warped

Adjective

WordNet 3.0

Adjective (1)

used especially of timbers or boards; bent out of shape usually by moisture“the floors were warped and cracked”

Word of the day · Sep 28About this word

What does it mean? Question 1 of today’s quiz

Webster's Dictionary (GCIDE)

Warp \Warp\ (w[add]rp), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Warped (w[add]rpt); 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['i]rpan; cf. Skr. v[.r]j to twist. [root]144. 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]