WIKTIONARY

twist

Noun

∙ A twisting force.
∙ Anything twisted, or the act of twisting.
∙ The form given in twisting.
∙ The degree of stress or strain when twisted.
∙ A type of thread made from two filaments twisted together.
∙ A sliver of lemon peel added to a cocktail, etc.
∙ A sudden bend (or short series of bends) in a road, path, etc.
∙ A distortion to the meaning of a word or passage.
∙ An unexpected turn in a story, tale, etc.
∙ A type of dance characterised by rotating one’s hips. See Wikipedia:Twist (dance)
∙ A rotation of the body when diving.
∙ A sprain, especially to the ankle.
∙ A twig. obsolete
∙ A girl, a woman. slang
∙ A roll of twisted dough, baked. obsolete
∙ A material for gun barrels, consisting of iron and steel twisted and welded together.
∙ The spiral course of the rifling of a gun barrel or a cannon.
∙ A beverage made of brandy and gin. obsolete, slang
∙ A strong individual tendency or bent; inclination.

Verb

∙ To turn the ends of something, usually thread, rope etc., in opposite directions, often using force.
∙ To join together by twining one part around another.
∙ To contort; to writhe; to complicate; to crook spirally; to convolve.
∙ To wreathe; to wind; to encircle; to unite by intertexture of parts.
∙ To wind into; to insinuate. reflexive
∙ To turn a knob etc.
∙ To distort or change the truth or meaning of words when repeating.
∙ To form a twist (in any of the above noun meanings).
∙ To injure (a body part) by bending it in the wrong direction.
∙ To wind; to follow a bendy or wavy course; to have many bends. intransitive, of a path
∙ To cause to rotate. transitive
∙ To dance the twist (a type of dance characterised by twisting one's hips). intransitive
∙ To coax. transitive
∙ In the game of blackjack (pontoon or twenty-one), to be dealt another card. card games

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