To come or gather around; to enclose; to encompass; to confine.
To move to a position allowing electricity to flow.
To have a vector sum of 0; that is, to form a closed polygon.
To move to a position preventing fluid from flowing.
To cancel or reverse (a trading position).
To make (e.g. a gap) smaller.
To make a sale.
To move so that an opening is closed.
To grapple; to engage in close combat.
To make the final outs, usually three, of a game.
To terminate an application, window, file or database connection, etc.
To come to an end.
To put an end to; to conclude; to complete; to finish; to consummate.
To obstruct (an opening).
To do the tasks (putting things away, locking doors, etc.) required to prepare a store or other establishment to shut down for the night.
To turn off; to switch off.
The common staircase in a tenement.
A cathedral close.
The interest which one may have in a piece of ground, even though it is not enclosed
The point at the end of a sales pitch when the consumer is asked to buy.
The conclusion of a strain of music; cadence.
A very narrow alley between two buildings, often overhung by one of the buildings above the ground floor.
An end or conclusion.
A grapple in wrestling.
The manner of shutting; the union of parts; junction.
The time when checkin staff will no longer accept passengers for a flight.
A double bar marking the end.
A street that ends in a dead end.
Adhering strictly to a standard or original; exact.
Marked, evident.
Intimate; well-loved.
Strictly confined; carefully guarded.
Accurate; careful; precise; also, attentive; undeviating; strict.
Almost, but not quite (getting to an answer or goal); near
Oppressive; without motion or ventilation; causing a feeling of lassitude.
At a little distance; near.
Of a corporation or other business entity, closely held.
Hot, humid, with no wind.
Articulated with the tongue body relatively close to the hard palate.
Narrow; confined.
Short.
Nearly equal; almost evenly balanced.
To wind into; to insinuate.
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 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).
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.