WARP

Warp

Warp, commonly referred to as Warp Records, is a pioneering independent British record label, founded in Sheffield in 1989, notable for discovering some of the more enduring artists in electronic music.

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Warp!

Warp!, also spelled Warp, was an American science-fiction play created at Chicago, Illinois' Organic Theatre Company in 1971 by co-authors Stuart Gordon and Lenny Kleinfeld, the latter under the pseudonym Bury St. Edmund. The play moved to Broadway for a short run in February 1973. The play and its backstory became the basis for spinoff comic books and other media.

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warp

Noun

  1. A throw; a cast.
  2. A cast of fish (herring, haddock, etc.); four, as a tale of counting fish.
  3. The young of an animal when brought forth prematurely; a cast lamb, kid. calf, or foal.
  4. 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.
  5. The state of being bent or twisted out of shape.
  6. A cast or twist; a distortion or twist, such as in a piece of wood.
  7. The threads that run lengthwise in a woven fabric; crossed by the woof or weft.
  8. A line or cable used in warping a ship.
  9. A theoretical construct that permits travel across a medium without passing through it normally, such as a teleporter or time warp.

Verb

  1. To throw; cast; toss; hurl; fling.
  2. To utter; ejaculate; enunciate; give utterance to.
  3. To bring forth (young) prematurely, said of cattle, sheep, horses, etc.
  4. To cause a person to suddenly come into a particular state; throw.
  5. To toss or throw around; carry along by natural force.
  6. To throw open; open wide.
  7. To twist or turn something out of shape.
  8. To deflect something from a true or proper course.
  9. To become twisted out of shape.
  10. To go astray or be deflected from a correct course
  11. To affect something wrongly, unfairly or unfavourably; to bias
  12. To arrange strands of thread etc so that they run lengthwise in weaving
  13. To weave, hence to fabricate; plot.
  14. To move a vessel by hauling on a line or cable that is fastened to an anchor or pier; especially to move a sailing ship through a restricted place such as a harbour
  15. (for a ship) To be moved by warping.
  16. To fly with a bending or waving motion, like a flock of birds or insects.
  17. To let the tide or other water in upon (low-lying land), for the purpose of fertilization, by a deposit of warp, or slimy substance.
  18. To run off the reel into hauls to be tarred, as yarns.


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