Crossword clues for twisted
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Twist \Twist\, 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. twistr the deuce in cards, tvistr distressed. See Twice, Two.]
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To contort; to writhe; to complicate; to crook spirally; to convolve.
Twist it into a serpentine form.
--Pope. Hence, to turn from the true form or meaning; to pervert; as, to twist a passage cited from an author.
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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To wreathe; to wind; to encircle; to unite by intertexture of parts. ``Longing to twist bays with that ivy.''
--Waller.There are pillars of smoke twisted about wreaths of flame.
--T. Burnet. To wind into; to insinuate; -- used reflexively; as, avarice twists itself into all human concerns.
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.
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Hence, to form as if by winding one part around another; to wreathe; to make up.
Was it not to this end That thou began'st to twist so fine a story?
--Shak. To form into a thread from many fine filaments; as, to twist wool or cotton.
Twisted \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.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
late 15c., "intertwined, past participle adjective from twist (v.). Meaning "perverted, mentally strange" (1900) probably is from twist (n.) in a sense of "mental peculiarity, perversion" attested by 1811.
Wiktionary
1 contorted 2 wound spirally 3 Mentally disturbed or unsound. v
(en-past of: twist)
WordNet
adj. wound or wrapped around something; "hair twined around her fingers"; "bulky with twisted stitches around the edges" [syn: twined]
strained or wrenched out of normal shape; "old trees with contorted branches"; "scorched and distorted fragments of steel"; "trapped under twisted steel girders" [syn: contorted, distorted]
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]
Wikipedia
Twisted is a 2004 American psychological thriller written by Sarah Thorp and directed by Philip Kaufman. It stars Ashley Judd, Samuel L. Jackson and Andy García. The film is set in San Francisco, California.
Twisted is the debut studio album by Hallucinogen, released on 16 October 1995 on Dragonfly Records.
The album reached Number 27 in the French album charts, and it is one of the most successful albums releases in the genre, with a total sales over 85,000 copies worldwide. In 1999, the album was re-released on Simon Posford's (Hallucinogen) own label, Twisted Records.
The first track on the album, "LSD", was widely played.
Twisted is an event-driven network programming framework written in Python and licensed under the MIT License.
Twisted projects variously support TCP, UDP, SSL/TLS, IP multicast, Unix domain sockets, a large number of protocols (including HTTP, XMPP, NNTP, IMAP, SSH, IRC, FTP, and others), and much more. Twisted is based on the event-driven programming paradigm, which means that users of Twisted write short callbacks which are called by the framework.
Twisted is the fourth studio album by Del Amitri, released on 28 February 1995. It reached number three in the UK Albums Chart and was listed by Q Magazine as one of the top 10 best albums of 1995.
It was the last album to feature guitarist David Cummings, who left to begin a successful career in TV scriptwriting, and the only to feature drummer Chris Sharrock, who agreed to play on Twisted but declined to join the band as a permanent member. With a firmer emphasis on electric guitars than the band's last outing, 1992's Change Everything, the album represented a moderate change of direction for Del Amitri, whilst retaining their trademark melodic sensibilities.
The album included Del Amitri's most successful single, " Roll to Me", which reached the top ten in the US Hot 100. The band are known not to consider the song one of their best, however, and have often seemed irked by the fact that what they see as a throwaway pop song gave them their biggest hit. Also included was "Tell Her This", one of the group's most well-known songs.
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"Twisted" is a single by Keith Sweat released in 1996. It was the first song off his self-titled third album, Keith Sweat. R&B group Kut Klose and rapper Pretty Russ are also featured on the song. It spent three weeks at number-one on the U.S. R&B chart, and peaked at No. 2 on the Billboard Hot 100, becoming his biggest pop hit. "Twisted" peaked at number one on the Rhythmic Top 40, staying there for 14 consecutive weeks, the most amongst any song except TLC's smash " No Scrubs, (which spent 15 weeks at the top position on the Rhythmic Top 40).
The radio version of "Twisted" omitted Pretty Russ' rap before the final chorus, though some urban stations kept the rap verse. A second mix of the song, referred to as "Twisted (Flavahood Sexual Remix)", features a different backbeat sampled from Marvin Gaye's hit song, " Sexual Healing". "Flavahood" also saw significant airplay on radio, but was never released on an album.
On 2012, VH1 ranked the song at #35 on their list of the "40 Greatest R&B Songs of the '90s".
__NOTOC__ "Twisted" is the 22nd episode of Star Trek: Voyager, the sixth episode in the second season.
"Twisted (Everyday Hurts)" is a song by Skunk Anansie, released as their second single from their second album, Stoosh. It was released in November 1996 and reached #26 in the UK Singles Chart.
Twisted is a film written and directed by Seth Michael Donsky. His debut film, it was released in 1997. The film, a Don Quixote and Miravista Films production, is a retelling of Charles Dickens' classic novel Oliver Twist set in a New York City contemporary underground populated by drag queens, drug abusers and hustlers. The film was an official selection and debuted in 1997 at the 47th Berlin International Film Festival, and was also screened as an official selection at the Seattle International Film Festival. Donsky's film was made prior to Jacob Tierney's similar film Twist, starring American actor Nick Stahl.
Donsky's Twisted was re-discovered by the Museum of Modern Art in 2013, included in their Charles Dickens bicentenary film series http://www.moma.org/visit/calendar/films/1339 and subsequently accepted into their permanent film collection.
