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Definition of warp : 1. A premature casting of young; - said of cattle, sheep, etc.
2. 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.
3. A slimy substance deposited on land by tides, etc., by which a rich alluvial soil is formed.
4. Four; esp., four herrings; a cast. See Cast, n., 17.
5. The state of being warped or twisted; as, the warp of a board.
6. The threads which are extended lengthwise in the loom, and crossed by the woof.
7. To arrange ( yarns) on a warp beam.
8. To cast prematurely, as young; - said of cattle, sheep, etc.
9. To cast the young prematurely; to slink; - said of cattle, sheep, etc.
10. To fly with a bending or waving motion; to turn and wave, like a flock of birds or insects.
11. To let the tide or other water in upon ( lowlying land), for the purpose of fertilization, by a deposit of warp, or slimy substance.
12. To run off the reel into hauls to be tarred, as yarns.
13. To throw; hence, to send forth, or throw out, as words; to utter.
14. To tow or move, as a vessel, with a line, or warp, attached to a buoy, anchor, or other fixed object.
15. To turn aside from the true direction; to cause to bend or incline; to pervert.
16. to turn or incline from a straight, true, or proper course; to deviate; to swerve.
17. To turn or twist out of shape; esp., to twist or bend out of a flat plane by contraction or otherwise.
18. To turn, twist, or be twisted out of shape; esp., to be twisted or bent out of a flat plane; as, a board warps in seasoning or shrinking.
19. To twist the end surfaces of ( an aerocurve in an aeroplane) in order to restore or maintain equilibrium.
20. To weave; to fabricate.
21. To wind yarn off bobbins for forming the warp of a web; to wind a warp on a warp beam.

Synonyms:

help, fudge, clasp, pant, surge, bending, manipulate, wrinkle, brutalize, affect, color, fake, loom, deflection, straight, heave up, prejudice, misstate, strain, load, stain, bias, cook, billow, refraction, skew, prepossess, wrench, puff, deviation, retch, crumple, diversion, canker, wring, misrepresent, digression, true, bastardize, gag, interpolate, submit, yield, deflexion, garble, belie, influence, heave, jaundice, colour, incline, animalize, diverge, heft up, stoop, wrest, wangle, heft, bestialize, deviate, alter, tinge, persuade, warping, buckle, falsify, clean, mold, gasp, turn, divagation, twine

deflect, crook, flex, refract, contort, curve, bow, bend

debase, adulterate, demoralize, deform, desecrate, deprave, twist, distort, corrupt, debauch, pervert, vitiate, abase, degrade, seduce

Usage examples:

• The time for that plan to kick in was approaching at warp speed. - "Syndrome", Thomas Hoover.
• As wooden chucks are liable to warp and become out of true it is requisite to test them on each occasion before use, and true them if necessary. - "Modern Machine-Shop Practice, Volumes I and II", Joshua Rose.
• Through life's dull warp a woof it wove, In shining colors of light and love, And the angels smiled as they watched above, Yet little it cost in giving. - "Poems with Power to Strengthen the Soul", Various.