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Definition: Twister |
TwisterNoun1. A localized and violently destructive windstorm occurring over land characterized by a funnel-shaped cloud extending toward the ground. 2. Small friedcake formed into twisted strips and fried; richer than doughnuts. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "twister" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1915. (references) |
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Food & Agriculture | A supple pole for wedging between the frame and the loading chains of a pole wagon so as to take up the chain slack. Source: European Union. (references) |
Geography | Circular whirl of great intensity and small horizontal extent, with winds of hurricane force, accompanied by heavy rain or hail, thunder and lightning; it is shortlived, usually not lasting more than an hour or two, but causes heavy damage ; The North American term for a violent whirling, twisting, cyclonic wind about 100 metres in diameter and extremely destructive in its path. Source: European Union. (references) |
Industry | In panel presses, the vertical distance between two adjacent platens when the press is fully opened. Source: European Union. (references) |
Occupations | Tends battery of machines that twists together two or more yarn strands into twine or produce plied yarn for use in rope making: Transfers filled spools of yarn to adjoining twister frame that twists two or more strands together to make twine. Doffs machine and packs filled spools of twine and empty cylinders in cartons. May tend machines that spin roving into yarn preparatory to twisting operation. (references) |
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See:
- Twister (game)
- Twister (movie)
- Twister is also an informal word for a tornado.
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Twister."
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Twister is a game produced by Hasbro Games.The gameboard is a plastic sheet covered with large colored circles, which is spread out on the floor. Any number of people can play, though more than 3-4 is a tight fit.
The game has one spinner, divided into fourths by color; each quadrant specifies left foot, right foot, left arm, or right arm. After spinning, the combination is called; players must move the part to a matching location. No two people can have a part on the same circle (rules are different for more people). Due to the scarcity of colored circles, players will often be required to put themselves in unlikely or precarious positions, eventually resulting in someone's fall.
Because of the high-paced and frivolous nature of the game, the close proximity it causes the participants to be to each other and the ease with which the frequent losses can be given forfeits (such as stripping or drinking - the latter leads to a vicious circle) make it highly popular at college parties.
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Twister (game)."
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Twister is an action movie starring Helen Hunt and Bill Paxton. The film is about two competing groups of tornado researchers. It was released in 1996 and was directed by Jan de Bont.Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Twister (movie)."
Synonyms: TwisterSynonyms: cruller (n), tornado (n). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Twister |
| Specialty definitions using "twister": HOGSHEAD HOOPER. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Twister" is also a word in the following language with the English translation in parentheses. French (dance twist). |
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Screenplays | We can still play Twister! (Pretty Smart; writing credit: Dan Hoskins) | |
Movie/TV Titles | The Broncho Twister (1927) L.A. Twister (2003) Twister (1990) | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit |  | The big twister strikes again. Credit: Library of Congress. |
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| "Twister" by Guenter M. Kirchweger Commentary: "Twister - doberman/bandlbracke." |
Source: photographs selected by the editor, with permission from the photographers. |
| "Twister" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 94.12% of the time. "Twister" is used about 17 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 94.12% | 16 | 87,710 |
| Noun (proper) | 5.88% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 17 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "twister": brain twister ♦ tongue twister. Additional references. | |
| Hypenated Usage | |
