Twisted

4 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  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.
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              Twist it into a serpentine form.      --Pope.
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     2. Hence, to turn from the true form or meaning; to pervert;
        as, to twist a passage cited from an author.
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     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.
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     4. To wreathe; to wind; to encircle; to unite by intertexture
        of parts. "Longing to twist bays with that ivy." --Waller.
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              There are pillars of smoke twisted about with
              wreaths of flame.                     --T. Burnet.
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     5. To wind into; to insinuate; -- used reflexively; as,
        avarice twists itself into all human concerns.
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     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.
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     7. Hence, to form as if by winding one part around another;
        to wreathe; to make up.
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              Was it not to this end
              That thou began'st to twist so fine a story? --Shak.
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     8. To form into a thread from many fine filaments; as, to
        twist wool or cotton.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Twisted \Twist"ed\, a.
     Contorted; crooked spirally; subjected to torsion; hence,
     perverted.
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     {Twisted curve} (Geom.), a curve of double curvature. See
        {Plane curve}, under {Curve}.
  
     {Twisted surface} (Geom.), a surface described by a straight
        line moving according to any law whatever, yet so that the
        consecutive positions of the line shall not be in one
        plane; a warped surface.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  twisted
       adj 1: wound or wrapped around something; "hair twined around her
              fingers"; "bulky with twisted stitches around the
              edges" [syn: {twined}]
       2: strained or wrenched out of normal shape; "old trees with
          contorted branches"; "scorched and distorted fragments of
          steel"; "trapped under twisted steel girders" [syn: {contorted},
           {distorted}]
       3: having an intended meaning altered or misrepresented; "many
          of the facts seemed twisted out of any semblance to
          reality"; "a perverted translation of the poem" [syn: {distorted},
           {misrepresented}, {perverted}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  219 Moby Thesaurus words for "twisted":
     Byzantine, abnormal, affected, afflicted, agonized, anamorphous,
     anomalous, antiblack, apocryphal, artificial, askew, assumed,
     asymmetric, balled up, bastard, bent, biased, blemished, bogus,
     bowed, brummagem, chauvinistic, checked, cicatrized, cockeyed,
     colorable, colored, complex, complicated, confounded, confused,
     contorted, convoluted, convulsed, cooked, counterfeit,
     counterfeited, crabbed, cracked, crank, crankish, cranky, crazed,
     crazy, crooked, crotchety, crucified, crumpled, crunched, daedal,
     defaced, defective, deformed, deviant, deviative, devious,
     different, disfigured, distorted, distressed, divergent, doctored,
     doctrinaire, dogmatic, dotty, dressed up, dummy, eccentric,
     elaborate, embellished, embrangled, embroidered, entangled,
     erratic, ersatz, exceptional, factitious, fake, faked, falsified,
     faulty, feigned, fey, fictitious, fictive, flaky, flawed,
     fouled up, freakish, funny, garbled, harrowed, hurt, hurting,
     idiocratic, idiosyncratic, illegitimate, imitation, implicated,
     in distress, in pain, influenced, interested, intricate, involuted,
     involved, irregular, jaundiced, junky, keloidal, kinked, kinky,
     knotted, know-nothing, kooky, labyrinthian, labyrinthine,
     lacerated, lopsided, loused up, maggoty, make-believe, man-made,
     many-faceted, marred, martyred, martyrized, matted, mazy,
     meandering, messed up, misquoted, misrepresented, mixed up, mock,
     mucked up, multifarious, nonobjective, nonsymmetric, nutty, odd,
     oddball, on the rack, one-sided, opinionated, pained, partial,
     partisan, peculiar, perplexed, perverted, phony, pimpled, pimply,
     pinchbeck, prejudiced, prepossessed, pretended, pseudo, put-on,
     quasi, queer, quirky, racist, racked, ramified, roundabout,
     scabbed, scabby, scarified, scarred, screwball, screwed up, screwy,
     self-styled, sexist, sham, shoddy, simulated, singular, slanted,
     snarled, so-called, soi-disant, split, sprung, spurious, strained,
     strange, subtle, suffering, superpatriotic, supposititious, swayed,
     synthetic, tangled, tangly, tin, tinsel, titivated, tormented,
     tortuous, tortured, ultranationalist, unauthentic, unconventional,
     under the harrow, undetached, undispassionate, ungenuine,
     unnatural, unreal, unsymmetric, wacky, warped, whimsical, wounded,
     wrung, xenophobic