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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Warp \Warp\ (w[add]rp), verb (used with an object) [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}.]
1. To throw; hence, to send forth, or throw out, as words; to utter. [Obs.] --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. --Coleridge.
Walter warped his mouth at this To something so mock solemn, that I laughed. --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. --Dryden.
I have no private considerations to warp me in this controversy. --Addison.
We are divested of all those passions which cloud the intellects, and warp the understandings, of men. --Southey.
4. To weave; to fabricate. [R. & Poetic.] --Nares.
While doth he mischief warp. --Sternhold.
5. (Naut.) 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. [Prov. Eng.]
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.]
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. (A["e]ronautics) To twist the end surfaces of (an a["e]rocurve 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.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
warped
adjective: used especially of timbers or boards; bent out of shape usually by moisture; "the floors were warped and cracked"
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
143 Moby Thesaurus words for "warped": abandoned, affected, anamorphous, antiblack, apocryphal, artificial, askew, assumed, asymmetric, bastard, bent, biased, blemished, bogus, bowed, brummagem, chauvinistic, checked, cicatrized, cockeyed, colorable, colored, contaminated, contorted, corrupt, corrupted, counterfeit, counterfeited, cracked, crazed, crazy, crooked, crumpled, crunched, debased, debauched, decadent, defaced, defective, deformed, degenerate, degraded, depraved, deviative, disfigured, dissolute, distorted, doctrinaire, dogmatic, dressed up, dummy, embellished, embroidered, ersatz, factitious, fake, faked, falsified, faulty, feigned, fictitious, fictive, flawed, garbled, illegitimate, imitation, influenced, interested, involved, irregular, jaundiced, junky, keloidal, kinked, know-nothing, labyrinthine, lopsided, make-believe, man-made, marred, mock, morally polluted, nonobjective, nonsymmetric, one-sided, opinionated, partial, partisan, perverted, phony, pimpled, pimply, pinchbeck, polluted, prejudiced, prepossessed, pretended, profligate, pseudo, put-on, quasi, queer, racist, reprobate, rotten, scabbed, scabby, scarified, scarred, self-styled, sexist, sham, shoddy, simulated, so-called, soi-disant, split, sprung, spurious, steeped in iniquity, superpatriotic, supposititious, swayed, synthetic, tainted, tendentious, tin, tinsel, titivated, tortuous, twisted, ultranationalist, unauthentic, undetached, undispassionate, ungenuine, unnatural, unneutral, unreal, unsymmetric, vice-corrupted, vitiated, xenophobic
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