Cosmic winds unleashed NGC 3783’s black hole sits inside an Active Galactic Nucleus (AGN) — a chaotic zone where material spirals inward, magnetic fields snap and twist, and jets of high-energy particles tear outward.
To pressure or coerce: If you twist my arm, I'll stay for a second beer. [Middle English twisten, to squeeze, be divided, from twist, a divided object, fork, rope, from Old English -twist; see dwo- in Indo-European roots.] twist′a·bil′i·ty n.
If you twist something, especially a part of your body, or if it twists, it moves into an unusual, uncomfortable, or bent position, for example, because of being hit or pushed, or because you are upset.
A distortion to the meaning of a passage or word. An unexpected turn in a story, tale, etc. quotations I'm all agog at the new twist to the royal scandal.
Definition of twist noun in Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary. Meaning, pronunciation, picture, example sentences, grammar, usage notes, synonyms and more.
a treatment, method, idea, version, etc., esp. one differing from that which preceded: The screenwriters gave the old plot a new twist. the changing of the shape of anything by or as by turning the ends in opposite directions.
I don't need magic to twist you up in knots. The sound made her gut twist and her chest tighten. Twist your hip more when you hit with the left. Jessi roused herself enough to twist in his arms so she could see his face.
When you twist something, you turn it in a different direction. You might twist off a bottle cap, or you might even twist the plot of a story you are writing.
To pressure or coerce: If you twist my arm, I'll stay for a second beer. [Middle English twisten, to squeeze, be divided, from twist, a divided object, fork, rope, from Old English -twist; see dwo- in Indo-European roots.] twist′a·bil′i·ty n.