Definition of Twist

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Definition of Twist

Twist

Act of imparting a turning or twisting motion, as to a pitched ball; also, the motion thus imparted; as, the twist of a billiard ball.

A strong individual tendency, or bent; a marked inclination; a bias; -- often implying a peculiar or unusual tendency; as, a twist toward fanaticism.

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

Hence, to turn from the true form or meaning; to pervert; as, to twist a passage cited from an author.

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.

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

To wind into; to insinuate; -- used reflexively; as, avarice twists itself into all human concerns.

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.

Hence, to form as if by winding one part around another; to wreathe; to make up.

To form into a thread from many fine filaments; as, to twist wool or cotton.

To be contorted; to writhe; to be distorted by torsion; to be united by winding round each other; to be or become twisted; as, some strands will twist more easily than others.

To follow a helical or spiral course; to be in the form of a helix.

The act of twisting; a contortion; a flexure; a convolution; a bending.

The form given in twisting.

That which is formed by twisting, convoluting, or uniting parts.

A cord, thread, or anything flexible, formed by winding strands or separate things round each other.

A kind of closely twisted, strong sewing silk, used by tailors, saddlers, and the like.

A kind of cotton yarn, of several varieties.

A roll of twisted dough, baked.

A little twisted roll of tobacco.

One of the threads of a warp, -- usually more tightly twisted than the filling.

A material for gun barrels, consisting of iron and steel twisted and welded together; as, Damascus twist.

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

A beverage made of brandy and gin.

A twig.

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Twist Quotations

And finally I twist my heart round again, so that the bad is on the outside and the good is on the inside, and keep on trying to find a way of becoming what I would so like to be, and could be, if there weren't any other people living in the world.
Anne Frank

What separates the winners from the losers is how a person reacts to each new twist of fate.
Donald Trump

The beginning of love is to let those we love be perfectly themselves, and not to twist them to fit our own image. Otherwise we love only the reflection of ourselves we find in them.
Thomas Merton

I see myself as a true modernist. Even when I do a traditional gown, I give it a modern twist. I go to the past for research. I need to know what came before so I can break the rules.
Vera Wang

And we love to dance, especially that new one called the Civil War Twist. The Northern part of you stands still while the Southern part tries to secede.
Dick Gregory

If someone wrote it and it had a peculiar twist, I've read it.
Dean Koontz

The Twist was a guided missile launched from the ghetto into the heart of suburbia. The Twist succeeded, as politics, religion and law could never do, in writing in the heart and soul what the Supreme Court could only write on the books.
Eldridge Cleaver

You see it in the many bouncing clothes that are not just pleats. To make them, two or three people twist them - twist, twist, twist the pleats, sometimes three or four persons twist together and put it all in the machine to cook it.
Issey Miyake

If I were doing something that the Bible condemns, I have two choices. I can straighten up my act, or I can somehow distort and twist and change the meaning of the Bible.
Jerry Falwell

I have no qualifications to do anything else and there weren't any formal application forms you had to fill in for stand-up, so I thought I'd give that a twist.
Dylan Moran

Twist Translations

twist in Afrikaans is kronkel
twist in Dutch is kronkelen
twist in French is torsion, tordre
twist in German is drehen, drall, verbiegen
twist in Italian is storcere, girata
twist in Latin is intorqueo
twist in Spanish is pervertir, vuelta
twist in Swedish is tvinna, snurra

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