twister
See also: Twister
English
editEtymology
editFrom Middle English twyster, equivalent to twist + -er.
Pronunciation
edit- (UK) IPA(key): /ˈtwɪstə(ɹ)/
- (General American) IPA(key): /ˈtwɪstɚ/
- Rhymes: -ɪstə(ɹ)
Audio (Southern England): (file)
Noun
edittwister (plural twisters)
- One who twists.
- One whose occupation is to twist or join the threads of one warp to those of another, in weaving.
- An instrument used in twisting or making twists.
- 1653, John Wallis, Grammatica Linguæ Anglicanæ:
- He, twirling his twister, makes a twist of the twine.
- A ball delivered with a twist, as in cricket or billiards.
- (colloquial) A tornado.
- (carpentry) A girder.
- (dated) The inner part of the thigh, the proper place to rest upon when on horseback.
- (British, 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.”
- Any of species Tholymis tillarga of libellulid dragonfly, of tropical West Africa to Asia, Australia, and the Pacific Islands.
- The party game Twister, usually capitalized, or a variant.
Quotations
edit- For quotations using this term, see Citations:twister.
Derived terms
editTranslations
edittornado
See also
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editFrench
editEtymology
editPronunciation
editVerb
edittwister
Conjugation
editConjugation of twister (see also Appendix:French verbs)
infinitive | simple | twister | |||||
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compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
present participle or gerund1 | simple | twistant /twis.tɑ̃/ | |||||
compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
past participle | twisté /twis.te/ | ||||||
singular | plural | ||||||
first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle, on | 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 The French gerund is usable only with the preposition en. | |||||||
2 In less formal writing or speech, these tenses may be found to have been replaced in the following way:
(Christopher Kendris [1995], Master the Basics: French, pp. 77, 78, 79, 81). |
Further reading
edit- “twister”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
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