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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