something |
1. pron. An uncertain or unspecified thing; one thing. | |
I must have forgotten to pack something, but I can't think what. | |
I have something for you in my bag. | |
I have a feeling something good is going to happen today. | |
2. pron. (colloquial, of someone or something) A quality to a moderate degree. | |
The performance was something of a disappointment. | |
That child is something of a genius. | |
3. pron. (colloquial, of a person) A talent or quality that is difficult to specify. | |
She has a certain something. | |
4. pron. (colloquial, often with really or quite) Somebody or something who is superlative in some way. | |
He's really something! I've never heard such a great voice. | |
She's quite something. I can't believe she would do such a mean thing. | |
5. adj. Having a characteristic that the speaker cannot specify. | |
6. adv. (degree) Somewhat; to a degree. | |
The baby looks something like his father. | |
7. adv. (degree, colloquial) To a high degree. | |
8. v. Applied to an action whose name is forgotten by, unknown or unimportant to the user, e.g. from words of a song. | |
9. n. An object whose nature is yet to be defined. | |
10. n. An object whose name is forgotten by, unknown or unimportant to the user, e.g., from words of a song. Also used to refer to an object earlier indefinitely referred to as 'something' (pronoun sense). | |
twisted |
1. v. simple past tense and past participle of twist | |
2. adj. Contorted. | |
3. adj. Wound spirally. | |
4. adj. Mentally disturbed or unsound. | |
The murders were committed by a twisted sociopath. | |
twist |
1. n. A twisting force. | |
2. n. Anything twisted, or the act of twisting. | |
3. n. The form given in twisting. | |
4. n. The degree of stress or strain when twisted. | |
5. n. A type of thread made from two filaments twisted together. | |
6. n. A sliver of lemon peel added to a cocktail, etc. | |
7. n. A sudden bend (or short series of bends) in a road, path, etc. | |
8. n. A distortion to the meaning of a word or passage. | |
9. n. (authorship) An unexpected turn in a story, tale, etc. | |
10. n. A type of dance characterised by rotating one’s hips. See Wikipedia:Twist (dance) | |
11. n. A rotation of the body when diving. | |
12. n. A sprain, especially to the ankle. | |
13. n. (obsolete) A twig. | |
14. n. (slang) A girl, a woman. | |
15. n. (obsolete) A roll of twisted dough, baked. | |
16. n. A material for gun barrels, consisting of iron and steel twisted and welded together. | |
Damascus twist | |
17. n. The spiral course of the rifling of a gun barrel or a cannon. | |
18. n. (obsolete, slang) A beverage made of brandy and gin. | |
19. n. A strong individual tendency or bent; inclination. | |
a twist toward fanaticism | |
20. v. To turn the ends of something, usually thread, rope etc., in opposite directions, often using force. | |
21. v. To join together by twining one part around another. | |
22. v. To contort; to writhe; to complicate; to crook spirally; to convolve. | |
23. v. To wreathe; to wind; to encircle; to unite by intertexture of parts. | |
24. v. (reflexive) To wind into; to insinuate. | |
Avarice twists itself into all human concerns. | |
25. v. To turn a knob etc. | |
26. v. To distort or change the truth or meaning of words when repeating. | |
27. v. To form a twist (in any of the above noun meanings). | |
28. v. To injure (a body part) by bending it in the wrong direction. | |
29. v. (intransitive, of a path) To wind; to follow a bendy or wavy course; to have many bends. | |
30. v. To cause to rotate. | |
31. v. (intransitive) To dance the twist (a type of dance characterised by twisting one's hips). | |
32. v. To coax. | |
33. v. (card games) In the game of blackjack (pontoon or twenty-one), to be dealt another card. | |
intertwined |
1. adj. twined or twisted together | |
Intertwined threads of cotton | |
The lovers' limbs were intertwined. | |
2. v. simple past tense and past participle of intertwine | |
intertwine |
1. v. To twine something together. | |
2. v. (intransitive) To become twined together. | |
or |
1. conj. Connects at least two alternative words, phrases, clauses, sentences, etc. each of which could make a passage true. In English, this is the "inclusive or." The "exclusive or" is formed by "either(...) | |
In Ohio, anyone under the age of 18 who wants a tattoo or body piercing needs the consent of a parent or guardian. | |
He might get cancer, or be hit by a bus, or God knows what. | |
2. conj. (logic) An operator denoting the disjunction of two propositions or truth values. There are two forms, the inclusive or and the exclusive or. | |
3. conj. Counts the elements before and after as two possibilities. | |
4. conj. Otherwise (a consequence of the condition that the previous is false). | |
It's raining! Come inside or you'll catch a cold! | |
5. conj. Connects two equivalent names. | |
The country Myanmar, or Burma | |
6. n. (logic, electronics) alternative form of OR | |
7. n. (tincture) The gold or yellow tincture on a coat of arms. | |
8. adj. (tincture) Of gold or yellow tincture on a coat of arms. | |
9. adv. (obsolete) Early (on). | |
10. adv. (obsolete) Earlier, previously. | |
11. prep. (now archaic, or dialect) Before; ere. | |
curled |
1. v. simple past tense and past participle of curl | |
curl |
1. n. A piece or lock of curling hair; a ringlet. | |
2. n. A curved stroke or shape. | |
3. n. A spin making the trajectory of an object curve. | |
4. n. (curling) Movement of a moving rock away from a straight line. | |
5. n. (weightlifting) Any exercise performed by bending the arm, wrist, or leg on the exertion against resistance, especially those that train the biceps. | |
6. n. (calculus) The vector field denoting the rotationality of a given vector field. | |
The curl of the vector field\vecF(x,y,z) is the vector field\operatornamecurl\,\vecF \equiv \vec\nabla\times\vecF=\left( \frac\partial F_z\partial y - \frac\partial F_y\partial z, \frac\partial | |
7. n. (calculus, proper noun) The vector operator, denoted\rmcurl\; or\vec\nabla\times\vec\left(\cdot\right), that generates this field. | |
8. n. (agriculture) Any of various diseases of plants causing the leaves or shoots to curl up; often specifically the potato curl. | |
9. n. (music, chiefly lutherie) The contrasting light and dark figure seen in wood used for stringed instrument making; the flame. | |
The one-piece back is of a medium curl. | |
10. v. To cause to move in a curve. | |
11. v. To make into a curl or spiral. | |
12. v. (intransitive) To assume the shape of a curl or spiral. | |
13. v. (intransitive) To move in curves. | |
14. v. (intransitive, curling) To take part in the sport of curling. | |
I curl at my local club every weekend. | |
15. v. (transitive, weightlifting) To exercise by bending the arm, wrist, or leg on the exertion against resistance, especially of the biceps. | |
16. v. To twist or form (the hair, etc.) into ringlets. | |
17. v. To deck with, or as if with, curls; to ornament. | |
18. v. To raise in waves or undulations; to ripple. | |
19. v. (hat-making) To shape (the brim of a hat) into a curve. | |