(n.) One who rents or leases an estate; -- usually said of a lessee or tenant.
(v. t.) To sew together so that the seam is scarcely visible; to sew up with skill and nicety; to finedraw.
(v. t.) To restore the original design of, by working in new warp; -- said with reference to tapestry.
Example Sentences:
(1) LCP said one- and two-bedroom flats in the centre of the city were popular with corporate renters and international students, and that demand was fuelling rental growth.
(2) There is no evidence that buying a house means you personallly lose your job a couple of years down the line, which suggests Britons will not easily be turned on by the idea of becoming a nation of renters.
(3) The paradox is that while Fergus and Judith Wilson can evict 200 benefit-receiving tenants in their Kent buy-to-let empire, confident they will be replaced by working renters, many from eastern Europe, in other places landlords are heavily reliant on benefits.
(4) The group, which campaigns for more affordable housing, used the English Housing Survey's income profile of private renters, and the Office for National Statistics' latest house price index, to work out how many people could afford the average first home, based on the assumption that a home is affordable if it is no more than four times household income.
(5) Other politicians think all housing problems can be tackled by simply building more houses, but Corbyn has recognised that this alone won’t give private renters the rights they need.” Both Corbyn and Healey made clear that housing is the biggest problem facing the UK, and committed to policies that many in the housing sector have been long argued for.
(6) Private renters account for more than 20% of the housing market; in 1985 the figure was 9% .
(7) A lack of rights for private renters puts them at risk of sudden eviction, even if they are up to date with the rent.
(8) In 2002, 100,000 private renters in London were forced to claim housing benefit in order to pay the rent; by the end of the New Labour era, rising rents had increased the number to 250,000.
(9) The Resolution Foundation thinktank has warned that the under-35s are becoming permanent renters , with home ownership reserved for the well-off and elderly.
(10) In the rest of Europe, Berlin still enjoys a reputation as a renters' paradise.
(11) We need to bring an end to these extortionate prices and give people real choices, by building the homes this nation needs.” UK tenants pay more rent than any country in Europe Read more Roger Harding for the housing charity Shelter said private renters “are bearing the brunt of our dramatic housing shortage”.
(12) Unaffordable cities: Berlin the renters' haven hit by green fog of eco-scams Read more “I used to be able to pay my rent for the whole month just by working one shift as a waiter,” he said of his housing situation in 2003, when he lived in a shared flat in a now very desirable neighbourhood on the eastern edge of Kreuzberg.
(13) Scrapping funding for these projects would impact low-income households and renters and public housing users who cannot afford or do not otherwise have access to their own panels, head of the Australian Solar Council, John Grimes, told Guardian Australia.
(14) The rise of the landlord-lodger arrangement could help utilise the estimated 15 million unused bedrooms in England alone, giving renters more options and helping squeezed families and retirees cope with the higher cost of living.
(15) Families in the UK pay an average £6,760 a year in housing costs alone, with mortgaged homeowners paying £7,436 compared to £8,320 for private renters, according to the 2010-11 English Housing Survey.
(16) Alex Hilton, director of Generation Rent, said: “As home ownership gets increasingly out of reach, ever more people will find themselves as permanent renters throughout their lives.
(17) For those of us who want a fairer deal for renters, this feels a lot like Groundhog Day – with the joke very much on us.
(18) Britain has up to 11 million private renters, often being charged rip-off rents and deprived of basic housing security.
(19) Ministers say the change tackles an unfair spare room subsidy not available to private-sector renters and suggest it will save around £500m a year as part of the government's deficit-reduction strategy.
(20) Banning upfront letting agency fees Facebook Twitter Pinterest To Let Signs on New Housing, houses, homes, houses for rent Photograph: Alamy Widely trailed as a plan to help “just about managing’ familes, the government’s plan to ban spiralling letting agency fees will benefit renters if it is introduced as planned.
Warp
Definition:
(v. t.) To throw; hence, to send forth, or throw out, as words; to utter.
(v. t.) To turn or twist out of shape; esp., to twist or bend out of a flat plane by contraction or otherwise.
(v. t.) To turn aside from the true direction; to cause to bend or incline; to pervert.
(v. t.) To weave; to fabricate.
(v. t.) To tow or move, as a vessel, with a line, or warp, attached to a buoy, anchor, or other fixed object.
(v. t.) To cast prematurely, as young; -- said of cattle, sheep, etc.
(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.
(v. t.) To run off the reel into hauls to be tarred, as yarns.
(v. t.) To arrange (yarns) on a warp beam.
