twist

Etymology
From, from , in compounds (e.g. , ), from , a derivative of (compare also , , ).

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Noun

 * 1) A twisting force.
 * 2) Anything twisted, or the act of twisting.
 * 3) The form given in twisting.
 * 4) The degree of stress or strain when twisted.
 * 5) A type of thread made from two filaments twisted together.
 * 6) * 1808–1810,, Memoirs of a Georgian Rake, Folio Society 1995, page 140:
 * 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.
 * 1) A sliver of lemon peel added to a cocktail, etc.
 * 2) A sudden bend (or short series of bends) in a road, path, etc.
 * 3) A distortion to the meaning of a passage or word.
 * 4) An unexpected turn in a story, tale, etc.
 * 5) * 2007 September 7, Graham Linehan, , Season 2, Episode 3:
 * Roy: Oh no, now I know there's a twist. I'm gonna spend the whole film guessing what it is. Damn you, Dominator! Moss: Just try and forget that there's a twist. Roy: Oh, how can you forget there's a twist?... Douglas: Oh, I've heard of this flick. There's a twist in it, isn't there?... . No, . . !... . ..
 * 1)  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.
 * 2) A rotation of the body when diving.
 * 3) A sprain, especially to the ankle.
 * 4)  A twig.
 * 5)  A girl, a woman.
 * 6) * 1990,, 01:08:20
 * (Dane, speaking about a woman character) "I'll see where the twist flops"
 * 1) A roll or baton of baked dough or pastry in a twisted shape.
 * 2)  A small roll of tobacco.
 * 3) A material for gun barrels, consisting of iron and steel twisted and welded together.
 * 4) The spiral course of the rifling of a gun barrel or a cannon.
 * 5)  A beverage made of brandy and gin.
 * 6) A strong individual tendency or bent; inclination.
 * 7)  An appetite for food.
 * 1) A sprain, especially to the ankle.
 * 2)  A twig.
 * 3)  A girl, a woman.
 * 4) * 1990,, 01:08:20
 * (Dane, speaking about a woman character) "I'll see where the twist flops"
 * 1) A roll or baton of baked dough or pastry in a twisted shape.
 * 2)  A small roll of tobacco.
 * 3) A material for gun barrels, consisting of iron and steel twisted and welded together.
 * 4) The spiral course of the rifling of a gun barrel or a cannon.
 * 5)  A beverage made of brandy and gin.
 * 6) A strong individual tendency or bent; inclination.
 * 7)  An appetite for food.
 * 1) The spiral course of the rifling of a gun barrel or a cannon.
 * 2)  A beverage made of brandy and gin.
 * 3) A strong individual tendency or bent; inclination.
 * 4)  An appetite for food.
 * 1)  An appetite for food.
 * 1)  An appetite for food.

Translations

 * Finnish: ,
 * Hindi:
 * Hungarian:, csavaróerő,
 * Italian:, ,
 * Polish: siła skręcająca
 * Scottish Gaelic: snìomh


 * Bulgarian: ,
 * Finnish: ,
 * Hindi: ,
 * Hungarian:, , , ,
 * Italian:
 * Macedonian: и́звив, и́звивка
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Scottish Gaelic:


 * Bulgarian:
 * Finnish:, vääntynyt muoto
 * Hindi:
 * Hungarian:, tekeredés, ,
 * Macedonian: и́звивка
 * Polish:


 * Finnish:
 * Polish:


 * Finnish:
 * German:
 * Italian: ,
 * Polish:
 * Swedish: varpgarn


 * Finnish:
 * Italian:


 * Finnish: äkkimutka,, mutkittelu
 * Galician: revolta
 * German:
 * Hungarian: ,
 * Italian: ,
 * Polish:
 * Scottish Gaelic:


 * Bulgarian:
 * Finnish: ,
 * Hungarian: ,
 * Italian: travisamento,
 * Macedonian: изопачу́вање
 * Polish: przekręcenie


 * Bulgarian:
 * Finnish:
 * Galician: viravolta
 * German:
 * Hungarian: ,
 * Italian: colpo di scena
 * Japanese:
 * Macedonian: пре́сврт, за́плет
 * Polish: zwrot akcji


 * Armenian:
 * Bulgarian: туист
 * Czech:
 * Faroese: tvist
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * German:
 * Hungarian:
 * Macedonian: твист
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Russian:


 * Finnish:
 * Polish:


 * Bulgarian:
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * Hungarian:, megrándítás
 * Italian:
 * Macedonian: исколчу́вање, изместу́вање
 * Polish:


 * Finnish:


 * Finnish:


 * Finnish: rihlaus


 * Polish:


 * Finnish:
 * Polish:


 * Serbo-Croatian: (8)
 * Sindhi:
 * Telugu:

