Twist

Noun

 * 1) A twisting force
 * 2) Anything twisted, or the act of twisting
 * 3) * 1906, Edith Nesbit, The Railway Children Chapter 8
 * Peter was always proud afterwards when he remembered that, with the Bargee's furious fingers tightening on his ear, the Bargee's crimson countenance close to his own, the Bargee's hot breath on his neck, he had the courage to speak the truth.
 * "I wasn't catching fish," said Peter.
 * "That's not your fault, I'll be bound," said the man, giving Peter's ear a twist--not a hard one--but still a twist.
 * 1) the degree of stress or strain when twisted.
 * 2) A type of thread made from two filaments twisted together.
 * 3) * 1596, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, IV.ii:
 * the thrid / By griesly Lachesis was spun with paine, / That cruell Atropos eftsoones vndid, / With cursed knife cutting the twist in twaine [...].
 * 1) A sliver of lemon peel added to a cocktail, etc.
 * 2) * 2005, Theodore J. Albasini, The Progeny
 * Bunny sat on the only remaining stool at the leather-padded oval bar in the Iron Lounge. It was happy hour, two drinks for the price of one. She decided on a martini with a twist, and while the bartender was preparing her drink, she scanned the faces looking at the bar.
 * 1) A sudden bend (or short series of bends) in a road, path, etc.
 * 2) * 1899, Edith Nesbit, The Wouldbegoods
 * But here a twist in the stream brought us out from the bushes
 * 1) A distortion to the meaning of a word or passage.
 * 2) An unexpected turn in a story, tale, etc.
 * 3) A type of dance characterised by rotating one’s hips. See Twist (dance)
 * 4) A rotation of the body when diving.
 * 5) A sprain, especially to the ankle.
 * 6)  twig
 * 1) A sprain, especially to the ankle.
 * 2)  twig

Descendants

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Verb

 * 1) To turn the ends of something, usually thread, rope etc., in opposite directions, often using force.
 * 2) * 1913, George Bernard Shaw, Pygmalion Act V
 * Oh, you ARE a devil. You can twist the heart in a girl as easy as some could twist her arms to hurt her. Mrs. Pearce warned me. Time and again she has wanted to leave you; and you always got round her at the last minute. And you don't care a bit for her. And you don't care a bit for me.
 * 1) To join together by twining one part around another.
 * 2) * 1900, L. Frank Baum, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz Chapter 15
 * "Well, one day I went up in a balloon and the ropes got twisted, so that I couldn't come down again. It went way up above the clouds, so far that a current of air struck it and carried it many, many miles away. For a day and a night I traveled through the air, and on the morning of the second day I awoke and found the balloon floating over a strange and beautiful country."
 * 1) To turn a knob etc.
 * 2) To distort or change the truth or meaning of words when repeating.
 * 3) * Exodus 23:8
 * And you will not take a bribe, because a bribe will blind the alert, and will twist the words of the righteous.
 * 1) To form a twist (in any of the above noun meanings).
 * 2) To injure (a body part) by bending it in the wrong direction.
 * 3) * 1901, Henry Lawson, Joe Wilson's Courtship
 * Then Romany went down, then we fell together, and the chaps separated us. I got another knock-down blow in, and was beginning to enjoy the novelty of it, when Romany staggered and limped.
 * ‘I’ve done,’ he said. ‘I’ve twisted my ankle.’ He’d caught his heel against a tuft of grass.
 * 1)  To wind; to follow a bendy or wavy course; to have many bends.
 * 2) * 1926, Howard Phillips Lovecraft, He
 * My coming to New York had been a mistake; for whereas I had looked for poignant wonder and inspiration in the teeming labyrinths of ancient streets that twist endlessly from forgotten courts and squares and waterfronts to courts and squares and waterfronts equally forgotten, and in the Cyclopean modern towers and pinnacles that rise blackly Babylonian under waning moons, I had found instead only a sense of horror and oppression which threatened to master, paralyze, and annihilate me.
 * 1)  To cause to rotate
 * 2) * 1911, John Masefield, Jim Davis Chapter 8
 * the tide seized us and swept us along, and in the races where this happened there were sucking whirlpools, strong enough to twist us round.
 * 1)  To dance the twist (a type of dance characterised by twisting one's hips)
 * 2)  to coax
 * 3) * 1932, Robert E. Howard, Dark Shanghai
 * "On the three-thousand-dollar reward John Bain is offerin' for the return of his sister," said Ace. "Now listen--I know a certain big Chinee had her kidnapped outa her 'rickshaw out at the edge of the city one evenin'. He's been keepin' her prisoner in his house, waitin' a chance to send her up-country to some bandit friends of his'n; then they'll be in position to twist a big ransome outa John Bain, see?..."
 * 1)  in the game of blackjack (pontoon or twenty-one), to be dealt another card.
 * 1)  in the game of blackjack (pontoon or twenty-one), to be dealt another card.

