English vs twist

English

name
  • A town, the county seat of Crawford County, Indiana; named for Indiana statesman William Hayden English. 

  • A variety, dialect, or idiolect of spoken and or written English. 

  • The language originating in England but now spoken in all parts of the British Isles, the Commonwealth of Nations, North America, and other parts of the world. 

  • A male or female given name 

  • English language, literature, composition as a subject of study 

  • An English surname originally denoting a non-Celtic or non-Danish person in Britain. 

adj
  • English-language; of or pertaining to the language, descended from Anglo-Saxon, which developed in England. 

  • Of or pertaining to England. 

  • Of or pertaining to the people of England (to Englishmen and Englishwomen). 

  • Of or pertaining to the avoirdupois system of measure. 

  • Denoting a vertical orientation of the barn doors. 

  • Non-Amish, so named for speaking English rather than a variety of German. 

noun
  • Facility with the English language, ability to employ English correctly and idiomatically. 

  • The people of England, Englishmen and Englishwomen. 

  • Spin or sidespin given to a ball, especially in pool or billiards. 

  • A clear and readily understandable expression of some idea in English. 

  • The English term or expression for some thing or idea. 

  • The non-Amish, people outside the Amish faith and community. 

  • The English text or phrasing of some spoken or written communication. 

  • Synonym of language arts, the class dedicated to improving primary and secondary school students' mastery of English and the material taught in such classes. 

twist

noun
  • A sliver of lemon peel added to a cocktail, etc. 

  • A distortion to the meaning of a word or passage. 

  • A sudden bend (or short series of bends) in a road, path, etc. 

  • A twisting force. 

  • The form given in twisting. 

  • An unexpected turn in a story, tale, etc. 

  • A roll or baton of baked dough or pastry in a twisted shape. 

  • The spiral course of the rifling of a gun barrel or a cannon. 

  • A type of dance characterised by rotating one’s hips. See Twist (dance) on Wikipedia for more details. 

  • A strong individual tendency or bent; inclination. 

  • The degree of stress or strain when twisted. 

  • Anything twisted, or the act of twisting. 

  • A small roll of tobacco. 

  • A sprain, especially to the ankle. 

  • A girl, a woman. 

  • A material for gun barrels, consisting of iron and steel twisted and welded together. 

  • A type of thread made from two filaments twisted together. 

  • A rotation of the body when diving. 

verb
  • To turn the ends of something, usually thread, rope etc., in opposite directions, often using force. 

  • To wreathe; to wind; to encircle; to unite by intertexture of parts. 

  • To distort or change the truth or meaning of words when repeating. 

  • In the game of blackjack (pontoon or twenty-one), to be dealt another card. 

  • To turn a knob etc. 

  • To join together by twining one part around another. 

  • To wind into; to insinuate. 

  • To form a twist (in any of the above noun meanings). 

  • To wind; to follow a bendy or wavy course; to have many bends. 

  • To injure (a body part) by bending it in the wrong direction. 

  • To cause to rotate. 

  • To contort; to writhe; to complicate; to crook spirally; to convolve. 

  • To coax. 

  • To dance the twist (a type of dance characterised by twisting one's hips). 

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