What is "warps"

Usage examples of "warps".

Fortunately she was moored with simple warps fore and aft, so there would be no slow weighing of anchors, no stamp and go at the capstan, no acid shrieking of the fiddle.

If the bowling ball is present and thereby warps the membrane, the ball bearing will travel along a curved path.

Similarly, the earth, being a massive body in its own right, also warps the fabric of space, although far less than the sun.

Moreover, each of us—like any massive object—also warps the spatial fabric in close proximity to our bodies, although the comparatively small mass of a human body makes this a minuscule indentation.

And so, although the rubber membrane-bowling ball model provides a good visual analogy of how an object such as the sun warps the space around it and thereby influences the motion of other bodies, the physical mechanism by which these distortions occur is totally different.

In reality, although harder to visualize, the sun (and all other massive objects) actually warps the three-dimensional space surrounding it.

You must wait until it gets perfectly dark, and then throw off your warps and slacken out your cable as silently as possible, and let her drop down so as to leave me an easy passage.

As soon as the sails were lowered and the warps made fast, Peters directed three of the seamen to bring up the boxes from the cabin, and to follow him.

A quick examination of the water surface told him which arch of the bridge to select, and he was able to discern the tow-ropes and warps of the barges — there were teams of horses both on the bridge and on the banks, silhouetted clearly against the sky as they tugged at the ropes to drag the bulky barges across the rushing current.

A backed topsail took the way off her, and the warps creaked round the bollards.

A quick examination of the water surface told him which arch of the bridge to select, and he was able to discern the tow-ropes and warps of the barges - there were teams of horses both on the bridge and on the banks, silhouetted clearly against the sky as they tugged at the ropes to drag the bulky barges across the rushing current.

If they are, I will break out my handkerchief and you can start carrying out the warps directly.