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twist
English
Etymology
From Middle English twist, from Old English *twist, in compounds (e.g. mæsttwist (“a rope; stay”), candeltwist (“a wick”)), from Proto-Germanic *twistaz, a derivative of *twi- (“two-”) (compare also twine, between, betwixt).
Related to Saterland Frisian Twist (“discord”), Dutch twist (“twist; strife; discord”), German Low German Twist (“strife; discord”), German Zwist (“turmoil; strife; discord”), Swedish tvist (“quarrel; dispute”), Icelandic tvistur (“deuce”).
The verb is from Middle English twisten. Compare Dutch twisten, Danish tviste (“to dispute”), Swedish tvista (“to argue; dispute”).
Pronunciation
- enPR: tw?st, IPA(key): /tw?st/, [tw??st]
- Rhymes: -?st
Noun
twist (plural twists)
- A twisting force.
- Anything twisted, or the act of twisting.
- 1906, Edith Nesbit, The Railway Children Chapter 8
- Peter was always proud afterwards when he remembered that, with the Bargee's furious fingers tightening on his ear, the Bargee's crimson countenance close to his own, the Bargee's hot breath on his neck, he had the courage to speak the truth.
- "I wasn't catching fish," said Peter.
- "That's not your fault, I'll be bound," said the man, giving Peter's ear a twist—not a hard one—but still a twist.
- Not the least turn or twist in the fibres of any one animal which does not render them more proper for that particular animal's way of life than any other cast or texture.
- 1906, Edith Nesbit, The Railway Children Chapter 8
- The form given in twisting.
- 1712, John Arbuthnot, The History of John Bull
- [He] shrunk at first sight of it; he found fault with the length, the thickness, and the twist.
- 1712, John Arbuthnot, The History of John Bull
- The degree of stress or strain when twisted.
- A type of thread made from two filaments twisted together.
- 1808–10, William Hickey, Memoirs of a Georgian Rake, Folio Society 1995, p. 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.
- 1808–10, William Hickey, Memoirs of a Georgian Rake, Folio Society 1995, p. 140:
- A sliver of lemon peel added to a cocktail, etc.
- 2005, Theodore J. Albasini, The Progeny
- Bunny sat on the only remaining stool at the leather-padded oval bar in the Iron Lounge. It was happy hour, two drinks for the price of one. She decided on a martini with a twist, and while the bartender was preparing her drink, she scanned the faces looking at the bar.
- 2005, Theodore J. Albasini, The Progeny
- A sudden bend (or short series of bends) in a road, path, etc.
- A distortion to the meaning of a word or passage.
- An unexpected turn in a story, tale, etc.
- (preceded by definite article) A type of dance characterised by rotating one’s hips. See Twist (dance) on Wikipedia for more details.
- A rotation of the body when diving.
- A sprain, especially to the ankle.
- (obsolete) A twig.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Fairfax to this entry?)
- (slang) A girl, a woman.
- 1990, Miller's Crossing, 01:08:20
- (Dane, speaking about a woman character) "I'll see where the twist flops"
- 1990, Miller's Crossing, 01:08:20
- A roll or baton of baked dough or pastry in a twisted shape.
- A small roll of tobacco.
- A material for gun barrels, consisting of iron and steel twisted and welded together.
- The spiral course of the rifling of a gun barrel or a cannon.
- (obsolete, slang) A beverage made of brandy and gin.
- A strong individual tendency or bent; inclination.
- a twist toward fanaticism
- (slang, archaic) An appetite for food.
- 1861, The Farmer's Magazine (page 40)
- He [the yearling bull] had a good handsome male head, and he had a capital twist. He had a spring in his rib, and was something over seven feet in girth. He was well covered, and had all the recommendations of quality, symmetry, and size.
- 1861, The Farmer's Magazine (page 40)
Descendants
- German: Twist
Translations
Verb
twist (third-person singular simple present twists, present participle twisting, simple past and past participle twisted)
- To turn the ends of something, usually thread, rope etc., in opposite directions, often using force.
