warp

verb

/wɔːp/

/wɔːrp/

Verb Forms

present simple I / you / we / they warp	/wɔːp/ /wɔːrp/
he / she / it warps	/wɔːps/ /wɔːrps/
past simple warped	/wɔːpt/ /wɔːrpt/
past participle warped	/wɔːpt/ /wɔːrpt/
-ing form warping	/ˈwɔːpɪŋ/ /ˈwɔːrpɪŋ/

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[intransitive, transitive] warp (something) to become, or make something become twisted, or bent out of its natural shape, for example because it has become too hot, too wet, etc.
- The window frames had begun to warp.
[transitive] warp something to influence somebody so that they begin to behave in an unacceptable way
- His judgement was warped by prejudice.

Word OriginOld English weorpan (verb), wearp (noun), of Germanic origin; related to Dutch werpen and German werfen ‘to throw’. Early verb senses included ‘throw’ and ‘hit with a missile’; the sense ‘bend’ dates from late Middle English.

warp

noun

/wɔːp/

/wɔːrp/

the warp

[singular] (specialist)

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the threads on a loom (= a machine used for making cloth) that other threads are passed over and under in order to make cloth compare weft see also time warp
Oxford Collocations Dictionary
Warp is used before these nouns:
speed
thread
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Word OriginOld English weorpan (verb), wearp (noun), of Germanic origin; related to Dutch werpen and German werfen ‘to throw’. Early verb senses included ‘throw’ and ‘hit with a missile’; the sense ‘bend’ dates from late Middle English.