What's the difference between pinch and twist?

Pinch


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To press hard or squeeze between the ends of the fingers, between teeth or claws, or between the jaws of an instrument; to squeeze or compress, as between any two hard bodies.
  • (v. t.) o seize; to grip; to bite; -- said of animals.
  • (v. t.) To plait.
  • (v. t.) Figuratively: To cramp; to straiten; to oppress; to starve; to distress; as, to be pinched for money.
  • (v. t.) To move, as a railroad car, by prying the wheels with a pinch. See Pinch, n., 4.
  • (v. i.) To act with pressing force; to compress; to squeeze; as, the shoe pinches.
  • (v. i.) To take hold; to grip, as a dog does.
  • (v. i.) To spare; to be niggardly; to be covetous.
  • (n.) A close compression, as with the ends of the fingers, or with an instrument; a nip.
  • (n.) As much as may be taken between the finger and thumb; any very small quantity; as, a pinch of snuff.
  • (n.) Pian; pang.
  • (n.) A lever having a projection at one end, acting as a fulcrum, -- used chiefly to roll heavy wheels, etc. Called also pinch bar.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) produced a strong analgesic effect in the formalin test and in the tail pinch test.
  • (2) The observed clinical findings include scarring of the face and hands (83.7%), hyperpigmentation (65%), hypertrichosis (44.8%), pinched facies (40.1%), painless arthritis (70.2%), small hands (66.6%), sensory shading (60.6%), myotonia (37.9%), cogwheeling (41.9%), enlarged thyroid (34.9%), and enlarged liver (4.8%).
  • (3) Results indicate substantial postoperative improvement in tip prehension and grasp, while performance remained essentially unchanged for lateral prehension, pinch force, and power grip.
  • (4) To mimic physiological conditions, synaptosomes, which are pinched off presynaptic nerve termini, were used.
  • (5) Comparison with other pinch strength studies established that although force magnitudes may be strongly influenced by specific experimental conditions, empirical relationships among different pinch forces are fairly stable and predictable.
  • (6) Anyone still imagining that it was only the defender’s recovery from injury rather than his form that was preventing him from starting (and it’s been clear for a while that’s not the case) might have noted the coach’s instructions to Gonzalez to be ready to play a few minutes when needed, either as an extra defender or even in a pinch as an extra forward.
  • (7) He has just performed a skit now about his bicycle scheme, which included a swipe at the French (because their scheme resulted in many more cycles being pinched, apparently.)
  • (8) Other small endocytic vesicles pinch off from the surface, move deeper into the cytoplasm and fuse with the lateral plasmalemma; their protein content is emptied into the intercellular space by exocytosis.
  • (9) It is suggested that the optimal way to diagnose microsporidiosis is by light microscopical examination of duodenal pinch biopsy specimens.
  • (10) Numerous 70-mmicro diameter vesicles apparently pinch off from the Golgi systems, transport this material through the egg, and probably then fuse to form a crenate, membrane-limited yolk droplet.
  • (11) Analysis of the rate of functional recovery as measured by total active motion, gross grip strength, and pinch grip strength showed no significant difference between the two groups.
  • (12) Which is another reason why, independent of talent, an Argentine is more likely to make a successful go of life in Madrid, Milan, Manchester or at a pinch (as with the case of the winger Carlos Marinelli) Middlesbrough.
  • (13) The term "barons" hasn't really had any meaning since the Combination Act of 1799 ; at a pinch 1825 , when the legislation to prevent the activity of unions was passed again, in the Combination of Workmen Act.
  • (14) A temporary pinching off of the spermatic cord was carried out in 100 male Wistar rats in order to evaluate the effect of a limited period of ischaemia on the testicular parenchyma.
  • (15) It involved bringing in Kyle Beckerman alongside Jermaine Jones in the base of midfield and asking Jones to pinch in when necessary and get forward when possible.
  • (16) Neurons were first classified as on-cells if they fired faster during noxious pinch or as off-cells if they fired slower.
  • (17) The pinch technique has been found to be useful in repairing cosmetic eyelid deformities.
  • (18) It is proposed that pinch-induced immobility is mediated by both dopaminergic and cholinergic systems.
  • (19) In this article the concept of utilizing a pinched inlet channel for field-flow fractionation (FFF), in which the channel thickness is reduced over a substantial inlet segment to reduce relaxation effects and avoid stopflow, is evaluated for steric FFF using one conventional channel and two pinched inlet channels.
  • (20) Pharmacological analysis of the involvement of the brain catecholamines in tail-pinch behavior suggests that it is critically dependent on the nigrostriatal dopamine system.

