Definition, Meaning, Synonyms & Anagrams | English word TWIST

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Definitions of TWIST

1. A twisting force.
2. Anything twisted, or the act of twisting.
3. The form given in twisting.
4. The degree of stress or strain when twisted.
5. A type of thread made from two filaments twisted together.
6. A sliver of lemon peel added to a cocktail, etc.
7. A sudden bend (or short series of bends) in a road, path, etc.
8. An unexpected turn in a story, tale, etc.
9. A rotation of the body when diving.
10. A sprain, especially to the ankle.
11. A roll or baton of baked dough or pastry in a twisted shape.
12. A material for gun barrels, consisting of iron and steel twisted and welded together.
13. The spiral course of the rifling of a gun barrel or a cannon.
14. A strong individual tendency or bent; inclination.
15. To turn the ends of something, usually thread, rope etc., in opposite directions, often using force.
16. To join together by twining one part around another.
17. To contort; to writhe; to complicate; to crook spirally; to convolve.
18. To wreathe; to wind; to encircle; to unite by intertexture of parts.
19. To turn a knob etc.
20. To distort or change the truth or meaning of words when repeating.
21. To form a twist (in any of the above noun meanings).
22. To injure (a body part) by bending it in the wrong direction.
23. A distortion to the meaning of a passage or word.
24. (obsolete) A twig.
25. (slang) A girl, a woman.
26. (countable, uncountable) A small roll of tobacco.
27. (obsolete, slang) A beverage made of brandy and gin.
28. (slang, archaic) An appetite for food.
29. Short for hair twist.
30. (reflexive) To wind into; to insinuate.
31. (intransitive, of a path) To wind; to follow a bendy or wavy course; to have many bends.
32. (transitive) To cause to rotate.
33. (intransitive) To dance the twist (a type of dance characterised by twisting one's hips).
34. (transitive) To coax.
35. (card games) In the game of blackjack (pontoon or twenty-one), to be dealt another card.
36. A surname.
37. (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.

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Examples of Using TWIST in a Sentence

• The majority of the gameplay takes place in medieval fantasy settings, while later sections of the games are often based on science fiction tropes, the transition often serving as a plot twist.
• Twist is poker jargon for a round with specific rules which is sometimes used in the poker variant stud poker.
• Just as a linear force is a push or a pull applied to a body, a torque can be thought of as a twist applied to an object with respect to a chosen point; for example, driving a screw uses torque, which is applied by the screwdriver rotating around its axis.
• It is used in the visual arts to describe a human figure standing with most of its weight on one foot, so that its shoulders and arms twist off-axis from the hips and legs in the axial plane.
• The episodes are in various genres, including fantasy, science fiction, absurdism, dystopian fiction, suspense, horror, supernatural drama, black comedy, and psychological thriller, frequently concluding with a macabre or unexpected twist, and usually with a moral.
• Most of his fiction was in short story form, and usually featured a whimsical story line or ironic plot twist.
• He also directed the film adaptations of Charles Dickens novels Great Expectations (1946) and Oliver Twist (1948), as well as the romantic drama Brief Encounter (1945).
• According to the Merriam-Webster Unabridged Dictionary and the Oxford English Dictionary, the expression comes from the rare and obsolete French expression, which literally meant "double meaning" and was used in the senses of "double understanding" or "ambiguity" but acquired its current suggestive twist in English after being first used in 1673 by John Dryden.
• The connector has a twist to lock design with two lugs in the female portion of the connector engaging a slot in the shell of the male portion.
• Projectiles intended for RML (rifled muzzle-loading) guns were at first fitted with a number of gun-metal studs arranged around them in a spiral manner corresponding to the twist of rifling.
• Leaves are opposite and divided into leaflets and leafstalks that twist and curl around supporting structures to anchor the plant as it climbs.
• The combination of length, weight, and shape of a projectile determines the twist rate needed to gyroscopically stabilize it: barrels intended for short, large-diameter projectiles such as spherical lead balls require a very low twist rate, such as 1 turn in 48 inches (122 cm).
• He is widely known for popularizing many dance styles, including the Twist dance style, with his 1960 hit cover of Hank Ballard & The Midnighters' R&B song "The Twist", and the pony dance style with the 1961 cover of the song "Pony Time".
• Toluca was established in 1887 as a stop on the Atchison, Topeka, and Santa Fe Railway, on land owned by Marshall County native William Twist.
• Supporting roles include Nick Frost as Tim's best friend Mike, Katy Carmichael as Daisy's best friend Twist, Mark Heap as lodger Brian who lives downstairs and Julia Deakin as landlady Marsha.
• The album's first two singles, "Good Tradition" and "Twist in My Sobriety", became top 10 hits around Europe and the album sold around four million copies worldwide.
• was believed to be responsible for between 400 and 1,000 contract killings, until the group was exposed in 1941 by former member Abe "Kid Twist" Reles.
• Oliver Twist unromantically portrays the sordid lives of criminals and exposes the cruel treatment of the many orphans in London in the mid-19th century.
• Moody worked in a variety of genres, but he is perhaps best known for his starring role as Fagin in Lionel Bart's stage and film musical Oliver! based on Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens.
• Glenn Danzig originally wrote the songs "Twist of Cain" and "Possession" for his previous band, Samhain.
• He later wrote and originally recorded (in 1959) "The Twist" which was notably covered a year later by Chubby Checker, this second version spreading the popularity of the dance.
• In the 1960s, the group recorded songs for a variety of labels, including the top 20 single "Twist and Shout" and the Motown single "This Old Heart of Mine (Is Weak for You)", before recording and releasing the Grammy Award-winning hit "It's Your Thing" on their own label, T-Neck Records.
• Jack Dawkins, better known as the Artful Dodger, is a character in Charles Dickens's 1838 novel Oliver Twist.
• Baozhong tea, sometimes romanized as pouchong, is a lightly oxidized tea, twist shape, with floral notes, and usually not roasted, somewhere between green tea and what is usually considered oolong tea, though often classified with the latter due to its lack of the sharper green tea flavours.
• A cracker consists of a segmented cardboard tube wrapped in a brightly decorated twist of paper with a prize in the centre, making it resemble an oversized sweet-wrapper.

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