Dent vs Warp - What's the difference?
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A shallow deformation in the surface of an object, produced by an impact.
(by extension, informal) A sudden negative change, such as loss, damage, weakening, consumption or diminution, especially one produced by an external force, event or action
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To impact something, producing a dent.
To develop a dent or dents.
(obsolete) A throw; a cast.
(dialectal) A cast of fish (herring, haddock, etc.); four, as a tale of counting fish.
(dialectal) The young of an animal when brought forth prematurely; a cast lamb, kid, calf, or foal.
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.
(uncountable) The state of being bent or twisted out of shape.
A cast or twist; a distortion or twist, such as in a piece of wood.
(weaving) The threads that run lengthwise in a woven fabric; crossed by the woof or weft.
(nautical) A line or cable used in warping a ship.
A theoretical construct that permits travel across a medium without passing through it normally, such as a teleporter or time warp.
(transitive, obsolete, outside, dialects) To throw; cast; toss; hurl; fling.
(transitive, obsolete, outside, dialects) To utter; ejaculate; enunciate; give utterance to.
(dialectal) To bring forth (young) prematurely, said of cattle, sheep, horses, etc.
(dialectal) To cause a person to suddenly come into a particular state; throw.
(transitive, dialectal, of the wind or sea) To toss or throw around; carry along by natural force.
(ambitransitive, dialectal, of a door) To throw open; open wide.
To twist or turn something out of shape.
* Coleridge
* Tennyson
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, title= To deflect something from a true or proper course.
* Dryden
* Addison
* Southey
To become twisted out of shape.
* (William Shakespeare)
* Moxon
To go astray or be deflected from a correct course
* (William Shakespeare)
To affect something wrongly, unfairly or unfavourably; to bias
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(obsolete, rare, poetic) To weave, hence (figuratively) to fabricate; plot.
* Sternhold
(nautical) 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
* 1883: (Robert Louis Stevenson), (Treasure Island)
(nautical) (for a ship) To be moved by warping.
To fly with a bending or waving motion, like a flock of birds or insects.
* (John Milton)
(agriculture) 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.
(ropemaking) To run off the reel into hauls to be tarred, as yarns.
To travel across a medium without passing through it normally, as by using a teleporter or time warp.
In transitive terms the difference between dent and warp
is that dent is to impact something, producing a dent while warp is to deflect something from a true or proper course.In intransitive terms the difference between dent and warp
is that dent is to develop a dent or dents while warp is to travel across a medium without passing through it normally, as by using a teleporter or time warp.dent
English
Etymology 1
(etyl) . More at dint.Noun
(en noun)- The crash produced a dent in the left side of the car.
- That purchase put a bit of a dent in my wallet.
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Verb
(en verb)- ''Copper is soft and dents easily.
Etymology 2
(etyl), from (etyl) dens, dentis, tooth. See tooth.Anagrams
* English ergative verbs ----warp
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) warp, werp, from (etyl) wearp, . Cognate with (etyl) warp, (etyl) warp, (etyl) Warf, (etyl) varp, (etyl) varp.Noun
(en noun)Etymology 2
From (etyl) werpen, weorpen, worpen, from (etyl) .Verb
(en verb)- The planks looked warped .
- Walter warped his mouth at this / To something so mock solemn, that I laughed.
The Mirror and the Lamp, passage=The preposterous altruism too!
- This first avowed, nor folly warped my mind.
- I have no private considerations to warp me in this controversy.
- We are divested of all those passions which cloud the intellects, and warp the understandings, of men.
- One of you will prove a shrunk panel, and, like green timber, warp .
- They clamp one piece of wood to the end of another, to keep it from casting, or warping .
- There is our commission, / From which we would not have you warp .
TV: Review: THE SIMPSONS (CLASSIC): “Mr. Plow” (season 4, episode 9; originally aired 11/19/1992), passage=It gives a pair of drunken bums direction, purpose and thriving small businesses but it destroys their friendship and warps their morals in the process.}}
- while doth he mischief warp
- (Nares)
- We had a dreary morning's work before us, for there was no sign of any wind, and the boats had to be got out and manned, and the ship warped three or four miles around the corner of the island.
- A pitchy cloud / Of locusts, warping on the eastern wind.