Twister

Definition

twist /twÇst/ v ၁။ (က) ~ sth (round sth/ round) ရစ္သည္။ ပတ္သည္။ လိမ္သည္။ I twisted the bandage round her knee. ❍ The telephone wire has got twisted (ie wound around itself). (ခ) ရစ္သည္။ ပတ္သည္။ The snake twisted round my arm. ၂။ ~ sth (into sth) လြန္းတင္သည္။ ႀကိဳး စသည္ကို က်စ္သည္။ We twisted the bed sheets into a rope and escaped by climbing down it. ၃။ (က) ရြဲ႕သည္။ မဲ့သည္။ He twisted his face into a grin. (ခ) ရြဲ႕သည္။ လိမ္သည္။ The metal frame tends to twist under pressure. ၄။ (က) လွည့္သည္။ Twist the knob to the right channel. ❍ I twisted my head round to reverse the car. ❍ I can't twist the lid off. (ခ) လွည့္သည္။ ခ်ာလည္လွည့္သည္။ I twisted round in my seat to speak to her. ❍ The cap should twist off easily. ၅။ ေကြ႕သည္။ ေကာက္သည္။ ရစ္ သည္။ ပတ္သည္။ Downstream the river twists and turns a lot. ❍ The path twisted down (the hillside). ၆။ (အ႐ိုး အဆစ္) လြဲသည္။ I've twisted my ankle. ၇။ လွည့္သည္။ မလိမ့္တစ္ပတ္လုပ္သည္။ The papers twisted everything I said. n ၁။ [C] လိမ္ျခင္း။ လွည့္ျခင္း။ He gave my arm a twist. ❍ With a violent twist, he wrenched off the handle. ❍ Give the rope a few more twists. ၂။ [C] (က) အလိမ္။ အလိပ္။ a rope full of twists ❍ a twist of paper (ie a small paper packet with the ends twisted to seal it). (ခ) အလိမ္။ အလိပ္။ အေခြ။ a twist of smoke ❍ a shell with a spiral twist. (ဂ) အေကြ႕။ a twist in the road ❍ the twists and turns of the river. ၃။ [C] အေကြ႕အေကာက္။ the twists and turns in the economy ❍ by a strange twist of fate ❍ The story has an odd twist at the end. ၄။ the twist [sing] ၁၉၆၀ ျပည့္လြန္ႏွစ္မ်ားက ေခတ္စားေသာကိုယ္ကိုလိမ္၍လိမ္၍ကရေသာအက။ do the twist. ❏ twist sb's arm [ IDM ] ( infml ) အက်ပ္ကိုင္သည္။ She'll let you borrow the car if you twist her arm. ❏ twisted adj ၁။ လိမ္ပိန္ေသာ။ ေကြးေကာက္ေသာ။ မဲ့ရြဲ႕ ေသာ။ a twisted smile ❍ The car was now just a pile of twisted metal. ၂။ ေဖာက္ျပန္ေသာ။ မူမမွန္ေသာ။ ❏ twister n ( infml ) ၁။ ကလိမ္က်သူ။ ၂။ ( US ) ေလဆင္ႏွာ ေမာင္း။ See also TONGUE-TWISTER ❏ twist sb round one's little finger [ IDM ] ( infml ) လိွမ့္သည္။ ပတ္သည္။ Jane has always been able to twist her parents round her little finger. ❏ twisty adj အလိမ္အေကာက္၊ အေကြ႕အခ်ဳိးမ်ားေသာ။ a twisty road. twist /twÇst/ v ၁။ (က) ~ sth (round sth/ round) ရစ္သည္။ ပတ္သည္။ လိမ္သည္။ I twisted the bandage round her knee. ❍ The telephone wire has got twisted (ie wound around itself). (ခ) ရစ္သည္။ ပတ္သည္။ The snake twisted round my arm. ၂။ ~ sth (into sth) လြန္းတင္သည္။ ႀကိဳး စသည္ကို က်စ္သည္။ We twisted the bed sheets into a rope and escaped by climbing down it. ၃။ (က) ရြဲ႕သည္။ မဲ့သည္။ He twisted his face into a grin. (ခ) ရြဲ႕သည္။ လိမ္သည္။ The metal frame tends to twist under pressure. ၄။ (က) လွည့္သည္။ Twist the knob to the right channel. ❍ I twisted my head round to reverse the car. ❍ I can't twist the lid off. (ခ) လွည့္သည္။ ခ်ာလည္လွည့္သည္။ I twisted round in my seat to speak to her. ❍ The cap should twist off easily. ၅။ ေကြ႕သည္။ ေကာက္သည္။ ရစ္ သည္။ ပတ္သည္။ Downstream the river twists and turns a lot. ❍ The path twisted down (the hillside). ၆။ (အ႐ိုး အဆစ္) လြဲသည္။ I've twisted my ankle. ၇။ လွည့္သည္။ မလိမ့္တစ္ပတ္လုပ္သည္။ The papers twisted everything I said. n ၁။ [C] လိမ္ျခင္း။ လွည့္ျခင္း။ He gave my arm a twist. ❍ With a violent twist, he wrenched off the handle. ❍ Give the rope a few more twists. ၂။ [C] (က) အလိမ္။ အလိပ္။ a rope full of twists ❍ a twist of paper (ie a small paper packet with the ends twisted to seal it). (ခ) အလိမ္။ အလိပ္။ အေခြ။ a twist of smoke ❍ a shell with a spiral twist. (ဂ) အေကြ႕။ a twist in the road ❍ the twists and turns of the river. ၃။ [C] အေကြ႕အေကာက္။ the twists and turns in the economy ❍ by a strange twist of fate ❍ The story has an odd twist at the end. ၄။ the twist [sing] ၁၉၆၀ ျပည့္လြန္ႏွစ္မ်ားက