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Quote:Christianity will go. It will vanish and shrink. I needn't argue about that; I'm right, and I will be proved right. We are more popular than Jesus now; I don't know which will go first -- rock'n'roll or Christianity. Jesus was all right, but his disciples were thick and ordinary. It's them twisting it that ruins it for me.[John Lennon]Definitions of: twistDefinition: To contort; to writhe; to complicate; to crook spirally; to convolve.Definition: Hence, to turn from the true form or meaning; to pervert; as, to twist a passage cited from an author. Definition: To distort, as a solid body, by turning one part relatively to another about an axis passing through both; to subject to torsion; as, to twist a shaft. Definition: To wreathe; to wind; to encircle; to unite by intertexture of parts. Definition: To wind into; to insinuate; -- used reflexively; as, avarice twists itself into all human concerns. Definition: To unite by winding one thread, strand, or other flexible substance, round another; to form by convolution, or winding separate things round each other; as, to twist yarn or thread. Definition: Hence, to form as if by winding one part around another; to wreathe; to make up. Definition: To form into a thread from many fine filaments; as, to twist wool or cotton. Definition: The act of twisting; a contortion; a flexure; a convolution; a bending. Definition: The form given in twisting. Definition: That which is formed by twisting, convoluting, or uniting parts. Definition: A cord, thread, or anything flexible, formed by winding strands or separate things round each other. Definition: A kind of closely twisted, strong sewing silk, used by tailors, saddlers, and the like. Definition: A kind of cotton yarn, of several varieties. Definition: A roll of twisted dough, baked. Definition: A little twisted roll of tobacco. Definition: One of the threads of a warp, -- usually more tightly twisted than the filling. Definition: A material for gun barrels, consisting of iron and steel twisted and welded together; as, Damascus twist. Definition: The spiral course of the rifling of a gun barrel or a cannon. Definition: A beverage made of brandy and gin. Definition: A twig. Definition: Act of imparting a turning or twisting motion, as to a pitched ball; also, the motion thus imparted; as, the twist of a billiard ball. Definition: A strong individual tendency, or bent; a marked inclination; a bias; -- often implying a peculiar or unusual tendency; as, a twist toward fanaticism. |
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