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twist
I. \ˈtwist\ verb
(-ed/-ing/-s)
Etymology: Middle English twisten, from Old English -twist (in compounds) rope; akin to Old Frisian & Middle Low German twist quarrel, Middle Dutch, quarrel, twine, Old English twēgen, twā, tū two — more at two
transitive verb
1.
a. : to unite by winding a thread, strand, or wire around another : join by or as if by winding threads or strands together
< not less than two yarns are … twisted together to form a strand — Manual of Firemanship (Gt. British) >
b. : plait, wreathe
c. : entwine, interlace
2. : to coil around something : twine
< twisted her hair in ringlets around her finger >
3. : to associate intimately (as by a Luddite initiation)
4.
a. : to wring, wrench, or wrest so as to dislocate or distort; especially : sprain
< twisted my ankle >
b. : to wrest the meaning or sense of : pervert, torture
< one of those political phrases which can be twisted to mean whatever the user wants it to mean — Arthur Krock >
< tends to exaggerate and twist many facts out of proportion — H.E.Salisbury >
c. : to tighten up (facial muscles) : contort
< twisted his face into a grin >
d. : to pull off, turn, or break by means of a turning strain : force by torsion
< kept on tightening the nut until he twisted it right off the bolt >
e. : to cause to move with any of various turning motions (as by pivoting, revolving, or spiraling)
< twisted her rocking chair toward the table — Arnold Bennett >
f. : to form into a spiral shape
< a pig's tail twisted into a corkscrew >
g. : to cause to take on moral, mental, or emotional deformity : warp
< their lives and minds have been warped, twisted and soured by the boom-boom, bit-hit policy that now governs the game — John Lardner >
h. : to wrest into an alien or unnatural form : force into a desired shape : deflect, distort, divert
< twisted as many things as I could into laughing matters — J.B.Benefield >
< twisted the authority of the church to the side of wealthy pewholders — V.L.Parrington >
i. : to take (a winding, indirect, or devious course) to a destination or objective
< excitement one gets from watching a good broken-field runner twisting his way to a long touchdown — Jerome Stone >
5. : to turn (a sheet of paper) for printing on the reverse by the work-and-twist method
6. : to use misrepresentation or trickery to induce someone to drop (a life insurance policy) and buy (another) usually in a different company : switch (life insurance) unscrupulously for someone
intransitive verb
1. : to coil or wind with sinuous or tortuous motion : follow a winding course
< a narrow stream that twists through green valleys — American Guide Series: N. C. >
2.
a. : to turn or change shape under torsion
< the blade twisted in the vise >
b. : to bend into or assume a spiral shape
c. : squirm, writhe
< he twisted uneasily in his chair — T.B.Costain >
3. of a ball : to rotate while taking a curving path or direction
4. : to turn around : face about
< twisted around to see the approaching procession >
5. : to move forward while turning on an axis : advance while spinning
< if you travel fast … you might easily twist over the edge into one of the steep ravines — Rose Macaulay >
< the ball twisted slowly from the pitcher's hand >
Synonyms: see curve, wind
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- twist one's arm
- twist around one's finger
- twist the lion's tail
II. noun
(-s)
Etymology: Middle English, from twisten, v.
1. : something formed by twisting or winding: as
a. : a thread, yarn, cord, or rope formed by twisting two or more strands together
b. : a strong tightly twisted sewing silk used especially for buttonholes
c. : a complete turn of a fiber, yarn, roving, or cord about its axis:
(1) : the hardness of a cord expressed as the number of such turns per inch
(2) : the state of being so twisted
d. : a baked piece of twisted dough
< a bread twist >
< cinnamon twists >
e. : tobacco leaves twisted into a thick compact roll
f. : a strip of citrus peel twisted above a drink in order to flavor it with the expressed oils and sometimes dropped into the drink itself
2.
a. : the fleshing between an animal's hind legs; especially : the juncture of the thighs of cattle or sheep
b. : the curved tail of an animal (as a pug)
3. obsolete : the continuing thread of life
4.
a. : the act of turning something or the state of being turned on or as if on its axis
< rounded a sharp corner with deft twists of a file >
b. : the spin given the ball in any of various games (as baseball) — compare curve, english
c. : a spiral turn or curve (as that of an animal's horn)
d. : the spiral rifling of a gun barrel; especially : the distance in which rifling makes one complete turn of the barrel
< a 12-inch twist >
e.
(1) : torque or torsional stress applied to a body (as a rod or shaft)
(2) : torsional strain
(3) : the angle through which a thing is twisted
f. : a warp in lumber that bends one or more of the four corners of a board out of the plane of the others
5. Britain : a vigorous appetite
6.
a. : a turning aside : bend, deflection, deviation
< the road wound through the hills with many a twist and turn >
b. : a local or individual peculiarity of pronunciation or inflection
< his outlandish twist of tongue — Harriot B. Barbour >
c. : a strong individual tendency or bent : a marked inclination or bias : eccentricity, idiosyncrasy
< all sorts of strange characters, of every race and mind, poets, philosophers, cranks of every twist, were in our class — John Reed >
d. : a wresting or distortion of meaning or sense : perversion
< gave the facts an imperceptible twist here and there to make the prisoner seem guilty >
e. : a kinked or tangled confusion : an involved or intricate mess
7. Britain : a screw of paper used as a container : cornet
< eats his sour olives out of a twist of paper — Elizabeth Monroe >
8.
a. : an unexpected turn or development : a movement of action, plot, or policy in an unpredictable or astonishing direction
< twists of history which give piquancy to the past — G.P.Musselman >
< provides a fictional account with an unusual twist — T.C.Chubb >
b. : device, trick
< all the old twists of oratory were tried, but where there had been cheers before, there were now embarrassed silences — Atlantic >
< acquainted with all the twists that make for efficient cooking — Jane Nickerson >
c. : a novel approach, procedure, or method : gimmick
< a teacher uses a new twist for an assignment — W.D.Baker >
< a new twist in spending and saving habits — Sylvia F. Porter >
< a twist on the chain-letter idea — Saul Carson >
9. also twist disease : a disease of wheat and rye that is caused by a fungus (Dilophospora alopecuri) often in association with an eelworm (Anguina tritici) and that causes earcockle of wheat
10. : a front or back dive in which the diver beginning usually at the highest point of the dive executes in corkscrew fashion but without bending the body a half turn or a complete turn by twisting the shoulders sideways so that the body follows the movement — compare full twist, half twist
11. slang : girl, woman; especially : floozy
< the blonde … looked like a two-bit twist — Mickey Spillane >
12. Britain : a warp thread
13. : a spiral often colored line in the stem of a glass — compare air twist |