The word 'warp' is correct and usable in written English.
It is primarily a verb and is used to describe the process of distorting something, usually a surface, from its original shape. It can also be used as a noun meaning the distortion itself. For example, "The intense summer heat caused the asphalt to warp and crack."
The verdict of one viewer, an actor, was that it was "like watching a coffin warp".
It was becoming the fashion, then, to rewrite fairytales, removing anything too bloodthirsty and prettying up the endings, and my parents were worried that all the skeletons and gouged-out eyes in Grimm's would warp my mind.
Look! …" Suddenly she pointed to an American girl going into the water: "That young lady may be a stenographer and yet be compelled to warp herself, dressing and acting as if she had all the money in the world".
Ellis, in Gregory's words, "wasn't the worst" and the two of them always exchange pleasantries whenever their paths cross these days, yet there were plenty of times when the Villa chairman would drive him round the bend, whether it was complaining about paying a right-back more than £10,000 a week or being stuck in a time warp.
In a media environment transformed by changing attitudes and new technologies, politics is stuck in a time warp.
Mankind's desire to soar like the birds directly inspired the Wright brothers' solution to the problem of controlling a heavier-than-air flying machine, by suggesting the way to do so was to warp the shape of the craft's wings.
Anyway, both would soon be overtaken by slicker means of distributing high-definition video; namely, the warp-speed optical-fibre connections that the phone companies are now laying to people's front doors.Then came last Monday's announcement by two of Hollywood's more thoughtful studios, DreamWorks Animation and Paramount Pictures.
While the rest of Europe's airlines are thriving and even fighting back against budget-carrier competition, Alitalia (like Olympic in Greece) is stuck in a 1970s time-warp of losses, strikes and cancellations.Yet this month's strike, if it goes ahead, will take place in a different corporate climate.
By the end of May, the mission was signing up its first corporate partners.Surprisingly, these warp-speed political successes have not yet exacted much political cost.
Its lending capacity is being trebled to $750 billion.This warp-speed revival is the result, in part, of good luck.
And the business of the airfield's new owner, CargoLifter, is the development of giant airships, a means of transport few have taken seriously since the Hindenburg went up in flames in 1937.The time-warp feeling ends when a gigantic space-age dome, 360 metres long and 107 metres high, comes into view.
