English-French translations for twist
- tordre
- détourner. Nombre de nos collèges ont la détestable habitude de détourner le sens des mots afin de satisfaire les besoins de la cause fédéraliste. Many fellow Members have the dreadful habit of twisting the meaning of words in order to meet the needs of the federalist cause.
- entortiller
- spire
- torseur cinématique
- torsionLes données relatives au chargement et au déchargement, au fait qu'il est question de cassure ou de torsion dans un navire, ne sont pas rapportées. The information about loading and unloading, whether twisting or torsion occurs in a ship, is not reported.
- tortiller
- tourner. Nombre de nos collèges ont la détestable habitude de détourner le sens des mots afin de satisfaire les besoins de la cause fédéraliste. Many fellow Members have the dreadful habit of twisting the meaning of words in order to meet the needs of the federalist cause.
- truc
- twistC'est vrai pour les familles, pour l'Union européenne et même pour Fagin dans Oliver Twist. It applies to families, to the European Union, and it even applied to Fagin in Oliver Twist. Nous ne pouvons pas revenir aux extrêmes de l'époque du capitalisme sauvage - le monde d'Oliver Twist! We cannot go back to the extremes of the days of rampant capitalism - the world of Oliver Twists!
- vrille
Definition of twist
- A twisting force
- The form given in twisting
- The degree of stress or strain when twisted
- A sliver of lemon peel added to a cocktail, etc
- A sudden bend in a road, path, etc
- A distortion to the meaning of a word or passage
- A type of dance characterised by rotating one’s hips. See Wikipedia:Twist |Twist on Wikipedia for more details
- A rotation of the body when diving
- A twig
- A girl, a woman
- A roll of twisted dough, baked
- A material for gun barrels, consisting of iron and steel twisted and welded together
- The spiral course of the rifling of a gun barrel or a cannon
- A strong individual tendency or bent; inclination
- An appetite for food. Chambers 1908--
- To turn the ends of something, usually thread, rope etc., in opposite directions, often using force
- To contort; to writhe; to complicate; to crook spirally; to convolve
- To wreathe; to wind; to encircle; to unite by intertexture of parts
- To wind into; to insinuate
- To turn a knob etc
- 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 cause to rotate
- To dance the twist (a type of dance characterised by twisting one's hips
- In the game of blackjack , to be dealt another card
Examples
- Damascus twist
- a twist toward fanaticism
- Avarice twists itself into all human concerns.
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