英语词汇“distortion”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

WORD ORIGINdistort

Origin:

1400-1500 Latin distortus, past participle of distorquere ‘to twist out of shape’

VERB TABLE

distort

Simple Form
Present	I, you, we, they	distort
	he, she, it	distorts
Past	I, you, he, she, it, we, they	distorted
Present perfect	I, you, we, they	have distorted
	he, she, it	has distorted
Past perfect	I, you, he, she, it, we, they	had distorted
Future	I, you, he, she, it, we, they	will distort
Future perfect	I, you, he, she, it, we, they	will have distorted

Continuous Form
Present	I	am distorting
	he, she, it	is distorting
	you, we, they	are distorting
Past	I, he, she, it	was distorting
	you, we, they	were distorting
Present perfect	I, you, we, they	have been distorting
	he, she, it	has been distorting
Past perfect	I, you, he, she, it, we, they	had been distorting
Future	I, you, he, she, it, we, they	will be distorting
Future perfect	I, you, he, she, it, we, they	will have been distorting

EXAMPLES FROM OTHER DICTIONARIES

Funhouse mirrors, which are not flat, cause images to be distorted.
Journalists were accused of sensationalizing the story and distorting the facts.
Newspaper readers are usually given a simplified and often distorted version of events.
Some say that the President has distorted facts in order to win the election.
These incidents were grossly distorted by police witnesses.

EXAMPLES FROM THE CORPUS

A frequent tactic is to try to distort the meaning of words.
But ions can not probe non-conductors because they build up a charge on the surface, which distorts the analysis.
But we can not assume that humans would naturally or inevitably develop such distorted ideas.
For example, the beat can be distorted if the coronary arteries are not wired correctly inside the heart.
If the sine wave is distorted, harmonics are generated.
Nevertheless, to conceive of parents as utterly static in the child's psychological life is likely to distort the picture grossly.
The engram bank becomes severely distorted by painful emotion and the areas of painful emotion be-come severely distorted by physical pain elsewhere.

THESAURUSto change something in order to deceive people► distort

to explain facts, statements etc in a way that makes them seem different from what they really are: · The judge said that she had deliberately tried to distort the facts.· Don’t try to distort the truth.

► twist

to dishonestly change the meaning of a piece of information or of something that someone has said, in order to get an advantage for yourself or to support your own opinion: · He accused reporters of twisting his words.· In her article she twisted the meaning of what I said.

► misrepresent

to give people a wrong idea about someone or their opinions, by what you write or say: · I hope I have not misrepresented her opinion.· He’s taking legal action to stop the film, claiming it grossly misrepresents him.

Longman Language Activatorto change facts or information in a dishonest way► twist

to dishonestly change the meaning of a piece of information or of something that someone has said, in order to get some advantage for yourself or to support your own opinion: · The lawyers twisted everything I said to make it look as if I was guilty.· Every time I try to talk to him about it, he just twists everything I say.· Write very clearly so that no one can twist your meaning.

► misrepresent

to give people a wrong idea about someone or their opinions, by what you write or say: · Your reporter has completely misrepresented my opinions about immigration.· Many women feel that the history books either ignore or misrepresent them.

► distort

to explain facts, statements etc in a way that makes them seem different from what they really are: · Newspaper readers are usually given a simplified and often distorted version of events.· These incidents were grossly distorted by police witnesses.distort the truth/the facts: · Journalists were accused of sensationalizing the story and distorting the facts.

► falsify

to dishonestly change official documents or records so that they contain false information: · She falsified her birth certificate to get the job.· A whole team was kept busy falsifying official government records.· Their accounts had been falsified over a long period of time

► put words into somebody's mouth

to pretend that you think someone has said something that is not what they actually said or meant: · I didn't mean that at all -- you're just putting words into my mouth!· You're putting words into her mouth. You don't know what she thinks.

