twist

英語（米国） (en-US) 英語（イギリス） (en-GB)

IPA（発音記号）

/twɪst/

動詞

再帰形 自動詞 経路 他動詞

to turn something in opposite directions at the same time

日本語の意味

（物を両端から）ねじる / ひねる / よじる

英語の意味

to turn something in opposite directions at the same time

やさしい日本語

物（もの）の両（りょう）はしを反対（はんたい）の方向（ほうこう）に回（まわ）して、ねじることです。

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She had to twist the two strands of thread together to strengthen the seam.

彼女は縫い目を強くするために、糸の二本の端を反対方向にねじり合わせなければならなかった。

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意味（1）

To turn the ends of something, usually thread, rope etc., in opposite directions, often using force.

意味（2）

To join together by twining one part around another.

Well, one day I went up in a balloon and the ropes got twisted, so that I couldn't come down again. It went way up above the clouds, so far that a current of air struck it and carried it many, many miles away. For a day and a night I traveled through the air, and on the morning of the second day I awoke and found the balloon floating over a strange and beautiful country.

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意味（3）

To contort; to writhe; to complicate; to crook spirally; to convolve.

twisting it into a serpentine form.

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意味（4）

To wreathe; to wind; to encircle; to unite by intertexture of parts.

longing to twist bays with that ivy

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意味（5）

(reflexive) To wind into; to insinuate.

Avarice twists itself into all human concerns.

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意味（6）

To turn a knob etc.

意味（7）

To distort or change the truth or meaning of words when repeating.

Say I could succeed at the Bar, and achieve a fortune by bullying witnesses and twisting evidence; is that a fame which would satisfy my longings, or a calling in which my life would be well spent?

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意味（8）

To form a twist (in any of the above noun meanings).

意味（9）

To injure (a body part) by bending it in the wrong direction.

Then Romany went down, then we fell together, and the chaps separated us. I got another knock-down blow in, and was beginning to enjoy the novelty of it, when Romany staggered and limped. ‘I’ve done,’ he said. ‘I’ve twisted my ankle.’ He’d caught his heel against a tuft of grass.

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意味（10）

(intransitive, of a path) To wind; to follow a bendy or wavy course; to have many bends.

I stumbled along through the young pines and huckleberry bushes. Pretty soon I struck into a sort of path that, I cal'lated, might lead to the road I was hunting for. It twisted and turned, and, the first thing I knew, made a sudden bend around a bunch of bayberry scrub and opened out into a big clear space like a lawn.

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意味（11）

(transitive) To cause to rotate.

The tide seized us and swept us along, and in the races where this happened there were sucking whirlpools, strong enough to twist us round.

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意味（12）

(intransitive) To dance the twist (a type of dance characterised by twisting one's hips).

意味（13）

(transitive) To coax.

On the three-thousand-dollar reward John Bain is offerin' for the return of his sister, said Ace. Now listen--I know a certain big Chinee had her kidnapped outa her 'rickshaw out at the edge of the city one evenin'. He's been keepin' her prisoner in his house, waitin' a chance to send her up-country to some bandit friends of his'n; then they'll be in position to twist a big ransome outa John Bain, see? …

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意味（14）

(card games) In the game of blackjack (pontoon or twenty-one), to be dealt another card.

twists （ present singular third-person ）

twisting （ participle present ）

twisted （ participle past ）

twisted （ past ）