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Twiste
(gcide) | Twiste \Twist"e\, obs.
imp. of Twist. --Chaucer.
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supertwister
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thrown and twisted
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tongue twister
(encz) | tongue twister,jazykolam n: Zdeněk Brož |
tongue-twister
(encz) | tongue-twister,jazykolam n: Zdeněk Brož |
twisted
(encz) | twisted,překroucený adj: Zdeněk Brožtwisted,zvrácený adj: Zdeněk Brož |
twisted ankle
(encz) | twisted ankle,podvrtnutý kotník n: Pino |
twisted pair
(encz) | twisted pair,kroucená dvojlinka n: parkmaj |
twister
(encz) | twister,tornádo n: [meteo.] Petr Prášek |
untwisted
(encz) | untwisted, adj: |
twined twisted
(gcide) | coiled \coiled\ (koild), adj.
curled or wound especially in concentric rings or spirals;
as, a coiled snake ready to strike; the rope lay coiled on
the deck. Opposite of uncoiled.
Note: [Narrower terms: {coiling, helical, spiral, spiraling,
volute, voluted, whorled}; {convolute rolled
longitudinally upon itself};curled, curled up;
{involute closely coiled so that the axis is
obscured)}; looped, whorled; twined, twisted;
convoluted; {involute, rolled esp of petals or leaves
in bud: having margins rolled inward)}; wound]
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Twisted
(gcide) | Twist \Twist\ (tw[i^]st), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Twisted; p. pr.
& vb. n. Twisting.] [OE. twisten, AS. twist a rope, as made
of two (twisted) strands, fr. twi- two; akin to D. twist a
quarrel, dissension, G. zwist, Dan. & Sw. tvist, Icel. tvistr
the deuce in cards, tvistr distressed. See Twice, Two.]
1. To contort; to writhe; to complicate; to crook spirally;
to convolve.
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Twist it into a serpentine form. --Pope.
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2. Hence, to turn from the true form or meaning; to pervert;
as, to twist a passage cited from an author.
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3. To distort, as a solid body, by turning one part
relatively to another about an axis passing through both;
to subject to torsion; as, to twist a shaft.
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4. To wreathe; to wind; to encircle; to unite by intertexture
of parts. "Longing to twist bays with that ivy." --Waller.
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There are pillars of smoke twisted about with
wreaths of flame. --T. Burnet.
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5. To wind into; to insinuate; -- used reflexively; as,
avarice twists itself into all human concerns.
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6. To unite by winding one thread, strand, or other flexible
substance, round another; to form by convolution, or
winding separate things round each other; as, to twist
yarn or thread. --Shak.
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7. Hence, to form as if by winding one part around another;
to wreathe; to make up.
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Was it not to this end
That thou began'st to twist so fine a story? --Shak.
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8. To form into a thread from many fine filaments; as, to
twist wool or cotton.
[1913 Webster]Twisted \Twist"ed\, a.
Contorted; crooked spirally; subjected to torsion; hence,
perverted.
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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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Twisted curve
(gcide) | Twisted \Twist"ed\, a.
Contorted; crooked spirally; subjected to torsion; hence,
perverted.
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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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Twisted surface
(gcide) | Twisted \Twist"ed\, a.
Contorted; crooked spirally; subjected to torsion; hence,
perverted.
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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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twisted-horn
(gcide) | Screw \Screw\ (skr[udd]), n. [OE. scrue, OF. escroue, escroe,
female screw, F. ['e]crou, L. scrobis a ditch, trench, in
LL., the hole made by swine in rooting; cf. D. schroef a
screw, G. schraube, Icel. skr[=u]fa.]
1. A cylinder, or a cylindrical perforation, having a
continuous rib, called the thread, winding round it
spirally at a constant inclination, so as to leave a
continuous spiral groove between one turn and the next, --
used chiefly for producing, when revolved, motion or
pressure in the direction of its axis, by the sliding of
the threads of the cylinder in the grooves between the
threads of the perforation adapted to it, the former being
distinguished as the external, or male screw, or, more
usually the screw; the latter as the internal, or female
screw, or, more usually, the nut.
