What is "warp"

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.

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.

    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.

Warp \Warp\, v. i.

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.
   --Shak.

   They clamp one piece of wood to the end of another, to keep it from casting, or warping.
   --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.
   --Shak.

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.
   --Milton.

4. To cast the young prematurely; to slink; -- said of cattle, sheep, etc. [Prov. Eng.]

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

Warp \Warp\, n. [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, v.]

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

2. (Naut.) 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. (Agric.) A slimy substance deposited on land by tides, etc., by which a rich alluvial soil is formed.
   --Lyell.

4. A premature casting of young; -- said of cattle, sheep, etc. [Prov. Eng.]

5. Four; esp., four herrings; a cast. See Cast, n., 17. [Prov. Eng.]
   --Wright.

6. [From Warp, v.] 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.

"threads running lengthwise in a fabric," Old English wearp, from Proto-Germanic *warpo- (cognates: Middle Low German warp, Old High German warf "warp," Old Norse varp "cast of a net"), from PIE *werp- "to turn, bend" (see warp (v.)). The warp of fabric is that across which the woof is "thrown." Applied in 20c. astrophysics to the "fabric" of space-time, popularized in noun phrase warp speed by 1960s TV series "Star Trek."

"to bend, twist, distort," Old English weorpan "to throw, throw away, hit with a missile," from Proto-Germanic *werpan "to fling by turning the arm" (cognates: Old Saxon werpan, Old Norse verpa "to throw," Swedish värpa "to lay eggs," Old Frisian werpa, Middle Low German and Dutch werpen, German werfen, Gothic wairpan "to throw"), from PIE *werp- "to turn, wind, bend" (cognates: Latin verber "whip, rod;" Greek rhabdos "rod," rhombos "magic wheel"), from root *wer- (3) "to turn, bend" (see versus).\n

\nConnection between "turning" and "throwing" is perhaps in the notion of rotating the arm in the act of throwing; compare Old Church Slavonic vrešti "to throw," from the same PIE root. The meaning "twist out of shape" is first recorded c.1400; intransitive sense is from mid-15c. Related: Warped; warping.

Etymology 1 n. 1 (context obsolete English) A throw; a cast. 2 (context dialectal English) A cast of fish (herring, haddock, etc.); four, as a tale of counting fish. 3 (context dialectal English) The young of an animal when brought forth prematurely; a cast lamb, kid, calf, or foal. 4 The sediment which subsides from turbid water; the alluvial deposit of muddy water artificially introduced into low lands in order to enrich or fertilise them. 5 (context uncountable English) The state of being bent or twisted out of shape. 6 A cast or twist; a distortion or twist, such as in a piece of wood. 7 (context weaving English) The threads that run lengthwise in a woven fabric; crossed by the woof or weft. 8 (context nautical English) A line or cable used in warping a ship. 9 A theoretical construct that permits travel across a medium without passing through it normally, such as a teleporter or time warp. Etymology 2

vb. 1 (context transitive obsolete outside dialects English) To throw; cast; toss; hurl; fling. 2 (context transitive obsolete outside dialects English) To utter; ejaculate; enunciate; give utterance to. 3 (context transitive dialectal English) To bring forth (young) prematurely, said of cattle, sheep, horses, etc. 4 (context transitive dialectal English) To cause a person to suddenly come into a particular state; throw. 5 (context transitive dialectal of the wind or sea English) To toss or throw around; carry along by natural force. 6 (context ambitransitive dialectal of a door English) To throw open; open wide. 7 (context transitive English) To twist or turn something out of shape.

1. n. a twist or aberration; especially a perverse or abnormal way of judging or acting [syn: deflection]

2. a shape distorted by twisting or folding [syn: buckle]

3. a moral or mental distortion [syn: warping]

4. yarn arranged lengthways on a loom and crossed by the woof

1. v. make false by mutilation or addition; as of a message or story [syn: falsify, distort, garble]

2. bend out of shape, as under pressure or from heat; "The highway buckled during the heatwave" [syn: heave, buckle]

Warp, warped or warping may refer to:

Warp is a fictional supervillain in the DC Universe. He first appeared in New Teen Titans vol. 1, #14 (December 1981).

