Warp

/wɔːp/ · noun

Meaning

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

Definitions by Sense

1. (uncountable) The state, quality, or condition of being twisted, physically or mentally:
2. (countable) A distortion:
3. (weaving) The threads that run lengthwise in a woven fabric; crossed by the woof or weft.
4. (figurative) The foundation, the basis, the undergirding.
5. (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.
6. A theoretical construct that permits travel across a medium without passing through it normally, such as a teleporter or time warp.
7. A situation or place which is or seems to be from another era; a time warp.
8. 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

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.

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 […]

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.

To succeed routinely at mind-reading or telekinesis or love charms would result in no learning, no amusement, no spiritual growth (for a companion parable, check out Bill Murray's Groundhog Day). We would be stuck in a warp […]

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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• warps
• warping
• warped

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