[1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

twist \twist\ twi^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.
      1913 webster

            twist it into a serpentine form.      --pope.
      1913 webster

   2. hence, to turn from the true form or meaning; to pervert;
      as, to twist a passage cited from an author.
      1913 webster

   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.
      1913 webster

   4. to wreathe; to wind; to encircle; to unite by intertexture
      of parts. "longing to twist bays with that ivy." --waller.
      1913 webster

            there are pillars of smoke twisted about with
            wreaths of flame.                     --t. burnet.
      1913 webster

   5. to wind into; to insinuate; -- used reflexively; as,
      avarice twists itself into all human concerns.
      1913 webster

   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.
      1913 webster

   7. hence, to form as if by winding one part around another;
      to wreathe; to make up.
      1913 webster

            was it not to this end
            that thou began'st to twist so fine a story? --shak.
      1913 webster

   8. to form into a thread from many fine filaments; as, to
      twist wool or cotton.
      1913 webster
see also:
twisted twisting twice two 

[2] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

twisting \twist"ing\,
   a.  n. from twist.
   1913 webster

   twisting pair. kinematics see under pair, n., 7.
      1913 webster
see also:
twist twisting pair pair 

[3] : WordNet (r) 2.0

twisting
     adj 1: having a twisting or snake-like or worm-like motion;
            "squirming boys"; "wiggly worms"; "writhing snakes"
            syn: squirming, wiggling, wiggly, wriggling,
            wriggly, writhing
     2: marked by repeated turns and bends; "a tortuous road up the
        mountain"; "winding roads are full of surprises"; "had to
        steer the car down a twisty track" syn: tortuous, twisty,
         winding
     n 1: the act of distorting something so it seems to mean
          something it was not intended to mean syn: distortion,
           overrefinement, straining, torture
     2: the act of rotating rapidly; "he gave the crank a spin"; "it
        broke off after much twisting" syn: spin, twirl, twist,
         whirl
see also:
squirming wiggling wiggly wriggling wriggly writhing 
tortuous twisty winding distortion overrefinement 
straining torture spin twirl twist 
whirl 

[4] : Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0

173 moby thesaurus words for "twisting":
   aberrant, aberrative, abstractionism, abuse of terms, ambages,
   ambagious, anfractuosity, anfractuous, bending, braiding,
   catachresis, circuitous, circuitousness, circumambages,
   circumbendibus, circumlocution, circumlocutory, circumvolution,
   coloring, contorting, convolution, convolutional, crinkle,
   crinkling, curving, deformation, departing, desultory, deviant,
   deviating, deviative, deviatory, devious, digressive, discursive,
   distortion, eisegesis, enlacement, entwinement, entwining, errant,
   erratic, error, exaggeration, excursive, expressionism, fabric,
   false coloring, falsification, flexuose, flexuosity, flexuous,
   flexuousness, garbling, gloss, hyperbole, inaccuracy, indirect,
   injustice, interknitting, interlacement, interlacery, interlacing,
   intertexture, interthreading, intertieing, intertwinement,
   intertwining, intertwisting, interweavement, interweaving,
   intorsion, involute, involuted, involution, involutional, knitting,
   labyrinthine, lacing, litotes, malentendu, malobservation, mazy,
   meander, meandering, meandrous, misapplication, misapprehension,
   miscitation, miscoloring, misconception, misconstruction,
   misdrawing, misexplanation, misexplication, misexposition,
   misintelligence, misinterpretation, misjudgment, mispainting,
   misquotation, misreading, misrendering, misreport,
   misrepresentation, misstatement, misteaching, mistranslation,
   misunderstanding, misuse of words, nonrealism, out-of-the-way,
   overdrawing, overstatement, perversion, plaiting, planetary,
   rambling, rivose, rivulation, rivulose, roundabout, roving,
   ruffled, serpentine, shifting, sinuate, sinuation, sinuose,
   sinuosity, sinuous, sinuousness, slanting, slinkiness, snakiness,
   snaky, squeezing, stray, swerving, texture, tissue, torsion,
   torsional, tortile, tortility, tortuosity, tortuous, tortuousness,
   torturing, turning, twining, twisty, understatement, undirected,
   undulation, vagrant, veering, wandering, warp and woof, warpage,
   wave, waving, weave, weaving, web, weftage, whorled, winding,
   wreathing, wreathlike, wreathy, wrenching, zigzag

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