ေခတ္စားေသာကိုယ္ကိုလိမ္၍လိမ္၍ကရေသာအက။ do the twist. ❏ twist sb's arm [ IDM ] ( infml ) အက်ပ္ကိုင္သည္။ She'll let you borrow the car if you twist her arm. ❏ twisted adj ၁။ လိမ္ပိန္ေသာ။ ေကြးေကာက္ေသာ။ မဲ့ရြဲ႕ ေသာ။ a twisted smile ❍ The car was now just a pile of twisted metal. ၂။ ေဖာက္ျပန္ေသာ။ မူမမွန္ေသာ။ ❏ twister n ( infml ) ၁။ ကလိမ္က်သူ။ ၂။ ( US ) ေလဆင္ႏွာ ေမာင္း။ See also TONGUE-TWISTER ❏ twist sb round one's little finger [ IDM ] ( infml ) လိွမ့္သည္။ ပတ္သည္။ Jane has always been able to twist her parents round her little finger. ❏ twisty adj အလိမ္အေကာက္၊ အေကြ႕အခ်ဳိးမ်ားေသာ။ a twisty road. twist /twÇst/ v ၁။ (က) ~ sth (round sth/ round) ရစ္သည္။ ပတ္သည္။ လိမ္သည္။ I twisted the bandage round her knee. ❍ The telephone wire has got twisted (ie wound around itself). (ခ) ရစ္သည္။ ပတ္သည္။ The snake twisted round my arm. ၂။ ~ sth (into sth) လြန္းတင္သည္။ ႀကိဳး စသည္ကို က်စ္သည္။ We twisted the bed sheets into a rope and escaped by climbing down it. ၃။ (က) ရြဲ႕သည္။ မဲ့သည္။ He twisted his face into a grin. (ခ) ရြဲ႕သည္။ လိမ္သည္။ The metal frame tends to twist under pressure. ၄။ (က) လွည့္သည္။ Twist the knob to the right channel. ❍ I twisted my head round to reverse the car. ❍ I can't twist the lid off. (ခ) လွည့္သည္။ ခ်ာလည္လွည့္သည္။ I twisted round in my seat to speak to her. ❍ The cap should twist off easily. ၅။ ေကြ႕သည္။ ေကာက္သည္။ ရစ္ သည္။ ပတ္သည္။ Downstream the river twists and turns a lot. ❍ The path twisted down (the hillside). ၆။ (အ႐ိုး အဆစ္) လြဲသည္။ I've twisted my ankle. ၇။ လွည့္သည္။ မလိမ့္တစ္ပတ္လုပ္သည္။ The papers twisted everything I said. n ၁။ [C] လိမ္ျခင္း။ လွည့္ျခင္း။ He gave my arm a twist. ❍ With a violent twist, he wrenched off the handle. ❍ Give the rope a few more twists. ၂။ [C] (က) အလိမ္။ အလိပ္။ a rope full of twists ❍ a twist of paper (ie a small paper packet with the ends twisted to seal it). (ခ) အလိမ္။ အလိပ္။ အေခြ။ a twist of smoke ❍ a shell with a spiral twist. (ဂ) အေကြ႕။ a twist in the road ❍ the twists and turns of the river. ၃။ [C] အေကြ႕အေကာက္။ the twists and turns in the economy ❍ by a strange twist of fate ❍ The story has an odd twist at the end. ၄။ the twist [sing] ၁၉၆၀ ျပည့္လြန္ႏွစ္မ်ားက ေခတ္စားေသာကိုယ္ကိုလိမ္၍လိမ္၍ကရေသာအက။ do the twist. ❏ twist sb's arm [ IDM ] ( infml ) အက်ပ္ကိုင္သည္။ She'll let you borrow the car if you twist her arm. ❏ twisted adj ၁။ လိမ္ပိန္ေသာ။ ေကြးေကာက္ေသာ။ မဲ့ရြဲ႕ ေသာ။ a twisted smile ❍ The car was now just a pile of twisted metal. ၂။ ေဖာက္ျပန္ေသာ။ မူမမွန္ေသာ။ ❏ twister n ( infml ) ၁။ ကလိမ္က်သူ။ ၂။ ( US ) ေလဆင္ႏွာ ေမာင္း။ See also TONGUE-TWISTER ❏ twist sb round one's little finger [ IDM ] ( infml ) လိွမ့္သည္။ ပတ္သည္။ Jane has always been able to twist her parents round her little finger. ❏ twisty adj အလိမ္အေကာက္၊ အေကြ႕အခ်ဳိးမ်ားေသာ။ a twisty road.

Examples

1. The force of the explosion had twisted the metal.
2. She sat there twisting her handkerchief into a knot.
3. Guy’s mouth twisted into a wry smile.
4. She twisted her ring as she spoke.
5. [twist something off something] : Can you twist the cap off this bottle?
6. I’ve twisted my ankle so I won’t be able to play.
7. [twist something around/round something] : He twisted vines round the logs to make a raft.
8. [twist something around/into something] : Her hair was twisted into a plait on top of her head.
9. From here
10. a narrow road twists up to Alwinton.
11. [twist and turn] : The path twists and turns up the mountainside.
12. ‘How he twisted things to suit himself!’ she thought angrily.
13. [twist someone’s words] : You’re twisting my words. You know that’s not what I meant.
14. Sanders twisted in his chair to look out of the window.
15. [twist something around/round] : Stretch up
16. and twist your body round to the right.