Affect vs Twist - What's the difference?
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To influence or alter.
* Macaulay
* {{quote-magazine, date=2012-01
, author=Steven Sloman, volume=100, issue=1, page=74, magazine=(American Scientist)
, title= To move to emotion.
* Edmund Burke
Of an illness or condition, to infect or harm (a part of the body).
(archaic) To dispose or incline.
* Milton
(archaic) To tend to by affinity or disposition.
* Newton
(archaic) To assign; to appoint.
* Thackeray
(obsolete) To aim for, to try to obtain.
* Dryden
* 1596 , (Edmund Spenser), The Faerie Queene , VI.10:
*, I.2.4.vii:
* 1663 , (Samuel Butler), :
* Fuller
(obsolete) To show a fondness for (something); to choose.
*1603 , (John Florio), translating Michel de Montaigne, Essays , III.9:
*:Amongst humane conditions this one is very common, that we are rather pleased with strange things then with our owne; we love changes, affect alterations, and like innovations.
* Shakespeare
* Hazlitt
To make a show of; to put on a pretence of; to feign; to assume. To make a false display of.
* Congreve
* Shakespeare
(obsolete) One's mood or inclination; mental state.
(obsolete) A desire, an appetite.
(psychology) A subjective feeling experienced in response to a thought or other stimulus; mood, emotion, especially as demonstrated in external physical signs.
* 1999 , Joyce Crick, translating Sigmund Freud, The Interpretation of Dreams , Oxford 2008, p. 62:
* 2004 , Jeffrey Greenberg & Thomas A Pyszczynski, Handbook of Experimental Existential Psychology , p. 407:
A twisting force.
Anything twisted, or the act of twisting.
* 1906 , (Edith Nesbit), (The Railway Children) Chapter 8
* Addison
The form given in twisting.
* Arbuthnot
The degree of stress or strain when twisted.
A type of thread made from two filaments twisted together.
* 1596 , (Edmund Spenser), (The Faerie Queene) , IV.ii:
A sliver of lemon peel added to a cocktail, etc.
* 2005 , Theodore J. Albasini, The Progeny
A sudden bend (or short series of bends) in a road, path, etc.
* 1899 , Edith Nesbit, The Wouldbegoods
* , chapter=1
, title= A distortion to the meaning of a word or passage.
An unexpected turn in a story, tale, etc.
* {{quote-news, 1987, October 23, Caryn James, Movie Review: No Man's Land (1987), New York Times
, passage=Though set in Los Angeles, the film has a familiar, television look and feel - two handsome partners, cops, criminals, fast cars and a marginal romance. The twist in the buddy-car-chase formula is that here the good guys tend to blur into the bad.}}
* {{quote-news, year=2012, date=May 24, author=Nathan Rabin, work=The Onion AV Club
, title= A type of dance characterised by rotating one’s hips. See
* {{quote-news, 1997, April 22, Jennifer Dunning, Surviving It All, Dismissals, Tours and Balanchine, New York Times
, passage=She taught him to do the twist , having learned it herself from an Alvin Ailey dancer at Jacob's Pillow. }}
A rotation of the body when diving.
A sprain, especially to the ankle.
(obsolete) A twig.
(slang) A girl, a woman.
* 1990 , (w, Miller's Crossing), 01:08:20
(obsolete) A roll of twisted dough, baked.
A material for gun barrels, consisting of iron and steel twisted and welded together.
The spiral course of the rifling of a gun barrel or a cannon.
(obsolete, slang) A beverage made of brandy and gin.
To turn the ends of something, usually thread, rope etc., in opposite directions, often using force.
To join together by twining one part around another.
* 1900 , , (The Wonderful Wizard of Oz) Chapter 15
To contort; to writhe; to complicate; to crook spirally; to convolve.
* Alexander Pope
To wreathe; to wind; to encircle; to unite by intertexture of parts.
* Waller
* T. Burnet
(reflexive) To wind into; to insinuate.
To turn a knob etc.
To distort or change the truth or meaning of words when repeating.
* Exodus 23:8
To form a twist (in any of the above noun meanings).
To injure (a body part) by bending it in the wrong direction.
