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Twist

/twɪst/

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Tanımlar (İngilizce)

  1. isim A twisting force.
  2. isim Anything twisted, or the act of twisting.

    “Not the least turn or twist in the fibres of any one animal which does not render them more proper for that particular animal's way of life than any other cast or texture.”

  3. isim The form given in twisting.
  4. isim The degree of stress or strain when twisted.
  5. isim A type of thread made from two filaments twisted together.

    “the thrid By griesly Lachesis was spun with paine, That cruell Atropos eftsoones vndid, With cursed knife cutting the twist in twaine […]”

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

    “Bunny sat on the only remaining stool at the leather-padded oval bar in the Iron Lounge. It was happy hour, two drinks for the price of one. She decided on a martini with a twist, and while the bartender was preparing her drink, she scanned the faces looking at the bar.”

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

    “But here a twist in the stream brought us out from the bushes”

  8. isim A distortion to the meaning of a passage or word.
  9. isim An unexpected turn in a story, tale, etc.

    “I'm all agog at the new twist to the royal scandal.”

  10. isim 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.

    “Come on, baby, let's do the twist Take me by my little hand and go like this”

  11. isim A rotation of the body when diving.
  12. isim A sprain, especially to the ankle.
  13. isim A twig.

    “No twiſt, no twig, no bough nor branch […]”

  14. isim A girl, a woman.

    “James and Ruby danced over beside us. ‘Did you tell her?’ he asked, looking at me. I nodded. ‘Wait a minute,’ Gloria said, as they started to dance away. ‘What’s the big idea of talking behind my back?’ ‘Tell that twist to lay off me,’ James said, still speaking directly to me.”

  15. isim A roll or baton of baked dough or pastry in a twisted shape.
  16. isim A small roll of tobacco.

    “We spent a lot of time up on the staging of the great furnaces, trying to pick up the tricks of the trade from the taciturn furnacemen who sat around placidly smoking, or chewing twist, and occasionally throwing in more pig iron to the molten white-hot metal.”

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

    “Damascus twist”

  18. isim The spiral course of the rifling of a gun barrel or a cannon.
  19. isim A beverage made of brandy and gin.
  20. isim A strong individual tendency or bent; inclination.

    “a twist toward fanaticism”

  21. fiil To turn the ends of something, usually thread, rope etc., in opposite directions, often using force.
  22. fiil To join together by twining one part around another.
  23. fiil To contort; to writhe; to complicate; to crook spirally; to convolve.

    “June 8, 1714, Alexander Pope, letter to Jonathan Swift twisting it into a serpentine form.”

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

    “longing to twist bays with that ivy”

  25. fiil To wind into; to insinuate.

    “Avarice twists itself into all human concerns.”

  26. fiil To turn a knob etc.
  27. fiil To distort or change the truth or meaning of words when repeating.

    “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?”

  28. fiil To form a twist (in any of the above noun meanings).
  29. fiil To injure (a body part) by bending it in the wrong direction.

    “Then Romany went down, then we fell together, and the chaps separated us. I got another knock-down blow in, and was beginning to enjoy the novelty of it, when Romany staggered and limped. ‘I’ve done,’ he said. ‘I’ve twisted my ankle.’ He’d caught his heel against a tuft of grass.”

  30. fiil To wind; to follow a bendy or wavy course; to have many bends.

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