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[Twist]
** English
[wikipedia]
*** Etymology
[en] [en] From [en], from [en], in compounds (e.g. [ang], [ang]), from [en],
a derivative of [gem-pro] (compare also [en], [en], [en]).
Related to [stq], [nl], [nds-de], [de], [sv], [is].
The verb is from [en]. Compare [nl], [da], [sv].
*** Pronunciation
- [twĭst] , [en]
- [en]
- [en]
*** Noun
[~]
1. A twisting force .
2. Anything twisted , or the act of twisting .
3. * {{ quote-text | en | year=1906 | author=w:Edith Nesbit | title=w:The Railway Children | chapter=8
|passage=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. <br> "I wasn't catching fish," said Peter. <br>
"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. * [issue=120]
2. The form given in twisting.
3. * [part=3A]
4. The degree of stress or strain when twisted.
5. A type of thread made from two filament s twisted together.
6. * [book=IV]
7. * 1808–1810 , [William Hickey (memoirist)] , _Memoirs of a Georgian Rake_ , Folio Society 1995, page 140:
8. *: I was one morning walking arm in arm with him in St James's Park, his dress then being [...] waistcoat and breeches of the same blue satin, trimmed with silver TWIST _à la hussarde_ , and ermine edges.
9. A sliver of lemon peel added to a cocktail , etc.
10. * [en]
11. A sudden bend (or short series of bends) in a road , path , etc.
12. * [en]
13. * [chapter=I]
14. A distortion to the meaning of a passage or word .
15. An unexpected turn in a story , tale , etc.
16. * [en]
17. * 2007 SEPTEMBER 7 , Graham Linehan, _[The IT Crowd]_ , Season 2, Episode 3:
18. *: _Roy:_ Oh no, now I know there's a TWIST . I'm gonna spend the whole film guessing what it is. Damn you, Dominator! <br> _Moss:_ Just try and forget that there's a TWIST . <br> _Roy:_ Oh, how can you forget there's a TWIST ?... <br> _Douglas:_ Oh, I've heard of this flick. There's a TWIST in it, isn't there?... [The Crying Game] . No, [Battlestar Galactica] . [The Invaders (The Twilight Zone)] . [The Wizard of Oz (film)] !... [Bladerunner] . [The Prestige (film)] . [The Sixth Sense] .
19. * [en]
20. [en] 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.
21. * [en]
22. * [en]
23. * [en]
24. A rotation of the body when diving .
25. A sprain , especially to the ankle .
26. [en] A twig .
27. * [book=13]
28. [en] A girl , a woman .
29. * [en]
30. * 1990 , [Miller's Crossing] , 01:08:20
31. *: (Dane, speaking about a woman character) "I'll see where the TWIST flop s"
32. A roll or baton of baked dough or pastry in a twisted shape.
33. [en] A small roll of tobacco .
34. * [en]
35. * [text= [...] this Katie Byrne was a great favourite with Art and Con, to whom she always brought a gift of tobacco TWIST , when she came on a visit, and Art and Con were great chewers of tobacco TWIST , and never had enough, never never had enough tobacco TWIST , for their liking.]
36. A material for gun barrel s, consisting of iron and steel twisted and welded together.
37. The spiral course of the rifling of a gun barrel or a cannon.
38. [en] A beverage made of brandy and gin .
39. A strong individual tendency or bent ; inclination .
40. [en] An appetite for food . < !--Chambers 1908-->
41. * [chapter=XXXV]
42. * [en]
43. [en] .
