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twisting 音標拼音: [tw'ɪstɪŋ] n. 扭轉
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vbl. 扭轉 扭轉扭轉的 7扭轉 twisting adj 1: marked by repeated turns and bends; " a tortuous road up the mountain"; " winding roads are full of surprises"; " had to steer the car down a twisty track" [ synonym: { tortuous}, { twisting}, { twisty}, { winding}, { voluminous}] n 1: the act of distorting something so it seems to mean something it was not intended to mean [ synonym: { distortion}, { overrefinement}, { straining}, { torture}, { twisting}] 2: the act of rotating rapidly; " he gave the crank a spin"; " it broke off after much twisting" [ synonym: { spin}, { twirl}, { twist}, { twisting}, { whirl}] Twist \ Twist\ ( tw[ i^] st), v. t. [ imp. & p. p. { Twisted}; p. pr. & vb. n. { Twisting}.] [ OE. twisten, AS. twist a rope, as made of two ( twisted) strands, fr. twi- two; akin to D. twist a quarrel, dissension, G. zwist, Dan. & Sw. tvist, Icel. tvistr the deuce in cards, tvistr distressed. See { Twice}, { Two}.] 1. To contort; to writhe; to complicate; to crook spirally; to convolve. [ 1913 Webster] Twist it into a serpentine form. -- Pope. [ 1913 Webster] 2. Hence, to turn from the true form or meaning; to pervert; as, to twist a passage cited from an author. [ 1913 Webster] 3. 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. [ 1913 Webster] 4. To wreathe; to wind; to encircle; to unite by intertexture of parts. " Longing to twist bays with that ivy." -- Waller. [ 1913 Webster] There are pillars of smoke twisted about with wreaths of flame. -- T. Burnet. [ 1913 Webster] 5. To wind into; to insinuate; -- used reflexively; as, avarice twists itself into all human concerns. [ 1913 Webster] 6. 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. -- Shak. [ 1913 Webster] 7. Hence, to form as if by winding one part around another; to wreathe; to make up. [ 1913 Webster] Was it not to this end That thou began' st to twist so fine a story? -- Shak. [ 1913 Webster] 8. To form into a thread from many fine filaments; as, to twist wool or cotton. [ 1913 Webster]
Twisting \ Twist" ing\, a. & n. from { Twist}. [ 1913 Webster] { Twisting pair}. ( Kinematics) See under { Pair}, n., 7. [ 1913 Webster] 173 Moby Thesaurus words for " twisting": aberrant, aberrative, abstractionism, abuse of terms, ambages, ambagious, anfractuosity, anfractuous, bending, braiding, catachresis, circuitous, circuitousness, circumambages, circumbendibus, circumlocution, circumlocutory, circumvolution, coloring, contorting, convolution, convolutional, crinkle, crinkling, curving, deformation, departing, desultory, deviant, deviating, deviative, deviatory, devious, digressive, discursive, distortion, eisegesis, enlacement, entwinement, entwining, errant, erratic, error, exaggeration, excursive, expressionism, fabric, false coloring, falsification, flexuose, flexuosity, flexuous, flexuousness, garbling, gloss, hyperbole, inaccuracy, indirect, injustice, interknitting, interlacement, interlacery, interlacing, intertexture, interthreading, intertieing, intertwinement, intertwining, intertwisting, interweavement, interweaving, intorsion, involute, involuted, involution, involutional, knitting, labyrinthine, lacing, litotes, malentendu, malobservation, mazy, meander, meandering, meandrous, misapplication, misapprehension, miscitation, miscoloring, misconception, misconstruction, misdrawing, misexplanation, misexplication, misexposition, misintelligence, misinterpretation, misjudgment, mispainting, misquotation, misreading, misrendering, misreport, misrepresentation, misstatement, misteaching, mistranslation, misunderstanding, misuse of words, nonrealism, out- of- the- way, overdrawing, overstatement, perversion, plaiting, planetary, rambling, rivose, rivulation, rivulose, roundabout, roving, ruffled, serpentine, shifting, sinuate, sinuation, sinuose, sinuosity, sinuous, sinuousness, slanting, slinkiness, snakiness, snaky, squeezing, stray, swerving, texture, tissue, torsion, torsional, tortile, tortility, tortuosity, tortuous, tortuousness, torturing, turning, twining, twisty, understatement, undirected, undulation, vagrant, veering, wandering, warp and woof, warpage, wave, waving, weave, weaving, web, weftage, whorled, winding, wreathing, wreathlike, wreathy, wrenching, zigzag
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