Crossword clues for warped
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
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. werpa, D. & LG. werpen, G. werfen, Goth. wa['i]rpan; cf. Skr. v[.r]j to twist.
To throw; hence, to send forth, or throw out, as words; to utter. [Obs.]
--Piers Plowman.-
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.
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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.
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To weave; to fabricate. [R. & Poetic.]
--Nares.While doth he mischief warp.
--Sternhold. (Naut.) To tow or move, as a vessel, with a line, or warp, attached to a buoy, anchor, or other fixed object.
To cast prematurely, as young; -- said of cattle, sheep, etc. [Prov. Eng.]
(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.]
(Rope Making) To run off the reel into hauls to be tarred, as yarns.
(Weaving) To arrange (yarns) on a warp beam.
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(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.
Wiktionary
1 distort by warping; twisted out of shape 2 (context figuratively English) Of a person's mind, attitude, humour etc, perverse, strange, aberrant or deviant. v
(en-past of: warp)
WordNet
adj. used especially of timbers or boards; bent out of shape usually by moisture; "the floors were warped and cracked"
Wikipedia
"Warped" is a song by the American alternative rock group Red Hot Chili Peppers, from their 1995 album, One Hot Minute. It was released as the first single from the album. It is the first track on One Hot Minute, beginning with an unusually quiet intro, before suddenly kicking into a very heavy, crunching riff, and ends with a mellow, melodic outro. Vocalist Anthony Kiedis' vocals are distorted and echoed throughout, and contrast dramatically with the rapping present on the band's previous material, especially on their more fast-paced songs such as this; short lines are stretched to fill an entire measure. The musical style is of an unpredictable and unsettling nature, which is generally maintained throughout the entire album. The lyrics describe Kiedis' confused feelings about drugs, starting already in the first lines with: "my tendency/for dependency/is offending me".
Despite being the album's first single, neither the song nor the accompanying video was included on the Red Hot Chili Peppers' Greatest Hits compilation. The B-side "Melancholy Mechanics" also appears on the soundtrack to the 1996 movie, Twister, as well as on the Japanese pressing of One Hot Minute.
During live performances of "Warped", the band sometimes played a sample of the song " Three Days" by Jane's Addiction (former band of then-guitarist Dave Navarro) at the end of the song. This song made its live debut at the Woodstock Festival in 1994, although with much different lyrics.
Like the majority of songs from One Hot Minute, it has not been played live since 1996.
Usage examples of "warped".
I heard the buzz of traffic speeding past on the autoroute, and realized that we were out of sight I struggled with the door catch, but the car had warped enough to jam the door.
I imagine this Aquarius as an old, stooped man, his spine warped by the weight of a wooden yoke from which hang a pair of brimming pails.
Stunted, alien creatures, warped by enormous forces into miserably malformed, distorted shapes.
Organs and blood vessels were warped and displaced, the lungs mismatched and the spleen elongated like a fish.
In the Mannschenn Drive Room the complexity of spinning gyroscopes precessed, tumbled, quivered on the very edge of invisibility, pulling the ship and all her people with them down the dark dimensions, through the warped continuum, down and along the empty immensities of the rim of space.
Mannschenn Drive unit precessed and tumbled, falling down and through the warped continuum, pulling the structure of the ship with them.
Long Drop, who have ridden to the stars on a crazy contraption of precessing gyroscopes through the warped fabric of the continuum.
What in the world was running through that warped, evil, scatological mind of His when He robbed old people of the power to control their bowel movements?
In this strange, false perception, each physical feature of the Screamer institute was grotesquely distorted, as though reflected in an incredibly warped mirror.
Grinders, shellers, planters, mowers, Mills and rakes and ploughs and threshers-- And all of them stood in the rain and sun, Getting rusted, warped and battered, For I had no sheds to store them in, And no use for most of them.
Through the warped boards of the wharf I saw the silty, butter-colored churn of the James.
Warped, time blackened, worm eaten, the long-handled, curved, stringless old racquet in the glass case was a reminder of that long-ago day when a monarch of France had presented to a monarch of England, as they met in conclave among the pennoned pavilions and glittering shields and lances of the armoured chivalry of both nations, on a French meadow, a gift of tennis balls.
The jewel caught the light and warped it into a luminous star whose fine, bright threads of energy thinned out and re-formed with the quivering of his hand.
Many of the warped people who chose that road were tried and found wanting, judged to be disastrously undependable and kept on the outer fringes of the group, knowing nothing of its serious projects and inner secrets.
Dobbs was almost as bad as Orr, who seemed happy as an undersized, grinning lark with his deranged and galvanic giggle and shivering warped buck teeth and who was sent along for a rest leave with Milo and Yossarian on the trip to Cairo for eggs when Milo bought cotton instead and took off at dawn for Istanbul with his plane packed to the gun turrets with exotic spiders and unripened red bananas.