warp's Usage Examples:

Fustian was a cloth with a warp of wool or linen and a cotton weft.

These were followed by a period of minor tilting and faulting in early Mesozoic, by a moderate upwarping in Tertiary, and by a moderate uplift in post-Tertiary time.

The warp consists of fine muddy sediment which is suspended in the tidal river water and appears to be derived from material scoured from the bed of the Humber by the action of the tide and a certain amount of sediment brought down by the tributary streams which join the Humber some distance from its mouth.

Double-warp, as its name implies, is a cloth with a twofold warp.

The sites of deposition varied as the period progressed, for the warping and faulting of the surface, the igneous extrusions, and the deposition of sediments obliterated old basins and brought new ones into existence.

Elm is very liable to warp and shake, is porous and usually cross-grained.

Three weights of very high twist, high quality cord perfect for warping, knotting, macrame and anything requiring a strong thread.

In this way the danger of warping is averted, and exudations from the wooden surface are prevented from reaching the overlaid coats of lacquer.

Báthory's indisputable genius must have been warped by a strain of madness.

To this stopper is shackled the independent wire which in turn is shackled to the flat link in the end of the trawl warp.

Jeanette is the converse of jean, being a twill of "two ends up to one down"; the diagonal passes from selvage to selvage at a greater angle than 45 degrees and the warp makes the wearing surface.

Synonyms:

mutilate, distort, falsify, murder, garble, misrepresent, belie, mangle,

Antonyms:

unbuckle, unfasten, stand still, deflate, fall,