| 单词 | twisted cartesian |
| 释义 | > as lemmastwisted Cartesian a. Wrung out of shape; distorted; contorted; turned or bent awry; spec. in Botany = contorted adj. 2; crooked, tortuous, winding; turned or wrung spirally, of coiled or screw-like form, spiral or helical; in Geometry applied to curves in space, as twisted Cartesian, twisted cubic, etc. (see curvature n. 3a); also, involved, tangled, confused. ΘΚΠ the world > space > shape > curvature > coil > [adjective] > twisted spirally woundenOE thwarlc1400 wreathenc1400 writhenc1475 thrown1534 crinkled1558 contort1570 torqued1577 writhed1578 rivelled1594 wrested1609 twound1610 twirled1611 contorted1622 tortile1658 torcular1661 roped1681 wended?1690 twisted1725 entwisteda1800 torquated1851 barley sugar1868 spirated1871 wrangled1876 rangled1924 the world > space > shape > misshapenness > [adjective] > of or relating to distortion > distorted wrongwende?c1225 writhenc1475 thrawnc1494 tort1513 encrampised1523 wry1552 thraw?1553 contort1570 wried1576 writhed1578 turned1585 distort1588 tortured1603 wrested1609 contorted1622 distorted1635 twisted1830 wreathed1844 gnarled1851 squinched1899 contortioned1922 pretzelled1938 1725 W. Halfpenny Art of Sound Building 13 The two different Edges of a Twisted Schofeet. 1776 W. Withering Brit. Plants (1796) II. 319 Parnassia... Stem somewhat twisted. 1782 Monro's Anat. Human Bones (new ed.) 167 The eight upper ribs were formerly classed into pairs,..to wit, the crooked, the solid, the pectoral, the twisted. 1828 J. Stark Elements Nat. Hist. II. 135 Siliquaria, Lam.—Serpula, Lin. Shell tubular, irregularly twisted. 1830 T. Carlyle Richter Again in Misc. Ess. (1840) II. 297 Abounding..in the most twisted phraseology. 1831 W. Scott Castle Dangerous x, in Tales of my Landlord 4th Ser. IV. 235 A clear fountain of living water bubbled forth from under the twisted roots of one of those trees. 1842 J. Bischoff Comprehensive Hist. Woollen Manuf. II. 355 They [horns] protrude nearly at right angles from the head, and then become twisted in a singular way. 1854 R. I. Murchison Siluria v. 93 Highly twisted micaceous schists. a1861 T. Woolner Her Garden in My Beautiful Lady iv The mad gale had..fiercely blown The stalks [of the lilies] in twisted heaps. 1876 J. D. Hooker Bot. Primer 68 Twisted, when each overlaps by one margin the contiguous margin of that next to it. 1894 H. Nisbet Bush Girl's Romance 240 Worrogonga handed to her a small twisted note. < as lemmas |
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