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Word Meanings - CONVOLUTION - Book Publishers vocabulary database

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

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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 sea, in convolution swift, The feathered eddy floats. Thomson. 2. The state of being rolled upon itself, or rolled or doubled together; a tortuous or sinuous winding or fold, as of something rolled or folded upon itself. Blackmore.

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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.
  • WRESTLE
    1. To contend, by grappling with, and striving to trip or throw down, an opponent; as, they wrestled skillfully. To-morrow, sir, I wrestle for my credit, and he that escapes me without some broken limb shall acquit him well. Shak. Another, by a
  • TWISTING
    a. & n. from Twist. Twisting pair. See under Pair, n., 7.
  • WRITHLE
    To wrinkle. Shak.
  • 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,
  • DEFORMITY
    deformis: cf. OF. deformeté, deformité, F. difformité. See Deform, v. 1. The state of being deformed; want of proper form or symmetry; any unnatural form or shape; distortion; irregularity of shape or features; ugliness. To make an
  • 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.
  • WRESTER
    One who wrests.
  • WRITHE
    to OHG. ridan, Icel. ri, Sw. vrida, Dan. vride. Cf. Wreathe, Wrest, 1. To twist; to turn; now, usually, to twist or turn so as to distort; to wring. "With writhing of a pin." Chaucer. Then Satan first knew pain, And writhed him to and
  • DISTORTION
    An unnatural deviation of shape or position of any part of the body producing visible deformity. (more info) 1. The act of distorting, or twisting out of natural or regular shape; a twisting or writhing motion; as, the distortions of the face or
  • 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
  • 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
  • WRESTLING
    Act of one who wrestles; specif., the sport consisting of the hand-to-hand combat between two unarmed contestants who seek to throw each other. The various styles of wrestling differ in their definition of a fall and in the governing rules.
  • WREST
    1. To turn; to twist; esp., to twist or extort by violence; to pull of force away by, or as if by, violent wringing or twisting. "The secret wrested from me." Milton. Our country's cause, That drew our swords, now secret wrests them from our hand.
  • WRITHEN
    Having a twisted distorted from. A writhen staff his step unstable guides. Fairfax.
  • TWISTE
    imp. of Twist. Chaucer.
  • WRESTLER
    One who wrestles; one who is skillful in wrestling.
  • CONTORTIONIST
    One who makes or practices contortions.
  • 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.
  • INTERTWIST
    To twist together one with another; to intertwine.
  • SAW-WREST
    See SAW-SET
  • INTERTWISTINGLY
    By intertwisting, or being intertwisted.
  • OUTWREST
    To extort; to draw from or forth by violence. Spenser.
  • TURNWREST
    Designating a cumbersome style of plow used in England, esp. in Kent. designating a kind of hillside plow. Knight.
  • OVERWREST
    To wrest or force from the natural or proper position. Shak.

 

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