twist
suomi-englanti sanakirjatwist englannista suomeksi
kierto
nyrjähdys, kiertyminen, vääntyminen
tvisti, twist
kiertää
nyrjäyttää
letti
pyöräytys
vääntää, kääntää, vääntää mutkalle
pieni vesipyörre
mutka
tvistata
vääristely
kiemurrella
temppu
vääristellä
käänne
pyörähdys
Substantiivi
Verbi
vääristellä intentionally, ymmärtää / ymmärtää väärin unintentionally
twist englanniksi
{{quote-text|en|year=1906|author=Edith Nesbit|title=The Railway Children|chapter=8
(RQ:Spectator)
The form given in twisting.
(RQ:Arbuthnot Law)
(RQ:Spenser Faerie Queene)
1808–1810, (w), ''Memoirs of a Georgian Rake'', Folio Society 1995, page 140:
- I was one morning walking arm in arm with him in St James's Park, his dress then being (..) waistcoat and breeches of the same blue satin, trimmed with silver twist ''à la hussarde'', and ermine edges.
(quote-text)
A sudden bend (or short series of bends) in a road, path, etc.
(quote-book)
(RQ:Lincoln Pratt's Patients)
A distortion to the meaning of a passage or word.
An unexpected turn in a story, tale, etc.
''I'm all agog at the new twiBoldst to the royal scandal.''
(quote-journal)
2007 September 7, Graham Linehan, ''(w)'', Season 2, Episode 3:
- ''Roy:'' Oh no, now I know there's a twist. I'm gonna spend the whole film guessing what it is. Damn you, Dominator! ''Moss:'' Just try and forget that there's a twist. ''Roy:'' Oh, how can you forget there's a twist?... ''Douglas:'' Oh, I've heard of this flick. There's a twist in it, isn't there?... (w). No, (w). (w). (w)!... (w). (w). (w).
(quote-web) in ''(w)'' by way of late-period (w) with an alien twist, but Stuhlbarg makes a character that easily could have come across as precious into a surprisingly palatable, even charming man.
A modern dance popular in Western culture in the late 1950s and 1960s, based on rotating the hips repeatedly from side to side. See (dance)|Twist (dance) on Wikipedia for more details.
(quote-song)|author=(w)|text=Come on, baby, let's do the twist Take me by my little hand and go like this|year=1958
(quote-song) and Lenny Capizzi|title=(w)|artist=Bobby (Boris) Pickett and The Crypt-Kickers|year=1962|text=Out from his coffin, Drac's voice did ringSeems he was troubled by just one thingOpened the lid and shook his fistAnd said, "Whatever happened to my Transylvania twist?"It's now the MashIt's now the Monster Mash.
A twig.
(RQ:Tasso Fairfax Godfrey of Bulloigne)
1990, (w), 01:08:20
- (Dane, speaking about a woman character) "I'll see where the twist flops"
A roll or baton of baked dough or pastry in a twisted shape.
A small roll of tobacco.
(RQ:Beckett Watt) this Katie Byrne was a great favourite with Art and Con, to whom she always brought a gift of tobacco twist, when she came on a visit, and Art and Con were great chewers of tobacco twist, and never had enough, never never had enough tobacco twist, for their liking.
A material for gun barrels, consisting of iron and steel twisted and welded together.
(ux)
The spiral course of the rifling of a gun barrel or a cannon.
A strong individual tendency or bent; inclination.
(RQ:Thackeray Pendennis)
(short for)
To turn the ends of something, usually thread, rope etc., in opposite directions, often using force.
(RQ:Baum Wizard of Oz)
To contort; to writhe; to complicate; to crook spirally; to convolve.
June 8, 1714, (w), letter to (w)
- twisting it into a serpentine form.
To wreathe; to wind; to encircle; to unite by intertexture of parts.
(quote-text)|chapter=Dr Thomas Burnet|title=Cyclopædia of English Literature|passage=There are pillars of smoke twisted about wreaths of flame.
To wind into; to insinuate.
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.
(RQ:Shaw Pygmalion)
To wind; to follow a bendy or wavy course; to have many bends.
(quote-text)|title=He|passage=My coming to New York had been a mistake; for whereas I had looked for poignant wonder and inspiration in the teeming labyrinths of ancient streets that twist endlessly from forgotten courts and squares and waterfronts to courts and squares and waterfronts equally forgotten, and in the Cyclopean modern towers and pinnacles that rise blackly Babylonian under waning moons, I had found instead only a sense of horror and oppression which threatened to master, paralyze, and annihilate me.
To cause to rotate.
To dance the twist (a type of dance characterised by twisting one's hips).
(quote-song)|title=(w)|artist=Chris Kenner|year=1962|text=Twist it in the alley With long tall SallyTwistin' with Lucy Doin' the watusi.
To coax.
In the game of blackjack (pontoon or twenty-one), to be dealt another card.
(l) (gloss)
(l): dance, turn
twist (gloss)
The flat part of a hinge (less specifically the entire hinge)
(RQ:Chaucer Troilus)
A groin (gloss)
(l) (gl)
(l) (gl)
jar with a threaded neck and a screw cap allowing airtight sealing
cap for this type of jar
(l) (rfclarify)