noun
1. giravolt.
2. [of dancer] cabriola, saltiró.
3. [fencing] molinet.
4. [in writing] floritura.
transitive verb
5. giravoltar.
6. [fencing] fer molinets.
7. [moustache] cargolar.
8. [twist] tòrcer.
9. to twirl one's thumbs figurative gratar-se la panxa.
intransitive verb
10. giravoltar.
11. [of dancer] fer cabrioles, saltironar.

noun
1. [of yarn] torçal.
2. [of hair] floc.
3. trena.
4. [of tobacco, paper] rotlle.


5. [twisting action] torçada, torsió.
6. Medicine torçada, girada.
7. Mechanics esforç.
8. [on ball] efecte.
9. to give something a twist girar alguna cosa.
10. to give one's ankle a twist girar-se el turmell.
11. with a twist of the wrist girant el puny.
12. to give a twist to someone's arm girar el braç d'algú.


13. [of mind] tret, característica, peculiaritat.
14. criminal twist predisposició al crim, inclinació al crim.
15. his queer twist of mind el seu esperit peculiar.


16. [coil] girada.
17. [spiral shape] espiral.
18. cargolament, enroscament.
19. [in road, etc.] recolzada, tombant.
20. twists and turns voltes, giragonses.
21. to take a twist round a post with a rope lligar una corda al voltant d'un pal.
22. the road takes a twist la carretera fa una recolzada.
23. the plot has an unexpected twist la trama fa un tomb imprevist.


24. Music twist.


25. colloquial fam, gana.
26. to have a twist tenir una gana que alça, sentir un buit a l'estómac.
transitive verb
27. [wrench out of shape] tòrcer, retòrcer.
28. [ball] tirar amb efecte.
29. [turn] girar.
30. [give spiral form to] entortolligar, enroscar.
31. [interweave] trenar, entrellaçar.
32. colloquial estafar.
33. figurative [sense, words, arguments] forçar, recargolar.
34. to twist together Sewing entorxar.
35. she twisted flowers into a (garland \ wreath) va teixir una garlanda.
36. she can twist him round her little finger figurative & colloquial el pot fer ballar com una baldufa.
37. to twist one's ankle girar-se el turmell, tòrcer-se el peu.
38. to twist someone's arm tòrcer el braç d'algú.
39. face twisted by pain rostre contret (de \ pel) dolor.
40. he twisted what I had said so as to give a wrong impression va capgirar el que jo havia dit per tal de donar una falsa impressió.
41. to twist the truth deformar la veritat.
intransitive verb
42. tòrcer-se, retorçar-se.
43. [coil up] cargolar-se, entortolligar-se.
44. [of road, etc.] serpentejar, zigzaguejar.
45. [write] recargolar-se, retòrcer-se.
46. [dance] ballar el twist.
47. the man twisted about in pain l'home es recargolava de dolor.
48. the road twists through the fields la carretera serpenteja a través dels camps.
49. she twisted through the crowd es va barrejar amb la multitud.

adjective
1. torçat, retorçat.
2. pejorative [person] tortuós, recargolat.

noun
1. colloquial afaitapagesos, escurabutxaques, estafador.
2. that's a twister for you! vet aquí qui et donarà maldecaps!

noun colloquial banau, toix.


Vegeu també:
twit²

transitive verb [-tt-]
1. burlar-se de.
2. escarnir, ridiculitzar.
3. to twit someone with something burlar-se d'algú per alguna cosa.



Vegeu també:
twit¹

noun
1. batzegada, estrebada.
2. [of pain] fiblada, punxada, zub-zub.
3. [nervous] crispació nerviosa, espasme.
4. twitch of conscience remordiment.
5. facial twitch tic convulsiu.
transitive verb
6. estirar, estrebar.
7. [hands] crispar.
8. [ears, nose, etc.] contraure.
9. horse that twitches its ears cavall que dreça les orelles.
10. to twitch someone's sleeve estirar a algú la màniga.
11. to twitch something away from someone arrabassar alguna cosa a algú.
intransitive verb
12. [of face] contraure's nerviosament.
13. [of hands] crispar-se.
14. his face twitches té un tic a la cara.
15. that made him twitch allò li feia fer una ganyota, allò li produïa un tic.

noun
1. [of bird] refilada, refiladissa.
2. figurative ànsia, agitació, inquietud, nerviosisme.
3. to be all of a twitter, to be in a twitter colloquial estar molt nerviós, estar inquiet.
intransitive verb
4. refilar.
5. figurative inquietar-se, estar nerviós.

adjective
1. dos.
2. one or two pens una o dues plomes, unes quantes plomes.
noun
4. dos.
5. the two of us, us two nosaltres dos.
6. to break something in two migpartir alguna cosa.
7. they walked (in twos \ two by two \ two and two) anaven de dos en dos.
8. they came in by twos entraven de dos en dos, entraven en grups de dos.
9. to fold something in two doblegar alguna cosa.
10. they are two of a kind són exactament iguals, són de la mateixa mena.
11. two can play at that game! aquest joc també el puc jugar jo!
12. to put two and two together figurative lligar caps, treure conclusions.
13. two four time Music compàs binari.
14. to have two of everything tenir el doble de tot.

adjective [parliament] de dues cambres.