warp

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

1. v. To turn or twist (wood, for example) out of shape.
2. v. To turn from a correct or proper course; deflect.
3. v. To affect unfavorably, unfairly, or wrongly; bias. See Synonyms at bias.
4. v. To arrange (strands of yarn or thread) so that they run lengthwise in weaving.
5. v. Nautical To move (a vessel) by hauling on a line that is fastened to or around a piling, anchor, or pier.
6. v. To become bent or twisted out of shape: The wooden frame warped in the humidity.
7. v. To turn aside from a true, correct, or natural course; go astray. See Synonyms at distort.
8. v. Nautical To move a vessel by hauling on a line that is fastened to or around a piling, anchor, or pier.
9. n. The state of being twisted or bent out of shape.
10. n. A distortion or twist, especially in a piece of wood.
11. n. A mental or moral twist, aberration, or deviation.
12. n. The threads that run lengthwise in a woven fabric, crossed at right angles to the woof.
13. n. Warp and woof.
14. n. Nautical A towline used in warping a vessel.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

1. To cast; throw; hurl.
2. To utter; ejaculate; enunciate; give utterance to.
3. To bring forth (young) prematurely: said of cattle, sheep, horses, etc.
4. In rope-making, to run (the yarn of the winches) into hauls to be tarred. See haul of yarn, under haul.
5. To weave; hence, in a figurative sense, to fabricate; plot.
6. To give a cast or twist to; turn or twist out of shape or out of straightness, as by unequal contraction, etc.; contort.
7. To turn aside from the true direction; cause to bend or incline; pervert.
8. Nautical, to move into some desired place or position by hauling on a rope or warp which has been fastened to something fixed, as a buoy, anchor, or other ship at or near that place or position: as, to warp a ship into harbor or to her berth.
9. In agriculture, to fertilize, as poor or barren land, by means of artificial inundation from rivers which hold large quantities of earthy matter, or warp (see warp, n., 4), in suspension. The operation, which consists in inclosing a body or sheet of water till the sediment it holds in suspension has been deposited, can be carried out only on flat low-lying tracts which may be readily submerged. This system was first systematically practised in Great Britain on the banks of the Trent, Ouse, and other rivers which empty into the estuary of the Humber.
10. To change.
11. To turn, twist, or be twisted out of straightness or the proper shape.
12. To turn or incline from a straight, true, or proper course; deviate; swerve.
13. To change for the worse; turn in a wrong direction.
14. To weave; hence, to plot.
15. To fly with a twisting or bending to this side and that; deflect the course of flight; turn about in flying, as birds or insects.
16. To wind yarn off bobbins, to form the warp of a web. See the quotation.
17. To slink; cast the young prematurely, as cows.
18. Nautical, to work forward by means of a rope fastened to something fixed, as in moving from one berth to another in a harbor, or in making one's way out of a harbor in a calm, or against a contrary wind.
19. n. A throw; a cast.
20. n. Hence, a cast of herrings, haddocks, or other fish; four, as a tale of counting fish.
21. n. A cast lamb, kid, calf, foal, or the like; the young of an animal when brought forth prematurely.
22. n. The sediment which subsides from turbid water; the alluvial deposit of muddy water artificially introduced into low lands in order to enrich or fertilize them. The term warp is some-times applied to tidal alluvium. “The Humber warp is a marine and estuarine silt and clay, which occurs above the Peat beds.” (Woodward.) As the word is used by J. Trimmer, it has nearly the same meaning as surface-soil. The word is rarely, if ever, used in the United States as meaning a sedimentary deposit.
23. n. A cast or twist; the twist or bending which occurs in wood in drying; the state of having a cast, or of being warped or twisted.
24. n. The threads which are extended lengthwise in a loom, and across which the woof is thrown in the process of weaving.
25. n. Nautical, a rope, smaller than a cable, used in towing, or in moving a ship by attachment to something fixed; a towing-line.

