device gimmick twist | any clever maneuver, he would stoop to any device to win a point, it was a great sales gimmick, a cheap promotions gimmick for greedy businessmen |
spin twirl twist twisting whirl | the act of rotating rapidly, he gave the crank a spin, it broke off after much twisting |
twist turn | turning or twisting around (in place), with a quick twist of his head he surveyed the room |
wind winding twist | the act of winding or twisting, he put the key in the old clock and gave it a good wind |
twist | social dancing in which couples vigorously twist their hips and arms in time to the music, was popular in the s, they liked to dance the twist |
high-angle fire | fire from a cannon that is fired at an elevation greater than that for the maximum range |
angle bracket angle iron | an L-shaped metal bracket |
high-angle gun | a cannon that can be fired at a high elevation for relatively short ranges |
twist bit twist drill | a bit or drill having deep helical grooves |
wide-angle lens fisheye lens | a camera lens having a wider than normal angle of view (and usually a short focal length), produces an image that is foreshortened in the center and increasingly distorted in the periphery |
camera angle | the point of view of a camera |
braid plait tress twist | a hairdo formed by braiding or twisting the hair |
slant angle | a biased way of looking at or presenting something |
bracket angle bracket | either of two punctuation marks (`<' or `>') used in computer programming and sometimes used to enclose textual material |
construction twist | an interpretation of a text or action, they put an unsympathetic construction on his conduct |
twist wrench | a jerky pulling movement |
turn turn of events twist | an unforeseen development, events suddenly took an awkward turn |
eddy twist | a miniature whirlpool or whirlwind resulting when the current of a fluid doubles back on itself |
hour angle | the angular distance along the celestial equator from the observer's meridian to the hour circle of a given celestial body |
Angle | a member of a Germanic people who conquered England and merged with the Saxons and Jutes to become Anglo-Saxons |
wayfaring tree twist wood twistwood Viburnum lantana | vigorous deciduous European treelike shrub common along waysides, red berries turn black |
straight angle | an angle ofdegrees |
bend crook twist turn | a circular segment of a curve, a bend in the road, a crook in the path |
helix angle | the constant angle at which a helix cuts the elements of a cylinder or cone |
kink twist twirl | a sharp bend in a line produced when a line having a loop is pulled tight |
angle | the space between two lines or planes that intersect, the inclination of one line to another, measured in degrees or radians |
hour angle HA | (astronomy) the angular distance of a celestial point measured westward along the celestial equator from the zenith crossing, the right ascension for an observer at a particular location and time of day |
plane angle | an angle formed by two straight lines (in the same plane) |
spherical angle | an angle formed at the intersection of the arcs of two great circles |
solid angle | an angle formed by three or more planes intersecting at a common point (the vertex) |
inclination angle of inclination | (geometry) the angle formed by the x-axis and a given line (measured counterclockwise from the positive half of the x-axis) |
reentrant angle reentering angle | an interior angle of a polygon that is greater thandegrees |
salient angle | an angle pointing outward, an interior angle of a polygon that is less thandegrees |
interior angle internal angle | the angle inside two adjacent sides of a polygon |
exterior angle external angle | the supplement of an interior angle of a polygon |
angle of incidence incidence angle | the angle that a line makes with a line perpendicular to the surface at the point of incidence |
angle of attack | the acute angle between the direction of the undisturbed relative wind and the chord of an airfoil |
critical angle | the smallest angle of incidence for which light is totally reflected |
angle of reflection | the angle between a reflected ray and a line perpendicular to the reflecting surface at the point of incidence |
angle of refraction | the angle between a refracted ray and a line perpendicular to the surface between the two media at the point of refraction |
angle of extinction extinction angle | the angle from its axis that a crystal must be rotated before appearing maximally dark when viewed in polarized light |
acute angle | an angle less thandegrees but more than degrees |
obtuse angle | an angle betweenanddegrees |
right angle | thedegree angle between two perpendicular lines |
oblique angle | an angle that is not a right angle or a multiple of a right angle |
reflex angle | an angle greater thandegrees (but less than ) |
perigon round angle | an angle ofdegrees |
cutting angle | the angle between the face of a cutting tool and the surface of the work |
dip angle of dip magnetic dip magnetic inclination inclination | (physics) the angle that a magnetic needle makes with the plane of the horizon |
polyhedral angle | the space enclosed by three or more planes that intersect in a vertex |