Oh my word Warp, Wrap, Warp & Woof

A simple experiment carried out in the 1950s by legendary psychologist Solomon Asch shows how peer pressure can warp common sense.” –the art of thinking clearly by rolf dobelli Warp as a verb refers to something that has become bent, twisted, out of usual or natural shape as a result of shrinkage or expansion; to deflect something from a true course, to go astray, to bring forth something prematurely such as cattle, sheep, horses; to ejaculate, enunciate.

The wooden doors can warp in the rainy season. The sun can warp things: Nature is a warper. Figuratively, warp refers to cause something or to somebody by becoming biased, distorted, or perverted. Lack of credibility in the establishment is rising among the public because the policies and programmed were warped to promote the capitalists and the political cronies.

Is there a remedy for a warped mind? Warp as noun refers the state of being bent, or twisted out of shape. A time warp is a theoretical construct that permits to travel in a medium without passing through it; a hypothetical distortion occurring in the flow of time - moving events from one time period to another (people from one age imagined to live in another age), or suspend the passage of time.

Time warp is a distortion of space-time. In science fiction, time warp is an illusion that time appears to stand still. Warp in weaving refers to the lengthwise yarns that are held in tension on a frame or loom, and the yarn that is inserted over-and-under the warp threads is called the weft, or woof, or filler.

Wrap has many meanings. Wrap as a verb refers to cover or enclose something, to cover something as a protection. Upon cutting the umbilical cord, the nurse wrapped the baby in a cloth, and handed the baby to the mother. Mist wrapped the valley in the morning. Wrap as noun refers to an outer garment like a scarf, shawl, cloak, etc.

Under wraps is an idiom – secret. Wrapper is a paper or any material used to cover something. Wrapping is a noun: wrapping is a thing used to cover something. What is the wrapping used to cover the mummies? For carrying fragile things there is bubble-wrap. Warp and woof is an idiom meaning the essential foundation of a structure (like in the making of a fabric: warp + woof) or an organization or country. Socialism and democracy are the warp and the woof of the making of free and independent India.

Kovuuri G Reddy