Antonyms

 * stick; stay

Adjectives for Twist
infernal; dexterous; restless; worst; spiral; heroic; antique; unusual; brutal.

Adverbs for Twist
deftly; drearily; slyly; dexterously; insidiously; craftily; tortuously; superciliously; infernally; ruthlessly; restlessly; brutally; viciously.

Thesaurus
a thing for, aberrancy, aberration, action, adulterate, affinity, afflict, agonize, ail, alloy, alter, alteration, anagnorisis, analysis, anamorphism, anamorphosis, angle, angle off, animus, approach, aptitude, aptness, architectonics, architecture, argument, aspect, asymmetry, atmosphere, background, balmy, barmy, batty, bear off, belie, bend, bent, bias, birthmark, bite, blackhead, bleb, blemish, blister, bonkers, bonus, bow, braid, brail, branching off, buckle, bulla, bully, bun, burlesque, burn, cable, camouflage, canker, caricature, cast, catastrophe, cavendish, chafe, change, character, characterization, chaw, cheapen, check, chew, chewing tobacco, chignon, cicatrix, cicatrize, circle, circuitousness, circulate, circumrotate, circumvolute, cirrus, coarsen, coerce, coil, color, coloring, comedo, complication, conatus, conduciveness, configuration, confound, constitution, construal, construction, contaminate, continuity, contort, contortion, contrivance, convulse, cord, corkscrew, corner, corrupt, crack, crank, crater, craze, crazy, crinkle, crook, crookedness, crotchet, crucify, crumple, cuckoo, cud, cue, curl, curlicue, curve, cut, cut plug, daft, debase, declination, decoration, deface, defacement, defect, defile, deflect, deflower, deform, deformation, deformity, degenerate, degrade, delight, denature, denouement, departure, deprave, desecrate, design, despoil, detorsion, detour, devalue, development, deviance, deviancy, deviate, deviation, device, deviousness, diathesis, diffract, diffuse, digression, discursion, disfiguration, disfigure, disfigurement, disguise, disperse, disposition, disproportion, distort, distortion, distress, divagate, divagation, divarication, diverge, divergence, diversion, divert, dogleg, double, dress up, drift, drifting, eagerness, eating tobacco, eccentric, eccentricity, effect, eidolon, embellish, embroider, enlace, entwine, episode, err, errantry, evolute, exaggerate, excruciate, excurse, excursion, excursus, exorbitation, extra, extra added attraction, extra dash, fable, facet, failing, falling action, falsification, falsify, fashion, fault, favoritism, feature, feeling for, fester, fid, figure, filigree, filling, fillip, flaw, flourish, foible, force, forejudgment, form, freckle, fret, frill, fudge, gall, garble, garbling, gestalt, gild, gimmick, give pain, gloss, gloss over, gnarl, gnaw, go adrift, go around, go astray, go round, grain, grate, grind, gripe, guise, gyrate, gyre, hairpin, harrow, helix, hemangioma, hickey, hurt, idiosyncrasy, image, imago, imbalance, impression, incident, inclination, incongruity, inconsistency, indirection, individualism, infect, inflame, inflict pain, influence, insane, interknit, interlace, interpretation, intertie, intertissue, intertwine, intertwist, interweave, intort, involute, irregularity, irritate, jaundice, jaundiced eye, keloid, kidney, kill by inches, kink, knit, knot, lace, lacerate, lagniappe, leaning, lentigo, liability, ligament, ligation, ligature, light, likeness, liking, line, lineaments, local color, look, loom, loop, lopsidedness, lurch, mad, make, makeup, manner, mar, martyr, martyrize, mask, mat, meander, mental set, mettle, milium, mind, mind-set, miscite, miscolor, misconstruction, misconstrue, misinterpret, misinterpretation, misquotation, misquote, misreport, misrepresent, misrepresentation, misstate, misstatement, misteach, mistranslate, mistranslation, misunderstand, misunderstanding, misuse, mold, mole, mood, motif, movement, mythos, nature, navy, navy plug, needle scar, net, nevus, nip, noose, nuts, nutty, oblique, obliquity, oddity, one-sidedness, ornament, overdraw, overstate, padding, pain, parody, partialism, partiality, partisanship, peculiarity, penchant, pererrate, pererration, peripeteia, persuade, perversion, pervert, phase, phasis, pierce, pigtail, pimple, pinch, pirouette, pit, pivot, plait, plan, pleach, plot, pock, pockmark, poison, pollute, port-wine mark, port-wine stain, preconception, predilection, predisposition, preference, prejudgment, prejudice, prejudice against, prejudice the issue, premium, prepossess, prepossession, pressure, prick, probability, proclivity, prolong the agony, proneness, propensity, prostitute, pull, pustule, put to torture, queue, quid, quirk, rack, raddle, ramble, rambling, rankle, rasp, rattail, ravage, ravish, readiness, recognition, reference, refract, regard, respect, revolve, rick, rift, ringlet, rising action, roll, rope, rotate, round, round the bend, rove, rub, scab, scallop, scar, scarify, scatter, scheme, scratch, screw, scroll, sebaceous cyst, secondary plot, seeming, semblance, sensitivity to, serpentine, set, shape, sheer, shift, shifting, shifting course, shifting path, side, simulacrum, skew, slant, slink, slue, snake, soft spot, something extra, spin, spiral, splice, split, sprain, spring, spun yarn, squirm, stab, stamp, sting, story, straggle, strain, strawberry mark, stray, straying, streak, string, stripe, structure, stuffing, sty, style, subject, subplot, superaddition, susceptibility, sway, sweep, swerve, swerving, swing, swinging, swirl, switch, swivel, tack, tail, taint, temper, temperament, tendency, tendon, tendril, thematic development, theme, thong, tissue, titivate, tobacco juice, tone, topic, topknot, torment, torsion, tortuosity, torture, total effect, track, travesty, treatment, trick, trick out, trimming, tropism, turn, turn a pirouette, turn around, turn awry, turn of mind, turn round, turning, tweak, twill, twine, twirl, twist and turn, type, ulcerate, understanding, understate, undetachment, undispassionateness, unsymmetry, variation, varnish, veer, verruca, version, vesicle, view, viewpoint, violate, vitiate, volute, volution, vortex, vulgarize, wale, wamble, wander, wandering, warp, wart, wattle, weakness, weal, weave, web, welt, wen, wheel, whirl, whitehead, whitewash, whorl, wiggle, willingness, wind, wire, wise, worm, wound, wreathe, wrench, wrest, wriggle, wring, wrinkle, writhe, yarn, yaw, zigzag