Ending with "twister": string-twister, tongue-twister. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day | Expression | Frequency per Day |
twister | 4,978 | artic twister | 19 |
tongue twister | 434 | picture of twister | 18 |
text twister | 280 | fantom twister | 18 |
naked twister | 171 | playing twister | 18 |
nude twister | 109 | toung twister | 18 |
twister game | 96 | s3 twister | 17 |
tounge twister | 84 | wire twister | 17 |
arkansas twister | 84 | tornado twister | 17 |
twister movie | 59 | game text twister | 17 |
mister twister | 48 | mind twister | 16 |
brain twister | 48 | texas twister | 16 |
night of the twister | 42 | twister wind | 15 |
tit twister | 34 | mr twister | 15 |
arctic twister | 31 | party twister | 15 |
torrington twister | 31 | graphic s3 twister | 14 |
strip twister | 29 | balloon twister | 14 |
twister word | 28 | naked pic twister | 14 |
soundtrack twister | 28 | k s3 twister | 13 |
font twister | 26 | wave twister | 12 |
101.9 twister | 23 | lyrics twister | 12 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Language | Translations for "twister"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | tornado (tornado), mashtrues (ambidextrous, artful, bilker, bluffer, bouncer, catchy, cheat, Crimp, deceitful, deceiver, deceptive, delusive, delusory, diddler, dishonest, dodger, double, double dealing, double-dealer, finagler, fraud, fraudulent, guileful, gyp, humbug, hustler, impostor, Jack-in-the-box, mendacious, misleading, mountebank, pettifogger, pettifogging, phoney, quack, racketeer, rascal, rascally, rogue, sandman, shuffler, skin, snide, swindler, trickster, two-tongued), gënjeshtër (circumvention, deceit, deceitfulness, double dealing, fable, fib, flam, fudge, leasing, lie, lurk, mendacity, oner, prevarication, sklent, taradiddle, untruth), batakçi (blackguard, blackleg, con man, fiddler, grafter, gyp, humbug, hustler, knave, leg, picaroon, rogue, scaramouch, sharper, slicker, trickster, villain). (various references) | |
Arabic | كرة مندفعة بحركة دائرية, مهمة عسيرة, مشكلة (issue, kink, labyrinth, nodus, nut, problem, question, snag, trouble), إعصار (surges, tornado), شخص مخادع (deceiver). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | трудна задача (snorter), трудна за произнасяне дума (jaw breaker), труден проблем, въжеиграч (rope dancer, rope walker, tightrope-dancer, wire dancer, wire-walker), воден циклон (waterspout), машина за пресукване, пясъчна вихрушка, пресуквач. (various references) | |
Chinese | 扭转者. (various references) | |
Czech | soukař (thrower), motovidlo. (various references) | |
Danish | twister (tornado), tornado (tornado), stok til stramning af kæder (dancer, springer). (various references) | |
Dutch | twister (tornado), tornado (tornado), schoorbalk (dancer, springer), draagbalk (bearer, capsill, dancer, girder, springer, transom, transome, truss). (various references) | |
Farsi | چرخان (Rotor), کسی که میچرخاندیامی پیچاند, کسی که اغراق میگویدیاتحریف میکند, گردباد (Cyclone, Hurricane, Tornado, Typhoon, Whirlwind). (various references) | |
Finnish | tornado (tornado), kuuropilveen liittyvä pyörremyrsky (tornado). (various references) | |
French | tornade. (various references) | |
German | twister (tornado), Tornado (tornado), Wirbelsturm (cyclone, hurricane, whirlwind), Großtrombe (tornado). (various references) | |
Greek | κυκλώνας (cyclone), καταιγίδα (downfall, rainstorm, squall, storm, tempest, thunderstorm), συστρέφων (twiner, twirler), σίφων ξηράς (tornado), σίφουνας,νεφοστρόβιλος (tornado), ανεμοστρόβιλοσ (cyclone, hurricane, tornado, typhoon, whirlwind), ανεμοστρόβιλος (tornado), θύελλα (blizzard, gale, hurricane, squall, storm, tempest). (various references) | |
Hebrew | מסלף, טורנאדו (hurricane, tornado, whirlwind), סלפן (distorter, falsifier, perverter). (various references) | |
Hungarian | megbízhatatlan ember (broken reed, fink). (various references) | |
Italian | tornado (tornado). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 早口言葉 (tongue twister). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | はやくちことば (tongue twister). (various references) | |
Manx | lhoobeyr (double-dealer, trickster), kialgeyr (cheat, con man, deceitful person, deceiver, double-dealer, fiddler, fly boy, hypocrite, illusionist, plotter, schemer, swindler, trickster), casseyder (whirligig). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | istertway.(various references) | |
Portuguese | turbilhão de vento (tornado, whirlwind, wind eddy), tornado (become), pessoa que come muito, pessoa desonesta, indivíduo pouco sério, cordeiro (lamb), bola que toma efeito, arrocho (predicament, squeeze), aparelho de torcer. (various references) | |
