Meanings (ES + gloss)
deformación • torcimiento
The state, quality, or condition of being twisted, physically or mentally:
All frames found to suffer from warp should be broken up straight away before the printer is tempted during a rush to make use of them.
Rough lumber is rarely perfectly straight, and may suffer from warp,
alabeo • curvatura • deformación • torcimiento • torción
A distortion:
In yet another ironic twist in a story richly endowed with such warps, the Tsar's telegram crossed one despatched in the other direction.
Wills, too, was struck down by a pole but was saved because a warp in the wood bent upwards, creating a pocket for his body.
urdimbre
The threads that run lengthwise in a woven fabric; crossed by the woof or weft.
calabrote
A line or cable or rode as is used in warping (mooring or hauling) a ship, and sometimes for other purposes such as deploying a seine or creating drag.
We finish’d the Raft that Night, and in the Morning sent Mr. Prat, our Chief Mate, and four Men in the Boat with a long Rope for a Warp, to fasten on the Land.
[…] trailed one of my sea anchors or at least some warps in order to ease the ship […]
Phrases
Word forms
Meanings (ES + gloss)
alabear • combar • curvar • deformar • desformar • disformar • plegar • torcer
To twist or become twisted, physically or mentally.
The moisture warped the board badly.
to warp space and time
pandear
To twist or become twisted, physically or mentally.
One of you will prove a shrunk panel, and, like green timber, warp.
Over the years the post had warped and checked and needed to be replaced.
Phrases