English Dictionary

warp

IPA（発音記号）

/wɔːp/

名詞

不可算名詞 可算名詞 比喩的用法 方言 廃用

(uncountable) The state, quality, or condition of being physically bent or twisted out of shape.

日本語の意味

（名詞）物体が物理的に曲がったりねじれたりして、元の形から変形している状態

The old wooden door developed a noticeable warp after years of exposure to moisture.

古い木製のドアは、長年湿気にさらされた結果、目に見える歪みが生じた。

意味（1）

(uncountable) The state, quality, or condition of being physically bent or twisted out of shape.

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.

意味（2）

(uncountable) The state, quality, or condition of being deviant from what is right or proper morally or mentally.

He believed that we were suffering from warp or bias, that a blind spot contorted our mental vision.

意味（3）

(countable) A distortion or twist, such as in a piece of wood (also used figuratively).

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.

意味（4）

(countable) A mental or moral distortion, deviation, or aberration.

It is interesting to note that it has been suggested by Lugaro to partially extirpate the thyroid in cases of moral insanity; an excessive secretion of thyroid being regarded as the cause of excessive amativeness, thieving, and other mental warps […]

意味（5）

(weaving) The threads that run lengthwise in a woven fabric; crossed by the woof or weft.

意味（6）

(figuratively) The foundation, the basis, the undergirding.

The sense of sin (enforced by piacular rites) is as important to social integration as the committing of crimes (in due proportion) which alone can cause the mobilization of moral values that is the warp of society and of human conscience.

意味（7）

(nautical) 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.

意味（8）

A theoretical construct that permits travel across a medium without passing through it normally, such as a teleporter or time warp.

意味（9）

A situation or place which is or seems to be from another era; a time warp.

If Times Square nevertheless remained a metaphor for the city's changing dynamics, it was stuck in a warp of immobility, unable to push itself forward as it had in the early part of the twentieth century.

意味（10）

The sediment which subsides from turbid water; the alluvial deposit of muddy water artificially introduced into low lands in order to enrich or fertilise them.

The silt is brought down and the strong tide of the Humber brings it up in very large quantities, so that the river the whole way through nearly is exceedingly thick. Added to that I may say that we suffer from warp to a tremendous extent.

意味（11）

(obsolete outside dialects) A throw or cast, as of fish (in which case it is used as a unit of measure: about four fish, though sometimes three or even two), oysters, etc.

a warp of fish

warps （ plural ）