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Synonyms for warp
Synonyms: Noun
base, basis, bedrock, bottom, cornerstone, footing, foundation, ground, groundwork, keystone, root, underpinning, warp and woof
Synonyms: Verb
bend, color, cook, distort, falsify, fudge, garble, misinterpret, misrelate, misrepresent, misstate, pervert, slant, twist
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Examples of warp in a Sentence
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There's a warp in the floorboards. an unshakable belief in the essential goodness of humankind is the warp of his philosophyVerb
The wood was warped by moisture. The heat caused the wood to warp. He held prejudices that warped his judgment.
Recent Examples on the Web: Noun
And yet the fantasies that Gottlieb’s work indulged are part of the woof and warp of the James Bond novels, a good index of the period’s inner life. — Adam Gopnik, The New Yorker, "Are Spies More Trouble Than They’re Worth?," 26 Aug. 2019 Oregon played for the national championship and was all the rage with Chip Kelly’s warp-speed offense. — Jon Wilner, The Mercury News, "Pac-12 media strategy: Larry Scott envisions a jackpot, but obstacles loom (in our opinion)," 26 Aug. 2019 Also, the absorbent bamboo material can soften, warp, and crack if left soaking in liquid. 5. — Elinor Aspegren, USA TODAY, "Plastic straws are trash. Are there alternatives that don't suck?," 16 Aug. 2019 Be sure to check out Roberts Creek, a time-warp remnant of the 1960s with funky organic cafés, bookstores, and crystal and pottery shops. — Outside Online, "The Best Places to Savor Fall in British Columbia," 14 Aug. 2019 Institutions — even the best and most humane — by their nature warp the attachments children long for, the visceral and concentrated exchange of love, tough and otherwise, that comforts, supports and shapes a child’s heart and mind. — Benedict Carey, New York Times, "A Troubling Prognosis for Migrant Children in Detention: ‘The Earlier They’re Out, the Better’," 18 June 2018 More Theory Time: These angels are liiiiikely Iconians (which astute Star Trek fans have already observed), an ancient race that ruled the galaxy thousands of years before humans became warp capable. — Darren Orf, Popular Mechanics, "'Star Trek: Discovery' Gets Back to Basics," 25 Jan. 2019 In 1915, Albert Einstein discovered that concentrations of matter or energy warp the fabric of space-time, causing gravity. — Quanta Magazine, "Physicists Debate Hawking’s Idea That the Universe Had No Beginning," 6 June 2019 The world needs another Great Bend, another Kilbyesque warp in the cosmos, to drive the economy. — Andy Kessler, WSJ, "The Chip That Changed the World," 26 Aug. 2018Recent Examples on the Web: Verb
Standing there as a 15-year-old, in a secondhand black dress with white polka dots, warped the trajectory of Meyer’s life. — NBC News, "She was an American child bride. Now, Genevieve is fighting to stop it from happening to others.," 12 Aug. 2019 The map revealed that the Milky Way is being warped by its stars at distances more than 25,000 light-years from its center. — Ashley Strickland, CNN, "New map of the Milky Way provides more evidence that it's warped and twisted," 2 Aug. 2019 Once their positions were plotted, the team could see the shape of the galactic disk — the stars radiating out from the galactic center in distinct spiral bands — and find how much it was warped by various factors. — John Wenz, Popular Mechanics, "New Map Simulates 220 Million Years of Star Formation," 1 Aug. 2019 Massive objects, like stars and black holes, warp this fabric to stretch distances and slow time, pulling surrounding objects toward them. — Emily Toomey, Smithsonian, "A Star Orbiting in the Extreme Gravity of a Black Hole Validates General Relativity," 25 July 2019 The gerrymandering decision was momentous, definitively closing the door on judicial challenges to voting maps warped by politics. — Adam Liptak, BostonGlobe.com, "Supreme court leaves citizenship question on census in doubt," 27 June 2019 Make no mistake: there are always pitfalls with this type of early stardom, nowadays expressed in retweets and likes and free gear and not-as-free gear that can warp the mind of anyone at any age in any walk of life. — Jeremy Woo, SI.com, "High School Basketball Phenom Emoni Bates Already Has the NBA Buzzing," 12 Aug. 2019 But Kokichi Sugihara is a virtuoso of the field, creating incredible illusions and sculptures that will warp your brain. — Adam Lashinsky, Fortune, "Meet the Humble CEO Who Wants to Build the Biggest Cybersecurity Company Ever—Data Sheet," 6 Aug. 2019 Astronomers have used stars called Cepheids to create a 3D model of the Milky Way and understand the forces that are warping and twisting its structure. — Ashley Strickland, CNN, "New map of the Milky Way provides more evidence that it's warped and twisted," 2 Aug. 2019
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