twisting 音标拼音: [tw'ɪstɪŋ]
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twisting adj 1 :
marked by repeated turns and bends ; "
a tortuous road up the mountain "; "
winding roads are full of surprises ";
"
had to steer the car down a twisty track " [
synonym :
{
tortuous }, {
twisting }, {
twisty }, {
winding },
{
voluminous }]
n 1 :
the act of distorting something so it seems to mean something it was not intended to mean [
synonym : {
distortion },
{
overrefinement }, {
straining }, {
torture }, {
twisting }]
2 :
the act of rotating rapidly ; "
he gave the crank a spin "; "
it broke off after much twisting " [
synonym : {
spin }, {
twirl },
{
twist }, {
twisting }, {
whirl }]
Twist \
Twist \ (
tw [
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v .
t . [
imp . &
p .
p . {
Twisted };
p .
pr .
&
vb .
n . {
Twisting }.] [
OE .
twisten ,
AS .
twist a rope ,
as made of two (
twisted )
strands ,
fr .
twi -
two ;
akin to D .
twist a quarrel ,
dissension ,
G .
zwist ,
Dan . &
Sw .
tvist ,
Icel .
tvistr the deuce in cards ,
tvistr distressed .
See {
Twice }, {
Two }.]
1 .
To contort ;
to writhe ;
to complicate ;
to crook spirally ;
to convolve .
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Twist it into a serpentine form . --
Pope .
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2 .
Hence ,
to turn from the true form or meaning ;
to pervert ;
as ,
to twist a passage cited from an author .
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3 .
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 .
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4 .
To wreathe ;
to wind ;
to encircle ;
to unite by intertexture of parts . "
Longing to twist bays with that ivy ." --
Waller .
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There are pillars of smoke twisted about with wreaths of flame . --
T .
Burnet .
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5 .
To wind into ;
to insinuate ; --
used reflexively ;
as ,
avarice twists itself into all human concerns .
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6 .
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 . --
Shak .
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7 .
Hence ,
to form as if by winding one part around another ;
to wreathe ;
to make up .
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Was it not to this end That thou began '
st to twist so fine a story ? --
Shak .
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8 .
To form into a thread from many fine filaments ;
as ,
to twist wool or cotton .
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Twisting \
Twist "
ing \,
a . &
n .
from {
Twist }.
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{
Twisting pair }. (
Kinematics )
See under {
Pair },
n .,
7 .
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173 Moby Thesaurus words for "
twisting ":
aberrant ,
aberrative ,
abstractionism ,
abuse of terms ,
ambages ,
ambagious ,
anfractuosity ,
anfractuous ,
bending ,
braiding ,
catachresis ,
circuitous ,
circuitousness ,
circumambages ,
circumbendibus ,
circumlocution ,
circumlocutory ,
circumvolution ,
coloring ,
contorting ,
convolution ,
convolutional ,
crinkle ,
crinkling ,
curving ,
deformation ,
departing ,
desultory ,
deviant ,
deviating ,
deviative ,
deviatory ,
devious ,
digressive ,
discursive ,
distortion ,
eisegesis ,
enlacement ,
entwinement ,
entwining ,
errant ,
erratic ,
error ,
exaggeration ,
excursive ,
expressionism ,
fabric ,
false coloring ,
falsification ,
flexuose ,
flexuosity ,
flexuous ,
flexuousness ,
garbling ,
gloss ,
hyperbole ,
inaccuracy ,
indirect ,
injustice ,
interknitting ,
interlacement ,
interlacery ,
interlacing ,
intertexture ,
interthreading ,
intertieing ,
intertwinement ,
intertwining ,
intertwisting ,
interweavement ,
interweaving ,
intorsion ,
involute ,
involuted ,
involution ,
involutional ,
knitting ,
labyrinthine ,
lacing ,
litotes ,
malentendu ,
malobservation ,
mazy ,
meander ,
meandering ,
meandrous ,
misapplication ,
misapprehension ,
miscitation ,
miscoloring ,
misconception ,
misconstruction ,
misdrawing ,
misexplanation ,
misexplication ,
misexposition ,
misintelligence ,
misinterpretation ,
misjudgment ,
mispainting ,
misquotation ,
misreading ,
misrendering ,
misreport ,
misrepresentation ,
misstatement ,
misteaching ,
mistranslation ,
misunderstanding ,
misuse of words ,
nonrealism ,
out -
of -
the -
way ,
overdrawing ,
overstatement ,
perversion ,
plaiting ,
planetary ,
rambling ,
rivose ,
rivulation ,
rivulose ,
roundabout ,
roving ,
ruffled ,
serpentine ,
shifting ,
sinuate ,
sinuation ,
sinuose ,
sinuosity ,
sinuous ,
sinuousness ,
slanting ,
slinkiness ,
snakiness ,
snaky ,
squeezing ,
stray ,
swerving ,
texture ,
tissue ,
torsion ,
torsional ,
tortile ,
tortility ,
tortuosity ,
tortuous ,
tortuousness ,
torturing ,
turning ,
twining ,
twisty ,
understatement ,
undirected ,
undulation ,
vagrant ,
veering ,
wandering ,
warp and woof ,
warpage ,
wave ,
waving ,
weave ,
weaving ,
web ,
weftage ,
whorled ,
winding ,
wreathing ,
wreathlike ,
wreathy ,
wrenching ,
zigzag
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