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Definition of Retwists
1. retwist [v] - See also: retwist
Lexicographical Neighbors of Retwists
Literary usage of Retwists
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Inside the Cell by Maya Pines (1990)
"... million "free" nucleotides are brought to each template and attached A to T
and G to C. Finally, each new double strand retwists itself into a helix. ..."
2. Waldie's Select Circulating Library by Adam Waldie (1841)
"The machinery untwists the yarn, when it dips it in the tar, and retwists it when
it takes it out. The hull of a new frigate was nearly completed, ..."
3. Shans at Home by Wilbur Willis Cochrane (1910)
"three inches square—while the other twists and retwists the folds. Sometimes,
after many attempts, the boy loses patience, rolls the offending turban into a ..."
4. Angelic Wisdom Concerning the Divine Love and the Divine Wisdom by Emanuel Swedenborg (1843)
"... from below or from without, and retwists the spire which contains the action
and reaction of the natural mind; this mind by birth being in opposition to ..."
5. Diseases of the Heart and Aorta by Thomas Edward Satterthwaite (1905)
"Then the patient untwists and retwists himself until he has turned around equally
far in the opposite direction. Then the patient slowly assumes his natural ..."
6. Pneumatic Tires, Automobile, Truck, Airplane, Motorcycle, Bicycle: An by Henry Clemens Pearson (1922)
"... separates the strands, passes them through rubber compound and then retwists
the strands into a single thread which is impregnated with the rubber. ..."
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