Helen Fenton

Warrant: Definition and part of speech

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Warrant

  1. n. Right; legality; allowance.
  2. n. That which warrants or authorizes; a commission giving authority, or justifying the doing of anything; an act, instrument, or obligation, by which one person authorizes another to do something which he has not otherwise a right to do; an act or instrument investing one with a right or authority, and thus securing him from loss or damage; commission; authority.
  3. n. A writing which authorizes a person to receive money or other thing.
  4. n. A precept issued by a magistrate authorizing an officer to make an arrest, a seizure, or a search, or do other acts incident to the administration of justice.
  5. n. An official certificate of appointment issued to an officer of lower rank than a commissioned officer. See Warrant officer, below.
  6. n. That which vouches or insures for anything; guaranty; security.
  7. n. That which attests or proves; a voucher.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.

Warp: Definition and part of speech

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Warp

  1. v. The state of being warped or twisted; as, the warp of a board.
  2. v. t. To throw; hence, to send forth, or throw out, as words; to utter.
  3. v. t. To turn or twist out of shape; esp., to twist or bend out of a flat plane by contraction or otherwise.
  4. v. t. To turn aside from the true direction; to cause to bend or incline; to pervert.
  5. v. t. To weave; to fabricate.
  6. v. t. To tow or move, as a vessel, with a line, or warp, attached to a buoy, anchor, or other fixed object.
  7. v. t. To cast prematurely, as young; — said of cattle, sheep, etc.
  8. v. t. To let the tide or other water in upon (lowlying land), for the purpose of fertilization, by a deposit of warp, or slimy substance.
  9. v. t. To run off the reel into hauls to be tarred, as yarns.
  10. v. t. To arrange (yarns) on a warp beam.
  11. 1v. 1 The state of being warped or twisted; as, the warp of a board.
  12. 1v. t. 1 To throw; hence, to send forth, or throw out, as words; to utter.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.

Warper: Definition and part of speech

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Warper

  1. n. One who, or that which, forms yarn or thread into warps or webs for the loom.
  2. n. One who, or that which, warps or twists out of shape.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.

Warning: Definition and part of speech

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Warning

  1. p. pr. & vb. n. of Warn
  2. a. Giving previous notice; cautioning; admonishing; as, a warning voice.
  3. n. Previous notice.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.