Warp

Quick meaning: Warp is a noun meaning (uncountable) The state, quality, or condition of being twisted, physically or mentally:.

Meaning

(uncountable) The state, quality, or condition of being twisted, physically or mentally:.

More Meanings

1. (countable) A distortion:
2. (weaving) The threads that run lengthwise in a woven fabric; crossed by the woof or weft.
3. (figurative) The foundation, the basis, the undergirding.
4. A theoretical construct that permits travel across a medium without passing through it normally, such as a teleporter or time warp.
5. A situation or place which is or seems to be from another era; a time warp.
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. 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.

Example Sentences

[…] trailed one of my sea anchors or at least some warps in order to ease the ship […]

This stretch is typical of the Piedmont section, where the warp of the economic structure is agriculture and the woof industry.

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.

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.

Word Forms

• warps
• warping
• warped

Synonyms for warp

Depending on context, synonyms include fling, hurl, bung, cast, chuck, chunk.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include distort, garble, buckle, deflection, falsify, heave.

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