twist.
A twisting force.
Meaning & usage
A twisting force.
Anything twisted, or the act of twisting.
The form given in twisting.
The degree of stress or strain when twisted.
A type of thread made from two filaments twisted together.
A sliver of lemon peel added to a cocktail, etc.
A sudden bend (or short series of bends) in a road, path, etc.
A distortion to the meaning of a passage or word.
An unexpected turn in a story, tale, etc.
I'm all agog at the new twist to the royal scandal.
A modern dance popular in Western culture in the late 1950s and 1960s, based on rotating the hips repeatedly from side to side. See Twist (dance) on Wikipedia for more details.
A rotation of the body when diving.
A sprain, especially to the ankle.
A twig.
A girl, a woman.
A roll or baton of baked dough or pastry in a twisted shape.
A small roll of tobacco.
A material for gun barrels, consisting of iron and steel twisted and welded together.
Damascus twist
The spiral course of the rifling of a gun barrel or a cannon.
A beverage made of brandy and gin.
A strong individual tendency or bent; inclination.
a twist toward fanaticism
An appetite for food.
Ellipsis of hair twist.
Where this word comes from
PIE word *dwóh₁ From Middle English twist, from Old English *twist, in compounds (e.g. mæsttwist (“a rope; stay”), candeltwist (“a wick”)), from Proto-Germanic *twistaz, a derivative of *twi- (“two-”) (compare also twine, between, betwixt). Related to Saterland Frisian Twist (“discord”), Dutch twist (“twist; strife; discord”), German Low German Twist (“strife; discord”), German Zwist (“turmoil; strife; discord”), Swedish tvist (“quarrel; dispute”), Icelandic tvistur (“deuce”). The verb is from Middle English twisten. Compare Dutch twisten, Danish tviste (“to dispute”), Swedish tvista (“to argue; dispute”).
To turn the ends of something, usually thread, rope etc., in opposite directions, often using force.
To join together by twining one part around another.
To contort; to writhe; to complicate; to crook spirally; to convolve.
To wreathe; to wind; to encircle; to unite by intertexture of parts.
To wind into; to insinuate.
Avarice twists itself into all human concerns.
To turn a knob etc.
To distort or change the truth or meaning of words when repeating.
To form a twist (in any of the above noun meanings).
To injure (a body part) by bending it in the wrong direction.
To wind; to follow a bendy or wavy course; to have many bends.
To cause to rotate.
To dance the twist (a type of dance characterised by twisting one's hips).
To coax.
In the game of blackjack (pontoon or twenty-one), to be dealt another card.
Where this word comes from
PIE word *dwóh₁ From Middle English twist, from Old English *twist, in compounds (e.g. mæsttwist (“a rope; stay”), candeltwist (“a wick”)), from Proto-Germanic *twistaz, a derivative of *twi- (“two-”) (compare also twine, between, betwixt). Related to Saterland Frisian Twist (“discord”), Dutch twist (“twist; strife; discord”), German Low German Twist (“strife; discord”), German Zwist (“turmoil; strife; discord”), Swedish tvist (“quarrel; dispute”), Icelandic tvistur (“deuce”). The verb is from Middle English twisten. Compare Dutch twisten, Danish tviste (“to dispute”), Swedish tvista (“to argue; dispute”).
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