Word Finder - twist

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A twisting force.

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Anything twisted, or the act of twisting.

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The form given in twisting.

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The degree of stress or strain when twisted.

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A type of thread made from two filaments twisted together.

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A sliver of lemon peel added to a cocktail, etc.

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A sudden bend (or short series of bends) in a road, path, etc.

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A distortion to the meaning of a word or passage.

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An unexpected turn in a story, tale, etc.

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(preceded by definite article) A type of dance characterised by rotating one’s hips. See Twist (dance) on Wikipedia for more details.

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A rotation of the body when diving.

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A sprain, especially to the ankle.

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A twig.

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A girl, a woman.

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A roll of twisted dough, baked.

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A small roll of tobacco.

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A material for gun barrels, consisting of iron and steel twisted and welded together.

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Damascus twist

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The spiral course of the rifling of a gun barrel or a cannon.

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A beverage made of brandy and gin.

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A strong individual tendency or bent; inclination.

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a twist toward fanaticism

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An appetite for food.

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To turn the ends of something, usually thread, rope etc., in opposite directions, often using force.

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To join together by twining one part around another.

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To contort; to writhe; to complicate; to crook spirally; to convolve.

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To wreathe; to wind; to encircle; to unite by intertexture of parts.

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To wind into; to insinuate.

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Avarice twists itself into all human concerns.

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To turn a knob etc.

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To distort or change the truth or meaning of words when repeating.

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To form a twist (in any of the above noun meanings).

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To injure (a body part) by bending it in the wrong direction.

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(of a path) To wind; to follow a bendy or wavy course; to have many bends.

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To cause to rotate.

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To dance the twist (a type of dance characterised by twisting one's hips).

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To coax.

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In the game of blackjack (pontoon or twenty-one), to be dealt another card.

She tried to twist away from him.

I don't need magic to twist you up in knots.

The sound made her gut twist and her chest tighten.

Twist your hip more when you hit with the left.

Jessi roused herself enough to twist in his arms so she could see his face.

I had to twist Quinn's arm to get Howie back to Julie's break in.

She screamed, attempting to twist free of his grip, but it was too tight.

The café serves typical diner favorites with an added twist.

Nagaoka and Honda have succeeded in showing that the observed relations between twist and magnetization are in qualitative agreement with an extension of Kirchhoff's theory of magnetostriction.

It is evidently a gyroscopic effect, being reversed in direction by a change from a right to a left-handed twist of rifling, and being increased by an increase of rotation of the shot.

These bobbins are then in general taken to the first spinning frame, and there the single strands receive their first twist, which rounds them, and prevents the compound fibre from splitting up and separating when, by the subsequent scouring operations, the gum is removed which presently binds them into one.

The great bulk of the yarn spun in Great Britain ranges between comparatively narrow limits of count, and such staples as 32' to 36 s twist and 36' to 46' weft in American, 50 9 to 60 s twist and 42' to 62' weft in Egyptian, make up a large part of the total.

The Twist & Shape stepper is a patented multi directional stepper that offers two workout routines in one device.

Gave you a twist? the Cossacks would banter him.

Adrienne felt the rage tearing at her lungs, plucking at her nerves until she wanted to twist Julie's neck off.

Clutching the robe to her midsection, her upper chest exposed beyond control, she tried to twist from his grip.

She half-heartedly tried to twist around him to get away, squealing with mock fear as his arms captured her.

The apex of the cochlea is turned towards, and almost reaches the anterior wall of the occipital condyle; at most it makes but half a twist or turn; it possesses both Reissner's membrane and the organ of Corti.

It also distinguishes the true cotton from the silk cottons or flosses, the fibres of which have no twist, and do not readily spin into thread, and for this reason, amongst others, are very considerably less important as textile fibres.

These special qualities are its fineness, strength, elasticity and great natural twist, which combined enable it to make very fine, strong yarns, suited to the manufacture of the better qualities of hosiery, for mixing with silk and wool, for making lace, &c. It also mercerizes very well.

The chief imports are cotton piece goods, cotton twist, salt, sugar, provisions, railway materials, raw cotton, metals, coal, tobacco, spices and kerosene oil.

