warp
/ˈwoːp/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.63 in modern English
9
Scrabble Score
4
Letters
1
Syllables
4
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
The threads that run lengthwise in a woven fabric; crossed by the woof or weft.
Countable; Uncountable
noun
A line or cable or rode as is used in warping (mooring or hauling) a ship, and sometimes for other purposes such as deploying a seine or creating drag.
Countable; Uncountable
noun
A theoretical construct that permits travel across a medium without passing through it normally, such as a teleporter, faster-than-light travel or time warp.
Countable; Uncountable
Example Sentences
- "All frames found to suffer from warp should be broken up straight away before the printer is tempted during a rush to make use of them."
- "Rough lumber is rarely perfectly straight, and may suffer from warp,"
- "The part is not fragile, does not need benching to remove "stair-stepping" on curved surfaces and does not need post curing. It does not suffer from warp, sag or curl."
- "[…] and Senft found that the fibril angle in both the Pinus and Populus was high in juvenile wood, indicating that both are likely to exhibit warp in drying."
- "He believed that we were suffering from warp or bias, that a blind spot contorted our mental vision."
- "[…] and may discover that the potency of this politician-father had so altered the freedom with which corrective authority could be imposed on his son that to an extraordinary extent the person as an adult continues to suffer from warp acquired at home as a child."
Etymology
From Middle English warp, werp, from Old English wearp, warp (“a warp, threads stretched lengthwise in a loom, twig, osier”), from Proto-Germanic *warpą (“a warp”). Cognate with Middle Dutch warp, Middle Low German warp, German werfen, Danish and Swedish varp.
Origin
Word Breakdown
- Root: warp, wearp, *warpą, werpen, weorpan, *werpan
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /ˈwoːp/
- British English: /ˈwɔːp/