Russian | сучильщик, сучильная машина, трудная задача (beast of a job, formidable task, hard nut to crack, large order, poser, puzzler, stumper, tall order, tickler, waffle), крутильщик, преувеличение (exaggeration, fish story, hyperbole, overstatement). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | tornado (tornado), težak zadatak (formidable task, tall order), užar (roper), ciklon (cyclone). (various references) | |
Spanish | tornado (tornado). (various references) | |
Swedish | tromb (thrombus, tornado), svindlare (defrauder, jackal, sharper, swindler), stock för kedjesträckning (dancer, springer), fixare (fixer). (various references) | |
Turkish | zor soru (poser, stumper), yuvarlanan top, yalancı (deceitful, fabricator, fabulist, fibber, liar, mendacious, prevaricator, pseudo-, quack, sham, simulator, taleteller, twisty, untruthful), kasırga (cyclone, hurricane, squall, storm, tornado, typhoon, whirlwind), iplik bükme makinesi, hortum (cyclone, Eddy, elephant's trunk, hose, hose pipe, proboscis, snout, tornado, water hose, whirlwind), hilekâr (cheat, cheater, con, con man, crooked, cross, deceitful, deceiver, double-tongued, faithless, foul, fraud, fraudulent, funk, gadgety, guileful, hard boiled, knavish, trickster), bükücü, şaşırtıcı şey (mind-bender, puzzlement). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | сукальник, обманщик (bluff, bluffer, cheat, counterfeit, counterfeiter, deceiver, dissembler, double-dealer, foist, fraud, humbug, impostor, mountebank, phoney, pretender, trickster). (various references) | |
Vietnamese | người xe dây, người gian trá, người bện thừng, máy bện sợi, cơn gió xoáy. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "twister": twisters. (additional references) | |
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"Twister" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Tilseter, tisteer, tister, trister, Twisdton, twise, twisten, twistier, twistit, twistor, twistr, twizzler, twostar. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "twister" (pronounced twi"ster) |
| 4 | -i" s t er | blister, Lister, Mister, sister, transistor. |
| 3 | -s t er | dumpster, duster, Easter, adjuster, administer, alabaster, ancestor, aster, banister, bannister, barrister, blaster, blockbuster, bluster, bolster, booster, broadcaster, burgomaster, Buster, canister, cannister, caster, Castor, cloister, cluster, coaster, concertmaster, coster, Dempster, Dexter, digester, disaster, ester, faster, Feaster, fester, filibuster, fluster, forecaster, Forester, Foster, gangbuster, gangster, Gaster, grandmaster, hamster, harvester, headmaster, heister, holster, huckster, imposter, impostor, investor, jester, juster, keister, kiester, lackluster, laster, Leister, lobster, Luster, lustre, master, minister, Minster, mobster, molester, monster, muenster, Munster, muster, nester, Nestor, newscaster, oldster, oleaster, ouster, oyster, paster, pastor, pester, pilaster, plaster, pollster, polyester, poster, postmaster, prankster, protester, quartermaster, raster, register, requester, rester, ringmaster, roadster, roaster, roister, rooster, roster, royster, schoolmaster, scoutmaster, seamster, semester, sequester, shyster, sinister, spinster, sportscaster, stepsister, taskmaster, taster, teamster, tester, thruster, tipster, toaster, toastmaster, trickster, trimester, Ulster, upholster, waster, Webster, Wester, youngster, zoster. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: retwist. | |
| Words within the letters "e-i-r-s-t-t-w" | |
-1 letter: sitter, titers, titres, triste, twiers, wriest, writes. | |
-2 letters: rites, strew, tiers, tires, titer, titre, trets, trews, tries, trite, twier, twist, twits, weirs, wires, wiser, wites, wrest, wries, wrist, write, writs. | |
-3 letters: erst, ires, reis, rest, rets, rise, rite, sett, sire, site, stet, stew, stir, test, tets, tews, tier, ties, tire, tret, twit, weir. | |
| Words containing the letters "e-i-r-s-t-t-w" | |
+1 letter: retwists, twisters, twistier, twitters, wartiest, whitters, wristlet. | |
+2 letters: outwrites, retwisted, strawiest, tawdriest, toweriest, twirliest, twitchers, wateriest, whittlers, whittrets, wintriest, worthiest, wrathiest, wristiest, wristlets. | |
+3 letters: frowstiest, ghostwrite, growthiest, intertwist, miswritten, miterworts, mitreworts, retwisting, skywritten, streetwise, swarthiest, sweatshirt, sweltriest, tailwaters, thwartwise, tidewaters, tightwires, typewrites, winteriest, witherites. | |
+4 letters: bittersweet, bitterweeds, ghostwriter, ghostwrites, intertwines, intertwists, rottweilers, sweatshirts, typewriters, unworthiest, wattlebirds, wildcatters, wintertides, wintertimes, zwitterions. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
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