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Tortuous vs Twisting - What's the difference?

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Tortuous is a related term of twisting.


As adjectives the difference between tortuous and twisting

is that tortuous is twisted; having many turns; convoluted while twisting is having many twists.

As a verb twisting is

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As a noun twisting is

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tortuous

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Twisted; having many turns; convoluted.
  • * 2007 October 6, “Slogging on the Home Front”, editorial in ,
    • It still takes almost half a year for the average veteran’s claim for disability benefits to be decided in a tortuous process that can involve four separate hearings.
  • * Macaulay
    • The badger made his dark and tortuous hole on the side of every hill where the copsewood grew thick.
  • (obsolete) injurious; tortious
  • (astrology) oblique; applied to the six signs of the zodiac (from Capricorn to Gemini) that ascend most rapidly and obliquely
  • * Skeat
    • Infortunate ascendent tortuous .

    Usage notes

    * This term has strongly negative connotations, perhaps transferred from the similar-sounding adjective torturous . * Not to be confused with the legal term tortious .

    twisting

    English

    Verb

    (head)

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • * {{quote-news, year=2009, date=August 23, author=Alexander Star, title=Richard Poirier: A Man of Good Reading, work=New York Times citation
    • , passage=Tracing Emerson’s famous twistings and turnings, Mr. Poirier argued that even when he seemed most complacent
  • * 1984 , Theodore R. Sizer, Horace's Compromise: The Dilemma of the American High School
    • She was oblivious of all around her, and her facial twistings and scrunchings were droll.

    Adjective

    (head)
  • Having many twists
    • The mountain road is even more twisting than the valley road.