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Definitions and meaning of warp

warp

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /wɔːp/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /wɔɹp/
• (New Zealand) IPA^(key): /woːp/
• Rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)p

Etymology 1

From Middle English warp, werp, from Old English wearp, warp (“a warp, threads stretched lengthwise in a loom, twig, osier”), from Proto-Germanic *warpą (“a warp”), from Proto-Indo-European *werb- (“to turn, bend”). Cognate with Middle Dutch warp, Middle Low German warp, German Warf, Danish varp, Swedish varp.

Noun

warp (countable and uncountable, plural warps)

1. (uncountable) The state, quality, or condition of being twisted, physically or mentally:
   1. (uncountable) The state, quality, or condition of being physically bent or twisted out of shape.
      • 1992, Progrès scientifique au service du bois (International Union of Forestry Research Organizations. Division 5. Conference), page 503:

        […] and Senft found that the fibril angle in both the Pinus and Populus was high in juvenile wood, indicating that both are likely to exhibit warp in drying.

   2. (uncountable) The state, quality, or condition of being deviant from what is right or proper morally or mentally.
2. (countable) A distortion:
   1. (countable) A distortion or twist, such as in a piece of wood (also used figuratively).
   2. (countable) A mental or moral distortion, deviation, or aberration.
4. (weaving) The threads that run lengthwise in a woven fabric; crossed by the woof or weft.
5. (figurative) The foundation, the basis, the undergirding.
6. (nautical) A 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.
7. A theoretical construct that permits travel across a medium without passing through it normally, such as a teleporter or time warp.
8. A situation or place which is or seems to be from another era; a time warp.
9. 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.
   • 1902, C. K. Eddowes, speaking before the Royal Commission on Salmon Fisheries, as recorded in the Parliamentary Papers, House of Commons, volume 13, page 99:

     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.

10. (obsolete outside dialects) A 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

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Etymology 2

From Middle English werpen, weorpen, worpen, from Old English weorpan (“to throw”), from Proto-Germanic *werpaną (“to throw, turn”), from Proto-Indo-European *werb- (“to bend, turn”). Cognate with Scots warp (“to throw, warp”), North Frisian werpen (“to throw”), Dutch werpen (“to throw, cast”), German werfen (“to throw, cast”), Icelandic verpa (“to throw”).

Verb

warp (third-person singular simple present warps, present participle warping, simple past and past participle warped)

1. To twist or become twisted, physically or mentally.
   1. (transitive) To twist or turn (something) out of shape; to deform.
   2. (intransitive) To become twisted out of shape; to deform.
   3. (transitive) To deflect or turn (something) away from a true, proper or moral course; to pervert; to bias.
   4. (intransitive) To go astray or be deflected from a true, proper or moral course; to deviate.
2. (transitive, intransitive, obsolete, ropemaking) To run (yarn) off the reel into hauls to be tarred.
3. (transitive) To arrange (strands of thread, etc) so that they run lengthwise in weaving.
4. (transitive, intransitive, rare, obsolete, figurative) To plot; to fabricate or weave (a plot or scheme).
5. (transitive, rare, obsolete, poetic) To change or fix (make fixed, for example by freezing).
6. To move:
   1. (transitive, nautical) To move a vessel by hauling on a line or cable that is fastened to an anchor or pier; (especially) to move a sailing ship through a restricted place such as a harbour.
   2. (intransitive, nautical, of a ship) To move or be moved by this method.
   3. (intransitive, rare, dated) To fly with a bending or waving motion, like a flock of birds or insects.
   4. (transitive, intransitive, science fiction) To travel or transport across a medium without passing through it normally, as by using a teleporter or time warp.
7. (transitive, intransitive, obsolete outside dialects, of an animal) To bring forth (young) prematurely.
8. (transitive, intransitive, agriculture) To fertilize (low-lying land) by letting the tide, a river, or other water in upon it to deposit silt and alluvial matter.
9. (transitive, very rare, obsolete) To throw.

Derived terms

• warped (adjective)

Descendants

• → Japanese: ワープ (wāpu)

Translations

Further reading

• “warp”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
• “warp”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.

Anagrams

• wrap

Middle Dutch

Verb

warp

1. first/third-person singular past indicative of werpen

Middle English

Alternative forms

• warpe, werp, werpe, werppe

Etymology

From Old English wearp, warp, from Proto-West Germanic *warp, from Proto-Germanic *warpą. Related to werpen.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /warp/, /wɛrp/

Noun

warp

1. warp (lengthwise threads)
2. warp thread
3. (rare) weft (horizontal threads)
4. (rare) cast of fish
5. (nautical, rare) rope for hauling ships

Descendants

• English: warp
• Scots: warp

References

• “warp, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.