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Word Meanings - CONTORTION - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A twisting; a writhing; wry motion; a twist; as, the contortion of the muscles of the face. Swift. All the contortions of the sibyl, without the inspiration. Burke.

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  • CONTORTION
    A twisting; a writhing; wry motion; a twist; as, the contortion of the muscles of the face. Swift. All the contortions of the sibyl, without the inspiration. Burke.
  • SPIRAL
    Of or pertaining to a spiral; like a spiral. Spiral gear, or Spiral wheel , a gear resembling in general a spur gear, but having its teeth cut at an angle with its axis, or so that they form small portions of screws or spirals. -- Spiral gearing,
  • SPIRALITY
    The quality or states of being spiral.
  • TWISTING
    a. & n. from Twist. Twisting pair. See under Pair, n., 7.
  • INVOLUTION
    The insertion of one or more clauses between the subject and the verb, in a way that involves or complicates the construction. (more info) 1. The act of involving or infolding. 2. The state of being entangled or involved; complication;
  • TWISTER
    A girder. Craig. (more info) 1. One who twists; specifically, the person whose occupation is to twist or join the threads of one warp to those of another, in weaving. 2. The instrument used in twisting, or making twists. He, twirling his twister,
  • IMPLICATION
    1. The act of implicating, or the state of being implicated. Three principal causes of firmness are. the grossness, the quiet contact, and the implication of component parts. Boyle. 2. An implying, or that which is implied, but not expressed; an
  • CONVOLUTION
    An irregular, tortuous folding of an organ or part; as, the convolutions of the intestines; the cerebral convolutions. See Brain. (more info) 1. The act of rolling anything upon itself, or one thing upon another; a winding motion. O'er the calm
  • SPIRALOZOOID
    One of the special defensive zooids of certain hydroids. They have the form of long, slender tentacles, and bear lasso cells.
  • TWIST
    twi- two; akin to D. twist a quarrel, dissension, G. zwist, Dan. & Sw. tvist, Icel. twistr the deuce in cards, tvistr distressed. See 1. To contort; to writhe; to complicate; to crook spirally; to convolve. Twist it into a serpentine form. Pope.
  • SPIRALLY
    In a spiral form, manner, or direction.
  • TWISTED
    Contorted; crooked spirally; subjected to torsion; hence, perverted. Twisted curve , a curve of double curvature. See Plane curve, under Curve. -- Twisted surface , a surface described by a straight line moving according to any law whatever, yet
  • TWISTE
    imp. of Twist. Chaucer.
  • CONTORTIONIST
    One who makes or practices contortions.
  • MUSCULOSPIRAL
    Of or pertaining to the muscles, and taking a spiral course; -- applied esp. to a large nerve of the arm.
  • INTERTWIST
    To twist together one with another; to intertwine.
  • UNTWIST
    1. To separate and open, as twisted threads; to turn back, as that which is twisted; to untwine. If one of the twines of the twist do untwist, The twine that untwisteth, untwisteth the twist. Wallis. 2. To untie; to open; to disentangle. Milton.
  • CONCHO-SPIRAL
    A kind of spiral curve found in certain univalve shells. Agassiz.
  • SUSPIRAL
    1. A breathing hole; a vent or ventiduct. 2. A spring of water passing under ground toward a cistern or conduit.
  • INTERTWISTINGLY
    By intertwisting, or being intertwisted.
  • SELF-INVOLUTION
    Involution in one's self; hence, abstraction of thought; reverie.

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