2/ˈwɔːp/
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To twist or become twisted, physically or mentally.
- The moisture warped the board badly.
- to warp space and time
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To twist or become twisted, physically or mentally.
- Over the years the post had warped and checked and needed to be replaced.
- One of you will prove a shrunk panel, and, like green timber, warp.
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To twist or become twisted, physically or mentally.
- Funny how the thought of huge profits can warp your judgment.
- This firſt avovv'd; nor Folly vvarp'd my Mind, / Nor the frail Texture of the Female Kind / Betray'd my Vertue: […]
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To twist or become twisted, physically or mentally.
- His perspective had warped after his extreme experiences.
- There is our commission, / From which we would not have you warp.
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obsoleteartscraftshobbiesTo run (yarn) off the reel into hauls to be tarred.
- The usual method is to warp the yarn, either in whole or half hauls, […]
- The next part of the process previous to tarring, is that of warping the yarns, or stretching them all to one length.
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businessmanufacturingtextilesTo arrange strands of thread lengthwise on a loom.
- Warp the loom using your preferred method, following the draft in Figure 2 […]
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obsoleterareTo plot; to fabricate or weave (a plot or scheme).
- whiles lie doth he mischief warp
- She acquainted the Greeks underhand with this treason, which was a warping against them.
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obsoleterareTo change or fix (make fixed, for example by freezing).
- though thou the waters warp
- On came the sleet, and hail, and snow, in thorough good earnest; on came the bitter biting wind, which is not so unkind as man's ingratitude; on came the frost, which warps the waters, but whose bite is not so nigh as benefits forgot,
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nauticaltransportTo move:
- We had a dreary morning's work before us, for there was no sign of any wind, and the boats had to be got out and manned, and the ship warped three or four miles around the corner of the island.[…]
- At slack tide, the crew warped the ship into the lock that lowered the vessel down to river height,
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nauticaltransportTo move:
- Having all our boats out with anchors and warps in them, which were presently run out, the ship warped into safety, where we dropt anchor for the night.
- A good anchorage was found at Tanna, and the ship warped close in.
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datedrareTo move:
- A pitchy cloud / Of locusts, warping on the eastern wind.
- Thou know'st, with trumpet tongue, they'll speak, despite / Detracting foes, unnumbered as the tribes / Of horned locusts, warped on dusky winds, […]
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literaturemediapublishingTo move:
- Then we warp a ball of atmosphere right out of the sky into the domes, and some fruit trees to go with them, and we also abduct some livestock.
- Valerie asked why they couldn't warp to the planet.
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obsoletedialectalTo bring forth (young) prematurely.
- They count a cow's warping her calf a month before her time not to be so bad as an ewe's losing her lamb. […] [A]n ewe that had warped her lamb very early might sometimes have another within the year[.]
- Some cows are perhaps by constitutional weakness, or bodily imperfection, more liable to warp than others; […]
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agriculturebusinesslifestyleTo fertilize (low-lying land) by letting the tide, a river, or other water in upon it to deposit silt and alluvial matter.
- Large fields are surrounded by embankments, dykes are cut, and sluice hates placed; when warping is in progress the gates all along the dykes to the tidal river, miles away, are opened.
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obsoleterareTo throw.
- They warped all his bowels about on the tide.
- time and again / i write you of our love for Jarrell. / the wind warps me in your tree / Delmore […]
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