twist

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noun

Plural noun:

twists

1.
(countable, uncountable)A twisting force.
2.
(countable, uncountable)Anything twisted, or the act of twisting.
3.
(countable, uncountable)The form given in twisting.
4.
(countable, uncountable)The degree of stress or strain when twisted.
5.
(countable, uncountable)A type of thread made from two filaments twisted together.
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.
6.
(countable, uncountable)A sliver of lemon peel added to a cocktail, etc.
7.
(countable, uncountable)A sudden bend (or short series of bends) in a road, path, etc.
8.
(countable, uncountable)A distortion to the meaning of a passage or word.
9.
(countable, uncountable)An unexpected turn in a story, tale, etc.
I'm all agog at the new twist to the royal scandal.
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?... I bet he's a woman, that bloke. No, you think it's the future, but it's actually set in the past. It's not Earth. It's all a dream!... They're all clones. He's his own brother. Everyone's a ghost.
10.
(countable, uncountable)(preceded by definite article) 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.
11.
(countable, uncountable)A rotation of the body when diving.
12.
(countable, uncountable)A sprain, especially to the ankle.
13.
(countable, obsolete, uncountable)A twig.
14.
(countable, slang, uncountable)A girl, a woman.
(Dane, speaking about a woman character) "I'll see where the twist flops"
15.
(countable, uncountable)A roll or baton of baked dough or pastry in a twisted shape.
16.
(countable, uncountable)A small roll of tobacco.
17.
(countable, uncountable)A material for gun barrels, consisting of iron and steel twisted and welded together.
Damascus twist
18.
(countable, uncountable)The spiral course of the rifling of a gun barrel or a cannon.
19.
(countable, obsolete, slang, uncountable)A beverage made of brandy and gin.
20.
(countable, uncountable)A strong individual tendency or bent; inclination.
a twist toward fanaticism
21.
(archaic, countable, slang, uncountable)An appetite for food.
22.
(abbreviation, alt of, countable, ellipsis, uncountable)Ellipsis of hair twist.

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verb

V_es/s

twists

V_ing/Gerund

twisting

V_ed/pp

twisted

1.
To turn the ends of something, usually thread, rope etc., in opposite directions, often using force.
Đồng nghĩa: torque, convolute
2.
To join together by twining one part around another.
Đồng nghĩa: braid, intertwist, lace, betwine, braid, entwist, entwine, interlace, interthread, intertwine, intertwist, interweave, lace, lock, raddle, ruddle, twine, twist
3.
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.
4.
To wreathe; to wind; to encircle; to unite by intertexture of parts.
5.
(reflexive)To wind into; to insinuate.
Avarice twists itself into all human concerns.
6.
To turn a knob etc.
7.
To distort or change the truth or meaning of words when repeating.
Đồng nghĩa: wrest
8.
To form a twist (in any of the above noun meanings).
9.
To injure (a body part) by bending it in the wrong direction.
10.
(intransitive)(intransitive, of a path) To wind; to follow a bendy or wavy course; to have many bends.
11.
(transitive)To cause to rotate.
12.
(intransitive)To dance the twist (a type of dance characterised by twisting one's hips).
13.
(transitive)To coax.
Đồng nghĩa: cajole, inveigle, wheedle, blandander, blandish, butter up, cajole, fast-talk, canoodle, carny, coax, collogue, croodle, engle, fleech, honey around, honey up, hum, ingle, inveigle, soap, soft-sawder, soft-soap, stroke, sweet-talk, tweedle, twist, wheedle, whilly, word
14.
(card games) In the game of blackjack (pontoon or twenty-one), to be dealt another card.

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Đồng nghĩa

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Trái nghĩa

stay stick

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Nguồn gốc từ

dwóh₁ From Middle English twist, from Old English *twist, in compounds (e.g. mæsttwist (a rope; stay), candeltwist (a wick)), from Proto-Germanic *twistaz, a derivative of *twi- (two-) (compare also twine, between, betwixt).