Synonyms of the word

twirl

• n. A movement where one spins round elegantly; a pirouette.
• v. (intransitive) To perform a twirl.
• v. (transitive) To rotate rapidly.

bend

• v. (transitive) To cause (something) to change its shape into a curve, by physical force, chemical action,…
• v. (intransitive) To become curved.
• v. (transitive) To cause to change direction.
• v. (intransitive) To change direction.
• v. (intransitive) To be inclined; to direct itself.
• v. (intransitive, usually with "down") To stoop.
• v. (intransitive) To bow in prayer, or in token of submission.
• v. (transitive) To force to submit.
• v. (intransitive) To submit.
• v. (transitive) To apply to a task or purpose.
• v. (intransitive) To apply oneself to a task or purpose.
• v. (transitive) To adapt or interpret to for a purpose or beneficiary.
• v. (transitive, nautical) To tie, as in securing a line to a cleat; to shackle a chain to an anchor; make…
• v. (transitive, music) To smoothly change the pitch of a note.
• v. (intransitive, nautical) To swing the body when rowing.
• n. A curve.
• n. Any of the various knots which join the ends of two lines.
• n. (in the plural, medicine, diving, with the) A severe condition caused by excessively quick decompression,…
• n. (heraldry) One of the honourable ordinaries formed by two diagonal lines drawn from the dexter chief to…
• n. (obsolete) Turn; purpose; inclination; ends.
• n. In the leather trade, the best quality of sole leather; a butt.
• n. (mining) Hard, indurated clay; bind.
• n. (nautical, in the plural) The thickest and strongest planks in a ship's sides, more generally called wales,…
• n. (nautical, in the plural) The frames or ribs that form the ship's body from the keel to the top of the…
• n. (music) A glissando, or glide between one pitch and another.

birl

• v. (intransitive, Scotland) To spin.
• v. (transitive) To cause (a floating log) to rotate by treading on it.
• n. (music, bagpipes) A type of grace note movement that quickly switches between low-A and low-G several…
• v. Alternative form of birle.

circumvolve

• v. To revolve or move about.
• v. (transitive) To roll round; to cause to revolve; to put into a circular motion.

crease

• n. A line or mark made by folding or doubling any pliable substance; hence, a similar mark, however produced.
• n. (cricket) One of the white lines drawn on the pitch to show different areas of play; especially the popping…
• n. (lacrosse) The circle around the goal, where no offensive players can go.
• n. (ice hockey, handball) The goal crease; an area in front of each goal.
• v. (transitive) To make a crease in; to wrinkle.
• v. (transitive) To lightly bloody; to graze.
• n. Archaic form of kris.

crimp

• adj. (obsolete) Easily crumbled; friable; brittle.
• adj. (obsolete) Weak; inconsistent; contradictory.
• n. A fastener or a fastening method that secures parts by bending metal around a joint and squeezing it together,…
• n. (obsolete, Britain, dialect) A coal broker.
• n. (obsolete) One who decoys or entraps men into the military or naval service.
• n. (obsolete) A keeper of a low lodging house where sailors and emigrants are entrapped and fleeced.
• n. (usually in the plural) A hairstyle which has been crimped, or shaped so it bends back and forth in many…
• n. (obsolete) A card game.
• v. To fasten by bending metal so that it squeezes around the parts to be fastened.
• v. To pinch and hold; to seize.
• v. To style hair into a crimp.
• v. To join the edges of food products.
• n. An agent who procures seamen, soldiers, etc., especially by seducing, decoying, entrapping, or impressing…
• n. (specifically, law) One who infringes sub-section 1 of the Merchant Shipping Act of 1854, applied to a…
• v. (transitive) To impress (seamen or soldiers); to entrap, to decoy.

