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Warping

noun, verb

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Noun
  1. 1
    An action or motion that warps or twists.

    "Such inertia-less states stand in absolute contrast (and complementarity) to the positive disorders of Parkinsonism, with their intense inertia and resistance to change, their violent warpings of space and field[…]"

  2. 2
    a moral or mental distortion wordnet
  3. 3
    the deformation of the Earth's crust over a large area
  4. 4
    The art or occupation of preparing warp or webs for the weaver.

    "In the more rude state of the art of Weaving , it was the uniform practice in warping, to fix pins in two upright posts at a certain distance from each other, and a number of small pins upon the posts about nine inches distant from each pin"

  5. 5
    The practice of flooding agricultural land with turbid river water to add sediment to the soil.
Verb
  1. 1
    present participle and gerund of warp form-of, gerund, participle, present

Etymology

Etymology 1

From Middle English warpynge; equivalent to warp + -ing.

Etymology 2

From Middle English warpynge; equivalent to warp + -ing.

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