- To join together by twining one part around another.
- 1900, L. Frank Baum, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz Chapter 15
- "Well, one day I went up in a balloon and the ropes got twisted, so that I couldn't come down again. It went way up above the clouds, so far that a current of air struck it and carried it many, many miles away. For a day and a night I traveled through the air, and on the morning of the second day I awoke and found the balloon floating over a strange and beautiful country."
- 1900, L. Frank Baum, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz Chapter 15
- To contort; to writhe; to complicate; to crook spirally; to convolve.
- June 8, 1714, Alexander Pope, letter to Jonathan Swift
- twisting it into a serpentine form.
- June 8, 1714, Alexander Pope, letter to Jonathan Swift
- To wreathe; to wind; to encircle; to unite by intertexture of parts.
- 1645, Edmund Waller, To my Lord of Falkland
- longing to twist bays with that ivy
- 1844, Robert Chambers, "Dr Thomas Burnet" in Cyclopædia of English Literature
- There are pillars of smoke twisted about wreaths of flame.
- 1645, Edmund Waller, To my Lord of Falkland
- (reflexive) To wind into; to insinuate.
- Avarice twists itself into all human concerns.
- 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.
- 1913, George Bernard Shaw, Pygmalion Act V
- Oh, you are a devil. You can twist the heart in a girl as easy as some could twist her arms to hurt her. Mrs. Pearce warned me. Time and again she has wanted to leave you; and you always got round her at the last minute. And you don't care a bit for her. And you don't care a bit for me.
- 1901, Henry Lawson, Joe Wilson's Courtship
- Then Romany went down, then we fell together, and the chaps separated us. I got another knock-down blow in, and was beginning to enjoy the novelty of it, when Romany staggered and limped.
- ‘I’ve done,’ he said. ‘I’ve twisted my ankle.’ He’d caught his heel against a tuft of grass.
- 1913, George Bernard Shaw, Pygmalion Act V
- (intransitive, of a path) To wind; to follow a bendy or wavy course; to have many bends.
- 1926, Howard Phillips Lovecraft, He
- 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.
- 1926, Howard Phillips Lovecraft, He
- (transitive) To cause to rotate.
- 1911, John Masefield, Jim Davis Chapter 8
- The tide seized us and swept us along, and in the races where this happened there were sucking whirlpools, strong enough to twist us round.
- 1911, John Masefield, Jim Davis Chapter 8
- (intransitive) To dance the twist (a type of dance characterised by twisting one's hips).
- (transitive) To coax.
- 1932, Robert E. Howard, Dark Shanghai
- "On the three-thousand-dollar reward John Bain is offerin' for the return of his sister," said Ace. "Now listen--I know a certain big Chinee had her kidnapped outa her 'rickshaw out at the edge of the city one evenin'. He's been keepin' her prisoner in his house, waitin' a chance to send her up-country to some bandit friends of his'n; then they'll be in position to twist a big ransome outa John Bain, see? [...]"
- 1932, Robert E. Howard, Dark Shanghai
- (card games) In the game of blackjack (pontoon or twenty-one), to be dealt another card.
Antonyms
(in blackjack, be dealt another card):: stick; stay
Translations
Derived terms
Anagrams
- twits, witts
Czech
Etymology
From English twist.
Noun
twist m
- twist (dance)
Further reading
- twist in Kartotéka Novo?eského lexikálního archivu
- twist in Slovník spisovného jazyka ?eského, 1960–1971, 1989
Dutch
Etymology
From English twist.
Pronunciation
- Rhymes: -?st
Noun
twist m (uncountable, diminutive twistje n)
- strife, discord
- dispute
- twist: dance, turn
Derived terms
- redetwist
- twistappel
Anagrams
- witst
Finnish
Etymology
From English twist.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?twist/, [?t?wis?t?]
- IPA(key): /?t?ist/, [?t??is?t?]
