Definition of Retwists

1. Verb. (third-person singular of retwist) ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Retwists

1. retwist [v] - See also: retwist

Lexicographical Neighbors of Retwists

returning
returning(a)
returning cycle
returning officer
returning officers
returnless
returns
retuse
retweet
retweeted
retweeting
retweets
retwist
retwisted
retwisting
retwists (current term)
retying
retype
retyped
retypes
retyping
reule
reules
reume
reumes
reunient
reunification
reunifications
reunified
reunifies

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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