Word Meanings - TWISTING - Book Publishers vocabulary database

a. & n. from Twist. Twisting pair. See under Pair, n., 7.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of TWISTING)

• Contortion
• Twisting
• writhing
• wresting
• distortion
• deformity
• convolution
• detortion
• Wresting
• violation
• twisting
• perversion
• decurvity
• devexity
• recurvation
• Tortuous
• Devious
• circuitous
• anfractuous
• ambiguous
• complicated
• sinuous
• deceitful
• crooked
• indirect
• sinister
• indexed

Related words: (words related to TWISTING)

• INDEXICAL
  Of, pertaining to, or like, an index; having the form of an index.
• 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.
• CROOKBILL
  A New Zealand plover , remarkable for having the end of the beak abruptly bent to the right.
• 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
• CROOKES TUBE
  A vacuum tube in which the exhaustion is carried to a very high degree, with the production of a distinct class of effects; -- so called from W. Crookes who introduced it.
• CIRCUITOUS
  Going round in a circuit; roundabout; indirect; as, a circuitous road; a circuitous manner of accompalishing an end. -- Cir*cu"i*tous*ly, adv. -- Cir*cu"i*tous*ness, n. Syn. -- Tortuous; winding; sinuous; serpentine.
• CROOKBACK
  A crooked back; one who has a crooked or deformed back; a hunchback.
• CROOKNECK
  Either of two varieties of squash, distinguished by their tapering, recurved necks. The summer crookneck is botanically a variety of the pumpkin and matures early in the season. It is pale yellow in color, with warty excrescences. The
• CROOKEDLY
  In a curved or crooked manner; in a perverse or untoward manner.
• CROOK
  A small tube, usually curved, applied to a trumpet, horn, etc., to change its pitch or key. 6. A person given to fraudulent practices; an accomplice of thieves, forgers, etc. By hook or by crook, in some way or other; by fair means or foul. (more
• DETORTION
  The act of detorting, or the state of being detorted; a twisting or warping.
• TWISTING
  a. & n. from Twist. Twisting pair. See under Pair, n., 7.
• DECEITFUL
  Full of, or characterized by, deceit; serving to mislead or insnare; trickish; fraudulent; cheating; insincere. Harboring foul deceitful thoughts. Shak.
• 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.
• COMPLICATION
  A disease or diseases, or adventitious circumstances or conditions, coexistent with and modifying a primary disease, but not necessarily connected with it. (more info) 1. The act or process of complicating; the state of being complicated; intricate
• WRITHLE
  To wrinkle. Shak.
• INDEXICALLY
  In the manner of an index.
• AMBIGUOUS
  Doubtful or uncertain, particularly in respect to signification; capable of being understood in either of two or more possible senses; equivocal; as, an ambiguous course; an ambiguous expression. What have been thy answers What but dark, Ambiguous,
• 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,
• 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.
• SUBINDEX
  A number or mark placed opposite the lower part of a letter or symbol to distinguish the symbol; thus, a0, b1, c2, xn, have 0, 1, 2, and n as subindices.