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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.
having
1. v. present participle of have
2. n. Something owned; possession; goods; estate.
have
Additional archaic forms are second-person singular present tense hast, third-person singular present tense hath, present participle haveing, and second-person singular past tense hadst.
1. v. To possess, own, hold.
I have a house and a car.
Look what I have here — a frog I found on the street!
2. v. To be related in some way to (with the object identifying the relationship).
I have two sisters.
I have a lot of work to do.
3. v. To partake of a particular substance (especially a food or drink) or action.
I have breakfast at six o'clock.
Can I have a look at that?
I'm going to have some pizza and a beer right now.
4. v. To be scheduled to attend or participate in.
What class do you have right now? I have English.
Fred won't be able to come to the party; he has a meeting that day.
5. v. (auxiliary verb, taking a past participle) (Used in forming the perfect aspect and the past perfect aspect.)
I have already eaten today.
I had already eaten.
6. v. (auxiliary verb, taking a to-infinitive) See have to.
I have to go.
7. v. To give birth to.
The couple always wanted to have children.
My wife is having the baby right now!
My mother had me when she was 25.
8. v. To engage in sexual intercourse with.
He's always bragging about how many women he's had.
9. v. To accept as a romantic partner.
Despite my protestations of love, she would not have me.
10. v. (transitive with bare infinitive) To cause to, by a command, request or invitation.
They had me feed their dog while they were out of town.
11. v. (transitive with adjective or adjective-phrase complement) To cause to be.
He had him arrested for trespassing.
The lecture's ending had the entire audience in tears.
12. v. (transitive with bare infinitive) To be affected by an occurrence. (Used in supplying a topic that is not a verb argument.)
The hospital had several patients contract pneumonia last week.
I've had three people today tell me my hair looks nice.
13. v. (transitive with adjective or adjective-phrase complement) To depict as being.
Their stories differed; he said he'd been at work when the incident occurred, but her statement had him at home that entire evening.
14. v. (Used as interrogative auxiliary verb with a following pronoun to form tag questions. (For further discussion, see "Usage notes" below.))
We haven't eaten dinner yet, have we?
Your wife hasn't been reading that nonsense, has she?
(UK usage) He has some money, hasn't he?
15. v. (UK, slang) To defeat in a fight; take.
I could have him!
I'm gonna have you!
16. v. (dated) To be able to speak a language.
I have no German.
17. v. To feel or be (especially painfully) aware of.
Dan certainly has arms today, probably from scraping paint off four columns the day before.
18. v. To be afflicted with, suffer from.
He had a cold last week.
19. v. To experience, go through, undergo.
We had a hard year last year, with the locust swarms and all that.
He had surgery on his hip yesterday.
I'm having the time of my life!
20. v. To trick, to deceive.
You had me alright! I never would have thought that was just a joke.
21. v. (transitive, often with present participle) To allow; to tolerate.
The child screamed incessantly for his mother to buy him a toy, but she wasn't having any of it.
I asked my dad if I could go to the concert this Thursday, but he wouldn't have it since it's a school night.
22. v. (transitive, often used in the negative) To believe, buy, be taken in by.
I made up an excuse as to why I was out so late, but my wife wasn't having any of it.
23. v. To host someone; to take in as a guest.
Thank you for having me!
24. v. To get a reading, measurement, or result from an instrument or calculation.
What do you have for problem two?
I have two contacts on my scope.
25. v. (transitive, of a jury) To consider a court proceeding that has been completed; to begin deliberations on a case.
We'll schedule closing arguments for Thursday, and the jury will have the case by that afternoon.
26. n. A wealthy or privileged person.
27. n. (uncommon) One who has some (contextually specified) thing.
28. n. (AU, NZ, informal) A fraud or deception; something misleading.
They advertise it as a great deal, but I think it's a bit of a have.
many
1. det. An indefinite large number of.
many people enjoy playing chess; there are many different ways to cook a meal
2. pron. A collective mass of people.
Democracy must balance the rights of the few against the will of the many
A great many do not understand this.
3. pron. An indefinite large number of people or things.
Many are called, but few are chosen.
4. n. A multitude; a great aggregate; a mass of people; the generality; the common herd.
5. n. A considerable number.
turns
1. v. third-person singular present indicative of turn
2. n. plural of turn
turn
1. v. to make a non-linear physical movement.:
2. v. (intransitive) Of a body, person, etc, to move around an axis through itself.
the Earth turns; turn on the spot
3. v. To change the direction or orientation of, especially by rotation.