44. * [en]
**** Descendants
- [de]
- [ru]
**** Translations
[twisting force]
- Finnish: [fi] , [fi]
- Hindi: [hi]
- Hungarian: [hu] , [hu] , [hu]
- Italian: [it] , [it] , [it]
- Polish: [pl]
- Scottish Gaelic: [gd]
- Spanish: [es] , [es] , [es] , [es] , [es]
[trans-bottom]
[anything twisted, or the act of twisting]
- Albanian: [sq]
- Bulgarian: [bg] , [bg]
- Finnish: [fi] , [fi]
- Hindi: [hi] , [hi]
- Hungarian: [hu] , [hu] , [hu] , [hu] , [hu]
- Italian: [it]
- Macedonian: [mk] , [mk]
- Polish: [pl]
- Portuguese: [pt]
- Scottish Gaelic: [gd]
[trans-bottom]
[form]
- Bulgarian: [bg]
- Finnish: [fi] , [fi]
- Hindi: [hi]
- Hungarian: [hu] , [hu] , [hu] , [hu]
- Macedonian: [mk]
- Polish: [pl]
[trans-bottom]
[degree of stress or strain when twisted]
- Finnish: [fi]
- Polish: [pl]
[trans-bottom]
[type of thread]
- Finnish: [fi]
- German: [de]
- Italian: [it] , [it]
- Polish: [pl]
- Swedish: [sv]
[trans-bottom]
[sliver of lemon peel]
- Finnish: [fi]
- Italian: [it]
[trans-bottom]
[sudden bend (or short series of bends) in a road, path, etc]
- Albanian: [sq]
- Finnish: [fi] , [fi] , [fi]
- Galician: [gl]
- German: [de]
- Hungarian: [hu] , [hu]
- Italian: [it] , [it]
- Polish: [pl]
- Scottish Gaelic: [gd]
[trans-bottom]
[distortion to the meaning of a word or passage]
- Albanian: [sq]
- Bulgarian: [bg]
- Finnish: [fi] [unintentional] , [fi] [intentional]
- Hungarian: [hu] , [hu]
- Italian: [it] , [it]
- Macedonian: [mk]
- Polish: [pl]
[trans-bottom]
[unexpected turn in a story, tale, etc]
- Bulgarian: [bg]
- Finnish: [fi]
- Galician: [gl]
- German: [de]
- Hungarian: [hu] , [hu]
- Italian: [it]
- Japanese: [ja]
- Macedonian: [mk] , [mk]
- Polish: [pl]
[trans-bottom]
[type of dance]
- Armenian: [hy]
- Bulgarian: [bg]
- Czech: [cs]
- Faroese: [fo]
- Finnish: [fi]
- French: [fr]
- German: [de]
- Hungarian: [hu]
- Macedonian: [mk]
- Polish: [pl]
- Portuguese: [pt]
- Russian: [ru]
[trans-bottom]
[rotation of the body when diving]
- Albanian: [sq]
- Finnish: [fi]
- Polish: [pl]
[trans-bottom]
[sprain, especially to the ankle]
- Albanian: [sq]
- Bulgarian: [bg]
- Finnish: [fi]
- French: [fr]
- Hungarian: [hu] , [hu]
- Italian: [it]
- Macedonian: [mk] , [mk]
- Polish: [pl]
[trans-bottom]
[twig]
[slang: girl, woman]
- Finnish: [fi]
[trans-bottom]
[roll of twisted dough, baked] [trans-bottom]
[material for gun barrels]
- Finnish: [fi]
[trans-bottom]
[spiral course of the rifling of a gun barrel or a cannon]
- Finnish: [fi]
[trans-bottom]
[beverage made of brandy and gin]
- Polish: [pl]
[trans-bottom]
[strong individual tendency]
- Finnish: [fi]
- Polish: [pl]
[trans-bottom]
[checktrans-top]
- Serbo-Croatian: [sh] (8)
- Sindhi: [sd]
- Telugu: [te]
[trans-bottom]
*** Verb
[en-verb]
1. To turn the ends of something, usually thread, rope etc., in opposite directions, often using force.
2. To join together by twining one part around another.
3. * [passage="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."]
4. To contort; to writhe; to complicate; to crook spirally; to convolve .
5. * JUNE 8, 1714 , [Alexander Pope] , letter to [Jonathan Swift]
6. *: TWISTING it into a serpentine form.
7. To wreathe; to wind; to encircle; to unite by intertexture of parts.
8. * [en]
9. * [en]
10. [en] To wind into; to insinuate.
11. To turn a knob etc.
12. To distort or change the truth or meaning of words when repeating.
13. * [passage=Say I could succeed at the Bar, and achieve a fortune by bullying witnesses and TWISTING evidence; is that a fame which would satisfy my longings, or a calling in which my life would be well spent?]
14. To form a TWIST (in any of the above noun meanings).
15. To injure (a body part) by bending it in the wrong direction.
16. * [en]
17. * [page=185]
18. [en] To wind ; to follow a bendy or wavy course; to have many bend s.
