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noun
The state, quality, or condition of being twisted, physically or mentally:
The state, quality, or condition of being physically bent or twisted out of shape.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: uncountable
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Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
The state, quality, or condition of being twisted, physically or mentally:
The state, quality, or condition of being deviant from what is right or proper morally or mentally.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: uncountable
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noun
A distortion:
A distortion or twist, such as in a piece of wood (also used figuratively).
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable
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noun
A distortion:
A mental or moral distortion, deviation, or aberration.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable
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noun
The threads that run lengthwise in a woven fabric; crossed by the woof or weft.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
Topics: business, manufacturing, textiles, weaving
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noun
The foundation, the basis, the undergirding.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, figuratively, uncountable
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noun
A line or cable or rode as is used in warping (mooring or hauling) a ship, and sometimes for other purposes such as deploying a seine or creating drag.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
Topics: nautical, transport
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noun
A theoretical construct that permits travel across a medium without passing through it normally, such as a teleporter, faster-than-light travel or time warp.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
Topics: literature, media, publishing, science-fiction
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noun
A situation or place which is or seems to be from another era; a time warp.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
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noun
The sediment which subsides from turbid water; the alluvial deposit of muddy water artificially introduced into low lands in order to enrich or fertilise them.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
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noun
A throw or cast, as of fish (in which case it is used as a unit of measure: about four fish, though sometimes three or even two), oysters, etc.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, dialectal, obsolete, uncountable
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
verb
To twist or become twisted, physically or mentally.
To twist or turn (something) out of shape; to deform.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: transitive
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Antonyms: none provided
verb
To twist or become twisted, physically or mentally.
To become twisted out of shape; to deform.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: intransitive
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verb
To twist or become twisted, physically or mentally.
To deflect or turn (something) away from a true, proper or moral course; to pervert; to bias.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: transitive
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Synonyms: corrupt, lead astray, warp, adulterate, debauch, demoralize, detort, file, immoralize, pervert, pollute, preposterate, seduce, sophisticate, suborn, subvert, tamper, unmoralize, vitiate
Antonyms: none provided
verb
To twist or become twisted, physically or mentally.
To go astray or be deflected from a true, proper or moral course; to deviate.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: intransitive
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
verb
To run (yarn) off the reel into hauls to be tarred.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: ambitransitive, obsolete
Topics: arts, crafts, hobbies, lifestyle, nautical, ropemaking, transport
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verb
To arrange strands of thread lengthwise on a loom.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: transitive
Topics: business, manufacturing, textiles, weaving
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verb
To plot; to fabricate or weave (a plot or scheme).
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: ambitransitive, figuratively, obsolete, rare
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verb
To change or fix (make fixed, for example by freezing).
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: obsolete, poetic, rare, transitive
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verb
To move:
To move a vessel by hauling on a line or cable that is fastened to an anchor or pier; (especially) to move a sailing ship through a restricted place such as a harbour.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: transitive
Topics: nautical, transport
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verb
To move:
To move or be moved by this method.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: intransitive
Topics: nautical, transport
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verb
To move:
To fly with a bending or waving motion, like a flock of birds or insects.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: dated, intransitive, rare
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verb
To move:
To travel or transport across a medium without passing through it normally, as by using a teleporter or time warp.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: ambitransitive
Topics: literature, media, publishing, science-fiction, video-games
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verb
To bring forth (young) prematurely.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: ambitransitive, dialectal, obsolete
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verb
To fertilize (low-lying land) by letting the tide, a river, or other water in upon it to deposit silt and alluvial matter.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: ambitransitive
Topics: agriculture, business, lifestyle
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Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
verb
To throw.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: obsolete, rare, transitive
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Synonyms: fling, hurl, bung, cast, chuck, chunk, cook, dash, dump, feck, jerk, heave, hield, hoy, huck, hurtle, launch, lob, peck, peg, pick, pitch, precipitate, project, quoit, shy, slight, skew, sling, thrill, throw, toss, traject, warp, whang, whip, whop, wing, yeet
Antonyms: none provided
noun
yarn arranged lengthways on a loom and crossed by the woof
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: thread, yarn
noun
a moral or mental distortion
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Synonyms: warping
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: distortion, deformation
noun
a shape distorted by twisting or folding
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Synonyms: buckle
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: distorted shape, distortion
noun
a twist or aberration; especially a perverse or abnormal way of judging or acting
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Synonyms: deflection
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: aberrance, aberrancy, aberration, deviance
verb
bend out of shape, as under pressure or from heat
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Synonyms: heave, buckle
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: change surface
Narrower terms: lift
verb
make false by mutilation or addition; as of a message or story
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Synonyms: falsify, distort, garble
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: misrepresent, belie
Narrower terms: mangle, mutilate, murder
History
From Middle English warp, werp, from Old English wearp, warp (“a warp, threads stretched lengthwise in a loom, twig, osier”), from Proto-Germanic *warpą (“a warp”). Cognate with Middle Dutch warp, Middle Low German warp, German werfen, Danish and Swedish varp.
From Middle English werpen, weorpen, worpen, from Old English weorpan (“to throw”), from Proto-West Germanic *werpan, from Proto-Germanic *werpaną (“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”).
Across languages
206 source translations are retained for this English entry.