The twist effect exhibited by iron under moderate longitudinal magnetization has been called by Knott a positive Wiedemann effect; if the twist were reversed, the other conditions remaining the same, the sign of the Wiedemann effect would be negative.

An explanation of the twist has been given by Maxwell (Electricity and Magnetism, § 448).

The wire is subject to two superposed magnetizations, the one longitudinal, the other circular, due to the current traversing the wire; the resultant magnetization is consequently in the direction of a screw or spiral round the wire, which will be right-handed or left-handed according as the relation between the two magnetizations is right-handed or left-handed; the magnetic expansion or contraction of the metal along the spiral lines of magnetization produces the Wiedemann twist.

Iron (moderately magnetized) expands along the lines of magnetization, and therefore for a right-handed spiral exhibits a right-handed twist.

Bidwell 2 accordingly found upon trial that the Wiedemann twist of an iron wire vanished when the magnetizing force reached a certain high value, and was reversed when that value was exceeded; he also found that the vanishing point was reached with lower values of the magnetizing force when the wire was stretched by a weight.

The corolla is generally funnelshaped, more rarely bell-shaped or tubular; the outer face is often marked out in longitudinal areas, five well-defined areas tapering from base to apex, and marked with longitudinal striae corresponding to the middle of the petals, and alternating with five non-striated weaker triangular areas; in the bud the latter are folded inwards, the stronger areas being exposed and showing a twist to the right.

To speed up the engine twist the throttle toward you.

These observations have been verified and extended by Knott, whose researches have brought to light a large number of additional facts, all of which are in perfect harmony with Maxwell's explanation of the twist.

The etymology of the word is uncertain, but it has been taken to be connected with a root meaning "to twist."

In this operation there is no doubling of the slivers, but each sliver passes separately through the machine, from the can to the spindle, is drawn out to about eight times its length, and receives a small amount of twist to strengthen it, in order that it may be successfully wound upon the roving bobbin by the flyer.

For very heavy jute yarns the spinning frame is not used - the desired amount of twist being given at the roving frame.

The chief items were cotton piece-goods, rice not in the husk, sugar, grain and pulse, salt, iron and steel, tobacco, cotton twist and yarn, and brass and copper.

If this distance is varied until the attracted disk comes into a definite sighted position as seen by observing the end of the index through the lens, then since the force f is constant, being due to the torque applied by the wire for a definite angle of twist, it follows that the difference of potential of the two plates varies as their distance.

The twist or surface-shear being proportional to the torque, the horse-power can be calculated if the modulus of rigidity of the steel employed is known or if the amount of twist corresponding to a given power has previously been ascertained by direct experiment on the shaft before it has been put in place.

This physiologist in 1867 2 showed that all natural wings, whether of the insect, bird or bat, are screws structurally, and that they act as screws when the y are made to vibrate, from the fact that they twist in opposite directions during the down and up strokes.

It is this which causes the wing to twist and untwist diagonally on its long axis when it is made to vibrate.

The principal imports are cotton piece goods, railway materials, metals and machinery, oils, sugar, cotton, twist and salt; and the principal exports are jute, tea, hides, opium, rice, oil-seeds, indigo and lac. The inter-provincial trade is mostly carried on with Eastern Bengal and Assam, the United Provinces and the Central Provinces.

The beat cop pointed to the rear room where they found Ralph hanging from a ceiling water pipe by a thin nylon cord, slowly turning until the twist of the line tightened and reversed his direction.

I think it takes the superhero genre and gives a very unique twist to it, and I am really excited about it.

The cat motif is a curious twist of notes with a small upward glissando to represent its tail.

The games, created in traditional carnival style with a new futuristic twist, will engage and entertain concert goers before the shows.

But this is no ordinary strawberry jelly, there is the added twist of lemon barley!

Twist fave Jo Ayling returns next, knocking out her quality mellow tunes on the old Joanna.

Three weights of very high twist, high quality cord perfect for warping, knotting, macrame and anything requiring a strong thread.

There's one extremely strong plot twist, followed by a truly laughable climactic fight.

The bag fastens with a twist clasp and is embellished with tassles, Amy Morris tag and an antiqueed locket for personalisation.

V.92 modems are suffering similar problems with an extra twist.

Twist the claws from its body, then use a nutcracker to open each claw.

Their sound is given an extra twist by having a Hammond organ in the set up.