different between bending vs warping

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?b?nd??/

Verb

bending

1. present participle of bend

Noun

bending (plural bendings)

1. A motion or action that bends.

   a bending of the knees

2. An instance of something being adapted or distorted.

   bendings of the rules

Translations

Faroese

Etymology

benda +? -ing

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?p?nt??k/

  Rhymes: -?nt??k

Noun

bending f (genitive singular bendingar, plural bendingar)

1. inflection

Declension

Derived terms

• ábending
• stigbending

Icelandic

Etymology

From benda +? -ing

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?p?nti?k/

Noun

bending f (genitive singular bendingar, nominative plural bendingar)

1. pointing, showing, indicating
2. hint, clue

Declension

Derived terms

• ábending (“comment, tip, advice”)
• frábending (“contraindication”)
• sakbending (“criminal line-up”)
• vísbending (“clue, indication”)

English

Etymology

From Middle English warpynge; equivalent to warp +? -ing.

Verb

warping

1. present participle of warp

Noun

warping (plural warpings)

1. An action or motion that warps or twists.
   • 1973, Oliver Sacks, Awakenings

     Such inertia-less states stand in absolute contrast (and complementarity) to the positive disorders of Parkinsonism, with their intense inertia and resistance to change, their violent warpings of space and field […]

2. (geology) the deformation of the Earth's crust over a large area
3. The art or occupation of preparing warp or webs for the weaver.

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4. The practice of flooding agricultural land with turbid river water to add sediment to the soil.

Middle English

Noun

warping

1. Alternative form of werpynge