► cook the books

informal to dishonestly change a company's financial records, in order to steal money: · We've just found out Alec's been cooking the books.· The directors of the company made millions from cooking the books before the fraud investigators caught them.

► rewrite history

if a government, film company etc rewrites history, it deceives people by pretending that particular historical events did not really happen or that they happened differently: · Hollywood has been accused of rewriting history, by once again denying the role played by African Americans.

having a strange or wrong shape► deformed

something that is deformed , especially part of a living thing, has the wrong shape, usually because it has grown or developed wrongly: · She had survived polio, but her right leg was weak and deformed.· The desert plants were strange deformed bushes with bizarrely twisted branches.

► distorted

something that is distorted has been twisted out of its correct or original shape: · As a result of the crash, the remains of the vehicles were distorted out of all recognition.· After treatment, her distorted hip had straightened, so that her legs were the same length.

► misshapen

having the wrong shape, usually because of growing that way over a long period of time: · The old woman's fingers were misshapen and useless.· Misshapen carrots and potatoes were fed to the pigs.

► lopsided

something that is lopsided does not have the same shape on each side, for example because one side is higher than the other: · She gave me a lopsided smile.· a note written in a child's lopsided handwriting· His whole face was lopsided, one cheek badly scarred.

► lose its shape

especially British if something such as a hat, coat, or skirt loses its shape , it becomes the wrong shape because it has been worn a lot: · His battered old hat had completely lost its shape.· She was wearing an old jumper that had lost its shape.

COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES► a distorted/misleading picture

(=one that is not accurate)· The media coverage left many people with a distorted picture.· These figures give a misleading picture of the company’s financial health.

COLLOCATIONS FROM THE CORPUSADVERB► often

· Isolated and often distorted in size, objects are fetishised and appear surreal.· But the attacks often distort the true nature of a candidate.· It may be very colloquial and the voices are often distorted.· Gone, in the heat of a passion as debilitating as the panic that so often distorts the actions of accused politicians.· Crime rates often distort more than they clarify.· It does not necessarily call for an ethical content, so facts are often distorted or falsified for self-interest.

► seriously

· Too much emotion has been bottled up for too long and in some firms the performance-reward link is seriously distorted.· This is a seriously distorted impression.

NOUN► face

· The candles fluttered light on to the silver, which threw off distorted images of the faces round the table.· The fierce, distorted blind face of the creature appeared at ground level, on its side, searching.· It not only distorts the face but gives the impression of anger or impatience.· Some of them have really distorted faces.

► fact

· Members of all three shifts were milling about the circular room: repeating rumours, distorting facts and generally hyping themselves up.· The Department of the Environment immediately issued a furious press release accusing the Chron of distorting the facts.· Take cheap shots and distort facts in order to get ahead?· Obesity researchers' thinking is distorted most by the fact that almost everyone who funds their work is in the diet business.

► market

· From that it follows that any tax, because it distorts the market, must be bad.· They supply most of the pubs and they distort the market as a result of their sheer size and advertising wealth.· None of this is likely to change the dynamics of stadium-bidding, as long as the sports-league cartels distort the market.· If these taxes increase the price of all products in proportion to their original price, they distort market preferences relatively little. 2.

► relationship

· The denial mechanisms will distort relationships and dealings with the client, and warp our perceptions of the whole situation.

► truth

· Perceptions, such as hers, distort the truth and confuse the issue.· Champions of the vanquished classes, at home and abroad, would inevitably seek to distort the truth.· Hutcheson over-simplified and distorted the truth by treating benevolence as the one moral desideratum.

VERB► become

· A natural and innocent experience like weeping becomes sullied and distorted.· The engram bank becomes severely distorted by painful emotion and the areas of painful emotion be-come severely distorted by physical pain elsewhere.· The protein becomes distorted and loses its function.· It takes imagination to understand what is needed when sounds become muffled, distorted, unclear or even non-existent.

WORD FAMILYnoundistortionadjectivedistortedverbdistort