Antonyms for warp

Grammar : Verb

Spell : wawrp

Phonetic Transcription : wɔrp

Definition of warp

Origin : "to bend, twist, distort," Old English weorpan "to throw, throw away, hit with a missile," from Proto-Germanic *werpanan "to fling by turning the arm" (cf. 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 *werb- "to turn, bend" (cf. Latin verber "whip, rod;" Greek rhabdos "rod," rhombos "magic wheel"), from root *wer- (3) "to turn, bend" (see versus). Connection between "turning" and "throwing" is perhaps in the notion of rotating the arm in the act of throwing; cf. Serbo-Croatian obratiti, Old Church Slavonic vreshti "to throw." The meaning "twist out of shape" is first recorded c.1400; intransitive sense is from mid-15c. Related: Warped; warping.

verb bend, distort

Example sentences :

It is not affected by moisture and it is therefore not so liable to warp and lose its shape.
Extract from : « Boys' Book of Model Boats » by Raymond Francis Yates

Of this warp and woof have all the strange patterns of Spanish life been woven.
Extract from : « Rosinante to the Road Again » by John Dos Passos

And as a shuttle separates the warp from the woof, so a name distinguishes the natures of things.
Extract from : « Cratylus » by Plato

As in a web the warp is stronger than the woof, so should the rulers be stronger than their half-educated subjects.
Extract from : « Laws » by Plato

That helplessness, which I felt rather than saw, wove into the warp of my love.
Extract from : « Bardelys the Magnificent » by Rafael Sabatini

There was a pot full of the drop-fish, and every man ate his warp of herring.
Extract from : « The Manxman » by Hall Caine

It is through the very nobility of it that this warp has come into his nature.
Extract from : « The Lion's Skin » by Rafael Sabatini

She looks to it that warp and woof are wrought with speed and beauty.
Extract from : « The Economist » by Xenophon

The warp was paid out for awhile and then made fast on board the steamer.
Extract from : « The Island Mystery » by George A. Birmingham

A warp was passed down to the boat and made fast in her stern.
Extract from : « The Island Mystery » by George A. Birmingham

Synonyms for warp

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