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warping
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WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. a moral or mental distortion [syn: warp ]
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
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. ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 An action or motion that warps or twists. 2 (context geology English) the deformation of the Earth's crust over a large area 3 The art or occupation of preparing warp or webs for the weaver. vb. (present participle of warp English)
Usage examples of warping.
Six of them toppled immediately: masses of twitching, disorganized, heterogeneous matter that ruined the floor wherever they fell, warping and buckling it with blitter scars.
According to the SG, at the center of the object are excitons, and virtual particles warping configurational Fermi space.
Wulfgar averted his eyes at the horrid spectacle of a winged demodand caught within the warping planar tunnel, bent and bowed until its skin began to rip apart.
Its sharp aerodynamic planform had disappeared the instant it struck the rock spur, crumpling and warping until it resembled the worn vacuum-boiled ripples of lava on which it had come to rest.
Even as the last spark of life within him faded, he knew mighty ships were flashing and warping to the scene of the Shern breakthrough.
What would happen when the beasts that were already strange and deadly, out in the Uncleansed Lands, encountered these warping forces a second time?
The adjacency is warping the neighborhood as well as the cislunar space-time continuum.
They could be slowed by reversing the Flettner sails, perhaps, and by warping the Sun King into a circular course.
He remembered once again how Kingsley and Tommy had gone out to the edge of the universe to create a huge bubble of space-time, warping the rim of space into a hump, curving the time-space continuum into a hypersphere that finally closed and divorced itself from the parent body, pinching off like a yeast bud to become an independent universe in the inter-space.
If any one aspect is out of sync with the others, if one becomes overpowering or dominant, the result is an imbalance, a lopsidedness, a warping of the person.
Thus, it makes good sense, not only narratively but psychologically, that we first see the Divers intact, and that only gradually, by fits and starts, does the story of their missteps, their fateful choices, their warping experiences, make its way to the light.
Hannibal was under it, at the center pole, warping onto cleats there the ends of the ropes that had done the raising of pole and roof.
But even a man of the world is not proof against the warping of devotion, and Winton was ready to charge any windmill at any moment on her behalf.
The fully flared parachutes had the properties of true airfoils and could be turned, braked, and stalled by warping the trailing edge with the control lines.
The bee erecting its hive, the swallow building its nest, the ant constructing its cave, and the spider warping its web, would never have done anything but for a previous and everlasting revelation.