* 1913 , (George Bernard Shaw), Act V
* 1901 , (Henry Lawson), Joe Wilson's Courtship
(of a path) To wind; to follow a bendy or wavy course; to have many bends.
* , chapter=1
, title= * 1926 , , He
To cause to rotate.
* 1911 , (John Masefield), Jim Davis Chapter 8
To dance the twist (a type of dance characterised by twisting one's hips).
To coax.
* 1932 , Robert E. Howard, Dark Shanghai
(card games) In the game of blackjack (pontoon or twenty-one), to be dealt another card.
In transitive terms the difference between affect and twist
is that affect is to make a show of; to put on a pretence of; to feign; to assume. To make a false display of while twist is to coax.In obsolete terms the difference between affect and twist
is that affect is a desire, an appetite while twist is a roll of twisted dough, baked.affect
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) affecter, (etyl) affecter, and its source, the participle stem of (etyl) .Verb
(en verb)- The experience affected me deeply.
- The heat of the sunlight affected the speed of the chemical reaction.
- The climate affected their health and spirits.
The Battle Between Intuition and Deliberation, passage=Libertarian paternalism is the view that, because the way options are presented to citizens affects what they choose, society should present options in a way that “nudges” our intuitive selves to make choices that are more consistent with what our more deliberative selves would have chosen if they were in control.}}
- He was deeply affected by the tragic ending of the play.
- A consideration of the rationale of our passions seems to me very necessary for all who would affect them upon solid and pure principles.
- Hepatitis affects the liver.
- men whom they thought best affected to religion and their country's liberty
- The drops of every fluid affect a round figure.
- One of the domestics was affected to his special service.
Usage notes
Affect'' and effect are sometimes confused. ''Affect'' conveys influence over something that already exists, but ''effect indicates the manifestation of new or original ideas or entities: * “...new policies have effected major changes in government.” * “...new policies have affected major changes in government.” The former indicates that major changes were made as a result of new policies, while the latter indicates that before new policies, major changes were in place, and that the new policies had some influence over these existing changes. The verbal noun uses of affect'' are distinguished from the verbal noun uses of ''effect'' more clearly than the regular verb forms. An ''affect'' is something that acts or acted upon something else. However, an ''effect is the result of an action (by something else).Synonyms
* (influence or alter) alter, change, have an effect on, have an impact on, influence * (move to emotion) move, touch * (infect) attackDerived terms
* affectinglyEtymology 2
From (etyl) (see Etymology 1, above).Verb
(en verb)- This proud man affects imperial sway.
- From that day forth she gan to him affect , / And daily more her favour to augment […].
- A young gentlewoman in Basil was marriedto an ancient man against her will, whom she could not affect ; she was continually melancholy, and pined away for grief […].
- But when he pleased to show 't, his speech / In loftiness of sound was rich; / A Babylonish dialect, / Which learned pedants much affect .
- As for Queen Katharine, he rather respected than affected , rather honoured than loved, her.
- For he does neither affect company, nor is he fit for it, indeed.
- Do not affect the society of your inferiors in rank, nor court that of the great.
- to affect ignorance
- He managed to affect a smile despite feeling quite miserable.
- Careless she is with artful care, / Affecting to seem unaffected.
- Thou dost affect my manners.
Synonyms
* (make a false display of) fake, simulate, feignDerived terms
* affected * affectedly * affectedness * affectationEtymology 3
(etyl) affect, from (etyl) affectus,Noun
(en noun)- if we are afraid of robbers in a dream, the robbers are certainly imaginary, but the fear is real. This draws our attention to the fact that the development of affects in dreams is not amenable to the judgement we make of the rest of the dream-content [...].
- A third study demonstrated that the effects of self-affirmation on self-regulated performance were not due to positive affect .
Usage notes
Affect'' and effect can both be used as nouns or verbs, but when used as a noun the word ''affect'' is limited to the above psychology uses and the definitions for ''effect are much more common. See also the above.Derived terms
* affect display * flat affect * labile affecttwist
English
(wikipedia twist)Noun
(en noun)- Peter was always proud afterwards when he remembered that, with the Bargee's furious fingers tightening on his ear, the Bargee's crimson countenance close to his own, the Bargee's hot breath on his neck, he had the courage to speak the truth.
