English-Portuguese translations for twist

torcer
distorcerÉ por isso que não consigo compreender esta obsessão por parte do Governo chinês de, por um lado, distorcer a realidade e, por outro lado, bloquear de forma obstinada e recorrente a ronda do diálogo. That is why I fail to understand this obsession by the Chinese Government both to twist reality and to insist on blocking the round of talks again and again.

girar
torcedura
twistAplica-se às famílias, à União Europeia, e até se aplicou a Fagin do Oliver Twist. It applies to families, to the European Union, and it even applied to Fagin in Oliver Twist. Não podemos voltar aos extremos dos dias do capitalismo galopante - ao mundo dos Oliver Twists! We cannot go back to the extremes of the days of rampant capitalism - the world of Oliver Twists!

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

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