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warp
warp is a 4-letter English word with 26 senses as transitive verb, intransitive verb, verb, and noun in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: To throw; hence, to send forth, or throw out, as words; to utter. Face value is 9 in Scrabble and 10 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
4 letters · Scrabble 9 · Words With Friends 10 · 26 senses
Definitions
- 1transitive verb
To throw; hence, to send forth, or throw out, as words; to utter.
- 2transitive verb
To turn or twist out of shape; esp., to twist or bend out of a flat plane by contraction or otherwise.
- 3transitive verb
To turn aside from the true direction; to cause to bend or incline; to pervert.
- 4transitive verb
To weave; to fabricate.
- 5transitive verb
To tow or move, as a vessel, with a line, or warp, attached to a buoy, anchor, or other fixed object.
- 6transitive verb
To cast prematurely, as young; -- said of cattle, sheep, etc.
- 7transitive verb
To let the tide or other water in upon (lowlying land), for the purpose of fertilization, by a deposit of warp, or slimy substance.
- 8transitive verb
To run off the reel into hauls to be tarred, as yarns.
- 9transitive verb
To arrange (yarns) on a warp beam.
- 10intransitive verb
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.
- 11intransitive verb
to turn or incline from a straight, true, or proper course; to deviate; to swerve.
- 12intransitive verb
To fly with a bending or waving motion; to turn and wave, like a flock of birds or insects.
- 13intransitive verb
To cast the young prematurely; to slink; -- said of cattle, sheep, etc.
- 14intransitive verb
To wind yarn off bobbins for forming the warp of a web; to wind a warp on a warp beam.
- 15verb
The threads which are extended lengthwise in the loom, and crossed by the woof.
- 16verb
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.
- 17verb
A slimy substance deposited on land by tides, etc., by which a rich alluvial soil is formed.
- 18verb
A premature casting of young; -- said of cattle, sheep, etc.
- 19verb
Four; esp., four herrings; a cast. See Cast., 17.
- 20verb
The state of being warped or twisted; as, the warp of a board.
- 21noun
yarn arranged lengthways on a loom and crossed by the woof
- 22noun
a moral or mental distortion
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- 23noun
a shape distorted by twisting or folding
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- 24noun
a twist or aberration; especially a perverse or abnormal way of judging or acting
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- 25verb
bend out of shape, as under pressure or from heat
"The highway buckled during the heat wave"
- 26verb
make false by mutilation or addition; as of a message or story
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