Distortion - English meaning

verb

Shape or force (something straight) into a curve or angle.

Usage examples:

The wire has to be bent back tightly

noun

A curve in a road, river, path, or racing circuit.

Usage examples:

The van screeched round a bend

noun

An ordinary in the form of a broad diagonal stripe from top left (dexter chief) to bottom right (sinister base) of a shield or part of one.

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A narrow bend, either dexter or sinister, lying across the other charges on a shield

noun

Inclination or prejudice for or against one person or group, especially in a way considered to be unfair.

Usage examples:

There was evidence of bias against foreign applicants

verb

Cause to feel or show inclination or prejudice for or against someone or something.

Usage examples:

All too often, our recruitment processes are biased towards younger candidates

noun

An unfair personal opinion that influences your judgment

Usage examples:

[ u ] they vowed to fight racial bias in the school., [ c usually sing ] does news coverage reflect…

noun

A flat, typically rectangular frame with a hinged pin, used for joining the ends of a belt or strap.

Usage examples:

Most rucksacks have quick release buckles

verb

Fasten with a buckle.

Usage examples:

He buckled his belt

noun

A fastener for a belt

Usage examples:

A silver buckle, [ t ] please buckle your seat belts., [ i ] after eight hours of hiking, our knees…

noun

The process of changing the colour of something by painting, dyeing, or shading it.

Usage examples:

The salon concentrates purely on colouring

verb

Change the colour of (something) by painting, dyeing, or shading it.

Usage examples:

He coloured her hair with a selection of blonde and brown shades

noun

The combined effect of a person's hair, skin, and eye colour

Usage examples:

Their colouring is so totally different that you would never think they were sisters., it says on t…

noun

A twisted or bent condition, state, or form.

Usage examples:

Their facial contortions are hilarious

noun

The action of twisting or bending violently and unnaturally into a different shape or form, or the shape or form into which something is twisted or bent

Usage examples:

Facial/bodily contortions, the app allows you to stretch pictures of your face into weird contortio…

noun

A strange and unnatural way of thinking about or saying something, or the result of this

Usage examples:

He called on the government to end its linguistic contortions and say clearly that the proposed pri…

noun

The fact of being dishonest or criminal

Usage examples:

People feel uneasy about the crookedness of the political system., the crookedness of his teeth

noun

The fact that something is not straight or regular in shape

Usage examples:

The crookedness of his teeth

noun

The fact of being curved or the degree to which something is curved.

Usage examples:

Spinal curvature

noun

The state of being curved or bent, or the way in which something curves

Usage examples:

The curvature of the earth

noun

The state of being curved or bent

Usage examples:

The curvature of the earth's surface, a pronounced curvature of the spine

noun

A line or outline which gradually deviates from being straight for some or all of its length.

Usage examples:

The parapet wall sweeps down in a bold curve

verb

Form or cause to form a curve.

Usage examples:

Her mouth curved in a smile

verb

To form or move in the direction of a line that turns continuously and has no straight parts, or to cause something to do this

Usage examples:

[ i ] the road curves around the cemetery., a curve in a road

noun

The action or process of deforming or distorting.

Usage examples:

Solid rock undergoing slow deformation

noun

The action of spoiling the usual and true shape of something, or a change in its usual and true shape

Usage examples:

The deformation of the bones was caused by poor diet., she had an accident which caused a slight de…

noun

A deformed part, especially of the body; a malformation.

Usage examples:

Deformities of the hands or feet

noun

A part of the body that has not developed in the usual way or with the normal shape

Usage examples:

[ c ] she was born with a deformity of the spine.

noun

The situation in which a part of the body has not developed in the normal way or with the normal shape

noun

The action of changing the content or appearance of a document or picture in order to deceive; falsification.

Usage examples:

The doctoring was discovered after the newspaper noticed that several civilians appeared twice in t…

verb

Change the content or appearance of (a document or picture) in order to deceive; falsify.

Usage examples:

The reports could have been doctored

verb

Present participle of doctor

Usage examples:

He was found to have provided the court with doctored evidence., bottles of lemonade doctored with …

noun

The action of falsifying information or a theory.

Usage examples:

An investigation into fraud and the falsification of records

noun

The action of changing something, such as a document, in order to deceive people

Usage examples:

Falsification of evidence, the couple was charged with falsification of documents.

verb

Reproduce (a message, sound, or transmission) in a confused and distorted way.

Usage examples:

The connection was awful and kept garbling his voice

noun

A garbled account or transmission.

Usage examples:

Most readers assumed the word was a typographical garble

verb

To make words or messages unclear and difficult to understand

Usage examples:

It's bad when phones garble conversations.

noun

A rough, knotty protuberance, especially on a tree.

Usage examples:

A blackthorn topped with a two-humped gnarl

noun

A rough or twisted lump on a tree or piece of wood

Usage examples:

The boy stared at the notches and gnarls in the trunk of the oak.

noun

Lack of proportion or relation between corresponding things.

Usage examples:

Tension is generated by the imbalance of power

noun

A condition in which two or more things are not equally or fairly divided or spread

Usage examples:

A trade imbalance

noun

A situation in which two or more things are not equal in size, power, importance, etc. or in which one group has more advantages than the other

Usage examples:

Imbalance of/in sth the growing gender imbalance in computer science and it fields has many experts…

noun

A fastening made by looping a piece of string, rope, or something similar on itself and tightening it.

Usage examples:

Tie a knot at the end of the cord

verb

Fasten with a knot.

