mistwist en · NOUN
Etymology
From mis- + twist.
Meanings
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An instance of mistwisting.
Walking and driving seem to be examples of muscular movement toward a goal in which a misstep or mistwist occurs once in millions or billions of instances.
2003, Philip Julian Runkel, People as Living Things: The Psychology of Perceptual Control, page 169:The angle of a small-angle grain boundary is generally limited to within ~10-15° mistilt or mistwist, which is close to the overlapping limit of dislocation.
2014, Nobuo Tanaka, Scanning Transmission Electron Microscopy Of Nanomaterials, page 121:There is a great square box in which glass that has been spoiled is cast aside, worthless through the single mistwist of a wrist perhaps, or perhaps a flaw is started in the early stages of transformation, that is not discovered until many dollars worth of work has been done upon the little square piece of glass that first came into the factory.
1906 March, Alexander Hume Ford, “How the All-Seeing-Eye (Mechanical) is Made”, in New Age Magazine, volume 4, number 3, page 245:To Pelagius, a personally irreproachable man according to what little view of him emerges from the shadows of personal obscurity, "sin" was not a basic mistwist in the human character. It represented momentary, isolated, individual acts of willful evil.
1987, Martin E. Marty, A Short History of Christianity, page 127:Once or twice he narrowly missed: the full flavor of sleep was right there on his palate, only to vaporize in a mistwist of the neck or a voice adrift on the ward.
2015, Larry Duberstein, Postcards from Pinsk:
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
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| mistwists | Number=Plur | lexicographic |