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warping

warping

4 7.7
A change that makes a person's mind and values become twisted
  • noun
  • /ˈwɔːrpɪŋ/
translation icon : deformación
  • The Wright Flyer, with wing warping and chains driving two pusher propellers, was no longer a platform for progress.
  • warping effect

Don't allow their warping of information to warp the way you think.

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Examples

  • This green mesh is the warping of space and time that Einstein predicts will happen if you have two masses moving around each other.

  • The warping of his morals over time made him unrecognizable to his friends.

  • And that is exactly what causes the warping of my visual image.

  • But that the warping of that lens is a combination of what you believe, your values and your genetics.

    Tom Bilyeu

  • Traveling vast distances by warping space and time is a staple of science fiction.

    Drain the Bermuda Triangle (2014)

  • "No cracks, no warping," the captain declared proudly.

    Fiction book (2001)

  • And issues subject to the warping effect of domestic politics will not submit to the most well-intentioned international dialogue.

    Academic text (2009)

  • Einstein explained gravity is a warping of the space-time fabric, if you will, that makes up our universe.

  • Casimir gasped for air as his warping bones and muscles hardened.

    Fiction book (1992)

  • In terms of what's more likely, that a person who gets lost and disoriented ends up in a place that he didn't expect to be or that this almost impossible thing happened, this warping of space and time happened to him and him only in this one particular instance, what's more likely?

    Drain the Bermuda Triangle (2014)

Synonyms

distortion
vswarping
26 5.0

A change in shape or appearance that makes things look less accurate

applies to moral or mental change rather than any general alteration
perversion
vswarping
19 7.9

A change that damages the original meaning or purpose

is the general process of changing morals or mind without implying deliberate misuse
warp
vswarping
17 8.8

A wrong way of thinking that affects how a person acts

describes the process or effect causing that deviation
twisting
vswarping
4 6.3

Making facts seem to mean something else

affects a person's morals or mind internally rather than changing words
warpage
vswarping
  • Specialized
1 7.8

Bending or twisting of a thing so it loses its original shape

is about changing morals or mind rather than physical objects

Antonyms

integrity
447 4.3

Being honest and doing what is right

clarity
30 2.7

How easy it is to see through something like clean water

Compounds

warping machine
  • Specialized
7.9

A machine that puts threads side by side to prepare them for weaving

How Distorted

distortion
26 5.0
warping
4 7.7
bias
  • Specialized
261 5.2

Surface Forms

warping singular
warpings plural

Morphology

warping = warp (transparent) = warp + ing

Derived by nominalizing the verb 'warp' with '-ing' to denote the process or result; the meaning is directly inferable from the base.

Etymology

Warping comes from an old English word warp that meant 'to throw' and was also the name for the long threads used in weaving. When those warp threads move the cloth becomes bent or twisted, so to 'warp' something came to mean bending it out of shape, which is why the warping of a mind or morals means they are twisted away from what is normal.