Warp is the third and final album from New Musik released on March 5, 1982.

Warp was a New Zealand magazine and official organ of the National Association for Science Fiction (NASF), the country's first national science fiction fan organisation.

Warp is a video game developed by Trapdoor and published by EA Partners on Microsoft Windows, PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360. The game allows the player to warp through doors and objects and cause creatures in the game world to explode. It was released on February 15, 2012 on Xbox Live Arcade as part of the second "Xbox Live Arcade House Party", with PlayStation Network and Microsoft Windows releases to follow on March 13, 2012.

Warp (also known as Warp Records) is an English independent record label, founded in Sheffield in 1989 by record store workers Steve Beckett, Rob Mitchell and record producer Robert Gordon. It is currently based in London.

In the 1990s, the label became associated with experimental electronic styles such as intelligent dance music, and served as the home of a variety of acclaimed and influential electronic musicians, including Aphex Twin, Boards of Canada, and Autechre. Current artists on the label roster include Flying Lotus, Rustie, Oneohtrix Point Never, Danny Brown, Grizzly Bear, Brian Eno, TNGHT, and Kelela.

In weaving cloth, the warp is the set of lengthwise yarns that are held in tension on a frame or loom. The yarn that is inserted over-and-under the warp threads is called the weft, woof, or filler. Each individual warp thread in a fabric is called a warp end or end. Warp means "that which is thrown away" (Old English wearp, from weorpan, to throw, cf. German werfen, Dutch werpen).

Very simple looms use a spiral warp, in which a single, very long yarn is wound around a pair of sticks or beams in a spiral pattern to make up the warp.

Because the warp is held under high tension during the entire process of weaving and warp yarn must be strong, yarn for warp ends is usually spun and plied fibre. Traditional fibres for warping are wool, linen, alpaca, and silk. With the improvements in spinning technology during the Industrial Revolution, it became possible to make cotton yarn of sufficient strength to be used as the warp in mechanized weaving. Later, artificial or man-made fibres such as nylon or rayon were employed.

While most people are familiar with weft-faced weavings, it is possible to create warp-faced weavings using densely arranged warp threads. In warp-faced weavings, the design for the textile is in the warp, and so all colors must be decided upon and placed during the first part of the weaving process and cannot be changed. Warp-faced weavings are defined by length-wise stripes and vertical designs due to the limitations of color placement. Many South American cultures, including the ancient Incas and Aymaras used a type of warp-faced weaving called backstrap weaving, which uses the weight of the weaver's body to control the tension of the loom.

A warp, also known as a portal or teleporter, is an element in video game design that allows a player character instant travel between two locations or levels. Specific areas that allow such travel are referred to as warp zones. A warp zone might be a secret passage, accessible only to players capable of finding it, but they are also commonly used as a primary mean of travel in certain games. Warps might be deliberately installed within puzzles, be used to avoid danger in sections of a game that have been previously accomplished, be something a player can abuse for cheating or be used as a punishment to a player straying from the "correct" path.

In some games, a player can only use warps to travel to locations they have visited before. Because of this, a player has to make the journey by normal route at least once, but are not required to travel the same paths again if they need to visit earlier areas in the game. Finding warp zones might become a natural goal of a gaming session, being used as a checkpoint.

Though it is unclear which video game first made use of teleportation areas or devices, the element has been traced back to MUDs, where it allowed connected rooms to not be "topologically correct" if necessary. The element was later popularized by Super Mario Bros., in which secret areas referred to within the game as warp zones allowed players to skip forward through the game.

Warning, Advice and Reporting Point (WARP) is a community or internal company-based service to share advice and information on computer-based threats and vulnerabilities.

WARPs typically provide:

• Warning - A filtered warning service, where subscribers receive alerts and advisory information on only the subjects relevant to them.
• Advice - An advice brokering service, where members can ask and respond to questions in a trusted secure environment.
• Reporting - Central collection of information on incidents and problems in a trusted secure environment. The collected information may then be anonymised and shared amongst the membership.

On average, WARPs cost much less to set up than a Computer Emergency Response Centre, as in CERT/CC or US-CERT.

