Gratis ordbok - engelska svenska tyska lexikon

Definitioner

Substantiv

1. (obsolete) A trick or artifice.
2. (obsolete) Deceit; guile; treachery.
3. A movement that twists or pulls violently; a tug.
4. An injury caused by a violent twisting or pulling of a limb; strain, sprain.
5. (obsolete) A turn at an acute angle.
6. (archaic) A winch or windlass.
7. (obsolete) A screw.
8. A distorting change from the original meaning.
9. (US) A hand tool for making rotational adjustments, such as fitting nuts and bolts, or fitting pipes; a spanner.
10. A violent emotional change caused by separation.
11. (physics) In screw theory, a screw assembled from force and torque vectors arising from application of Newton's laws to a rigid body.
12. (obsolete) means; contrivance

Verb

1. (intransitive, obsolete) To violently move in a turn or writhe.
2. (transitive) To pull or twist violently.
3. (transitive, obsolete) To turn aside or deflect.
4. (transitive, obsolete) To slander.
5. (transitive, obsolete) To tighten with or as if with a winch.
6. (transitive) To injure (a joint) by pulling or twisting.
7. (transitive) To distort from the original meaning.
8. (transitive, obsolete) To thrust a weapon in a twisting motion.
9. (intransitive, fencing, obsolete) To disarm an opponent by whirling his or her blade away.
10. (transitive) To rack with pain.
11. (transitive) To deprive by means of a violent pull or twist.
12. (transitive) To use the tool known as a wrench.