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say it: TWI-sting
twisting is a noun and adjective meaning "the act of distorting something so it seems to mean something it was not intended to mean". It carries 3 recorded senses.
the act of distorting something so it seems to mean something it was not intended to mean
the act of rotating rapidly
“he gave the crank a spin”
“it broke off after much twisting”
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”
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for twisting come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.