英文英文字典
英文英文字典
古腾堡计划中的在线英语-英语词典
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Twire
(v. i.)
To sing, or twitter.
Twire-pipe
(n.)
A vagabond musician.
Twirl
(v. t.)
To move or turn round rapidly; to whirl round; to move
and turn rapidly with the fingers.
Twirl
(v. i.)
To revolve with velocity; to be whirled round rapidly.
Twirl
(n.)
The act of twirling; a rapid circular motion; a whirl or
whirling; quick rotation.
Twirl
(n.)
A twist; a convolution.
Twirled
(imp. & p. p.)
of Twirl
Twirling
(p. pr. & vb. n.)
of Twirl
Twist
(v. t.)
To contort; to writhe; to complicate; to crook spirally;
to convolve.
Twist
(v. t.)
Hence, to turn from the true form or meaning; to pervert;
as, to twist a passage cited from an author.
Twist
(v. t.)
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.
Twist
(v. t.)
To wreathe; to wind; to encircle; to unite by
intertexture of parts.
Twist
(v. t.)
To wind into; to insinuate; -- used reflexively; as,
avarice twists itself into all human concerns.
Twist
(v. t.)
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.
Twist
(v. t.)
Hence, to form as if by winding one part around another;
to wreathe; to make up.
Twist
(v. t.)
To form into a thread from many fine filaments; as, to
twist wool or cotton.
Twist
(v. i.)
To be contorted; to writhe; to be distorted by torsion;
to be united by winding round each other; to be or become twisted; as,
some strands will twist more easily than others.
Twist
(v. i.)
To follow a helical or spiral course; to be in the form
of a helix.
Twist
(n.)
The act of twisting; a contortion; a flexure; a convolution;
a bending.
Twist
(n.)
The form given in twisting.