flexure

• n. The act of bending or flexing; flexion.
• n. A turn; a bend; a fold; a curve.
• n. (anatomy) A curve or bend in a tubular organ.
• n. (zoology) The last joint, or bend, of the wing of a bird.
• n. (astronomy) The small distortion of an astronomical instrument caused by the weight of its parts; the…

fold

• v. (transitive) To bend (any thin material, such as paper) over so that it comes in contact with itself.
• v. (transitive) To make the proper arrangement (in a thin material) by bending.
• v. (intransitive) To become folded; to form folds.
• v. (intransitive, informal) To fall over; to be crushed.
• v. (transitive) To enclose within folded arms (see also enfold).
• v. (intransitive) To give way on a point or in an argument.
• v. (intransitive, poker) To withdraw from betting.
• v. (intransitive, by extension) To withdraw or quit in general.
• v. (transitive, cooking) To stir gently, with a folding action.
• v. (intransitive, business) Of a company, to cease to trade.
• v. To double or lay together, as the arms or the hands.
• v. To cover or wrap up; to conceal.
• n. An act of folding.
• n. A bend or crease.
• n. Any correct move in origami.
• n. (newspapers) The division between the top and bottom halves of a broadsheet: headlines above the fold…
• n. (by extension, web design) The division between the part of a web page visible in a web browser window…
• n. That which is folded together, or which enfolds or envelops; embrace.
• n. A group of sheep or goats.
• n. A group of people who adhere to a common faith and habitually attend a given church.
• n. A group of people with shared ideas or goals or who live or work together.
• n. (geology) The bending or curving of one or a stack of originally flat and planar surfaces, such as sedimentary…
• n. (computing, programming) In functional programming, any of a family of higher-order functions that process…
• n. A pen or enclosure for sheep or other domestic animals.
• n. (figuratively) Home, family.
• n. (religion, Christian) A church congregation, a church, the Christian church as a whole, the flock of Christ.
• n. (obsolete) A boundary or limit.
• v. To confine sheep in a fold.
• n. (dialectal, poetic or obsolete) The Earth; earth; land, country.

kink

• v. To laugh loudly.
• v. To gasp for breath as in a severe fit of coughing.
• n. (Scotland, dialect) A convulsive fit of coughing or laughter; a sonorous indraft of breath; a whoop; a…
• n. A tight curl, twist, or bend in a length of thin material, hair etc.
• n. A difficulty or flaw that is likely to impede operation, as in a plan or system.
• n. An unreasonable notion; a crotchet; a whim; a caprice.
• n. (slang, countable and uncountable) Peculiarity or deviation in sexual behaviour or taste.
• n. (mathematics) A positive 1-soliton solution to the Sine–Gordon equation.
• v. (transitive) To form a kink or twist.
• v. (intransitive) To be formed into a kink or twist.

plication

• n. (now chiefly biology, geology) An act of folding.
• n. (now chiefly biology, geology) A fold or pleat.
• n. (medicine) A surgical procedure in which a body part is strengthened or shortened by pulling together…

revolve

• v. (intransitive) To orbit a central point.
• v. To turn on an axis.
• v. (intransitive) To recur in cycles.
• v. (transitive) To ponder on, to reflect repeatedly upon, to consider all aspects of.

rotate

• v. (intransitive) To spin, turn, or revolve.
• v. (intransitive) To advance through a sequence; to take turns.
• v. (intransitive, of aircraft) To lift the nose, just prior to takeoff.
• v. (transitive) To spin, turn, or revolve something.
• v. (transitive) To advance something through a sequence.
• v. (transitive) To replace older materials or to place older materials in front of newer ones so that older…
• v. (transitive) To grow or plant (crops) in a certain order.
• adj. Having the parts spreading out like a wheel; wheel-shaped.

rotation

• n. (chiefly uncountable) The act of turning around a centre or an axis.
• n. A single complete cycle around a centre or an axis.
• n. A regular variation in a sequence.
• n. (mathematics, geometry) An operation on a metric space that is a continuous isometry and fixes at least…
• n. (baseball) The set of starting of a team.
• n. (aviation) The step during takeoff when the pilot commands the vehicle to lift the nose wheel off the…
• n. Repeated play on a radio station, etc.

