Twist

Twist

(1):

(n.) The act of twisting; a contortion; a flexure; a convolution; a bending.

(2):

(n.) A strong individual tendency, or bent; a marked inclination; a bias; - often implying a peculiar or unusual tendency; as, a twist toward fanaticism.

(3):

(v. t.) To contort; to writhe; to complicate; to crook spirally; to convolve.

(4):

(v. t.) Hence, to turn from the true form or meaning; to pervert; as, to twist a passage cited from an author.

(5):

(v. t.) To distort, as a solid body, by turning one part relatively to another about an axis passing through both; to subject to torsion; as, to twist a shaft.

(6):

(v. t.) To wreathe; to wind; to encircle; to unite by intertexture of parts.

(7):

(v. t.) To wind into; to insinuate; - used reflexively; as, avarice twists itself into all human concerns.

(8):

(v. t.) To unite by winding one thread, strand, or other flexible substance, round another; to form by convolution, or winding separate things round each other; as, to twist yarn or thread.

(9):

(v. t.) Hence, to form as if by winding one part around another; to wreathe; to make up.

(10):

(v. t.) To form into a thread from many fine filaments; as, to twist wool or cotton.

(11):

(v. i.) To be contorted; to writhe; to be distorted by torsion; to be united by winding round each other; to be or become twisted; as, some strands will twist more easily than others.

(12):

(v. i.) To follow a helical or spiral course; to be in the form of a helix.

(13):

(n.) A material for gun barrels, consisting of iron and steel twisted and welded together; as, Damascus twist.

(14):

(n.) The form given in twisting.

(15):

(n.) That which is formed by twisting, convoluting, or uniting parts.

(16):

(n.) A cord, thread, or anything flexible, formed by winding strands or separate things round each other.

(17):

(n.) A kind of closely twisted, strong sewing silk, used by tailors, saddlers, and the like.

(18):

(n.) A kind of cotton yarn, of several varieties.

(19):

(n.) A roll of twisted dough, baked.

(20):

(n.) A little twisted roll of tobacco.

(21):

(n.) One of the threads of a warp, - usually more tightly twisted than the filling.

(22):

(n.) The spiral course of the rifling of a gun barrel or a cannon.

(23):

(n.) A beverage made of brandy and gin.

(24):

(v. t.) A twig.

(25):

(n.) Act of imparting a turning or twisting motion, as to a pitched ball; also, the motion thus imparted; as, the twist of a billiard ball.