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time warp (A hypothetical discontinuity or distortion occurring in the flow of time that would move events from one time period to another or suspend the passage of time. AHD. ▪ For him there was a time warp in which things from different eras overlapped. ▪ Hanoi itself appeared to be caught in a time warp. ▪ Here is a time warp if ever there was one. ▪ I was stuck in a time warp in every sense, one that encompassed my part of Cliff Top as well. ▪ On a rocky unmade track through the olive groves, we might have strayed through a time warp into a Biblical landscape. ▪ Or had he recently passed through a time warp and thought he was back in the 70s? ▪ Step inside, however, and you enter a technological time warp. ▪ The union movement in this country suffers from fossilized leadership trapped in a time warp. LDOCE Alexander Demidov) |