19. * [chapter=1]
20. * [en]
21. [en] To cause to rotate .
22. * [en]
23. [en] To dance the twist (a type of dance characterised by twisting one's hips).
24. * [en]
25. [en] To coax .
26. * [en]
27. [en] In the game of blackjack ( pontoon or twenty-one ), to be deal t another card.
**** Antonyms
[in blackjack, be dealt another card]: stick; stay
**** Translations
[to turn the ends in opposite directions]
- Albanian: [sq]
- Arabic: [ar] , [ar]
- Armenian: [hy]
- Aromanian: [rup] , [rup]
- Azerbaijani: [az]
- Bulgarian: [bg]
- Catalan: [ca]
- Chinese:
- Czech: [cs]
- Finnish: [fi] , [fi]
- French: [fr] , [fr]
- Friulian: [fur] , [fur]
- Galician: [gl] , [gl]
- Georgian: [ka] , [ka] , [ka]
- German: [de] , [de] , [de]
- Greek: [el]
- Hebrew: [he] , [he]
- Hindi: [hi] , [hi]
- Hungarian: [hu] , [hu] , [hu] , [hu]
- Irish: [ga] , [ga]
- Italian: [it] , [it]
- Japanese: [ja] , [ja]
- Khmer: [km]
- Kurdish:
- Kyrgyz: [ky]
- Ladin: [lld]
- Latin: [la]
- Linngithigh: [lnj]
- Manx: [gv]
- Maori: [mi]
- Mongolian: [mn] , [mn] , [mn]
- Norman: [nrf]
- Norwegian: [no]
- Occitan: [oc]
- Ottoman Turkish: [ota] , [ota]
- Persian: [fa]
- Polish: [pl]
- Portuguese: [pt]
- Quechua: [qu]
- Romanian: [ro] , [ro] , [ro] , [ro]
- Russian: [perfective] [ru] , [imperfective] [ru] , [perfective] [ru] , [imperfective] [ru] , [imperfective] [ru]
- Scottish Gaelic: [gd]
- Sicilian: [scn]
- Southern Altai: [alt] , [alt]
- Spanish: [es] , [es] [a neck] , [es] [a neck]
- Swedish: [sv]
- Tagalog: [tl] , [tl] , [tl]
- Thai: [th]
- Turkish: [tr]
- Tày: [tyz]
- Ukrainian: [uk]
- Venetan: [vec] , [vec] , [vec]
- Vietnamese: [vi] , [vi]
- Walloon: [wa]
[trans-bottom]
[to join together by twining]
- Finnish: [fi] , [fi]
- Georgian: [ka] , [ka]
- Hawaiian: [haw]
- Hungarian: [hu] , [hu] , [hu] , [hu]
- Maori: [mi] [referring to rope-making] , [mi] [refers mostly to rope making] , [mi] [obsolete]
- Swedish: [sv]
- Tahitian: [ty]
- Tongan: [to] , [to]
[trans-bottom]
[to turn a knob etc]
- Bulgarian: [bg]
- Georgian: [ka] , [ka]
- Greek:
- Portuguese: [pt]
- Russian: [imperfective] [ru] , [perfective] [ru]
[trans-bottom]
[to distort or change the truth or meaning]
- Bulgarian: [bg] , [bg]
- Czech: [cs]
- Finnish: [fi] [intentionally] , [fi] [unintentionally]
- German: [de]
- Hungarian: [hu] , [hu] , [hu]
- Kurdish:
- Portuguese: [pt]
- Russian: [imperfective] [ru] , [perfective] [ru]
- Serbo-Croatian: [sh]
- Spanish: [es] [colloquial]
[trans-bottom]
[to wind, to follow a wavy course]
- Albanian: [sq]
- Bulgarian: [bg]
- Esperanto: [eo]
- Hungarian: [hu] , [hu]
- Irish: [ga]
- Maori: [mi]
[trans-bottom]
[to form a twist (in any of the above meanings)]
- Finnish: [fi] , [fi] , [fi] , [fi]
- Kurdish:
- Maori: [mi]
[trans-bottom]
[to injure (a body part) by bending it in the wrong direction]
- Albanian: [sq]
- Azerbaijani: [az]
- Bulgarian: [bg]
- Georgian: [ka]
- Hungarian: [hu]
- Portuguese: [pt]
- Spanish: [es]
- Swedish: [sv]
[trans-bottom]
[checktrans-top]
- Dutch: [nl]
