Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
OE. warpen,; fr. Icel. varpa, to throw, cast, varp, a casting, fr. verpa, to throw; akin to Dan. varpe, to warp a ship, Sw. varpa, AS. weorpan, to cast, OS. werpan, OFries. werpa, D. & LG. werpen, G. werfen, Goth. waírpan,; cf. Skr. vṛj, to twist. √144. Cf. Wrap
Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary
A.S. weorpan, werpan; Ger. werfen, to cast; conn. with Ice. varpa, to throw—varp, a casting, a throw with a net.
In literature:
At one side stand the warps, very tall and interesting to see, with their lines of delicate filament and high tiers of bobbins.
"Making Both Ends Meet" by Sue Ainslie Clark and Edith Wyatt
This was not the moral law to which Kant appealed, for this is a part of the warp and woof of nature.
"The Life of Reason" by George Santayana
Commercial value: The wood is heavy and hard but coarse grained and liable to check and warp.
"Studies of Trees" by Jacob Joshua Levison
The vessel was slowly warped ahead.
"In Clive's Command" by Herbert Strang
Uplift, warping and degradation to Tertiary baselevel; deposition of Pamunkey and Chesapeake.
"History and Comprehensive Description of Loudoun County, Virginia" by James W. Head
Sometimes you will find one key warped so that it rubs on the next, in which case, plane off a slight shaving to free it.
"Piano Tuning" by J. Cree Fischer
It has been warped through some cause which is none of my business.
"Bob Hampton of Placer" by Randall Parrish
The warp hangs vertically before her, and (excepting in a case to be mentioned) she weaves from below upwards.
"Navajo weavers" by Washington Matthews
Above this the superstructure, like the bar of Mick Kennedy's resort, was of warping cottonwood.
"Ben Blair" by Will Lillibridge
This Capitalist Press has come at last to warp all judgment.
"The Free Press" by Hilaire Belloc
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In poetry:
Glitt'ring lances are the loom,
Where the dusky warp we strain,
Weaving many a soldier's doom,
Orkney's woe, and Randver's bane.
"The Fatal Sisters: An Ode" by Thomas Gray
``Her cheek is as creamy as milk in June,
And the winds nor chap nor warp it;
We dance, with the blackbird to give the tune,
And with primroses for carpet.
"An April Fool" by Alfred Austin
This web of human life, so interwrought,
With warp and woof and colours rarely sought;
We see it being woven and in our heart
There lives the hunger of all eager thought.
"Omar Khayyam" by Alexander Anderson
December, all thy aspects have their charm;
The sky o'ercast, the sweeping rack, the calm
And cloudless day, when reeling midges warp
In sunny nook ; yea, even the raving storm.
"British Georgics. December" by James Grahame
Let it climb there clean in the day-rise, taking
The way and warp of its time. Give it the eyes
Of all men seeking quiet these days
And let its voice be frantic with their cries.
"For 1939" by Paul Engle
Burns—Nature's noblest, brightest, dearest son—
Large, loving heart, and independent mind
Were his—not to be bought, or warped, but won
To love and sympathy for all mankind.
"Centenary Poem" by Janet Hamilton
In news:
Satellite confirms that we live in a space-time warp.
Warp and Weft Brings Winning FIT Student Designs to ICFF June 05, 2012.
New York-based Warp & Weft announced the results of Contemporary Creations: A Rug Design Competition at the International Contemporary Furniture Fair (ICFF) 2012.
Brian Eno and Rick Holland Sounds Alien Drums between the Bells Warp.
What If NASA Could Figure Out the Math of a Workable Warp Drive.
Nate Berkus's Time Warp Makeovers.
This past year has flown by in warp speed.
To defense attorneys, those words amounted to the first sign of a mind gone warped — one driven to kill by antidepressant medication and alcohol.
Headlining consistently and being featured on Vans Warped Tour 2 years in a row, the band is obviously in high demand in many territories.
The face of the magazine that warped a generation.
The first wave of bands for the 2013 Vans Warped Tour have been announced, and early bird tickets are on sale for its June 26 stop at NMSU's Practice Field.
" Beehive ," a revue of female-vocalist pop hits from the 1960s, hit me with two shots of time warp while proving it has improved with age.
Mick Jagger on 'SNL,' Warped Tour, Bob Marley .
'No Room for Rockstars' Warped Tour documentary on DVD.
The people of Warped Tour 2012.
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In science:
We will present a consistency condition on warped compactifications.
Fine-Tuning of the Cosmological Constant in Brane Worlds
This implies that one is looking for warped compactifications.
Fine-Tuning of the Cosmological Constant in Brane Worlds
This is the static solution found in and also, in the context of warped solutions, in .
On the SO(2,1) symmetry in General Relativity
The couplings are controlled by appropriate warp factors arising from ξ .
Parity violation in four and higher dimensional spacetime with torsion
More precisely, AdS is regarded conveniently as a warped product of Minkowski space-time with R+ (whose coordinate we call z > 0).
Generalized free fields and the AdS-CFT correspondence
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