Noun

 * Finnish: vääntö,


 * Finnish: vääntö, ,


 * Scottish Gaelic:


 * Finnish:


 * German: Zwirn


 * Finnish:


 * Finnish:, , mutkittelu
 * German: Biegung


 * Scottish Gaelic:


 * Finnish: väärinymmärrys (unintentional), (intentional)


 * Finnish:


 * German: Wendung


 * Armenian:
 * Czech:
 * Finnish:


 * French: twist
 * German: Twist


 * Finnish:


 * Finnish: ,


 * French: torsion


 * : (8)
 * : (waraako)
 * : మెలికె (melike)

Verb

 * Arabic:, برم
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:, ,  ,  ,
 * Czech:
 * Finnish: ,
 * French: entortiller,
 * German: verziehen, ,
 * Italian:
 * Japanese: ,


 * Kurdish: ئاڵاندن
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Russian: скрутить,   скручивать,   изогнуть,  ,
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish:
 * Ukrainian: кривити


 * Finnish: ,


 * Finnish:, ,


 * Russian: вертеть,


 * Czech:
 * Finnish: (intentionally),  (unintentionally)
 * German: verdrehen


 * Kurdish: ئاڵاندن
 * Russian:,   исказить
 * Serbo-Croatian: izvrnuti


 * Finnish:, , ,


 * Kurdish: ئاڵاندن


 * : sodorni, összesodorni
 * : sodorni, összesodorni


 * : 비틀다 (biteulda)
 * : (wara‘i.nu)
 * :మెలిదిప్పు(melidippu)మెలిక(melika)

Derived terms

 * French twist
 * get one's knickers in a twist
 * intertwist
 * nontwist
 * overtwist
 * plot twist
 * retwist
 * round the twist
 * supertwist
 * twistable
 * twist and turn
 * twist around
 * twist drill
 * twister


 * twistfree
 * twist grip
 * twistical
 * twist in the wind
 * twist of fate
 * twist off
 * twist someone's arm
 * twist someone's balls
 * twist up
 * twistwood
 * twisty
 * undertwist
 * untwist

Anagrams

 * twits

Noun

 * 1) strife, discord
 * 2) dispute

Derived terms

 * redetwist
 * twistappel

Anagrams

 * witst

Noun

 * 1) twist dance

Derived terms

 * twistata

Noun

 * 1) twist dance

Etymology
From

Derived terms

 * twister

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Noun

 * 1)  twist

Etymology
From twist:.