Thanks for using this online dictionary, we have been helping millions of people improve their use of the english language with its free online services. English definition of warp is as below...

Gauche :: Gauche (n.) Winding; twisted; warped; -- applied to curves and surfaces.

Warp :: Warp (v. t.) To tow or move, as a vessel, with a line, or warp, attached to a buoy, anchor, or other fixed object..

Warp :: Warp (v.) A rope used in hauling or moving a vessel, usually with one end attached to an anchor, a post, or other fixed object; a towing line; a warping hawser..

End :: End (n.) One of the yarns of the worsted warp in a Brussels carpet.

Abb :: Abb (n.) Among weavers, yarn for the warp. Hence, abb wool is wool for the abb..

Two-ply :: Two-ply (a.) Woven double, as cloth or carpeting, by incorporating two sets of warp thread and two of weft..

Chain :: Chain (n.) The warp threads of a web.

Molewarp :: Molewarp (n.) See Moldwarp.

Guess Warp :: Guess warp () A rope or hawser by which a vessel is towed or warped along; -- so called because it is necessary to guess at the length to be carried in the boat making the attachment to a distant object.

Cram :: Cram (n.) A warp having more than two threads passing through each dent or split of the reed.

Heck :: Heck (n.) An apparatus for separating the threads of warps into sets, as they are wound upon the reel from the bobbins, in a warping machine..

Dispassionate :: Dispassionate (a.) Free from passion; not warped, prejudiced, swerved, or carried away by passion or feeling; judicial; calm; composed..

Beam :: Beam (n.) A cylinder of wood, making part of a loom, on which weavers wind the warp before weaving; also, the cylinder on which the cloth is rolled, as it is woven; one being called the fore beam, the other the back beam..

Twill :: Twill (v. t.) An appearance of diagonal lines or ribs produced in textile fabrics by causing the weft threads to pass over one and under two, or over one and under three or more, warp threads, instead of over one and under the next in regular succession, as in plain weaving..

Warp :: Warp (v. i.) To fly with a bending or waving motion; to turn and wave, like a flock of birds or insects..

Heddling :: Heddling (vb. n.) The act of drawing the warp threads through the heddle-eyes of a weaver's harness; the harness itself.

Mouldwarp :: Mouldwarp (n.) See Mole the animal.

Fringe :: Fringe (n.) An ornamental appendage to the border of a piece of stuff, originally consisting of the ends of the warp, projecting beyond the woven fabric; but more commonly made separate and sewed on, consisting sometimes of projecting ends, twisted or plaited together, and sometimes of loose threads of wool, silk, or linen, or narrow strips of leather, or the like..

Separator :: Separator (n.) An instrument used for spreading apart the threads of the warp in the loom, etc..

Heddle :: Heddle (n.) One of the sets of parallel doubled threads which, with mounting, compose the harness employed to guide the warp threads to the lathe or batten in a loom..

Random Fonts

Most Popular