- "I wasn't catching fish," said Peter.
- "That's not your fault, I'll be bound," said the man, giving Peter's ear a twist'—not a hard one—but still a ' twist .
- Not the least turn or twist in the fibres of any one animal which does not render them more proper for that particular animal's way of life than any other cast or texture.
- [He] shrunk at first sight of it; he found fault with the length, the thickness, and the twist .
- the thrid / By griesly Lachesis was spun with paine, / That cruell Atropos eftsoones vndid, / With cursed knife cutting the twist in twaine [...].
- Bunny sat on the only remaining stool at the leather-padded oval bar in the Iron Lounge. It was happy hour, two drinks for the price of one. She decided on a martini with a twist , and while the bartender was preparing her drink, she scanned the faces looking at the bar.
- But here a twist in the stream brought us out from the bushes
Mr. Pratt's Patients, chapter=1 , passage=I stumbled along through the young pines and huckleberry bushes. Pretty soon I struck into a sort of path that, I cal'lated, might lead to the road I was hunting for. It twisted and turned, and, the first thing I knew, made a sudden bend around a bunch of bayberry scrub and opened out into a big clear space like a lawn.}}
Film: Reviews: Men In Black 3, passage=In the abstract, Stuhlbarg’s twinkly-eyed sidekick suggests Joe Pesci in Lethal Weapon 2 by way of late-period Robin Williams with an alien twist , but Stuhlbarg makes a character that easily could have come across as precious into a surprisingly palatable, even charming man.}}
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- (Fairfax)
- (Dane, speaking about a woman character) "I'll see where the twist flops"
Descendants
* German: (l)Verb
(en verb)- "Well, one day I went up in a balloon and the ropes got twisted , so that I couldn't come down again. It went way up above the clouds, so far that a current of air struck it and carried it many, many miles away. For a day and a night I traveled through the air, and on the morning of the second day I awoke and found the balloon floating over a strange and beautiful country."
- Twist it into a serpentine form.
- longing to twist bays with that ivy
- There are pillars of smoke twisted about wreaths of flame.
- Avarice twists itself into all human concerns.
- And you will not take a bribe, because a bribe will blind the alert, and will twist the words of the righteous.
- Oh, you are a devil. You can twist the heart in a girl as easy as some could twist her arms to hurt her. Mrs. Pearce warned me. Time and again she has wanted to leave you; and you always got round her at the last minute. And you don't care a bit for her. And you don't care a bit for me.
- Then Romany went down, then we fell together, and the chaps separated us. I got another knock-down blow in, and was beginning to enjoy the novelty of it, when Romany staggered and limped.
- ‘I’ve done,’ he said. ‘I’ve twisted my ankle.’ He’d caught his heel against a tuft of grass.
Mr. Pratt's Patients, chapter=1 , passage=I stumbled along through the young pines and huckleberry bushes. Pretty soon I struck into a sort of path that, I cal'lated, might lead to the road I was hunting for. It twisted and turned, and, the first thing I knew, made a sudden bend around a bunch of bayberry scrub and opened out into a big clear space like a lawn.}}
- My coming to New York had been a mistake; for whereas I had looked for poignant wonder and inspiration in the teeming labyrinths of ancient streets that twist endlessly from forgotten courts and squares and waterfronts to courts and squares and waterfronts equally forgotten, and in the Cyclopean modern towers and pinnacles that rise blackly Babylonian under waning moons, I had found instead only a sense of horror and oppression which threatened to master, paralyze, and annihilate me.
- The tide seized us and swept us along, and in the races where this happened there were sucking whirlpools, strong enough to twist us round.
- "On the three-thousand-dollar reward John Bain is offerin' for the return of his sister," said Ace. "Now listen--I know a certain big Chinee had her kidnapped outa her 'rickshaw out at the edge of the city one evenin'. He's been keepin' her prisoner in his house, waitin' a chance to send her up-country to some bandit friends of his'n; then they'll be in position to twist a big ransome outa John Bain, see? [...]"