From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:
Twist \Twist\ (tw[i^]st), 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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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:
Twisting \Twist"ing\,
a. & n. from {Twist}.
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{Twisting pair}. (Kinematics) See under {Pair}, n., 7.
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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
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" [syn:
{tortuous}, {twisting}, {twisty}, {winding},
{voluminous}]
n 1: the act of distorting something so it seems to mean
something it was not intended to mean [syn: {distortion},
{overrefinement}, {straining}, {torture}, {twisting}]
2: the act of rotating rapidly; "he gave the crank a spin"; "it
broke off after much twisting" [syn: {spin}, {twirl},
{twist}, {twisting}, {whirl}]
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