Meaning of TWISTING
| Pronunciation: | | tw'isting
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- [n] the act of rotating rapidly; "he gave the crank a spin"; "it broke off after much twisting"
- [n] the act of distorting something so it seems to mean something it was not intended to mean
- [adj] having a twisting or snake-like or worm-like motion; "squirming boys"; "wiggly worms"; "writhing snakes"
- [adj] 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"
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| | Synonyms: | | crooked, distortion, moving, overrefinement, spin, squirming, straining, tortuous, torture, twirl, twist, twisty, whirl, wiggling, wiggly, winding, wriggling, wriggly, writhing |
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| | See Also: | | birling, falsification, logrolling, misrepresentaation, pirouette, rotation | |
| Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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| | Definition: | | \Twist"ing\,
a. & n. from {Twist}.
{Twisting pair}. (Kinematics) See under {Pair}, n., 7.
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