War vs Warp - What's the difference?
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(uncountable) Organized]], large-scale, armed conflict between [[country, countries or between national, ethnic, or other sizeable groups, usually involving the engagement of military forces.
* 1917 , (Henry Ford), My Life and Work , Chapter 17:
* 2007 , Carlos Ramirez-Faria, Concise Encyclopaedia of World History :
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, title= (countable) A particular conflict of this kind.
* 1865 , (Herman Melville), "The Surrender at Appomattox":
* 1999 , (Bill Clinton) at Georgetown University, Washington, D.C, November 8 1999:
(countable) By extension, any conflict, or anything resembling a conflict.
# (figuratively) A campaign against something.
# (business, countable) A bout of fierce competition in trade.
(obsolete, uncountable) Instruments of war.
* Prior
(obsolete) Armed forces.
* Milton
(uncountable) A particular card game for two players, notable for having its outcome predetermined by how the cards are dealt.
* 2004 , Karen Salyer McElmurray, Strange Birds in the Tree of Heaven
To engage in conflict (may be followed by "with" to specify the foe).
* (William Shakespeare), King Henry V , act 3, sc. 1:
* 1882 , (George Bernard Shaw), Cashel Byron's Profession , ch. 14:
To carry on, as a contest; to wage.
(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
* , chapter=16
, 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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, title= To arrange strands of thread etc so that they run lengthwise in weaving
(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.
As a proper noun war
is the personification of war, often depicted in armor, and riding a red horse.As a noun warp is
(obsolete) a throw; a cast.As a verb warp is
(transitive|obsolete|outside|dialects) to throw; cast; toss; hurl; fling.war
English
Alternative forms
* warre (obsolete)Noun
- Nobody can deny that war' is a profitable business for those who like that kind of money. ' War is an orgy of money, just as it is an orgy of blood.
- Germany declared war' on France, who reciprocated, on August 3 [1939], and England declared ' war on Germany on August 4, when Belgium was already under invasion.
Old soldiers?, passage=Whether modern, industrial man is less or more warlike than his hunter-gatherer ancestors is impossible to determine.
- All human tribes glad token see
- In the close of the wars of .
- A second challenge will be to implement, with our allies, a plan of stability in the Balkans, so that the region's bitter ethnic problems can no longer be exploited by dictators and Americans do not have to cross the Atlantic again to fight in another war .
- The "war on drugs" is a campaign against the use of narcotic drugs.
- The "war on terror" is a campaign against terrorist crime.
- In the US, conservatives rail against the "war on Christmas".
- I reaped the benefit of the car dealerships' price war , getting my car for far less than it's worth.
- The cellular phone companies were engaged in a freebie war , each offering various services thrown in when one purchased a plan.
- His complement of stores, and total war .
- On their embattled ranks the waves return, / And overwhelm their war .
- We played crazy eights, war , fifty-two card pickup. Rudy flipped the whole deck across the table at me and the cards sailed to the floor, kings, queens, deuces.
Antonyms
* peaceDerived terms
* all's fair in love and war * anti-war * civil war * cold war * conventional war * declaration of war * dynastic war * edit war * flame war * gas war * go to war * holy war * hot war * Hundred Years' War * inter-war * laws of war * man of war, man-of-war, man-o-war, man-o'-war * man-o'-war suit * nuclear war * perpetual war * pissing war * Portuguese man-of-war * post-war * pre-war * price war * prisoner of war, , PW * pro-war * proxy war * revert war * ship of war * spoils of war * state of war * theater of war, theatre of war * thumb war * total war * trade war * tug of war * turf war * undeclared war * war- * war between the sexes * war bond * war bonnet * war bride * War Cabinet * war chalk * war chest * war child * war crime * war criminal * war cry * war dance * war-dial * war-drive * warfare * war game, wargame * war groom * war hammer * warhead * war hound * warlord * war machine * warmonger * war of aggression * war of conquest * war of nerves * war of words * war paint, warpaint * war party * warpath * war reparations * war-ridden * warring * warrior * war room * war story * wartime * war to end all wars * war torn, war-torn * war veteran * war whoop * war widow * war zone * world war * World War One * World War TwoSee also
* battleVerb
(warr)- Once more unto the breach, dear friends, once more . . .
- Be copy now to men of grosser blood,
- And teach them how to war .
- This vein of reflection, warring with his inner knowledge that he had been driven by fear and hatred . . ., produced an exhausting whirl in his thoughts.
- To war the Scot, and borders to defend. — Daniel.
- That thou mightest war a good warfare. — Tim. i. 18.
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* * English terms derived from French ----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.