Turn the knob clockwise.
4. v. (intransitive) to change one's direction of travel.
She turned right at the corner.
5. v. (intransitive, figuratively) to change the course of.
6. v. To shape (something) symmetrically by rotating it against a stationary cutting tool, as on a lathe.
She turned the table legs with care and precision.
7. v. (by extension) To give form to; to shape or mould; to adapt.
8. v. To position (something) by folding it, or using its folds.
turn the bed covers; turn the pages
9. v. (transitive, figuratively) To navigate through a book or other printed material.
turn to page twenty; turn through the book
10. v. (transitive, cricket) Of a bowler, to make (the ball) move sideways off the pitch when it bounces.
11. v. (intransitive, cricket) Of a ball, to move sideways off the pitch when it bounces.

12. v. (heading, intransitive) To change condition or attitude.
13. v. (copulative) To become (begin to be).
The leaves turn brown in autumn. When I asked him for the money, he turned nasty.
14. v. To change the color of the leaves in the autumn.
The hillside behind our house isn't generally much to look at, but once all the trees turn it's gorgeous.
15. v. To change fundamentally; to metamorphose.
Midas made everything turn to gold. He turned into a monster every full moon.
16. v. # (intransitive) To sour or spoil; to go bad.
# This milk has turned; it smells awful.
17. v. # To make acid or sour; to ferment; to curdle.
# to turn cider or wine
18. v. To reach a certain age.
Charlie turns six on September 29.
19. v. To hinge; to depend.
The decision turns on a single fact.
20. v. To rebel; to go against something formerly tolerated.
The prisoners turned on the warden.
21. v. To change personal condition.
22. v. # (professional wrestling) To change personalities, such as from being a face (good guy) to heel (bad guy) or vice versa.
23. v. # To become giddy; said of the head or brain.
24. v. # To sicken; to nauseate.
# The sight turned my stomach.
25. v. # To be nauseated; said of the stomach.
26. v. #:
27. v. (obsolete, reflexive) To change one's course of action; to take a new approach.
28. v. (transitive, usually with over) To complete.
They say they can turn the parts in two days.
29. v. (transitive, soccer) Of a player, to go past an opposition player with the ball in one's control.
30. v. To undergo the process of turning on a lathe.
Ivory turns well.
31. v. (obstetrics) To bring down the feet of a child in the womb, in order to facilitate delivery.
32. v. (printing, dated) To invert a type of the same thickness, as a temporary substitute for any sort which is exhausted.
33. v. (archaic) To translate.
to turn the Iliad
34. v. (transitive, role-playing games) To magically or divinely attack undead.
35. n. A change of direction or orientation.
Give the handle a turn, then pull it.
36. n. A movement of an object about its own axis in one direction that continues until the object returns to its initial orientation.
37. n. (geometry) A unit of plane angle measurement based on this movement.
38. n. A single loop of a coil.
39. n. A chance to use (something) shared in sequence with others.
They took turns playing with the new toy.
40. n. The time allotted to a person in a rota or schedule.
I cooked tonight, so it's your turn to do the dishes.
41. n. One's chance to make a move in a game having two or more players.
42. n. A figure in music, often denoted ~, consisting of the note above the one indicated, the note itself, the note below the one indicated, and the note itself again.
43. n. (also turnaround) The time required to complete a project.
They quote a three-day turn on parts like those.
44. n. A fit or a period of giddiness.
I've had a funny turn.
45. n. A change in temperament or circumstance.
She took a turn for the worse.
46. n. (cricket) A sideways movement of the ball when it bounces (caused by rotation in flight).
47. n. (poker) The fourth communal card in Texas hold 'em.
48. n. (poker, obsolete) The flop (the first three community cards) in Texas hold 'em.
49. n. A deed done to another.
One good turn deserves another.
I felt that the man was of a vindictive nature, and would do me an evil turn if he found the opportunitynb....
50. n. (rope) A pass behind or through an object.
51. n. Character; personality; nature.
52. n. (soccer) An instance of going past an opposition player with the ball in one's control.
53. n. (circus, theatre, especially, physical comedy) A short skit, act, or routine.
convoluted
1. adj. Having numerous overlapping coils or folds.
2. adj. Complex, intricate or complicated.
He gave a convoluted explanation that amounted to little more than a weak excuse for his absence.

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