Twist


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To contort; to writhe; to complicate; to crook spirally; to convolve.
  • (v. t.) Hence, to turn from the true form or meaning; to pervert; as, to twist a passage cited from an author.
  • (v. t.) 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.
  • (v. t.) To wreathe; to wind; to encircle; to unite by intertexture of parts.
  • (v. t.) To wind into; to insinuate; -- used reflexively; as, avarice twists itself into all human concerns.
  • (v. t.) 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.
  • (v. t.) Hence, to form as if by winding one part around another; to wreathe; to make up.
  • (v. t.) To form into a thread from many fine filaments; as, to twist wool or cotton.
  • (v. i.) To be contorted; to writhe; to be distorted by torsion; to be united by winding round each other; to be or become twisted; as, some strands will twist more easily than others.
  • (v. i.) To follow a helical or spiral course; to be in the form of a helix.
  • (n.) The act of twisting; a contortion; a flexure; a convolution; a bending.
  • (n.) The form given in twisting.
  • (n.) That which is formed by twisting, convoluting, or uniting parts.
  • (n.) A cord, thread, or anything flexible, formed by winding strands or separate things round each other.
  • (n.) A kind of closely twisted, strong sewing silk, used by tailors, saddlers, and the like.
  • (n.) A kind of cotton yarn, of several varieties.
  • (n.) A roll of twisted dough, baked.
  • (n.) A little twisted roll of tobacco.
  • (n.) One of the threads of a warp, -- usually more tightly twisted than the filling.
  • (n.) A material for gun barrels, consisting of iron and steel twisted and welded together; as, Damascus twist.
  • (n.) The spiral course of the rifling of a gun barrel or a cannon.
  • (n.) A beverage made of brandy and gin.
  • (v. t.) A twig.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Aberrant forms (elongated and twisted) in the vacuole and double virions in the plasma membrane were observed as early as 65 h after infection.
  • (2) Electron microscopy shows that at neutral pH, CEA particles consist of homogeneous, morphologically distinctive, twisted rod-shaped particles, about 9 X 40 nm.
  • (3) Rapid swelling of the knee following a blow or twisting injury is considered a significant injury.
  • (4) Intermolecular contacts occur in both oligomers in the minor groove: in the B form through twisted guanine-guanine hydrogen bonding, and in the Z form through base-base stacking and the water network.
  • (5) Ings twisted the knee during his first training session with Klopp in charge and tests have shown the former Burnley forward ruptured an anterior cruciate ligament, meaning that a player who has just broken into England’s senior team will be out for a minimum of six months.
  • (6) Leicester looked a little sorry for themselves and, with their concentration down, United twisted the knife.
  • (7) Gowher Rizvi, chief representative of the prime minister, Sheik Hasina, told the Guardian that preparations for the forthcoming elections, were "completely on track" and that the tribunal, probing crimes committed during the 1971 war in which Bangladesh broke away from Pakistan, was about bringing justice previously denied by "the twists and turns" of the country's history.
  • (8) The base orientations are characterized by a substantial inclination and propellor twist.
  • (9) Among the non-standard postures examined were: twisting while lifting or lowering, lifting and lowering from lying, sitting, kneeling, and squatting positions, and carrying loads under conditions of constricted ceiling heights.
  • (10) A vicious feud playing out within Uzbekistan's ruling family took a new twist on Monday , when prosecutors announced that the clan's most flamboyant member faces charges of involvement in mafia-style corruption.
  • (11) The possible arrangements of molecules within the twisted ribbons have been deduced and are found to be fairly closely related.
  • (12) Idiopathic torsion dystonia (ITD) is characterized by sustained, involuntary muscle contractions, frequently causing twisting and repetitive movements or abnormal postures.
  • (13) These results indicate that the polypeptide chain, driven by energetics (nonbonded and electrostatic interactions), is folded into a typical left-handed twisted four-helix bundle with an approximately 4-fold symmetric array, as observed in most four alpha-helix proteins.
  • (14) In the mutants twist and snail, which fail to differentiate the ventrally derived mesoderm, mitoses specific to the mesoderm are absent.
  • (15) Fulham were helped by United being forced into a trio of substitutions at the interval, as Rafael succumbed to a twisted ankle, Cleverly had double vision and Evans had back trouble.
  • (16) Blockage of the balloon system was possibly caused by twisting the system to reach and pass the lesion in the branch of left circumflex coronary artery.
  • (17) In the tradition of the American author Patricia Highsmith, creator of the charming psychopath Tom Ripley, Rendell used twisting plots to expose twisted minds.
  • (18) From previous genetic and biochemical studies it was hypothesized that dorsal might be responsible for the activation of the zygotic gene twist.
  • (19) Finally, the twisted nose was treated by freeing the nasal components, straightening the bone and cartilage, and replacing them in their anatomical positions.
  • (20) It doesn’t do a lot at the moment, but there’s a lot of potential for a modern twist on board games here.