[
UK
/twˈɪstɪŋ/
]
[ US /ˈtwɪstɪŋ/ ]
[ US /ˈtwɪstɪŋ/ ]
NOUN
-
the act of rotating rapidly
he gave the crank a spin
it broke off after much twisting - the act of distorting something so it seems to mean something it was not intended to mean
ADJECTIVE
-
marked by repeated turns and bends
a tortuous road up the mountain
had to steer the car down a twisty track
winding roads are full of surprises
How To Use twisting In A Sentence
- After laying down the melody, he proceeded to deconstruct it, pulling it into new shapes, twisting, fragmenting, yet never losing touch with his starting point.
- Right now I don't think popular cell probing techniques such as micropipette aspiration, magnetic twisting cytometry and AFM can provide the material constants needed for the commercial package. IMechanica - Comments
- Paul Brown Stadium opened in 2000 after years of friendly persuasion and arm-twisting.
- Miss H. B.'s eight guns would chatter and a Nazi "flamer" would go twisting and tumbling to earth. The HurricaneStory
- You then ran spin aginst Hillary and Bill, by twisting everthing negative. Obama 'fist bump' catching on
- The spigot stem had an annular cutting edge to cut a cylindrical plug out of the bung or stopper by twisting the spigot.
- The demons were brilliant - creeping and crawling, twisting and writhing as one would expect them to.
- She shaped the words, unable to speak them with the knot of his noose twisting into her voicebox.
- He kept twisting himself on to the side of his affected lung, but did not wake when I altered his position.
- And the two launch consoles with the key slots were built a distance apart, which kept one crewman from, say, twisting his own key with his left hand and reaching over to twist the other key with his right hand. How the End Begins