thread). To warp threads; to arrange threads into a warp. (figurative) To contrive; to scheme. To rush or bound out. (Late Middle English) To warp; to bend...
something). Information hastily memorized. a cram from an examination (weaving) A warp having more than two threads passing through each dent or split of the reed...
Proto-Germanic *werpaną. Cognate with Old Saxon werpan, Dutch werpen, English warp. IPA(key): /ˈvɛrfən/, [ˈvɛʁ-], [ˈvɛɐ̯-], [ˈʋɛʁ-], [ˈʋɛɐ̯-], [-fən], [-fn̩]...
lathe)”), German drehen (“to turn”). Displaced warp as the word for hurling and was displaced by warp as the word for twisting. throw (third-person singular...
self—as bad intrinsically as fakirs stabbing themselves or anchorites warping their spines in caves scarcely large enough for a fair-sized dog. 1995...
self—as bad intrinsically as fakirs stabbing themselves or anchorites warping their spines in caves scarcely large enough for a fair-sized dog. Self-interest...
self—as bad intrinsically as fakirs stabbing themselves or anchorites warping their spines in caves scarcely large enough for a fair-sized dog. (reflexive...
(British, music) A type of electronic dance music related to house music, with warped and time-stretched sounds; UK garage. Historically, a commercial garage...
2007 November 23, Claudia La Rocco, “Ballet and African Steps, Delivered at Warp Speed”, in The New York Times[2]: The mix of ballet vocabulary, modern techniques...
seem a saint, when most I play the devil. One of the yarns of the worsted warp in a Brussels carpet. (in the plural, slang, African-American Vernacular)...