"warping" is a correct and usable word in written English.
You can use it to refer to the process of bending or distorting something or someone out of shape, such as in the example sentence: "The heat caused the metal to warp."
And over the past year the renminbi, which rose by more than 10% against the dollar in 2010-13, has begun slipping again, to the annoyance of American politicians.America's economy is warping as a result.
But Mr Putin has emptied the law of significance, by warping reality to mean whatever he chooses.
The new silicon rack is also thermally stable, and can be used at temperatures as high as 1,350°C without warping or weakening.Semiconductor-equipment manufacturers tried to make racks out of silicon in the 1970s, but found that it was not rigid enough.
And the government is warping accounting standards in its attempts to disguise all this.Concerned that consumers are overstretched, private banks have held back on lending in recent years.
The region is divided into the Inner Zone, formed by complex faulting, and the Outer Zone, formed by warping.
Far more subtle tectonic expressions are manifested by the vast continental regions of limited relief and elevation affected by gentle uplift, subsidence, tilting, and warping.
Though subsequently replaced by ailerons, the Wrights' patented method of "wing-warping" was the breakthrough that got aviation off the ground.
In a sense, wing-warping is what got modern hang-gliders back into the skies in the 1960s.
The most important modification was made during October 4 6, when, on the basis of flight testing, the Wrights replaced the fixed rudder with a single-surface movable rudder linked to the wing-warping system.
Patents with broad claims for their wing-warping technology were granted in Europe in 1904 and in the United States in 1906.
The glider was based on the Wrights' experience in 1899 with a kite designed to test their "wing-warping" control system, on two less-successful gliders tested in 1900 and 1901, and on information gathered during the course of wind-tunnel tests conducted in the fall and winter of 1901 02.