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Note: The screw, as a mechanical power, is a modification of
the inclined plane, and may be regarded as a
right-angled triangle wrapped round a cylinder, the
hypotenuse of the marking the spiral thread of the
screw, its base equaling the circumference of the
cylinder, and its height the pitch of the thread.
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2. Specifically, a kind of nail with a spiral thread and a
head with a nick to receive the end of the screw-driver.
Screws are much used to hold together pieces of wood or to
fasten something; -- called also wood screws, and {screw
nails}. See also Screw bolt, below.
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3. Anything shaped or acting like a screw; esp., a form of
wheel for propelling steam vessels. It is placed at the
stern, and furnished with blades having helicoidal
surfaces to act against the water in the manner of a
screw. See Screw propeller, below.
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4. A steam vesel propelled by a screw instead of wheels; a
screw steamer; a propeller.
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5. An extortioner; a sharp bargainer; a skinflint; a niggard.
--Thackeray.
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6. An instructor who examines with great or unnecessary
severity; also, a searching or strict examination of a
student by an instructor. [Cant, American Colleges]
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7. A small packet of tobacco. [Slang] --Mayhew.
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8. An unsound or worn-out horse, useful as a hack, and
commonly of good appearance. --Ld. Lytton.
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9. (Math.) A straight line in space with which a definite
linear magnitude termed the pitch is associated (cf. 5th
Pitch, 10
(b) ). It is used to express the displacement of a rigid
body, which may always be made to consist of a
rotation about an axis combined with a translation
parallel to that axis.
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10. (Zool.) An amphipod crustacean; as, the skeleton screw
(Caprella). See Sand screw, under Sand.
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Archimedes screw, Compound screw, Foot screw, etc. See
under Archimedes, Compound, Foot, etc.
A screw loose, something out of order, so that work is not
done smoothly; as, there is a screw loose somewhere. --H.
Martineau.
Endless screw, or perpetual screw, a screw used to give
motion to a toothed wheel by the action of its threads
between the teeth of the wheel; -- called also a worm.
Lag screw. See under Lag.
Micrometer screw, a screw with fine threads, used for the
measurement of very small spaces.
Right and left screw, a screw having threads upon the
opposite ends which wind in opposite directions.
Screw alley. See Shaft alley, under Shaft.
Screw bean. (Bot.)
(a) The curious spirally coiled pod of a leguminous tree
(Prosopis pubescens) growing from Texas to
California. It is used for fodder, and ground into
meal by the Indians.
(b) The tree itself. Its heavy hard wood is used for
fuel, for fencing, and for railroad ties.
Screw bolt, a bolt having a screw thread on its shank, in
distinction from a key bolt. See 1st Bolt, 3.
Screw box, a device, resembling a die, for cutting the
thread on a wooden screw.
Screw dock. See under Dock.
Screw engine, a marine engine for driving a screw
propeller.
Screw gear. See Spiral gear, under Spiral.
Screw jack. Same as Jackscrew.
Screw key, a wrench for turning a screw or nut; a spanner
wrench.
Screw machine.
(a) One of a series of machines employed in the
manufacture of wood screws.
(b) A machine tool resembling a lathe, having a number of
cutting tools that can be caused to act on the work
successively, for making screws and other turned
pieces from metal rods.
Screw pine (Bot.), any plant of the endogenous genus
Pandanus, of which there are about fifty species,
natives of tropical lands from Africa to Polynesia; --
named from the spiral arrangement of the pineapple-like
leaves.
Screw plate, a device for cutting threads on small screws,
consisting of a thin steel plate having a series of
perforations with internal screws forming dies.
Screw press, a press in which pressure is exerted by means
of a screw.
