warped

from WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006)
warped
    adj 1: used especially of timbers or boards; bent out of shape
           usually by moisture; "the floors were warped and cracked"
    
from The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
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.
   [root]144. Cf. {Wrap}.]
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   1. To throw; hence, to send forth, or throw out, as words; to
      utter. [Obs.] --Piers Plowman.
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   2. To turn or twist out of shape; esp., to twist or bend out
      of a flat plane by contraction or otherwise.
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            The planks looked warped.             --Coleridge.
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            Walter warped his mouth at this
            To something so mock solemn, that I laughed.
                                                  --Tennyson.
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   3. To turn aside from the true direction; to cause to bend or
      incline; to pervert.
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            This first avowed, nor folly warped my mind.
                                                  --Dryden.
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            I have no private considerations to warp me in this
            controversy.                          --Addison.
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            We are divested of all those passions which cloud
            the intellects, and warp the understandings, of men.
                                                  --Southey.
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   4. To weave; to fabricate. [R. & Poetic.] --Nares.
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            While doth he mischief warp.          --Sternhold.
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   5. (Naut.) To tow or move, as a vessel, with a line, or warp,
      attached to a buoy, anchor, or other fixed object.
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   6. To cast prematurely, as young; -- said of cattle, sheep,
      etc. [Prov. Eng.]
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   7. (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.]
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   8. (Rope Making) To run off the reel into hauls to be tarred,
      as yarns.
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   9. (Weaving) To arrange (yarns) on a warp beam.
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   10. (Aeronautics) To twist the end surfaces of (an aerocurve
       in an airfoil) in order to restore or maintain
       equilibrium.
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   {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.
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from Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
143 Moby Thesaurus words for "warped":
      abandoned, affected, anamorphous, antiblack, apocryphal,
      artificial, askew, assumed, asymmetric, bastard, bent, biased,
      blemished, bogus, bowed, brummagem, chauvinistic, checked,
      cicatrized, cockeyed, colorable, colored, contaminated, contorted,
      corrupt, corrupted, counterfeit, counterfeited, cracked, crazed,
      crazy, crooked, crumpled, crunched, debased, debauched, decadent,
      defaced, defective, deformed, degenerate, degraded, depraved,
      deviative, disfigured, dissolute, distorted, doctrinaire, dogmatic,
      dressed up, dummy, embellished, embroidered, ersatz, factitious,
      fake, faked, falsified, faulty, feigned, fictitious, fictive,
      flawed, garbled, illegitimate, imitation, influenced, interested,
      involved, irregular, jaundiced, junky, keloidal, kinked,
      know-nothing, labyrinthine, lopsided, make-believe, man-made,
      marred, mock, morally polluted, nonobjective, nonsymmetric,
      one-sided, opinionated, partial, partisan, perverted, phony,
      pimpled, pimply, pinchbeck, polluted, prejudiced, prepossessed,
      pretended, profligate, pseudo, put-on, quasi, queer, racist,
      reprobate, rotten, scabbed, scabby, scarified, scarred,
      self-styled, sexist, sham, shoddy, simulated, so-called,
      soi-disant, split, sprung, spurious, steeped in iniquity,
      superpatriotic, supposititious, swayed, synthetic, tainted,
      tendentious, tin, tinsel, titivated, tortuous, twisted,
      ultranationalist, unauthentic, undetached, undispassionate,
      ungenuine, unnatural, unneutral, unreal, unsymmetric,
      vice-corrupted, vitiated, xenophobic

    

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