(v. i.) To turn, twist, or be twisted out of shape; esp., to be twisted or bent out of a flat plane; as, a board warps in seasoning or shrinking.
(v. i.) to turn or incline from a straight, true, or proper course; to deviate; to swerve.
(v. i.) To fly with a bending or waving motion; to turn and wave, like a flock of birds or insects.
(v. i.) To cast the young prematurely; to slink; -- said of cattle, sheep, etc.
(v. i.) To wind yarn off bobbins for forming the warp of a web; to wind a warp on a warp beam.
(v.) The threads which are extended lengthwise in the loom, and crossed by the woof.
(v.) A rope used in hauling or moving a vessel, usually with one end attached to an anchor, a post, or other fixed object; a towing line; a warping hawser.
(v.) A slimy substance deposited on land by tides, etc., by which a rich alluvial soil is formed.
(v.) A premature casting of young; -- said of cattle, sheep, etc.
(v.) Four; esp., four herrings; a cast. See Cast, n., 17.
(v.) The state of being warped or twisted; as, the warp of a board.
Example Sentences:
(1) It's no coincidence that both novels are about how easily children can be warped or damaged, but of the two it is the shorter, sharper Great Expectations that has aged better.
(2) Abdella, now 19, illustrates the constrained choices and warped pragmatism that many here face.
(3) But this time warp is a Seville one, and all the statues of (ecclesiastical) virgins, winged cherubs, shrines and other Catholic paraphernalia, plus portraits of the late Duchess of Alba, give it a unique spirit, as do the clientele – largely local, despite Garlochí’s international fame as the city’s most kitsch bar.
(4) On this logic – warped because Soviet rule hit Jews as hard as anyone else – the "double genocide" in effect says: you hurt us, we hurt you, now we're even.
(5) In the second trial 24 grafts without velours trimming (Cooley II, Meadox), 24 grafts manufactured by a new warp-knitting procedure without velours trimming (Protegraft 2000, B. Braun AG) and 24 identical grafts of B. Braun AG but with gelatine impregnation were evaluated.
(6) Thus we propose that the internal or "intra-laminar" cross-bridges are the active force-generating ATPases in this system, and that they generate overall bends or changes in the helical pitch of the axostyle by altering the longitudinal and lateral register of microtubules in each lamina individually; e.g., by "warping" each lamina and creating longitudinal shear forces within it.
(7) The breathing sounds were recorded with the small transistor warp type microphone inserted through the nasal orifice into the trachea, main bronchi and segmental bronchi, and were analyzed with sound analyzer.
(8) Magnetic resonance angiography of the pulmonary vasculature was evaluated in 12 subjects using breath-hold gradient echo scans and surface coils at 1.5 T. Flow-compensated GRASS, spoiled GRASS (SPGR), and WARP-SPGR sequences were utilized.
(9) It dismays Kirk that Warp moved to London but he's still in touch with them and their releases, effusing particularly about DJ Mujava and "Township Funk".
(10) Warp wanted him to make a feature film in the same style as he had made his early shorts: quickly and spontaneously, with no script.
(11) It was Warp that optioned the novel and suggested Ayoade direct it.
(12) She said: “We struggle to comprehend the warped and twisted mind that sees a room packed with young children not as a scene to cherish but an opportunity for carnage.
(13) Now, the Obama administration has warped the AUMF even further.
(14) This method is based on the investigations of GIBSON and DAVIS (1958), who showed the tendency of cartilage to warp when one surface is cut.
(15) If there is money to hand out to senior managers who are returning to the health service, but none to help nursing staff who have endured three years of pay restraint, then we are dealing with some seriously warped priorities."
(16) Warp's next act of subversion was to wind up Pete Tong by declaring that bleep was dead and that the future of music was "clonk" - the title of Sweet Exorcist's next 12in.
(17) He developed a parallel career as a rock video director after mentioning in a meeting with record label and film company Warp that he loved the Arctic Monkeys, and ended up directing a string of videos for them (given the band's legendary reticence, the mind boggles at what the initial meeting was like) as well as Vampire Weekend , Kasabian and the Yeah Yeah Yeahs .
(18) When a patient's wave form is compared to a normal template, warping can identify the peaks in the patient's wave form that correspond most closely to the peaks in the normal template.
(19) I can’t help but think that that will eventually come back to bite somebody’s ass, although it may well be your grandchildren’s.” Gibson told me that when he visits London, he’s struck by the extent to which overseas money has warped the fabric of the city, but even more so by “the denial of my lifelong Londoner friends.
(20) (The NSA’s warped interpretation of Section 215 was also the subject of John Oliver’s entire show on Sunday night .