Screw propeller, a screw or spiral bladed wheel, used in
the propulsion of steam vessels; also, a steam vessel
propelled by a screw.
Screw shell (Zool.), a long, slender, spiral gastropod
shell, especially of the genus Turritella and allied
genera. See Turritella.
Screw steamer, a steamship propelled by a screw.
Screw thread, the spiral rib which forms a screw.
Screw stone (Paleon.), the fossil stem of an encrinite.
Screw tree (Bot.), any plant of the genus Helicteres,
consisting of about thirty species of tropical shrubs,
with simple leaves and spirally twisted, five-celled
capsules; -- also called twisted-horn, and twisty.
Screw valve, a stop valve which is opened or closed by a
screw.
Screw worm (Zool.), the larva of an American fly
(Compsomyia macellaria), allied to the blowflies, which
sometimes deposits its eggs in the nostrils, or about
wounds, in man and other animals, with fatal results.
Screw wrench.
(a) A wrench for turning a screw.
(b) A wrench with an adjustable jaw that is moved by a
screw.
To put the screws on or To put the screw on, to use
pressure upon, as for the purpose of extortion; to coerce.
To put under the screw or To put under the screws, to
subject to pressure; to force.
Wood screw, a metal screw with a sharp thread of coarse
pitch, adapted to holding fast in wood. See Illust. of
Wood screw, under Wood.
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Twister
(gcide) | Twister \Twist"er\, n.
1. One who twists; specifically, the person whose occupation
is to twist or join the threads of one warp to those of
another, in weaving.
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2. The instrument used in twisting, or making twists.
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He, twirling his twister, makes a twist of the
twine. --Wallis.
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3. (Carp.) A girder. --Craig.
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4. (Man.) The inner part of the thigh, the proper place to
rest upon when on horseback. --Craig.
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supertwister
(wn) | supertwister
n 1: the most powerful tornado which can create enormously
devastating damage; "supertwisters are fortunately rare" |
thrown and twisted
(wn) | thrown and twisted
adj 1: twisted together; as of filaments spun into a thread;
"thrown silk is raw silk that has been twisted and
doubled into yarn" [syn: thrown, thrown and twisted] |
tongue twister
(wn) | tongue twister
n 1: an expression that is difficult to articulate clearly;
"`rubber baby buggy bumper' is a tongue twister" |
twisted
(wn) | twisted
adj 1: 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" [syn:
distorted, misrepresented, perverted, twisted] |
twister
(wn) | twister
n 1: a localized and violently destructive windstorm occurring
over land characterized by a funnel-shaped cloud extending
toward the ground [syn: tornado, twister]
2: small friedcake formed into twisted strips and fried; richer
than doughnuts [syn: cruller, twister] |
untwisted
(wn) | untwisted
adj 1: not twisted; formerly twisted but now straight |
shielded twisted pair
(foldoc) | shielded twisted pair
STP
(STP) A kind of cable used for most Ethernet
cabling, especially fast ethernet connections such as 100
Mbps.
Compare: unshielded twisted pair.
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twisted pair
(foldoc) | twisted pair
A type of cable in which pairs of conductors are
twisted together to randomise possible cross-talk from
nearby wiring. Inadequate twisting is detectable using modern
cable testing instruments.
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twisted pair only
(foldoc) | twisted pair only
TPO
(TPO) A network connection to an Ethernet
PCMCIA card using twisted pair cable.
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unshielded twisted pair
(foldoc) | unshielded twisted pair
UTP
(UTP) Normal telephone wire (in the USA). It may
be used for computer to computer communications, e.g. using a
version of Ethernet or localtalk. It is much cheaper than
standard "full-spec" Ethernet cable. It comes in five
"catagories":
cat. wires transmission
1 two voice no data (telephone cable)
2 four data up to 4 Mbps
3 four data up to 10 Mbps
4 four data up to 16 Mbps
5 four data up to 100 Mbps
(2003-07-04)
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