Dictionary Definition
twist
Noun
1 an unforeseen development; "events suddenly
took an awkward turn" [syn: turn, turn of
events]
2 an interpretation of a text or action; "they
put an unsympathetic construction on his conduct" [syn: construction]
3 any clever (deceptive) maneuver; "he would
stoop to any device to win a point" [syn: device, gimmick]
4 the act of rotating rapidly; "he gave the crank
a spin"; "it broke off after much twisting" [syn: spin, twirl, twisting, whirl]
5 a sharp strain on muscles or ligaments; "the
wrench to his knee occurred as he fell"; "he was sidelined with a
hamstring pull" [syn: wrench, pull]
7 a miniature whirlpool or whirlwind resulting
when the current of a fluid doubles back on itself [syn: eddy]
8 a jerky pulling movement [syn: wrench]
10 social dancing in which couples vigorously
twist their hips and arms in time to the music; was popular in the
1960s; "they liked to dance the twist"
11 the act of winding or twisting; "he put the
key in the old clock and gave it a good wind" [syn: wind, winding]
12 turning or twisting around (in place); "with a
quick twist of his head he surveyed the room" [syn: turn]
Verb
1 to move in a twisting or contorted motion,
(especially when struggling); "The prisoner writhed in discomfort";
"The child tried to wriggle free from his aunt's embrace" [syn:
writhe, wrestle, wriggle, worm, squirm]
2 cause (a plastic object) to assume a crooked or
angular form; "bend the rod"; "twist the dough into a braid"; "the
strong man could turn an iron bar" [syn: flex, bend, deform, turn] [ant: unbend]
3 turn in the opposite direction; "twist a
wire"
5 form into twists; "Twist the bacon around the
sausage"
6 do the twist
7 twist or pull violently or suddenly, especially
so as to remove (something) from that to which it is attached or
from where it originates; "wrench a window off its hinges"; "wrench
oneself free from somebody's grip"; "a deep sigh was wrenched from
his chest" [syn: wrench]
8 practice sophistry; change the meaning of or be
vague about in order to mislead or deceive [syn: twist
around, pervert,
convolute, sophisticate]
9 twist suddenly so as to sprain; "wrench one's
ankle"; "The wrestler twisted his shoulder"; "the hikers sprained
their ankles when they fell"; "I turned my ankle and couldn't walk
for several days" [syn: sprain, wrench, turn, wrick, rick]
User Contributed Dictionary
English
Pronunciation
- /twɪst/
- Rhymes: -ɪst
Noun
- a force producing a twist.
- anything twisted, or the act of twisting; the degree of stress or strain when twisted.
- a type of thread or cotton traditionally used for buttonholes.
- 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 word or passage.
- an unexpected turn in a story, tale, etc.
- a type of dance characterised by rotating one’s hips.
- a rotation of the body when diving.
- a sprain, especially to the ankle.
Translations
Verb
Translations
to distort or change the truth or meaning
- Czech: překroutit
- Arabic:
- CJKV Characters: 絞, 绞
- Dutch: draaien
- Finnish: kiertää, punoa, vääntää
- French: tordre
- German: verdrehen (1,2,3,4), verwinden (2), drehen (3)
- Hungarian: sodorni, összesodorni
- Italian: torcere
- Japanese: ひねる (hineru)
- Korean: 비틀다 (biteulda)
- Portuguese: torcer
- Russian: скручивать (skrúčivat’)
- Sindhi: (wara‘i.nu)
- Spanish: torcer
- Swedish: vrida
- Telugu:మెలిదిప్పు(melidippu)మెలిక(melika)
Related terms
Dutch
Noun
twist mRelated terms
Extensive Definition
Twist may refer to:
- Twist (comic), a comic by John Cook
- Twist (physics), a force (causing twisting)
- Twist (poker), a special round in some variants of stud poker
- Twist ending, an unexpected conclusion or climax to a work of fiction
- Transaction Workflow Innovation Standards Team (TWIST), a non-profit financial industry standards group
- French twist, a hair styling technique
- Twist fungus (Dilophospora alopecuri)
- Twist, the oldest form of chewing tobacco
- Alexander "Chimp" Twist, a minor P. G. Wodehouse character
- Twist (ride), a popular amusement ride, often seen on travelling funfairs
- Twist (sweets), a Norwegian bag of sweets, now produced in Sweden
Music
- Twist (album), a 1994 album by New Zealand singer-songwriter Dave Dobbyn
- The Twist (album), a 1984 LP by Danish indiepop band Gangway
- "The
Twist" (song), a 1960s hit single made famous by Chubby
Checker and written and originally recorded by Hank Ballard
& The Midnighters
- Twist (dance), a rock and roll dance named after the song
- "Twist" (song), from the 2000 album Farmhouse by jam band Phish
- "Twist" (Goldfrapp song), a single from the 2003 album Black Cherry, by British electronica duo Goldfrapp
- Twist (Chris and Cosey album), an album by Chris and Cosey
- "Twist (KoRn song)", from the 1996 album Life Is Peachy by metal band Korn
- "Twisting" is a song by They Might Be Giants
Film and stage
- Twist (film), a 2003 independent film loosely based on Charles Dickens's novel Oliver Twist
- Twist, a 1990 stage thriller by Miles Tredinnick
- Jack Twist, a character from the 2005 film Brokeback Mountain
- Twist (musical), A Musical by Gila Sand and Paul Leschen based on Charles Dicken's "Oliver Twist"
- Twist (1995 film), a Hong Kong film starring Simon Yam
People
- Barry McGee (born 1966), also known as Twist, painter and graffiti artist
- Sean Twist, Canadian author and freelance newspaper columnist
- Michael Twist, Canadian author and teacher
- Leroy Casey, a disk jockey.
Places
- Twist, Arkansas, a city in the United States
- Twist, Devon, a hamlet in southwest England
- Twist, Germany, a municipality in Lower Saxony
See also
twist in German: Twist
twist in Dutch: Twist
twist in Japanese: ツイスト
twist in Finnish: Twist
twist in Swedish: Twist
Synonyms, Antonyms and Related Words
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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