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

1. transitive verb. To throw; hence, to send forth, or throw out, as words; to utter.
2. transitive verb. To turn or twist out of shape; esp., to twist or bend out of a flat plane by contraction or otherwise.
3. transitive verb. To turn aside from the true direction; to cause to bend or incline; to pervert.
4. transitive verb. To weave; to fabricate.
5. transitive verb. To tow or move, as a vessel, with a line, or warp, attached to a buoy, anchor, or other fixed object.
6. transitive verb. To cast prematurely, as young; -- said of cattle, sheep, etc.
7. transitive 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.
8. transitive verb. To run off the reel into hauls to be tarred, as yarns.
9. transitive verb. To arrange (yarns) on a warp beam.
10. intransitive 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.
11. intransitive verb. to turn or incline from a straight, true, or proper course; to deviate; to swerve.
12. intransitive verb. To fly with a bending or waving motion; to turn and wave, like a flock of birds or insects.
13. intransitive verb. To cast the young prematurely; to slink; -- said of cattle, sheep, etc.
14. intransitive verb. To wind yarn off bobbins for forming the warp of a web; to wind a warp on a warp beam.
15. verb. The threads which are extended lengthwise in the loom, and crossed by the woof.
16. verb. 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.
17. verb. A slimy substance deposited on land by tides, etc., by which a rich alluvial soil is formed.
18. verb. A premature casting of young; -- said of cattle, sheep, etc.
19. verb. Four; esp., four herrings; a cast. See Cast, n., 17.
20. verb. The state of being warped or twisted; as, the warp of a board.
21. noun. yarn arranged lengthways on a loom and crossed by the woof
22. noun. a moral or mental distortion

    Synonyms: warping

23. noun. a shape distorted by twisting or folding

    Synonyms: buckle

24. noun. a twist or aberration; especially a perverse or abnormal way of judging or acting

    Synonyms: deflection

25. verb. bend out of shape, as under pressure or from heat

    "The highway buckled during the heat wave"

    Synonyms: buckle, heave

26. verb. make false by mutilation or addition; as of a message or story

    Synonyms: distort, falsify, garble

Synonyms

warping, buckle, deflection, heave, distort, falsify, garble

Anagrams

Other playable words that use exactly the letters in warp:

wrap

Common word forms

warps, warped, warper, warping, warpable

Words from these letters

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