Wiktionary

1. n. obsolete A throw; a cast.
2. n. dialectal A cast of fish (herring, haddock, etc.); four, as a tale of counting fish.
3. n. dialectal The young of an animal when brought forth prematurely; a cast lamb, kid. calf, or foal.
4. n. The sediment which subsides from turbid water; the alluvial deposit of muddy water atificially introduced into low lands in order to enrich or fertilise them.
5. n. uncountable The state of being bent or twisted out of shape.
6. n. A cast or twist; a distortion or twist, such as in a piece of wood.
7. n. weaving The threads that run lengthwise in a woven fabric; crossed by the woof or weft.
8. n. nautical A line or cable used in warping a ship.
9. n. A theoretical construct that permits travel across a medium without passing through it normally, such as a teleporter or time warp.
10. v. transitive, obsolete To throw; cast; toss; hurl; fling.
11. v. transitive, obsolete To utter; ejaculate; enunciate; give utterance to.
12. v. transitive, dialectal To bring forth (young) prematurely, said of cattle, sheep, horses, etc.
13. v. transitive, dialectal To cause a person to suddenly come into a particular state; throw.
14. v. transitive, dialectal (of the wind or sea) To toss or throw around; carry along by natural force.
15. v. transitive, intransitive, dialectal (of a door) To throw open; open wide.
16. v. To twist or turn something out of shape
17. v. To deflect something from a true or proper course
18. v. To affect something wrongly, unfairly or unfavourably; to bias
19. v. To arrange strands of thread etc so that they run lengthwise in weaving
20. v. To weave, hence (figuratively) to fabricate; plot.
21. v. nautical 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
22. v. intransitive To become twisted out of shape
23. v. intransitive To go astray or be deflected from a correct course
24. v. intransitive, nautical (for a ship) to be moved by warping

GNU Webster's 1913

1. v. obsolete To throw; hence, to send forth, or throw out, as words; to utter.
2. v. To turn or twist out of shape; esp., to twist or bend out of a flat plane by contraction or otherwise.
3. v. To turn aside from the true direction; to cause to bend or incline; to pervert.
4. v. R. & Poetic. To weave; to fabricate.
5. v. (Naut.) To tow or move, as a vessel, with a line, or warp, attached to a buoy, anchor, or other fixed object.
6. v. Prov. Eng. To cast prematurely, as young; -- said of cattle, sheep, etc.
7. v. (Agric.), Prov. Eng. To let the tide or other water in upon (lowlying land), for the purpose of fertilization, by a deposit of warp, or slimy substance.
8. v. (Rope Making) To run off the reel into hauls to be tarred, as yarns.
9. v. (Weaving) To arrange (yarns) on a warp beam.
10. v. (Aëronautics) To twist the end surfaces of (an aërocurve in an airfoil) in order to restore or maintain equilibrium.
11. v. To turn, twist, or be twisted out of shape; esp., to be twisted or bent out of a flat plane.
12. v. to turn or incline from a straight, true, or proper course; to deviate; to swerve.
13. v. To fly with a bending or waving motion; to turn and wave, like a flock of birds or insects.
14. v. Prov. Eng. To cast the young prematurely; to slink; -- said of cattle, sheep, etc.
15. v. (Weaving) To wind yarn off bobbins for forming the warp of a web; to wind a warp on a warp beam.
16. n. (Weaving) The threads which are extended lengthwise in the loom, and crossed by the woof.
17. n. (Naut.) A rope used in hauling or moving a vessel, usually with one end attached to an anchor, a post, or other fixed object; a towing line; a warping hawser.
18. n. (Agric.) A slimy substance deposited on land by tides, etc., by which a rich alluvial soil is formed.
19. n. Prov. Eng. A premature casting of young; -- said of cattle, sheep, etc.
20. n. Prov. Eng. Four; esp., four herrings; a cast. See Cast, n., 17.
21. n. The state of being warped or twisted.

WordNet 3.0

1. v. bend out of shape, as under pressure or from heat
2. n. yarn arranged lengthways on a loom and crossed by the woof
3. v. make false by mutilation or addition; as of a message or story
4. n. a shape distorted by twisting or folding
5. n. a twist or aberration; especially a perverse or abnormal way of judging or acting
6. n. a moral or mental distortion