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Definition of Twisting
1. Adjective. Marked by repeated turns and bends. "Had to steer the car down a twisty track"
Similar to: Crooked
Derivative terms: Tortuosity, Tortuousness
2. Noun. The act of distorting something so it seems to mean something it was not intended to mean.
Generic synonyms: Falsification, Misrepresentation
Derivative terms: Distort, Overrefine, Twist
3. Noun. The act of rotating rapidly. "It broke off after much twisting"
Generic synonyms: Rotary Motion, Rotation
Specialized synonyms: Pirouette, Birling, Logrolling
Derivative terms: Spin, Spin, Twirl, Twirl, Twist, Twist, Whirl, Whirl
Definition of Twisting
1. Verb. (present participle of twist) ¹
2. Noun. (form of gerund twist) ¹
3. Adjective. Having many twists ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Twisting
1. a form of trickery used in selling life insurance [n -S]
Medical Definition of Twisting
1.
From Twist. Twisting pair.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Twisting
Literary usage of Twisting
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Botanical Gazette by University of Chicago, JSTOR (Organization) (1896)
"On the twisting of the grain of pine.1 In 1854, ... Between the relative members
of these two kinds of wall and the twisting of the grain there is a close ..."
2. The Useful Arts: Considered in Connexion with the Applications of Science by Jacob Bigelow (1853)
"A twisting cord is not so strong as the fibres which compose it, supposing the
... The object of twisting is, to connect successive numbers of short fibres, ..."
3. Gymnastic Teaching by William Skarstrom (1921)
"Alternate foot placing sideways with hands on neck, and trunk twisting (to side of
... Arm forward bend stride standing trunk twisting from side to side, ..."
4. A Manual of Marine Engineering: : Comprising the Designing, Construction and by Albert Edward Seaton (1890)
"Resistance to twisting.—Let T be the twisting moment on a shaft in inch pounds,
d the diameter of the shaft in inches, and/ the strain per square inch on ..."
5. International Library of Technology: A Series of Textbooks for Persons by International Textbook Company (1906)
"The older method of twisting yarns was to use a flyer twisting: framo, and although
this has been supplanted to a great extent by the ring.twisting process, ..."
6. A Treatise on the Mathematical Theory of Elasticity by Augustus Edward Hough Love (1906)
"twisting couple. The couple can be evaluated from (6) of Article 216 when the
function $ is ... If a is the radius of the circle the twisting couple is ^/J ..."
7. A Treatise on the Mathematical Theory of Elasticity by Augustus Edward Hough Love (1906)
"twisting couple. The couple can be evaluated from (6) of Article 216 when the
... If a is the radius of the circle the twisting couple is (6) The ellipse. ..."
8. The Elements of Machine Design by William Cawthorne Unwin (1888)
"Hence, • • • (36) -Or, if d is the proper diameter of the shaft, calculated for
the combined bending and twisting action, and d' is the diameter calculated ..."
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