straight vs twist

straight

noun
  • A cigarette, particularly one containing tobacco instead of marijuana. 

  • A chiropractor who relies solely on spinal adjustment, with no other treatments. 

  • Something that is not crooked or bent such as a part of a road or track. 

  • Five cards in sequence. 

  • A heterosexual. 

  • A normal person; someone in mainstream society. 

adv
  • Directly; without pause, delay or detour. 

  • Continuously; without interruption or pause. 

  • Of speech or information, without prevarication or holding back; directly; straightforwardly; plainly. 

  • Of a direction relative to the subject, precisely; as if following a direct line. 

verb
  • To straighten. 

adj
  • Direct, undeviating. 

  • Describing the bat as held so as not to incline to either side; on, or near a line running between the two wickets. 

  • Making no exceptions or deviations in one's support of the organization and candidates of a political party. 

  • Occurring between people of opposite sex (sometimes, but not always, specifically between heterosexual people). 

  • Strait; narrow. 

  • Conventional; mainstream; socially acceptable. 

  • Thorough; utter; unqualified. 

  • Of spirits: undiluted, unmixed; neat. 

  • Concerning the property allowing the parallel transport of vectors along a course that keeps tangent vectors remain as such throughout that course (a course which is straight, a straight curve, is a geodesic). 

  • Not plus size; thin. 

  • In proper order; as it should be. 

  • Heterosexual. 

  • Serious rather than comedic. 

  • Containing the names of all the regularly nominated candidates of a single party and no others. 

  • Related to conventional sexual intercourse. 

  • Free from dishonesty; honest, law-abiding. 

  • Not crooked or bent; having a constant direction throughout its length. 

  • Perfectly horizontal or vertical; not diagonal or oblique. 

  • In a row, in unbroken sequence; consecutive. 

  • Not using alcohol, drugs, etc. 

  • Describing the sets in a match of which the winner did not lose a single set. 

  • Direct in communication; unevasive, straightforward. 

twist

noun
  • A small roll of tobacco. 

  • 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 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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