| Similarly, when the string moves in space and time, it warps the space around it just as Einstein predicted. |
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| Also available is The Klutz Book of Knots, a step-by-step manual on how to tie the world's 24 most useful hitches, ties, warps and knots. |
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| Birch intentionally warps perspective and depth in a way that brings to mind jazz music and its deliberate distortion of pitch and timbre. |
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| The tapestry is woven in wool on linen warps and contains details in silk, gold and silver. |
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| He sometimes warps individual works by doggedly insisting that they illustrate Derridean concepts. |
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| Each SM features two warp schedulers and two instruction dispatch units, allowing two warps to be issued and executed concurrently. |
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| In both cases, Emma knows better, but prejudice warps her judgment. |
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| Depending on the arrangement of the loom the warps run vertically or horizontally but in both cases the weaver works from the back of the textile. |
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| It makes contact with the edge of the door and provides a good seal even when the door warps from season to season. |
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| As regards ropework, the halyards, sheets and warps have been prepared beforehand and are currently back in their original position. |
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| The Ewe kente often creates a tweed effect by plying together different coloured threads in many of the warps. |
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| Warfare often warps a people's consciousness, which is why we urgently need peace. |
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| It demotes science and social concerns as a source of values in favour of religion and warps the former by glorifying Indian contributions to it. |
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| The group includes fabrics with basketry effects and fabrics with ribs formed by groups of warps or wefts in each shed. |
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| Where the original chattered and cracked, this version susurrates and warps, a bit more like life online. |
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| With an outward wrench of his elbows he simultaneously squeezes and warps the handle on the extinguisher, locking the valve open, and throws the canister at me. |
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| In pile-fabric constructions, such as velvet or velveteen, extra sets of warps are used to form the pile. |
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| Because warps execute independently, Fermi's scheduler does not need to check for dependencies from within the instruction stream. |
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| Archaic spinning wheels, warps, wefts and shuttles took part in the making of silk fabric with picturesque and shiny motives. |
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| Loom were then made of few pieces of wood, but man endeavoured to mingle warps thread with colored weft threads, in order to form a design. |
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| The embargo warps the United States' relations with other Latin American countries, as well as their relations with one another. In this section Workers on tap The euro's next crisis Last days of the Raj? |
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| When individuals work at nontraditional hours, their bodies find themselves in time warps. |
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| The most simple type of twined textile consists of bags in which parallel warps of basswood fibre are held together by spaced wefts of twining using nettle or cotton threads. |
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| To produce it, the warp yarns are held parallel under tension while a crosswise weft yarn is shot over and under alternate warps across the width of the web. |
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| I HAVE been reading about the fascinating time warps phenomenon in Tom Slemen's excellent column. |
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| Wooden boards should not be put in the dish washer because it warps them. |
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| The Jacquard weave, used to make allover figured fabrics such as brocades, tapestries, and damasks, is woven on a loom having a Jacquard attachment to control individual warps. |
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| Apparently water beneath the ice sheets refreezes and warps the surrounding ice upwards. |
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| One is the geodetic effect, the amount by which the Earth warps the local space time in which it resides. |
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| Lines used to tie a boat up when alongside are called docklines, docking cables or mooring warps. |
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| Hand looms were the original weaver's tool, with the shuttle being threaded through alternately raised warps by hand. |
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| A change came about 1740 when fustian masters gave out raw cotton and warps to the weavers and returned to collect the finished cloth. |
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| The weaver also watches for warps that are about to run out, or problems in the warp itself which were not detected in the slashing process. |
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| In yet another ironic twist in a story richly endowed with such warps, the Tsar's telegram crossed one despatched in the other direction. |
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| If the flapper warps, it won't sit properly on the discharge tube, allowing water to drip, or gush, through. |
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| It was woven with silk warps and worsted wefts. |
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| The system of medical reimbursement warps incentives for doctors, insurers and patients that lead Americans to consume more and more medical services. |
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| At the time of the occurrence, the two lazarette fuel oil tanks were roughly 80 per cent full and both trawl winches and warps were still on board. |
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| The warps, bobbins and net used during the previous trip were ranged down the port side of the main deck and the warps were wound onto the port gilson winch. |
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| The SM schedules threads in groups of 32 parallel threads called warps. |
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| It is also a popular rope for anchoring and can be used as mooring warps. |
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| Symmetry-controlled autotrawl systems change the length of the warps to minimize crosscurrent and also increase the symmetry of the trawl in relation to the tow direction. |
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| It gives a pair of drunken bums direction, purpose and thriving small businesses but it destroys their friendship and warps their morals in the process. |
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| Having all our boats out with anchors and warps in them, which were presently run out, the ship warped into safety, where we dropt anchor for the night. |
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| Then there is a film, Timeless Warps by Fahad Samar, which is a picturesque documentary depicting the art of making dhurries. |
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