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) To contort; to writhe; to complicate; to crook spirally; to convolve.
 * 4) * June 8, 1714,, letter to
 * twisting it into a serpentine form.
 * 1) To wreathe; to wind; to encircle; to unite by intertexture of parts.
 * 2)  To wind into; to insinuate.
 * Avarice twists itself into all human concerns.
 * 1) To turn a knob etc.
 * 2) To distort or change the truth or meaning of words when repeating.
 * 3) To form a twist (in any of the above noun meanings).
 * 4) To injure (a body part) by bending it in the wrong direction.
 * 5)  To wind; to follow a bendy or wavy course; to have many bends.
 * 6)  To cause to rotate.
 * 7)  To dance the twist (a type of dance characterised by twisting one's hips).
 * 8)  To coax.
 * 9)  In the game of blackjack (pontoon or twenty-one), to be dealt another card.
 * 1)  To wind; to follow a bendy or wavy course; to have many bends.
 * 2)  To cause to rotate.
 * 3)  To dance the twist (a type of dance characterised by twisting one's hips).
 * 4)  To coax.
 * 5)  In the game of blackjack (pontoon or twenty-one), to be dealt another card.
 * 1)  To dance the twist (a type of dance characterised by twisting one's hips).
 * 2)  To coax.
 * 3)  In the game of blackjack (pontoon or twenty-one), to be dealt another card.
 * 1)  In the game of blackjack (pontoon or twenty-one), to be dealt another card.
 * 1)  In the game of blackjack (pontoon or twenty-one), to be dealt another card.

Antonyms

 * stick; stay

Translations

 * Arabic: لَوَى, بَرَمَ
 * Armenian:
 * Aromanian: astorcu, storcu
 * Azerbaijani:
 * Bulgarian:
 * Catalan:
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:, , ,
 * Czech: kroutit
 * Finnish: ,
 * French: ,
 * Friulian: intorteâ, stuarzi
 * Galician: ,
 * Georgian: დაგრეხვა, დაკლაკვნა, მოგრეხვა
 * German:, ,
 * Greek:
 * Ancient: στρέφω
 * Hebrew:, פיתל
 * Hindi: ,
 * Hungarian:, , ,
 * Irish: freang, sníomh
 * Italian: ,
 * Japanese: ,
 * Khmer:
 * Kurdish:
 * Central Kurdish: ئاڵاندن
 * Kyrgyz:
 * Ladin: storjer
 * Latin: torqueō
 * Manx: faast
 * Maori: whenu
 * Mongolian:, ,
 * Norman: teurtre
 * Norwegian:
 * Occitan:
 * Ottoman Turkish: بورمق
 * Persian:
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Quechua: q'iwiy
 * Romanian:, , ,
 * Russian:,  ,  ,  ,
 * Scottish Gaelic: snìomh
 * Sicilian:
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish:
 * Tagalog: balikukuin, magbalikuko, ibalikuko
 * Thai:
 * Turkish:
 * Tày: bjắt
 * Ukrainian: криви́ти
 * Venetian: tòrxer, tòrxar, tòrzer
 * Vietnamese: ,
 * Walloon:


 * Finnish: ,
 * Georgian: მოდრეკვა, მოგრეხვა
 * Hungarian:, , ,
 * Maori: kanoi, kārure
 * Swedish:


 * Bulgarian:
 * Georgian: მობრუნება, მოტრიალება
 * Greek:
 * Ancient Greek: στρέφω
 * Portuguese:
 * Russian: ,


 * Bulgarian: ,
 * Czech: překroutit
 * Finnish: ,
 * German:
 * Hungarian:, ,
 * Kurdish:
 * Central Kurdish: ئاڵاندن
 * Portuguese:
 * Russian: ,
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Spanish: sacar punta a


 * Bulgarian: извивам се
 * Esperanto: tordi
 * Hungarian: ,
 * Irish: bí ag lúbarnaíl
 * Maori: perori


 * Finnish:, , ,
 * Kurdish:
 * Central Kurdish: ئاڵاندن
 * Maori: whakariroi


 * Azerbaijani:
 * Bulgarian:
 * Georgian: გადატრიალება
 * Hungarian:
 * Portuguese:
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish:


 * Dutch:
 * Korean:
 * Sindhi:
 * Telugu: ,

Etymology
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Noun

 * 1)  dance

Etymology 1
From. Cognate with 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, and 🇨🇬.

Noun

 * 1) strife, discord
 * 2) dispute

Etymology 2
From.

Noun

 * 1) twist: dance, turn

Etymology
From.

Noun

 * 1) twist dance

Etymology
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Noun

 * 1)  dance

Etymology
From (attested in compounds), from, from.

Noun

 * 1) The flat part of a hinge (less specifically the entire hinge)
 * 2) A twig or branch.
 * 3) A groin juncture between the chest and thighs
 * 1) A groin juncture between the chest and thighs

Etymology
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Noun

 * 1) jar with a threaded neck and a screw cap allowing airtight sealing
 * 2) screw cap for this type of jar
 * 1) jar with a threaded neck and a screw cap allowing airtight sealing
 * 2) screw cap for this type of jar
 * 1) screw cap for this type of jar

Etymology
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Noun

 * 1)  type of dance

Etymology
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Noun

 * 1)  dance

Etymology
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