Definitions from Wiktionary (warp)
▸ noun: (uncountable) The state, quality, or condition of being twisted, physically or mentally:
▸ noun: (uncountable) The state, quality, or condition of being physically bent or twisted out of shape.
▸ noun: (uncountable) The state, quality, or condition of being deviant from what is right or proper morally or mentally.
▸ noun: (countable) A distortion:
▸ noun: (countable) A distortion or twist, such as in a piece of wood (also used figuratively).
▸ noun: (countable) A mental or moral distortion, deviation, or aberration.
▸ noun: (weaving) The threads that run lengthwise in a woven fabric; crossed by the woof or weft.
▸ noun: (figurative) The foundation, the basis, the undergirding.
▸ noun: (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.
▸ noun: A theoretical construct that permits travel across a medium without passing through it normally, such as a teleporter or time warp.
▸ noun: A situation or place which is or seems to be from another era; a time warp.
▸ noun: 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.
▸ noun: (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.
▸ verb: To twist or become twisted, physically or mentally.
▸ verb: (transitive) To twist or turn (something) out of shape; to deform.
▸ verb: (intransitive) To become twisted out of shape; to deform.
▸ verb: (transitive) To deflect or turn (something) away from a true, proper or moral course; to pervert; to bias.
▸ verb: (intransitive) To go astray or be deflected from a true, proper or moral course; to deviate.
▸ verb: (ambitransitive, obsolete, ropemaking) To run (yarn) off the reel into hauls to be tarred.
▸ verb: (transitive) To arrange (strands of thread, etc) so that they run lengthwise in weaving.
▸ verb: (ambitransitive, rare, obsolete, figurative) To plot; to fabricate or weave (a plot or scheme).
▸ verb: (transitive, rare, obsolete, poetic) To change or fix (make fixed, for example by freezing).
▸ verb: To move:
▸ verb: (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.
▸ verb: (intransitive, nautical, of a ship) To move or be moved by this method.
▸ verb: (intransitive, rare, dated) To fly with a bending or waving motion, like a flock of birds or insects.
▸ verb: (ambitransitive, science fiction) To travel or transport across a medium without passing through it normally, as by using a teleporter or time warp.
▸ verb: (ambitransitive, obsolete outside dialects, of an animal) To bring forth (young) prematurely.
▸ verb: (ambitransitive, agriculture) To fertilize (low-lying land) by letting the tide, a river, or other water in upon it to deposit silt and alluvial matter.
▸ verb: (transitive, very rare, obsolete) To throw.
▸ Also see warp
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▸ noun: (uncountable) The state, quality, or condition of being twisted, physically or mentally:
▸ noun: (uncountable) The state, quality, or condition of being physically bent or twisted out of shape.
▸ noun: (uncountable) The state, quality, or condition of being deviant from what is right or proper morally or mentally.
▸ noun: (countable) A distortion:
▸ noun: (countable) A distortion or twist, such as in a piece of wood (also used figuratively).
▸ noun: (countable) A mental or moral distortion, deviation, or aberration.
▸ noun: (weaving) The threads that run lengthwise in a woven fabric; crossed by the woof or weft.
▸ noun: (figurative) The foundation, the basis, the undergirding.
▸ noun: (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.
▸ noun: A theoretical construct that permits travel across a medium without passing through it normally, such as a teleporter or time warp.
▸ noun: A situation or place which is or seems to be from another era; a time warp.
▸ noun: 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.
▸ noun: (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.
▸ verb: To twist or become twisted, physically or mentally.
▸ verb: (transitive) To twist or turn (something) out of shape; to deform.
▸ verb: (intransitive) To become twisted out of shape; to deform.
▸ verb: (transitive) To deflect or turn (something) away from a true, proper or moral course; to pervert; to bias.
▸ verb: (intransitive) To go astray or be deflected from a true, proper or moral course; to deviate.
▸ verb: (ambitransitive, obsolete, ropemaking) To run (yarn) off the reel into hauls to be tarred.
▸ verb: (transitive) To arrange (strands of thread, etc) so that they run lengthwise in weaving.
▸ verb: (ambitransitive, rare, obsolete, figurative) To plot; to fabricate or weave (a plot or scheme).
▸ verb: (transitive, rare, obsolete, poetic) To change or fix (make fixed, for example by freezing).
▸ verb: To move:
▸ verb: (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.
▸ verb: (intransitive, nautical, of a ship) To move or be moved by this method.
▸ verb: (intransitive, rare, dated) To fly with a bending or waving motion, like a flock of birds or insects.
▸ verb: (ambitransitive, science fiction) To travel or transport across a medium without passing through it normally, as by using a teleporter or time warp.
▸ verb: (ambitransitive, obsolete outside dialects, of an animal) To bring forth (young) prematurely.
▸ verb: (ambitransitive, agriculture) To fertilize (low-lying land) by letting the tide, a river, or other water in upon it to deposit silt and alluvial matter.
▸ verb: (transitive, very rare, obsolete) To throw.
▸ Also see warp
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