WARP

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does warp mean? 

• WARP (noun)
  The noun WARP has 4 senses:

1. a twist or aberration; especially a perverse or abnormal way of judging or acting

2. a shape distorted by twisting or folding

3. a moral or mental distortion

4. yarn arranged lengthways on a loom and crossed by the woof

  Familiarity information: WARP used as a noun is uncommon.

• WARP (verb)
  The verb WARP has 2 senses:

1. make false by mutilation or addition; as of a message or story

2. bend out of shape, as under pressure or from heat

  Familiarity information: WARP used as a verb is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• WARP (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A twist or aberration; especially a perverse or abnormal way of judging or acting

Classified under:

Nouns denoting stable states of affairs

Synonyms:

deflection; warp

Hypernyms ("warp" is a kind of...):

aberrance; aberrancy; aberration; deviance (a state or condition markedly different from the norm)

Derivation:

warp (make false by mutilation or addition; as of a message or story)

Sense 2

Meaning:

A shape distorted by twisting or folding

Classified under:

Nouns denoting two and three dimensional shapes

Synonyms:

buckle; warp

Hypernyms ("warp" is a kind of...):

distorted shape; distortion (a shape resulting from distortion)

Derivation:

warp (bend out of shape, as under pressure or from heat)

Sense 3

Meaning:

A moral or mental distortion

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural events

Synonyms:

warp; warping

Hypernyms ("warp" is a kind of...):

deformation; distortion (a change for the worse)

Sense 4

Meaning:

Yarn arranged lengthways on a loom and crossed by the woof

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Hypernyms ("warp" is a kind of...):

thread; yarn (a fine cord of twisted fibers (of cotton or silk or wool or nylon etc.) used in sewing and weaving)

Holonyms ("warp" is a part of...):

weave (pattern of weaving or structure of a fabric)

Holonyms ("warp" is a substance of...):

cloth; fabric; material; textile (artifact made by weaving or felting or knitting or crocheting natural or synthetic fibers)

• WARP (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they warp    ... he / she / it warps   
Past simple: warped   
Past participle: warped   
-ing form: warping   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Make false by mutilation or addition; as of a message or story

Classified under:

Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing

Synonyms:

distort; falsify; garble; warp

Hypernyms (to "warp" is one way to...):

belie; misrepresent (represent falsely)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "warp"):

mangle; murder; mutilate (alter so as to make unrecognizable)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

Derivation:

warp (a twist or aberration; especially a perverse or abnormal way of judging or acting)

warping (a moral or mental distortion)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Bend out of shape, as under pressure or from heat

Classified under:

Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.

Synonyms:

buckle; heave; warp

Context example:

The highway buckled during the heat wave

Hypernyms (to "warp" is one way to...):

change surface (undergo or cause to undergo a change in the surface)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "warp"):

lift (rise upward, as from pressure or moisture)

Sentence frame:

Something ----s

Derivation:

warp (a shape distorted by twisting or folding)

 Context examples 

The newly-created and most accurate 3D map of galaxy reveals that it’s warped and twisted, and even more fascinating.

(Scientists Say Milky Way Is Warped & Twisted Not Flat, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

This new visualization of a black hole illustrates how its gravity distorts our view, warping its surroundings as if seen in a carnival mirror.

(NASA Visualization Shows a Black Hole’s Warped World, NASA)

This "warp field" makes it possible to get a peek at the very first generation of galaxies.

(NASA’s Hubble Looks to the Final Frontier, NASA)

Warping functions are generated and then globally optimized.

(Gel Warping Algorithm, NCI Thesaurus)

But your mind is warped by an innate principle of general integrity, and therefore not accessible to the cool reasonings of family partiality, or a desire of revenge.

(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)

The eight quasars and galaxies were aligned so precisely that the warping effect, called gravitational lensing, produced four distorted images of each quasar.

(Cosmic Magnifying Glasses Find Dark Matter in Small Clumps, NASA)

The lady’s charming personality must not be permitted to warp our judgment.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Like the shimmering air on a hot summer’s day, the tenuous atmosphere in this massive galaxy should warp the signal of the fast radio burst.

(Enigmatic radio burst illuminates a galaxy’s tranquil ​halo, ESO)

First predicted by Albert Einstein a century ago, the warping of space by the gravity of a massive foreground object can brighten and distort the images of far more distant background objects.

(NASA's Great Observatories Team Up to Find Magnified and Stretched Image of Distant Galaxy, NASA)

We had a dreary morning's work before us, for there was no sign of any wind, and the boats had to be got out and manned, and the ship warped three or four miles round the corner of the island and up the narrow passage to the haven behind Skeleton Island.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)