| 单词 | distortion |
| 释义 | distortion (once / 3082 pages) n A distortion is a change, twist, or exaggeration that makes something appear different from the way it really is. You can distort an image, a thought, or even an idea. To say that I never take out the garbage is a distortion of the facts. The heat from the highway creates a distortion in the way objects in the distance appear: They wiggle and dance. The heat creates a wavy distortion in the air that shakes up the image of the things beyond it. Things are the way they are: to change them is to distort them or to create a distortion. Some guitar players prefer distortion: they plug their instrument into amps and pedals that twist and stretch the sound so much that you might not even recognize its source as a guitar. WORD FAMILYdistortion: distortionist, distortions+/distort: distortable, distorted, distorting, distortion, distorts/distorted: distortedly, undistorted USAGE EXAMPLESSarepta was barely allowed to defend itself at the meeting, which allowed agency distortions to appear as fact. Wall Street Journal(Dec 31, 2016) Mrs Merkel also denounced "distortions" that were leading people to believe that the EU and even parliamentary democracy were no longer working. BBC(Dec 30, 2016) When we’re being criticized by someone who wants an apology, we automatically listen for the inaccuracies, distortions and exaggerations that will inevitably be there. Time(Dec 28, 2016) 1n a shape resulting from distortion Syn|Hypo|Hyper distorted shape contortion, crookedness, torsion, tortuosity, tortuousness a tortuous and twisted shape or position buckle, warpa shape distorted by twisting or folding gnarl, knotsomething twisted and tight and swollen form, shape the spatial arrangement of something as distinct from its substance 2n the act of distorting something so it seems to mean something it was not intended to mean Syn|Hyper overrefinement, straining, torture, twisting falsification, misrepresentation a willful perversion of facts 3n a change for the worse Syn|Hypo|Hyper deformation warp, warping a moral or mental distortion damage, harm, impairment the occurrence of a change for the worse 4n an optical phenomenon resulting from the failure of a lens or mirror to produce a good image Syn|Hypo|Hyper aberration, optical aberration chromatic aberration an optical aberration in which the image has colored fringes spherical aberrationan optical aberration resulting in a distorted image optical phenomenon a physical phenomenon related to or involving light 5n a change (usually undesired) in the waveform of an acoustic or analog electrical signal; the difference between two measurements of a signal (as between the input and output signal) heavy metal guitar players use vacuum tube amplifiers to produce extreme distortion Hypo|Hyper amplitude distortion, nonlinear distortion distortion that occurs when the output signal does not have a linear relation to the input signal acoustic phenomenon a physical phenomenon associated with the production or transmission of sound electrical phenomenona physical phenomenon involving electricity 6n the mistake of misrepresenting the facts Hyper error, fault, mistake a wrong action attributable to bad judgment or ignorance or inattention |
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