Usage examples:

The scarves were knotted loosely around their throats

noun

A small, relatively short-billed sandpiper, with a reddish-brown or blackish breast in the breeding season.

Usage examples:

You can see red knots, dunlins, and sandpipers as they rest and forage for food on the beaches, usi…

noun

An abnormally formed part of the body.

Usage examples:

The drug may cause malformations in the developing embryo

noun

The condition of being wrongly formed, or a part of something, such as part of the body, that is wrongly formed

Usage examples:

Exposure to radiation can lead to malformation of the embryo., she was born critically ill with a s…

noun

The action of manipulating something in a skilful manner.

Usage examples:

The format allows fast picture manipulation

noun

The action of influencing or controlling someone or something to your advantage, often without anyone knowing it

Usage examples:

[ u ] they have been accused of illegal manipulation of the stock market., [ u ] often a dislocated…

noun

The control of someone or something in order to get an advantage, often unfairly or dishonestly

Usage examples:

He believed that regulators should try to eliminate fraud and market manipulation., federal authori…

verb

Give a false or inaccurate account of (something).

Usage examples:

The press exaggerated and misreported the response to the film

noun

A false or incorrect report.

Usage examples:

I am also curious as to whether those reports did in fact report movement of the ship, or whether i…

verb

Present participle of misreport

Usage examples:

The magazine misreported its sales figures in order to boost advertising revenue.

noun

The action or offence of giving a false or misleading account of the nature of something.

Usage examples:

She is seeking damages on allegations of misrepresentation

noun

The act of giving false information about something or someone, often in order to get an advantage

Usage examples:

The statement is a clear and deliberate misrepresentation of the facts., tobacco companies were cha…

noun

The act of stating something that is false or not accurate

Usage examples:

She corrected a few misstatements she made in her testimony., a deliberate misstatement of the facts

noun

Distortion or corruption of the original course, meaning, or state of something.

Usage examples:

The thing which most disturbed him was the perversion of language and truth

noun

Sexual behavior that is considered unnatural and morally wrong

Usage examples:

[ c ] what we’re being shown here is not normal family life, it’s a perversion of that.

noun

Preconceived opinion that is not based on reason or actual experience.

Usage examples:

Prejudice against people from different backgrounds

verb

Give rise to prejudice in (someone); make biased.

Usage examples:

The statement might prejudice the jury

noun

An unfair and unreasonable opinion or feeling formed without enough thought or knowledge

Usage examples:

[ u ] racial prejudice, [ c ] the experience merely confirmed all his prejudices about living in th…

adjective

Neither parallel nor at right angles to a specified or implied line; askew; crooked.

Usage examples:

His hat looked slightly skew

noun

An oblique angle; a slant.

Usage examples:

The most important effect of the skew in angle is the raised plateau of entrance court created in t…

verb

Suddenly change direction or position.

Usage examples:

The car had skewed across the track

verb

Slope or lean in a particular direction; diverge or cause to diverge from the vertical or horizontal.

Usage examples:

A ploughed field slanted up to the skyline

noun

A sloping position.

Usage examples:

The hedge grew at a slant

adjective

Sloping.

Usage examples:

Slant pockets

verb

Turn or cause to turn or whirl round quickly.

Usage examples:

The girl spun round in alarm

noun

A rapid turning or whirling motion.

Usage examples:

He concluded the dance with a double spin

verb

Revolve quickly and repeatedly around one's own axis

verb

Interfere with (something) in order to cause damage or make unauthorized alterations.

Usage examples:

Someone tampered with the brakes of my car

noun

A machine or tool for tamping down earth or ballast.

Usage examples:

Its hydraulic pto can manage breakers, tampers, drills, and saws.

noun

The illegal act of touching or making changes to something when you should not

Usage examples:

Medications are sent in sealed factory containers which protect against tampering., tampering with …

verb

Attempt to repair or improve something in a casual or desultory way.

Usage examples:

He spent hours tinkering with the car

noun

(especially in former times) a person who makes a living by travelling from place to place mending pans and other metal utensils.

Usage examples:

The tinkers live by mending pots and pans, telling fortunes and selling horses and ponies at the va…

noun

A mischievous child.

Usage examples:

Little tinkers, we were

noun

A false, absurd, or distorted representation of something.

Usage examples:

The absurdly lenient sentence is a travesty of justice

verb

Represent in a false, absurd, or distorted way.

Usage examples:

Michael has betrayed the family by travestying them in his plays

noun

Something that completely fails to do what it is intended or expected to do, and therefore seems ridiculous

Usage examples:

The police chief called the judge’s ruling a travesty of justice.

verb

Form into a bent, curling, or distorted shape.

Usage examples:

A strip of metal is twisted to form a hollow tube

noun

An act of twisting something around a stationary point.

Usage examples:

The taps needed a single twist to turn them on

verb

Cause an object to assume a curved or distorted shape

verb

Form into a bent, curling, or distorted shape.

Usage examples:

A strip of metal is twisted to form a hollow tube

noun

An act of twisting something around a stationary point.

Usage examples:

The taps needed a single twist to turn them on

noun

A thing with a spiral shape.

Usage examples:

A barley sugar twist

verb

Make or become bent or twisted out of shape, typically as a result of the effects of heat or damp.

Usage examples:

Moisture had warped the box

noun

A twist or distortion in the shape of something.

Usage examples:

The head of the racket had a curious warp

verb

(of a surface or hard material) to bend or twist so that the surface is no longer flat or straight

Usage examples:

[ t ] water poured in, ruining carpets, warping walls, destroying wiring., the novel is an appraisa…