twist

Senso (English)

Noun

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. A distortion to the meaning of a passage or word.
9. An unexpected turn in a story, tale, etc.
10. 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. A rotation of the body when diving.
12. A sprain, especially to the ankle.
13. (obsolete) A twig.
14. (slang) A girl, a woman.
15. A roll or baton of baked dough or pastry in a twisted shape.
16. A small roll of tobacco.
17. A material for gun barrels, consisting of iron and steel twisted and welded together.
18. The spiral course of the rifling of a gun barrel or a cannon.
19. (obsolete,slang) A beverage made of brandy and gin.
20. A strong individual tendency or bent; inclination.
21. (slang) An appetite for food.
22. Short for 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. 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. To wind; to follow a bendy or wavy course; to have many bends.
11. To cause to rotate.
12. To dance the twist (a type of dance characterised by twisting one's hips).
13. To coax.
14. In the game of blackjack (pontoon or twenty-one), to be dealt another card.

Synonyms

turn

bend

wring

distort

wind

wrench

🔧

twirl

coil

curl

curve

sprain

spin

twine

warp

contort

wriggle

plait

meander

pervert

screw

braid

writhe

roll

squirm

weave

whirl

winding

rotate

crook

contortion

spiral

kink

entwine

bow

🙇

squeeze

convolute

twisting

wrest

slant

misrepresent

distortion

misinterpret

strand

sophisticate

twist around

worm

🪱

wrestle

wrick

deform

gimmick

incline

flip

change

turn over

tweak

rotation

unscrew

trick

huddle

yank

disfigure

eddy

strain

ply

turn of events

tie

stir

go around

cripple

flex

wring out

fidget

round

rub

roll about

screw up

wind around

twist up

lay

be rebellious

crank

misshape

loop

➿

con

mangle

manipulate

entangle

skew

become crooked

slither

splay

pivot

tress

pigtail

pinch

deceive

torsion

turn around

torque

tighten

circumvolution

pull

device

convolution

cheat

throw

tangle

jerk

revolution

divert

wiggle

rick

garble

fold

dodge

swirl

break

knot

🪢

swindle

lace

wrap up

construction

🚧

wreathe

situation

skirt

snake

🐍

sophistication

spin thread

spired

splice

spread out

straining

stranding

stretch

stunt

subterfuge

switch

tailspin

take in

thaumaturgy

thread

🧵

thrust

tortile

torture

skate over

transform

transit

treachery

trim

trimming

tug

tumble

turn back

turn out

twiddle

twisted

twitch

undulation

vary

veer

vicissitude

volute

wag

wave

👋

web

wheeze

whip

whorl

wile

winds

wisp

wobble

wrap

wraparound

wrap around

wreath

wrinkle

dance about

overrefinement

play with

radical change

twist and turn

volution

change direction

wring off

twist off

twist together

gyroidal

be curled up

lap in

river bend

roll into a coil

circulatory force

circumvolute

cheating 1.

grow crooked

take roundabout road

make to squirm

tray koji

translate

spirality helicity

alter

ambulate

artifice

avert

bedevil

belie

bewilder

bindweed

bond

bore

bout

bring about

caper

circle

⭕

circulate

circumnavigate

circumvent

circumvolve

clear off

coiling

combine

compile

complicate

conjuration

contest

convolvulus

cook

🧑‍🍳

corkscrew

corner

cornet

craze

crick

crinkle

cross

crumple

curvature

cycle

deformation

disable

dishonesty

dislocation

distord

drift

elbow

embroil

empty

enmesh

falsification

falsify

flexure

flip over

get

go

ground loop

gyration

hank

helical

helix

hitch

injure

interpret

interweave

invert

involution

involved

itinerate

jiggle

joggle

jugglery

knit

lame

lapel

layup

lean

make

manoeuvre

mince

misconceive

misread

mix

modify

move

move around

movement

mystify

orbit

oscillation

pack

pan

perplex

perversion

plain

play

pleach

post

pound

💷

prise

pronate

put

puzzle

queue

quirk

ravel

reel

render

reshape

revere

revolve

rifling

rig

ring

💍

roam

rope

🪢

scoot

screwy

scroll

📜

serpentine

shake

shimmy

short-circuit

shrink

sidetrack

Pronunciato come (IPA)

/twɪst/

Etimologia (English)

Inherited from inglese medio: twist

Inherited from inglese antico: *twist

Cognate with saterfriesisch: Twist

Cognate with olandese: twist

Cognate with tedesco: Zwist

Cognate with svedese: tvist

Cognate with islandese: tvistur

Inherited from inglese medio: twisten

Cognate with olandese: twisten

Cognate with danese: tviste

Cognate with svedese: 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”).