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English Dictionary: twisting	by the DICT Development Group
3 results for twisting
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
twisting adj 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(s): tortuous, twisting, twisty, winding, voluminous n the act of distorting something so it seems to mean something it was not intended to mean Synonym(s): distortion, overrefinement, straining, torture, twisting the act of rotating rapidly; "he gave the crank a spin"; "it broke off after much twisting" Synonym(s): spin, twirl, twist, twisting, whirl
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Twist \Twist\, 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. twistr the deuce in cards, tvistr distressed. See {Twice}, {Two}.] 1. To contort; to writhe; to complicate; to crook spirally; to convolve. Twist it into a serpentine form. --Pope. 2. Hence, to turn from the true form or meaning; to pervert; as, to twist a passage cited from an author. 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. 4. To wreathe; to wind; to encircle; to unite by intertexture of parts. [bd]Longing to twist bays with that ivy.[b8] --Waller. There are pillars of smoke twisted about wreaths of flame. --T. Burnet. 5. To wind into; to insinuate; -- used reflexively; as, avarice twists itself into all human concerns. 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. 7. Hence, to form as if by winding one part around another; to wreathe; to make up. Was it not to this end That thou began'st to twist so fine a story? --Shak. 8. To form into a thread from many fine filaments; as, to twist wool or cotton.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Twisting \Twist"ing\, a. & n. from {Twist}. {Twisting pair}. (Kinematics) See under {Pair}, n., 7.