[1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

warp \warp\ waddrp, v. t. imp.  p. p. warped
   waddrpt; p. pr.  vb. n. warping. oe. warpen; fr.
   icel. varpa to throw, cast, varp a casting, fr. verpa to
   throw; akin to dan. varpe to warp a ship, sw. varpa, as.
   weorpan to cast, os. werpan, ofries. werpa, d.  lg. werpen,
   g. werfen, goth. wa'irpan; cf. skr. v.rj to twist.
   root144. cf. wrap.
   1913 webster
   1. to throw; hence, to send forth, or throw out, as words; to
      utter. obs. --piers plowman.
      1913 webster

   2. to turn or twist out of shape; esp., to twist or bend out
      of a flat plane by contraction or otherwise.
      1913 webster

            the planks looked warped.             --coleridge.
      1913 webster

            walter warped his mouth at this
            to something so mock solemn, that i laughed.
                                                  --tennyson.
      1913 webster

   3. to turn aside from the true direction; to cause to bend or
      incline; to pervert.
      1913 webster

            this first avowed, nor folly warped my mind.
                                                  --dryden.
      1913 webster

            i have no private considerations to warp me in this
            controversy.                          --addison.
      1913 webster

            we are divested of all those passions which cloud
            the intellects, and warp the understandings, of men.
                                                  --southey.
      1913 webster

   4. to weave; to fabricate. r.  poetic. --nares.
      1913 webster

            while doth he mischief warp.          --sternhold.
      1913 webster

   5. naut. to tow or move, as a vessel, with a line, or warp,
      attached to a buoy, anchor, or other fixed object.
      1913 webster

   6. to cast prematurely, as young; -- said of cattle, sheep,
      etc. prov. eng.
      1913 webster

   7. agric. to let the tide or other water in upon lowlying
      land, for the purpose of fertilization, by a deposit of
      warp, or slimy substance. prov. eng.
      1913 webster

   8. rope making to run off the reel into hauls to be tarred,
      as yarns.
      1913 webster

   9. weaving to arrange yarns on a warp beam.
      1913 webster

   10. aeronautics to twist the end surfaces of an aerocurve
       in an airfoil in order to restore or maintain
       equilibrium.
       webster 1913 suppl.

   warped surface geom., a surface generated by a straight
      line moving so that no two of its consecutive positions
      shall be in the same plane. --davies  peck.
      1913 webster
see also:
warped warping wrap warped surface 

[2] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

warp \warp\, v. i.
   1. to turn, twist, or be twisted out of shape; esp., to be
      twisted or bent out of a flat plane; as, a board warps in
      seasoning or shrinking.
      1913 webster

            one of you will prove a shrunk panel, and, like
            green timber, warp, warp.             --shak.
      1913 webster

            they clamp one piece of wood to the end of another,
            to keep it from casting, or warping.  --moxon.
      1913 webster

   2. to turn or incline from a straight, true, or proper
      course; to deviate; to swerve.
      1913 webster

            there is our commission,
            from which we would not have you warp. --shak.
      1913 webster

   3. to fly with a bending or waving motion; to turn and wave,
      like a flock of birds or insects.
      1913 webster

            a pitchy cloud
            of locusts, warping on the eastern wind. --milton.
      1913 webster

   4. to cast the young prematurely; to slink; -- said of
      cattle, sheep, etc. prov. eng.
      1913 webster

   5. weaving to wind yarn off bobbins for forming the warp of
      a web; to wind a warp on a warp beam.
      1913 webster

[3] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

warp \warp\, n. as. wearp; akin to icel. varp a casting,
   throwing, sw. varp the draught of a net, dan. varp a towline,
   ohg. warf warp, g. werft. see warp, v.
   1913 webster
   1. weaving the threads which are extended lengthwise in the
      loom, and crossed by the woof.
      1913 webster

   2. 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.
      1913 webster

   3. agric. a slimy substance deposited on land by tides,
      etc., by which a rich alluvial soil is formed. --lyell.
      1913 webster

   4. a premature casting of young; -- said of cattle, sheep,
      etc. prov. eng.
      1913 webster

   5. four; esp., four herrings; a cast. see cast, n., 17.
      prov. eng. --wright.
      1913 webster

   6. from warp, v. the state of being warped or twisted;
      as, the warp of a board.
      1913 webster

   warp beam, the roller on which the warp is wound in a loom.
      

   warp fabric, fabric produced by warp knitting.

   warp frame, or warp-net frame, a machine for making warp
      lace having a number of needles and employing a thread for
      each needle.

   warp knitting, a kind of knitting in which a number of
      threads are interchained each with one or more contiguous
      threads on either side; -- also called warp weaving.

   warp lace, or warp net, lace having a warp crossed by
      weft threads.
      1913 webster
see also:
warp cast warp beam warp fabric warp frame warp-net frame 
warp knitting warp weaving warp lace warp net 

