Definitions
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- v. Present participle of warp.
- n. An action or motion that warps or twists.
- n. the deformation of the Earth's crust over a large area
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
- n. The act or process of one who, or that which, warps.
- n. The art or occupation of preparing warp or webs for the weaver.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- n. a moral or mental distortion
Etymologies
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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.
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But we evolved together, with my kin warping you in so many ways.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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As for the future of image stabilization, there is some really sweet "warping" software in the works.
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