warp

Webster's Dictionary (1913)

Origin: 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. waírpan; cf. Skr. vṛj to twist. √144. Cf. Wrap.

1. To throw; hence, to send forth, or throw out, as words; to utter. obsolete Vision of Piers Plowman

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

The planks looked warped.— Samuel T. Coleridge

Walter warped his mouth at this To something so mock solemn, that I laughed.— Alfred Tennyson

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

This first avowed, nor folly warped my mind.— John Dryden

I have no private considerations to warp me in this controversy.— Joseph Addison

We are divested of all those passions which cloud the intellects, and warp the understandings, of men.— Robert Southey

4. To weave; to fabricate. R. & Poetic. Rob. Nares

While doth he mischief warp.— Thomas Sternhold

5. Nautical To tow or move, as a vessel, with a line, or warp, attached to a buoy, anchor, or other fixed object.

6. To cast prematurely, as young; — said of cattle, sheep, etc. dialect (England)

7. Agriculture To let the tide or other water in upon (lowlying land), for the purpose of fertilization, by a deposit of warp, or slimy substance. dialect (England)

8. Rope Making To run off the reel into hauls to be tarred, as yarns.

9. Weaving To arrange (yarns) on a warp beam.

10. Aeronautics To twist the end surfaces of (an aerocurve in an airfoil) in order to restore or maintain equilibrium.

Warped surface Geometry, a surface generated by a straight line moving so that no two of its consecutive positions shall be in the same plane. Davies & Peck.

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.

One of you will prove a shrunk panel, and, like green timber, warp, warp.— William Shakespeare

They clamp one piece of wood to the end of another, to keep it from casting, or warping.— Joseph Moxon

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

There is our commission, From which we would not have you warp.— William Shakespeare

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

A pitchy cloud Of locusts, warping on the eastern wind.— John Milton

4. To cast the young prematurely; to slink; — said of cattle, sheep, etc. dialect (England)

5. Weaving To wind yarn off bobbins for forming the warp of a web; to wind a warp on a warp beam.

Origin: 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, verb

1. Weaving The threads which are extended lengthwise in the loom, and crossed by the woof.

2. Nautical 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.

3. Agriculture A slimy substance deposited on land by tides, etc., by which a rich alluvial soil is formed. Sir Charles Lyell

4. A premature casting of young; — said of cattle, sheep, etc. dialect (England)

5. Four; esp., four herrings; a cast. See Cast, noun, 17. dialect (England) Thomas Wright

6. The state of being warped or twisted; as, the warp of a board.

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.

Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), from GCIDE 0.54 · with additions: 1913 supplement

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/O S too/ IBM and Microsoft's successor to the MS-DOS operating system for Intel 80286 and Intel 80386-based microprocessors. It is proof that they couldn't get it right the second time either. Often called "Half-an-OS". The design was so baroque, and the implementation of 1.x so bad, that 3 years after introduction you could still count the major application programs shipping for it on the fingers of two hands, in unary. Later versions improved somewhat, and informed hackers now rate them superior to Microsoft Windows, which isn't saying much. See second-system effect.

On an Intel 80386 or better, OS/2 can multitask between existing MS-DOS applications. OS/2 is strong on connectivity and the provision of robust virtual machines. It can support Microsoft Windows programs in addition to its own native applications. It also supports the Presentation Manager graphical user interface.

OS/2 supports hybrid multiprocessing (HMP), which provides some elements of symmetric multiprocessing (SMP), using add-on IBM software called MP/2. OS/2 SMP was planned for release in late 1993.

After OS/2 1.x the IBM and Microsoft partnership split. IBM continued to develop OS/2 2.0, while Microsoft developed what was originally intended to be OS/2 3.0 into Windows NT. In October 1994, IBM released version OS/2 3.0 (known as "Warp") but it is only distantly related to Windows NT. This version raised the limit on RAM from 16MB to 1GB (like Windows NT).

IBM introduced networking with "OS/2 Warp Connect", the first multi-user version. OS/2 Warp 4.0 ("Merlin") is a network operating system.

(http://mit.edu:8001/activities/os2/os2world.html). [Dates?] [Jargon File]

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