twist

(Inglés)

Noun

1. (countable, uncountable) A twisting force.
2. (countable, uncountable) Anything twisted, or the act of twisting.
3. (countable, uncountable) The form given in twisting.
4. (countable, uncountable) The degree of stress or strain when twisted.
5. (countable, uncountable) A type of thread made from two filaments twisted together.
6. (countable, uncountable) A sliver of lemon peel added to a cocktail, etc.
7. (countable, uncountable) A sudden bend (or short series of bends) in a road, path, etc.
8. (countable, uncountable) A distortion to the meaning of a passage or word.
9. (countable, uncountable) An unexpected turn in a story, tale, etc.
10. (countable, uncountable) 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.
11. (countable, uncountable) A rotation of the body when diving.
12. (countable, uncountable) A sprain, especially to the ankle.
13. (countable, obsolete, uncountable) A twig.
14. (countable, slang, uncountable) A girl, a woman.
15. (countable, uncountable) A roll or baton of baked dough or pastry in a twisted shape.
16. (countable, uncountable) A small roll of tobacco.
17. (countable, uncountable) A material for gun barrels, consisting of iron and steel twisted and welded together.
18. (countable, uncountable) The spiral course of the rifling of a gun barrel or a cannon.
19. (countable, obsolete, slang, uncountable) A beverage made of brandy and gin.
20. (countable, uncountable) A strong individual tendency or bent; inclination.
21. (archaic, countable, slang, uncountable) An appetite for food.
22. (abbreviation, alt-of, countable, ellipsis, uncountable) Ellipsis of hair twist.

Verb

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

Pronunciado como (IPA)

/twɪst/

Etimología (Inglés)

Heredado de inglés medio: twist

Heredado de inglés antiguo: *twist

Cognado con Saterfriesisch: Twist

Cognado con neerlandés: twist

Cognado con alemán: Zwist

Cognado con sueco: tvist

Cognado con islandés: tvistur

Heredado de inglés medio: twisten

Cognado con neerlandés: twisten

Cognado con danés: tviste

Cognado con sueco: tvista

In summary

PIE word
*dwóh₁
From Middle English twist, from Old English *twist, in compounds (e.g. mæsttwist (“a rope; stay”), candeltwist (“a wick”)), from Proto-Germanic *twistaz, a derivative of *twi- (“two-”) (compare also twine, between, betwixt).
Related to Saterland Frisian Twist (“discord”), Dutch twist (“twist; strife; discord”), German Low German Twist (“strife; discord”), German Zwist (“turmoil; strife; discord”), Swedish tvist (“quarrel; dispute”), Icelandic tvistur (“deuce”).
The verb is from Middle English twisten. Compare Dutch twisten, Danish tviste (“to dispute”), Swedish tvista (“to argue; dispute”).

Conceptos

torcer

retorcer

giro

torcerse

encorvar

vuelta

doblar

torcedura

curvarse

recodo

retorcerse

curvatura

serpentear

curvar

curva

tergiversar

enchuecar

artilugio

torsión

encorvarse

trenzar

inclinar

enrollar

bornear

enroscar

enroscadura

espasmo

estar inquieto

hilar

inclinación

ladear

ladearse

lisiar

pervertir

propensión

retortijón

rodearse

sesgar

sesgo

sinuosidad

torcimiento

truco

zarandear

combar

revirar

recodar

fabricar sogas

torcer la soguilla

torzelar

torcer hilo o cuerda

Sinónimos

turn

bend

wring

distort

wind

wrench

🔧

twirl

coil

curl

curve

sprain

spin

twine

contort

warp

wriggle

plait

meander

braid

writhe

screw

pervert

roll

squirm

whirl

rotate

weave

winding

crook

kink

spiral

entwine

contortion

bow

🙇

wrest

slant

squeeze

convolute

twisting

strand

wrick

misinterpret

worm

🪱

wrestle

sophisticate

distortion

twist around

misrepresent

turn over

tweak