[4] : WordNet (r) 2.0

warp
     n 1: a twist or aberration; especially a perverse or abnormal way
          of judging or acting syn: deflection
     2: a shape distorted by twisting or folding syn: buckle
     3: a moral or mental distortion syn: warping
     4: yarn arranged lengthways on a loom and crossed by the woof
     v 1: make false by mutilation or addition; as of a message or
          story syn: falsify, distort, garble
     2: bend out of shape, as under pressure or from heat; "the
        highway buckled during the heatwave" syn: heave, buckle
see also:
deflection buckle warping falsify distort garble 
heave 

[5] : Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0

370 moby thesaurus words for "warp":
   a thing for, aberrancy, aberration, adulterate, affinity, alloy,
   alter, ameliorate, anamorphism, anamorphosis, animus, aptitude,
   aptness, asymmetry, bastardize, be changed, be converted into,
   be renewed, belie, bend, bend to, bent, bias, birthmark, blackhead,
   bleb, blemish, blister, board, boom, bottom out, branching off,
   break, brutalize, buckle, bulla, burlesque, camouflage, canker,
   caricature, cast, cast loose, change, character, cheapen, check,
   checker, chop, chop and change, cicatrix, cicatrize,
   circuitousness, clap on ratlines, clear hawse, coarsen, color,
   come about, come around, come round, comedo, conatus, conduce,
   conduciveness, confound, confuse, constitution, contaminate,
   contort, contortion, contribute, corner, corrupt, crack, crater,
   craze, crook, crookedness, crumple, curve, cut loose, debase,
   debauch, declination, deface, defacement, defect, defile, deflect,
   deflower, deform, deformation, deformity, degenerate, degrade,
   delight, demoralize, denature, departure, deprave, desecrate,
   despoil, deteriorate, detorsion, detour, devalue, deviance,
   deviancy, deviate, deviation, deviousness, diathesis, diffract,
   diffuse, digression, discursion, disfiguration, disfigure,
   disfigurement, disguise, disperse, dispose, disposition,
   disproportion, distort, distortion, divagation, divarication,
   diverge, divergence, diversify, diversion, divert, dogleg, double,
   dress up, drift, drifting, eagerness, eccentricity, embellish,
   embroider, errantry, exaggerate, excursion, excursus, exorbitation,
   falsify, fault, feeling for, filling, flaw, flop, freckle, fudge,
   garble, gild, gloss, gloss over, gnarl, go, grain, hairpin, haul,
   haul around, haul down, have a tendency, head, heave, heave apeak,
   heave round, heave short, hemangioma, hickey, idiosyncrasy,
   imbalance, improve, inclination, incline, indirection,
   individualism, infect, irregularity, jaundice, jibe, kedge, keloid,
   kidney, kink, knot, lay, lay aloft, lead, lean, leaning, lentigo,
   liability, liking, log, look to, lopsidedness, lurch, make, makeup,
   mar, mask, meliorate, mental set, mettle, milium, mind, mind-set,
   miscite, miscolor, misquote, misreport, misrepresent, misshape,
   misstate, misteach, misuse, mitigate, modulate, mold, mole, mutate,
   nature, needle scar, nevus, obliquity, overdraw, overstate, parody,
   penchant, pererration, pervert, pick, pimple, pit, pock, pockmark,
   point, point to, poison, pollute, port-wine mark, port-wine stain,
   predilection, predisposition, preference, prejudice,
   prejudice against, prejudice the issue, prepossess, probability,
   proclivity, proneness, propensity, prostitute, pull, pustule,
   quirk, rambling, ratline down, ravage, ravish, readiness,
   redound to, refract, revive, rift, scab, scar, scarify, scatter,
   scratch, screw, sebaceous cyst, sensitivity to, serve, set,
   set toward, sheer, shift, shifting, shifting course, shifting path,
   shoot, show a tendency, skew, slant, slue, soft spot, spar down,
   split, spring, stamp, strain, strawberry mark, straying, streak,
   stream the log, stripe, sty, susceptibility, sweep, swerve,
   swerving, swinging, tack, taint, take a turn, temper, temperament,
   tend, tendency, titivate, torsion, tortuosity, torture, track,
   traverse a yard, travesty, trend, trick out, tropism, turn,
   turn aside, turn awry, turn into, turn of mind, turn the corner,
   turning, twist, type, ulcerate, undergo a change, understate,
   unlash, unsymmetry, variation, varnish, vary, veer, verge, verruca,
   vesicle, violate, vitiate, vulgarize, wale, wandering, wart,
   weakness, weal, weft, welt, wen, whitehead, whitewash, willingness,
   wind, woof, work toward, worsen, wrench, wrest, wring, writhe, yaw,
   zigzag

[6] : The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (27 SEP 03)

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