twister
See also: Twister
English
Etymology
From Middle English twyster, equivalent to twist + -er.
Pronunciation
- Rhymes: -ɪstə(r)
Noun
twister (plural twisters)
- One who twists.
- One whose occupation is to twist or join the threads of one warp to those of another, in weaving.
- The instrument used in twisting, or making twists.
- Wallis
- He, twirling his twister, makes a twist of the twine.
- Wallis
- A ball delivered with a twist, as in cricket or billiards.
- (colloquial) A tornado.
- (carpentry) A girder
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Craig to this entry?)
- (dated) The inner part of the thigh, the proper place to rest upon when on horseback.
- (Britain, colloquial) A crook, a villain.
- 1960, P. G. Wodehouse, Jeeves in the Offing, chapter IX:
- “I don't know if it's my imagination, Kipper,” I said, “but something gives me the impression that at moment of going to press you aren't too sold on Bobbie.” He shrugged a shoulder. “Oh, I wouldn't say that. Apart from wishing I could throttle the young twister with my bare hands and jump on the remains with hobnailed boots, I don't feel much about her one way or the other.”
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- The party game Twister, usually capitalized, or a variant.
Translations
tornado
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Quotations
- For quotations of use of this term, see Citations:twister.
Derived terms
See also
French
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /twis.te/
Conjugation
Conjugation of twister (see also Appendix:French verbs)
present participle | twistant /twis.tɑ̃/ | ||||||
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past participle | twisté /twis.te/ | ||||||
infinitive | |||||||
simple | twister | ||||||
compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
gerund1 | |||||||
simple | twistant /twis.tɑ̃/ | ||||||
compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
singular | plural | ||||||
first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
(simple tenses) |
present | twiste /twist/ |
twistes /twist/ |
twiste /twist/ |
twistons /twis.tɔ̃/ |
twistez /twis.te/ |
twistent /twist/ |
imperfect | twistais /twis.tɛ/ |
twistais /twis.tɛ/ |
twistait /twis.tɛ/ |
twistions /twis.tjɔ̃/ |
twistiez /twis.tje/ |
twistaient /twis.tɛ/ | |
past historic2 | twistai /twis.te/ |
twistas /twis.ta/ |
twista /twis.ta/ |
twistâmes /twis.tam/ |
twistâtes /twis.tat/ |
twistèrent /twis.tɛʁ/ | |
future | twisterai /twis.tə.ʁe/ |
twisteras /twis.tə.ʁa/ |
twistera /twis.tə.ʁa/ |
twisterons /twis.tə.ʁɔ̃/ |
twisterez /twis.tə.ʁe/ |
twisteront /twis.tə.ʁɔ̃/ | |
conditional | twisterais /twis.tə.ʁɛ/ |
twisterais /twis.tə.ʁɛ/ |
twisterait /twis.tə.ʁɛ/ |
twisterions /twis.tə.ʁjɔ̃/ |
twisteriez /twis.tə.ʁje/ |
twisteraient /twis.tə.ʁɛ/ | |
(compound tenses) |
present perfect | present indicative of avoir + past participle | |||||
pluperfect | imperfect indicative of avoir + past participle | ||||||
past anterior2 | past historic of avoir + past participle | ||||||
future perfect | future of avoir + past participle | ||||||
conditional perfect | conditional of avoir + past participle | ||||||
subjunctive | que je (j’) | que tu | qu’il, qu’elle | que nous | que vous | qu’ils, qu’elles | |
(simple tenses) |
present | twiste /twist/ |
twistes /twist/ |
twiste /twist/ |
twistions /twis.tjɔ̃/ |
twistiez /twis.tje/ |
twistent /twist/ |
imperfect2 | twistasse /twis.tas/ |
twistasses /twis.tas/ |
twistât /twis.ta/ |
twistassions /twis.ta.sjɔ̃/ |
twistassiez /twis.ta.sje/ |
twistassent /twis.tas/ | |
(compound tenses) |
past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
imperative | – | – | – | ||||
simple | — | twiste /twist/ |
— | twistons /twis.tɔ̃/ |
twistez /twis.te/ |
— | |
compound | — | simple imperative of avoir + past participle | — | simple imperative of avoir + past participle | simple imperative of avoir + past participle | — | |
1 Only usable with preposition en. | |||||||
2 In less formal writing or speech, the past historic, past anterior, imperfect subjunctive and pluperfect subjunctive tenses may be found to have been replaced with the indicative present perfect, indicative pluperfect, present subjunctive and past subjunctive tenses respectively (Christopher Kendris [1995], Master the Basics: French, pp. 77, 78, 79, 81). |
Further reading
- “twister” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
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