'Twisting' definitions:
Definition of 'twisting'
From: WordNet
adjective
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" [syn: tortuous, twisting, twisty, winding, voluminous]
noun
The act of distorting something so it seems to mean something it was not intended to mean [syn: distortion, overrefinement, straining, torture, twisting]
noun
Definition of 'Twisting'
From: 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. [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]
Definition of 'Twisting'
From: GCIDE
- Twisting \Twist"ing\, a. & n. from Twist. [1913 Webster]
- Twisting pair. (Kinematics) See under Pair, n., 7. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'twisting'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- 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