Warp

(noun.) yarn arranged lengthways on a loom and crossed by the woof.

(noun.) a moral or mental distortion.

(noun.) a shape distorted by twisting or folding.

校对:佩德罗

• The warp was made by the cloth and linen manufacturers, and the weft yarns furnished by the woman spinsters throughout the country. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世纪发明.
• The intervening loops and threads are attached to another frame or heddle, and the two heddles by being worked, one up and the other down, separate the warp threads to form the shed. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世纪发明进展.
• Through this shed the shuttle which carries the woof or filling thread is sent crosswise the warp threads. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世纪发明进展.
• Jacquard’s invention consisted in individualizing and differentiating the movement of the warp threads, instead of operating them in constant groups. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世纪发明进展.
• For this purpose the warp threads, usually horizontal, are each passed through a loop, and every alternate loop is attached to a frame called a heddle. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世纪发明进展.
• When properly dried it does not shrink, warp or swell. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
• Among the recent devices is one which dispenses with the expensive and skilful work by hand of drawing the warp threads into the eyes of the heddles and through the reed of the loom. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世纪发明.
• Your mind is warped; you have judged wrong. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
• Jarndyce and Jarndyce has warped him out of himself and perverted me in his eyes. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 荒凉山庄.
• A form so straight and fine, I argued, must conceal a mind warped and cruel. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
• Are there reasons why Skimpole, not being warped by prejudices, should accept it? 查尔斯·狄更斯. 荒凉山庄.
• I am not warped by prejudices, as an Italian baby is by bandages. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 荒凉山庄.
• The door of the press was warped and cracked with age, and the lock was of the smallest and commonest kind. 威尔基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
• Such grace as was visible in it, made it the uglier, showing how warped and perverted all things good by nature were become. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 双城记.
• When the bed is finished, the strips are clamped with steel clamps, the turned-up ends of which firmly grip the sides of the bed, thus preventing warping or spreading. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
• The Wrights’ system of balance, the great original feature of their invention, is attained by what is called the warping of the wings. 鲁伯特·萨金特·荷兰. 历史性发明.
• These final operations are performed by the warping and dressing machines. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世纪发明.
• The problems of balance and of turning corners were therefore both met and solved by warping the planes to meet the conditions of the airship’s contact with the wind. 鲁伯特·萨金特·荷兰. 历史性发明.
• Warping and Dressing and other Finishing Operations. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世纪发明.

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