warp

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  Clamping up Boards to Prevent Warping
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  • v warp bend out of shape, as under pressure or from heat "The highway buckled during the heat wave"
  • v warp make false by mutilation or addition; as of a message or story
  • n warp yarn arranged lengthways on a loom and crossed by the woof
  • n warp a moral or mental distortion
  • n warp a shape distorted by twisting or folding
  • n warp a twist or aberration; especially a perverse or abnormal way of judging or acting
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• Interesting fact: In the early 1800s, a French silk weaver called Joseph-Marie Jacquard invented a way of automatically controlling the warp and weft threads on a silk loom by recording patterns of holes in a string of cards.
• • Warp A premature casting of young; -- said of cattle, sheep, etc.
  • Warp (Naut) A rope used in hauling or moving a vessel, usually with one end attached to an anchor, a post, or other fixed object; a towing line; a warping hawser.
  • Warp (Agric) A slimy substance deposited on land by tides, etc., by which a rich alluvial soil is formed.
  • Warp Four; esp., four herrings; a cast. See Cast n., 17.
  • Warp The state of being warped or twisted; as, the warp of a board.
  • Warp (Weaving) The threads which are extended lengthwise in the loom, and crossed by the woof.
  • Warp (Weaving) To arrange (yarns) on a warp beam.
  • Warp To cast prematurely, as young; -- said of cattle, sheep, etc.
  • Warp To cast the young prematurely; to slink; -- said of cattle, sheep, etc.
  • Warp To fly with a bending or waving motion; to turn and wave, like a flock of birds or insects. "A pitchy cloud
    Of locusts, warping on the eastern wind."
  • Warp (Agric) To let the tide or other water in upon (lowlying land), for the purpose of fertilization, by a deposit of warp, or slimy substance.
  • Warp (Rope Making) To run off the reel into hauls to be tarred, as yarns.
  • Warp To throw; hence, to send forth, or throw out, as words; to utter.
  • Warp (Naut) To tow or move, as a vessel, with a line, or warp, attached to a buoy, anchor, or other fixed object.
  • Warp To turn aside from the true direction; to cause to bend or incline; to pervert. "This first avowed, nor folly warped my mind.""I have no private considerations to warp me in this controversy.""We are divested of all those passions which cloud the intellects, and warp the understandings, of men."
  • Warp to turn or incline from a straight, true, or proper course; to deviate; to swerve. "There is our commission,
    From which we would not have you warp ."
  • Warp To turn or twist out of shape; esp., to twist or bend out of a flat plane by contraction or otherwise. "The planks looked warped .""Walter warped his mouth at this
    To something so mock solemn, that I laughed."
  • Warp To turn, twist, or be twisted out of shape; esp., to be twisted or bent out of a flat plane; as, a board warps in seasoning or shrinking. "One of you will prove a shrunk panel, and, like green timber, warp warp .""They clamp one piece of wood to the end of another, to keep it from casting, or warping ."
  • Warp (Aëronautics) To twist the end surfaces of (an aërocurve in an airfoil) in order to restore or maintain equilibrium.
  • Warp To weave; to fabricate. "While doth he mischief warp ."
  • Warp (Weaving) To wind yarn off bobbins for forming the warp of a web; to wind a warp on a warp beam.
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• • warp To cast; throw; hurl.
  • warp To utter; ejaculate; enunciate; give utterance to.
  • warp To bring forth (young) prematurely: said of cattle, sheep, horses, etc.
  • warp In rope-making, to run (the yarn of the winches) into hauls to be tarred. See haul of yarn, under haul.
  • warp To weave; hence, in a figurative sense, to fabricate; plot.
  • warp To give a cast or twist to; turn or twist out of shape or out of straightness, as by unequal contraction, etc.; contort.
  • warp To turn aside from the true direction; cause to bend or incline; pervert.
  • warp Nautical, to move into some desired place or position by hauling on a rope or warp which has been fastened to something fixed, as a buoy, anchor, or other ship at or near that place or position: as, to warp a ship into harbor or to her berth.
  • warp In agriculture, to fertilize, as poor or barren land, by means of artificial inundation from rivers which hold large quantities of earthy matter, or warp (see warp, n., 4), in suspension. The operation, which consists in inclosing a body or sheet of water till the sediment it holds in suspension has been deposited, can be carried out only on flat low-lying tracts which may be readily submerged. This system was first systematically practised in Great Britain on the banks of the Trent, Ouse, and other rivers which empty into the estuary of the Humber.
  • warp To change.
  • warp To turn, twist, or be twisted out of straightness or the proper shape.
  • warp To turn or incline from a straight, true, or proper course; deviate; swerve.
  • warp To change for the worse; turn in a wrong direction.
  • warp To weave; hence, to plot.
  • warp To fly with a twisting or bending to this side and that; deflect the course of flight; turn about in flying, as birds or insects.
  • warp To wind yarn off bobbins, to form the warp of a web. See the quotation.
  • warp To slink; cast the young prematurely, as cows.
  • warp Nautical, to work forward by means of a rope fastened to something fixed, as in moving from one berth to another in a harbor, or in making one's way out of a harbor in a calm, or against a contrary wind.
  • n warp A throw; a cast.
  • n warp Hence, a cast of herrings, haddocks, or other fish; four, as a tale of counting fish.
  • n warp A cast lamb, kid, calf, foal, or the like; the young of an animal when brought forth prematurely.
  • n warp The sediment which subsides from turbid water; the alluvial deposit of muddy water artificially introduced into low lands in order to enrich or fertilize them. The term warp is some-times applied to tidal alluvium. “The Humber warp is a marine and estuarine silt and clay, which occurs above the Peat beds.” (Woodward.) As the word is used by J. Trimmer, it has nearly the same meaning as surface-soil. The word is rarely, if ever, used in the United States as meaning a sedimentary deposit.
  • n warp A cast or twist; the twist or bending which occurs in wood in drying; the state of having a cast, or of being warped or twisted.
  • n warp The threads which are extended lengthwise in a loom, and across which the woof is thrown in the process of weaving.
  • n warp Nautical, a rope, smaller than a cable, used in towing, or in moving a ship by attachment to something fixed; a towing-line.
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• • v.t Warp wawrp to turn: to twist out of shape: to turn from the right course: to pervert: to move a vessel by hauling on warps or ropes attached to buoys, other ships, anchors, &c.: to improve land by distributing on it, by means of embankments, canals, flood-gates, &c., the alluvial mud brought down by rivers:
  • v.i Warp to be twisted out of a straight direction: to bend: to swerve: to move with a bending motion
  • n Warp alluvial sediment: the threads stretched out lengthwise in a loom to be crossed by a woof: a rope used in towing
  • v.t Warp wawrp (rare) to change
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