- Korean: [ko]
- Sindhi: [sd]
- Telugu: [te] , [te]
- Woiwurrung: [wyi]
[trans-bottom]
*** Derived terms
{{col|en|title=terms derived from the noun and verb "twist"|arm-twist|flat
twist|gain twist|gaining twist|hanky-twist|Mason twist|mule twist|Russian
twist|stub twist|twist around one's little finger|twist morphism|twist
someone's words|twist the knife|twist the knife in the wound|twist tie|water
twist |French twist|barley twist|twist of the knife|twist-boat |get one's
knickers in a twist |intertwist|get it twisted|rope twist|Senegalese twist
|nontwist |overtwist|nigger twist|twist splice|twist-off |plot twist |retwist
|round the twist|self-twisting |supertwist |twist and turn |twist around
|twist drill |twist grip |twist in the wind |twist of fate |twist off |twist
someone's arm |twist someone's balls |twist up |twistable |twister |twistfree
|twistical |twistwood |twisty |undertwist |untwist }}
*** Anagrams
- [en]
[en] [en]
** Czech
*** Etymology
[cs].
*** Noun
[m-in]
1. [en] [dance]
**** Declension
[m]
*** Further reading
- [R:cs:KNLA]
- [R:cs:SSJC]
[cs]
** Dutch
*** Pronunciation
- [nl]
- [nl]
- [nl]
*** Etymology 1
From [nl]. Cognate with [stq], [nds-de], [de], [sv], [is], and [en].
**** Noun
[m]
1. strife , discord
2. dispute
***** Derived terms
- [nl]
- [nl]
*** Etymology 2
From [nl].
**** Noun
[m]
1. [en] : dance, turn
*** Anagrams
- [nl]
** Finnish
*** Etymology
From [fi].
*** Pronunciation
[twist]
*** Noun
[fi-noun]
1. twist [dance]
**** Declension
[twist]
**** Derived terms
{{col|fi |twistata }}
{{col|fi|title=compounds |twistnaru }}
*** Further reading
- [accessdate=2023-07-03]
[fi]
** French
*** Etymology
[fr].
*** Pronunciation
- [fr-IPA]
- [fr]
- [fr]
- [fr]
- [fr]
- [fr]
- [fr]
*** Noun
[m]
1. [en] [dance]
**** Derived terms
- [fr]
*** Further reading
- [R:fr:TLFi]
[fr]
** Middle English
*** Alternative forms
- [enm]
*** Etymology
From [enm] (attested in compounds), from [enm], from [enm].
*** Pronunciation
- [enm]
*** Noun
[twistes]
1. The flat part of a hinge (less specifically the entire hinge)
2. A twig or branch .
3. * [III]
4. A groin [juncture between the chest and thigh s]
**** Derived terms
- [enm]
**** Descendants
- [en]
- [sco]
*** References
- [entry=twist]
** Polish
[lang=pl]
*** Etymology
[pl] [pl].
*** Pronunciation
[tłist]
*** Noun
[m-anml]
1. [en] [type of dance]
2. [pl] [en] [music to this dance]
3. [en] [beverage made of brandy and gin]
4. jar with a thread ed neck and a screw cap allowing airtight sealing
5. screw cap for this type of jar
**** Declension
[gens=twista]
**** Derived terms
[pl] [pl]
*** Further reading
- [R:pl:PWN]
[pl]
** Portuguese
*** Etymology
[pt].
*** Pronunciation
[tuíçti^]
*** Noun
[m]
1. [en] [type of dance]
[pt]
** Romanian
*** Etymology
[ro] or [ro].
*** Noun
[n]
1. [en] [dance]
**** Declension
[ro-noun-n-uri]
** Spanish
*** Etymology
[es].
*** Pronunciation
[tuist]
*** Noun
[m]
1. [en] [es]
**** Usage notes
[es-unadapted]
*** Further reading
- [R:es:DRAE]