Twisted (ISBN 0743260953) is a 2003 collection of short stories by crime writer Jeffery Deaver. The book was published by Simon & Schuster in 2003 and features 16 short stories, including one featuring Deaver's fictional detective Lincoln Rhyme.
"Twisted" is the second single released by Irish singer Brian McFadden from his second studio album, Set in Stone. The song was released to radio in June 2008, and was released both physically and digitally on 19 July. "Twisted" debuted on the ARIA Singles Chart at #69, solely on downloads. On the week of the release of the physical single, it climbed and peaked at #29. When released as a single, "Twisted" featured as a remix by The Potbelleez. The original version featured on the album Set in Stone was not produced by the group.
"Twisted" is a song by Australian band Vandalism, the second from their debut album Turn the World On.
Twisted is a 1986 horror and psychological thriller starring Christian Slater, Lois Smith, and Tandy Cronyn.
"Twisted" is a 1952 vocalese song with lyrics by Annie Ross, set to a tenor saxophone solo of the same name by Wardell Gray. It has been covered by Bette Midler, Joni Mitchell, and many others.
Twisted (stylized as twiƨted) was an American teen drama mystery- thriller television series. The pilot episode aired on March 19, 2013, and the show's next 10 episodes resumed airing on June 18, 2013.
On July 30, 2013, Twisted was picked up for a full season of 19 episodes and the second half of season one started airing on February 11, 2014. The season finale aired on April 1, 2014.
On August 13, 2014, ABC Family announced that Twisted would not be renewed for a second season.
Twisted: The Untold Story of a Royal Vizier is a musical with music by A.J. Holmes, lyrics by Kaley McMahon, and book by Matt Lang, Nick Lang, and Eric Kahn Gale.
The musical parodies the 1992 Disney film Aladdin, and The Walt Disney Company in general, telling the story from the point of view of Ja'far, the Royal Vizier. It has several nods & homages to the musical Wicked, which similarly retells a popular story from the villain's point of view.
Twisted opened in Chicago's Greenhouse Theatre on July 4th and closed on July 28th as part of a limited run. The group put the entire musical up on YouTube on November 27, 2013. It was produced by StarKid Productions and directed by Brian Holden. The musical's cast recording debuted at No. 63 on the American iTunes Top 100 albums chart.
"Twisted'" is a track from the soundtrack of the 1996 film Twister. While writing the song, Nicks called Lindsey Buckingham to produce the song. Nicks later called in Mick Fleetwood to play drums. Nicks and Buckingham both share lead vocals on the song. The soundtrack version of the song also features Federico Pol on bass. The track was mixed by Dan Marnien and Engineered by Ken Allardyce.
Twisted is an anthology of horror short stories edited by Groff Conklin. It was first published in paperback by Belmont Books in May 1962 and reprinted in 1967. British paperback editions were issued by Horwitz in 1963 and Four Square Books in 1965. It has also been translated into Spanish.
The book collects fifteen novelettes and short stories by various authors, together with an introduction by the editor. The stories were previously published from 1843-1961 in various magazines.
Usage examples of "twisted".
I could feel the inked lines of my own accreditation tat twisting and tingling under the skin of my left cheek, the emerald set at the top of the twisted caduceus probably flashing.
I perceived that I was hungry, and prepared to clamber out of the hammock, which, very politely anticipating my intention, twisted round and deposited me upon all-fours on the floor.
The mechanical analog would be a pendulum twisted to the side by a constant torque, resting motionless, cocked at an angle below the horizontal.
Then, before the leech could properly attach itself to the fellow, the Archimandrite pulled it back and let it hang from his half-outstretched arm, where it swung and twisted muscularly with what felt for all the world like genuine frustration.
Rimon lifted her, trying for a grip to snap her neck, she twisted and instinctively grasped at his arms as rapid attrition drained her life.
Smoke, twisted by the wind, uncoiled to show the autogiro hovering directly above the flaming house.
As the ice gripping the base of the structure twisted to some unseen current, the two opposites sides came into view, revealing the broken maw of wooden framework reaching beneath the street level, crowded with enormous balsa logs and what appeared to be massive inflated bladders, three of them punctured and flaccid.
A narrow, circular staircase studded with wrought iron balusters twisted upward to a balcony that was lined with more bookshelves.
She twisted lithely until she could look the Bardic Captain in the face.
Faith had kicked off the covers as usual, and the red T-shirt she wore was twisted up around her waist, baring a silken belly and tiny white panties.
She pointed to a blasted tree beyond the rise, barkless and gnarled and twisted as if in pain.
For answer, Barnacle twisted his head until it nearly came off at the neck and did what he always did.
One of the doors lay twisted off its hinges, and seven Barton Bulldogs in full armor menaced the ranchers.
An incised ornament of this character, possibly derived from basketry by copying the twisted fillets or their impressions in the clay, is very common on the pottery of the mounds of the Mississippi Valley, and its variants form a most interesting study.
And there were trees-not just the stunted stands of Alpine willow and Glang-ma, whose long branches the nomads used to weave their intricate basketry, or the twisted bush that provided the Yeti-wood for their fires-but around Lhasa were forests of spruce and fir, pine and spreading yew, black and white birches, oaks and poplar.