Warp Definition

wôrp
warped, warping, warps
verb
warped, warping, warps
To bend or twist out of shape; distort.
Webster's New World
To turn from the true, natural, or right course.
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To turn aside from the true, natural, or right course.
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To turn from a healthy, sane, or normal condition; pervert; bias.
Webster's New World
To warp a vessel to a new position.
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noun
warps
A distortion, as a twist or bend, in wood or in an object made of wood, caused by contraction in drying.
Webster's New World
Any similar distortion, as in metal.
Webster's New World
The state or fact of being so distorted.
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A mental twist, quirk, aberration, or bias.
Webster's New World
Warp and woof.
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Origin of Warp

  • From Middle English werpen, weorpen, worpen, from Old English weorpan (“to throw, cast, cast down, cast away, throw off, throw out, expel, throw upon, throw open, drive away, sprinkle, hit, hand over, lay hands on (a person), cast lots, charge with, accuse of"), from Proto-Germanic *werpanÄ… (“to throw, turn"), from Proto-Indo-European *werb- (“to bend, turn"). Cognate with Scots warp (“to throw, warp"), North Frisian werpen (“to throw"), Dutch werpen (“to throw, cast"), German werfen (“to throw, cast"), Icelandic verpa (“to throw").

    From Wiktionary

  • From Middle English warp, werp, from Old English wearp, warp (“a warp, threads stretched lengthwise in a loom, twig, osier"), from Proto-Germanic *warpaz (“a warp"), from Proto-Indo-European *werb- (“to turn, bend"). Cognate with Middle Dutch warp, Middle Low German warp, German Warf, Danish varp, Swedish varp.

    From Wiktionary

  • Middle English werpen from Old English weorpan to throw away wer-2 in Indo-European roots

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

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