Warp is a text adventure game, written in the early 1980s by Rob Lucke and Bill Frolik for the Hewlett-Packard HP 3000.

The game was never officially released, but found widespread distribution through the HP INTEREX user community. It became so popular among HP users that the authors were compelled to include a mechanism to prevent playing it during working hours.

Warp is arguably one of the most advanced text adventure games ever created. Its main strength is its command parser, which attempts to understand complex natural English syntax such as "Go west and get everything but the lamp from the toolbox" or "Backtrack 2 moves. Next, inspect the peg and fountain". The command processor supports macros (custom commands), recursion, conditional tests, and multiple saved states, making it conceivable for one to construct a script that can play the game from start to finish.

The world of Warp is extensive, interesting and dangerous. Most of the action takes place in a large sea resort, including islands and reefs which can be explored by boat. The game's name alludes to an interesting twist in the world's laws of physics. There are many ways to die, and a player will likely experience all of them before figuring out how to collect all the treasures and win the game. For the clever few who get that far, there is an endgame with even more puzzles to solve.

Warp for the HP 3000 was originally coded in about 17,000 lines of HP 3000 Pascal combined with some 6000 lines of textual data. Circa 2003, Lucke also ported the code to ANSI C, initially for HP-UX, and later for Linux. There are a total of 1216 points that can be acquired in the main game, with a further 100 endgame points.

The Warp machines were a series of increasingly general-purpose systolic array processors, created by Carnegie Mellon University (CMU), in conjunction with industrial partners G.E., Honeywell and Intel, and funded by the U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA).

The Warp projects were started in 1984 by H. T. Kung at Carnegie Mellon University. The Warp projects yielded research results, publications and advancements in general purpose systolic hardware design, compiler design and systolic software algorithms. There were three distinct machine designs known as the WW-Warp (Wire Wrap Warp), PC-Warp (Printed Circuit Warp), and iWarp (integrated circuit Warp, conveniently also a play on the “i” for Intel).

Each successive generation became increasingly general-purpose by increasing memory capacity and loosening the coupling between processors. Only the original WW-Warp forced a truly lock step sequencing of stages, which severely restricted its programmability but was in a sense the purest “systolic-array” design.

Warp machines were attached to Sun workstations (UNIX based). Software development for all models of Warp machines was done on Sun workstations.

A research compiler, for a language known as “W2,” targeted all three machines and was the only compiler for the WW-Warp and PC-Warp while it served as an early compiler during development of the iWarp. The production compiler for iWarp was a C and Fortran compiler based on the AT&T pcc compiler for UNIX, ported under contract for Intel and then extensively modified and extend by Intel.

The WW-Warp and PC-Warp machines were systolic array computers with a linear array of ten or more cells, each of which is a programmable processor capable of performing 10 million single precision floating-point operations per second (10 MFLOPS). A 10-cell machine had a peak performance of 100 MFLOPS. The iWarp machines doubled this performance, delivering 20 MFLOPS single precision and supporting double precision floating point at half the performance.

A two cell prototype of WW-Warp was complete at Carnegie Mellon in June 1985. Two essentially identical ten-cell WW-Warp were produced in 1986, one by Honeywell and one by G.E., for use at Carnegie Mellon University. The system from G.E. was delivered in February 1986; the system from Honeywell was delivered in June 1986. The first of the significantly redesign production model, the PC-Warp, was delivered by G.E. in April 1987. About twenty production models of the PC-Warp were produced and sold by G.E. during 1987-1989.

The iWarp machines were based on a single-chip custom 700,000 transistor microprocessor, designed specifically for the Warp project, that utilized long-instruction-word (LIW) format instructions and tightly integrated communications with the computational processor. The standard iWarp machines configuration arranged iWarp nodes in a 2m x 2n torus. All iWarp machines included the “backedges” and, therefore, were tori.

In 1986, Intel was selected, as a result of competitive bidding, to be the industrial partner for the integrated circuit implementation of Warp. The first iWarp system, a twelve node system, became operational in March 1990. After a number of stepping of the part, about 39 machines, consisting of ten or more C-Step iWarp chips running at 20MHz, were produced and sold by Intel in 1992 and 1993 to universities, government agencies and industrial research laboratories.