Definitions
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The act or process of one who, or that which, warps.
- noun The art or occupation of preparing warp or webs for the weaver.
- noun a bank of earth raised round a field to retain water let in for the purpose of enriching land.
- noun a hook used by rope makers for hanging the yarn on, when warping it into hauls for tarring.
- noun a machine for warping yarn.
- noun [Prov. Eng.] money, varying according to the length of the thread, paid to the weaver by the spinner on laying the warp.
- noun a strong post used in warping rope-yarn.
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- verb Present participle of
warp . - noun An action or motion that
warps ortwists . - noun geology the deformation of the Earth's crust over a large area
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- noun a moral or mental distortion
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Examples
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You know, it goes through carding, and then it runs in what they called warping (and it's coming like a roll of cotton onto a spool).
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No one wants to be low man on the sociological totem pole, so racism's “shadings” work exceptionally well in warping folk against one another in that mad scuttle to not be the least desirable.
Archive 2010-02-01 2010
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No one wants to be low man on the sociological totem pole, so racism's “shadings” work exceptionally well in warping folk against one another in that mad scuttle to not be the least desirable.
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But we evolved together, with my kin warping you in so many ways.
365 tomorrows » 2007 » January : A New Free Flash Fiction SciFi Story Every Day 2007
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While I agree that warping is not contrary to heroism, people who have seen a lot in life also can see some things more clearly than those who haven’t, even though they may also have greater sensitivities in some areas.
Patrick McGrath’s ‘Trauma’ « Tales from the Reading Room 2009
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Well, warping is basically when you’re moving, you stop moving, and then you start to move slowly, gradually speeding back up.
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They should do a list of most violent games for the time they were released - that way they could recognise Doom’s good work in warping the minds of America’s youth.
EXTRALIFE – By Scott Johnson - Top 10 Most Violent Video Games 2007
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By the process called warping, the land is steadily advancing upon the ocean, and before many years have passed, thousands of acres of the Victoria Level will have been reclaimed for purposes of agriculture.
The Life of Thomas Telford Smiles, Samuel, 1812-1904 1867
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Something I haven't seen before is what I can only describe as warping or bending your web pages, where you have an element in one section of the page, and you can shift it's position to somewhere relative to another element.
Search Engine Optimization and Marketing News provided by Cumbrowski.com 2009
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Note this is a large book and the scan shows some 'warping' of words near the edge of the page by the binding. still readable and VERY enjoyable.
Book: The Great Women Super Heroes Zen Tiger 2010
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Embanking meant raising dikes to keep out the sea or rivers, what Rees understood as sophisticated work; warping out land meant diking and draining fens, saltmarsh, and flats for agricultural use by extending dikes bowed seaward, eventually into the sea, making land from sea bottom, bailing it out, all activity often accomplished in England by Dutch experts.
How to Read the Land The MIT Press Reader 2022
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