spin

• v. (ergative) To rotate, revolve, gyrate (usually quickly); to partially or completely rotate to face another…
• v. (transitive) To make yarn by twisting and winding fibers together.
• v. To present, describe, or interpret, or to introduce a bias or slant, so as to give something a favorable…
• v. (cricket, of a bowler) To make the ball move sideways when it bounces on the pitch.
• v. (cricket, of a ball) To move sideways when bouncing.
• v. (cooking) To form into thin strips or ribbons, as with sugar.
• v. To form (a web, a cocoon, silk, etc.) from threads produced by the extrusion of a viscid, transparent…
• v. To shape, as malleable sheet metal, into a hollow form, by bending or buckling it by pressing against…
• v. To move swiftly.
• v. To stream or issue in a thread or a small current or jet.
• v. To twist (hay) into ropes for convenient carriage on an expedition.
• v. (computing, programming, intransitive) To wait in a loop until some condition becomes true.
• v. (transitive, informal) To play (vinyl records, etc.) as a disc jockey.
• n. Circular motion.
• n. (physics) A quantum angular momentum associated with subatomic particles, which also creates a magnetic…
• n. A favourable comment or interpretation intended to bias opinion on an otherwise unpleasant situation.
• n. (sports) Rotation of the ball as it flies through the air; sideways movement of the ball as it bounces.
• n. A condition of flight where a stalled aircraft is simultaneously pitching, yawing and rolling in a spinning…
• n. A brief trip by vehicle, especially one made for pleasure.
• n. A bundle of spun material; a mass of strands and filaments.
• n. A single play of a record by a radio station.
• n. (dated) Unmarried woman, spinster.

swirl

• v. (transitive, intransitive) To twist or whirl, as an eddy.
• v. To be arranged in a twist, spiral or whorl.
• v. (figuratively) to circulate.
• n. A whirling eddy.
• n. A twist or coil of something.

twiddle

• v. (transitive) To wiggle, fidget or play with; to move around.
• v. (transitive, computing) To flip or switch two adjacent bits.
• v. (transitive, mathematics) To be in an equivalence relation with.
• v. (intransitive) To play with anything; hence, to be busy about trifles.
• n. A slight twist with the fingers.
• n. (Britain, dialect) A pimple.

twist

• n. A twisting force.
• n. Anything twisted, or the act of twisting.
• n. The form given in twisting.
• n. The degree of stress or strain when twisted.
• n. A type of thread made from two filaments twisted together.
• n. A sliver of lemon peel added to a cocktail, etc.
• n. A sudden bend (or short series of bends) in a road, path, etc.
• n. A distortion to the meaning of a word or passage.
• n. An unexpected turn in a story, tale, etc.
• n. A type of dance characterised by rotating one’s hips. See.
• n. A rotation of the body when diving.
• n. A sprain, especially to the ankle.
• n. (obsolete) A twig.
• n. (slang) A girl, a woman.
• n. (obsolete) A roll of twisted dough, baked.
• n. A material for gun barrels, consisting of iron and steel twisted and welded together.
• n. The spiral course of the rifling of a gun barrel or a cannon.
• n. (obsolete, slang) A beverage made of brandy and gin.
• n. A strong individual tendency or bent; inclination.
• v. To turn the ends of something, usually thread, rope etc., in opposite directions, often using force.
• v. To join together by twining one part around another.
• v. To contort; to writhe; to complicate; to crook spirally; to convolve.
• v. To wreathe; to wind; to encircle; to unite by intertexture of parts.
• v. (reflexive) To wind into; to insinuate.
• v. To turn a knob etc.
• v. To distort or change the truth or meaning of words when repeating.
• v. To form a twist (in any of the above noun meanings).
• v. To injure (a body part) by bending it in the wrong direction.
• v. (intransitive, of a path) To wind; to follow a bendy or wavy course; to have many bends.
• v. (transitive) To cause to rotate.
• v. (intransitive) To dance the twist (a type of dance characterised by twisting one's hips).
• v. (transitive) To coax.
• v. (card games) In the game of blackjack (pontoon or twenty-one), to be dealt another card.

twisting

• v. present participle of twist.
• n. gerund of twist.
• adj. Having many twists.

whirl

• v. (intransitive) To rotate, revolve, spin or turn rapidly.
• v. (intransitive) To have a sensation of spinning or reeling.
• v. (transitive) To make something or someone whirl.
• v. (transitive) To remove or carry quickly with, or as with, a revolving motion; to snatch.
• n. An act of whirling.
• n. Something that whirls.
• n. A confused tumult.
• n. A rapid series of events.
• n. Dizziness or giddiness.
• n. (usually following “give”) A brief experiment or trial.