- Rhymes: -ist
- Syllabification: twist
Noun
twist
- twist (dance)
Declension
Derived terms
- twistata
French
Etymology
From English twist.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /twist/
Noun
twist m (plural twists)
- twist (dance)
Derived terms
- twister
Further reading
- “twist” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
Middle English
Alternative forms
- twest, tweste, twyst, twyste
Etymology
Old English *twist, attested in compounds (e.g. mæsttwist (“a rope; stay”), candeltwist (“a wick”)), from Proto-Germanic *twistaz.
Noun
twist (plural twists)
- the flat part of a hinge (less specifically the entire hinge)
- a forked twig
- a bifurcation
- the groin
Descendants
- English: twist
Related terms
- twisten (verb)
References
- “twist, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.
Portuguese
Etymology
From English twist.
Noun
twist m (uncountable)
- twist (type of dance)
Spanish
Etymology
From English twist.
Noun
twist m (plural twists)
- twist
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lace
English
Pronunciation
- (UK, US) IPA(key): /le?s/
- Rhymes: -e?s
Etymology 1
From Middle English lace, laace, las, from Old French las, from Vulgar Latin *laceum, based on Latin laqueus. Doublet of lasso.
Noun
lace (countable and uncountable, plural laces)
- (uncountable) A light fabric containing patterns of holes, usually built up from a single thread. Wp
- c. 1620, Francis Bacon, letter of advice to Sir George Villiers
- Our English dames are much given to the wearing of very fine and costly laces.
- Mind you, clothes were clothes in those days. […] Frills, ruffles, flounces, lace, complicated seams and gores: not only did they sweep the ground and have to be held up in one hand elegantly as you walked along, but they had little capes or coats or feather boas.
- c. 1620, Francis Bacon, letter of advice to Sir George Villiers
- (countable) A cord or ribbon passed through eyelets in a shoe or garment, pulled tight and tied to fasten the shoe or garment firmly. Wp
- A snare or gin, especially one made of interwoven cords; a net.
- Vulcanus had caught thee [Venus] in his las.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Fairfax to this entry?)
- (slang, obsolete) Spirits added to coffee or another beverage.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Addison to this entry?)
Synonyms
- (cord):
- (for a shoe): shoelace
- (for a garment): tie
Translations
Etymology 2
From Middle English lacen, lasen, from Old French lacer, lacier, lasser, lachier, from the noun (see above).
Verb
lace (third-person singular simple present laces, present participle lacing, simple past and past participle laced)
- (ergative) To fasten (something) with laces.
- When Jenny's stays are newly laced.
- (transitive) To add alcohol, poison, a drug or anything else potentially harmful to (food or drink).
- (transitive) To interweave items.
- The Gond […] picked up a trail of the Karela, the vine that bears the bitter wild gourd, and laced it to and fro across the temple door.
- (transitive) To interweave the spokes of a bicycle wheel.
- (transitive) To beat; to lash; to make stripes on.
- (transitive) To adorn with narrow strips or braids of some decorative material.
Translations
Derived terms
Anagrams
- ALEC, Acle, Alec, acle, alec, cale
Esperanto
Adverb
lace
- wearily
Related terms
- laca
French
Verb
lace
- first-person singular present indicative of lacer
- third-person singular present indicative of lacer
- first-person singular present subjunctive of lacer
- third-person singular present subjunctive of lacer
- second-person singular imperative of lacer
Anagrams
- cale, calé
- cela
Latin
Verb
lace
- second-person singular present active imperative of laci?
Polish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?la.t?s?/
Noun
lace f
- dative/locative singular of laka
Portuguese
Verb
lace
- first-person singular present subjunctive of laçar
- third-person singular present subjunctive of laçar
- first-person singular imperative of laçar
- third-person singular imperative of laçar
Spanish
Verb
lace
- First-person singular (yo) present subjunctive form of lazar.
- Formal second-person singular (usted) present subjunctive form of lazar.
- Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted?) present subjunctive form of lazar.
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