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Twist
Webster's Dictionary
or (1):
(n.) The act of twisting; a contortion; a flexure; a convolution; a bending.
(2):
(n.) A strong individual tendency, or bent; a marked inclination; a bias; - often implying a peculiar or unusual tendency; as, a twist toward fanaticism.
(3):
(v. t.) To contort; to writhe; to complicate; to crook spirally; to convolve.
(4):
(v. t.) Hence, to turn from the true form or meaning; to pervert; as, to twist a passage cited from an author.
(5):
(v. t.) 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.
(6):
(v. t.) To wreathe; to wind; to encircle; to unite by intertexture of parts.
(7):
(v. t.) To wind into; to insinuate; - used reflexively; as, avarice twists itself into all human concerns.
(8):
(v. t.) 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.
(9):
(v. t.) Hence, to form as if by winding one part around another; to wreathe; to make up.
(10):
(v. t.) To form into a thread from many fine filaments; as, to twist wool or cotton.
(11):
(v. i.) 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.
(12):
(v. i.) To follow a helical or spiral course; to be in the form of a helix.
(13):
(n.) A material for gun barrels, consisting of iron and steel twisted and welded together; as, Damascus twist.
(14):
(n.) The form given in twisting.
(15):
(n.) That which is formed by twisting, convoluting, or uniting parts.
(16):
(n.) A cord, thread, or anything flexible, formed by winding strands or separate things round each other.
(17):
(n.) A kind of closely twisted, strong sewing silk, used by tailors, saddlers, and the like.
(18):
(n.) A kind of cotton yarn, of several varieties.
(19):
(n.) A roll of twisted dough, baked.
(20):
(n.) A little twisted roll of tobacco.
(21):
(n.) One of the threads of a warp, - usually more tightly twisted than the filling.
(22):
(n.) The spiral course of the rifling of a gun barrel or a cannon.
(23):
(n.) A beverage made of brandy and gin.
(24):
(v. t.) A twig.
(25):
(n.) 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.
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Webster, Noah. Entry for 'Twist'. Noah Webster's American Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/dictionaries/eng/web/t/twist.html. 1828.
