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Meaning of Warping | Babel Free

Noun CEFR B1

Definitions

  1. An action or motion that warps or twists.
  2. the deformation of the Earth's crust over a large area
  3. The art or occupation of preparing warp or webs for the weaver.
  4. The practice of flooding agricultural land with turbid river water to add sediment to the soil.

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Examples

“Such inertia-less states stand in absolute contrast (and complementarity) to the positive disorders of Parkinsonism, with their intense inertia and resistance to change, their violent warpings of space and field[…]”
“In the more rude state of the art of Weaving , it was the uniform practice in warping, to fix pins in two upright posts at a certain distance from each other, and a number of small pins upon the posts about nine inches distant from each pin”

CEFR level

B1
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This word is part of the CEFR B1 vocabulary — intermediate level.
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