| Pronunciation: | | tw'istud
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| Matching Terms: | | twiste, twisted pair, twisted pair only, twister
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- [adj] having an intended meaning altered or misrepresented; "many of the facts seemed twisted out of any semblance to reality"; "a perverted translation of the poem"
- [adj] strained or wrenched out of normal shape; "old trees with contorted branches"; "scorched and distorted fragments of steel"; "trapped under twisted steel girders"
- [adj] wound or wrapped around something; "hair twined around her fingers"; "bulky with twisted stitches around the edges"
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| | Synonyms: | | artful, coiled, contorted, crooked, disingenuous, distorted, misrepresented, perverted, twined |
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| Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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| | Definition: | | \Twist"ed\, a.
Contorted; crooked spirally; subjected to torsion; hence,
perverted.
{Twisted curve} (Geom.), a curve of double curvature. See
{Plane curve}, under {Curve}.
{Twisted surface} (Geom.), a surface described by a straight
line moving according to any law whatever, yet so that the
consecutive positions of the line shall not be in one
plane; a warped surface.
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