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tangle
verb. knot, complicate
  • catch
  • coil
  • confuse
  • derange
  • discompose
  • disorganize
  • drag into
  • embroil
  • enmesh
  • ensnare
  • entangle
  • entrap
  • foul up
  • hamper
  • implicate
  • interlace
  • interlock
  • intertwist
  • interweave
  • involve
  • jam
  • kink
  • make a party to
  • mat
  • mesh
  • mess up
  • mix up
  • muck up
  • obstruct
  • perplex
  • ravel
  • snarl
  • tie up
  • trap
  • twist
  • unbalance
  • upset

twist
noun. sudden development; oddity
  • aberration
  • bent
  • change
  • characteristic
  • confusion
  • crotchet
  • eccentricity
  • entanglement
  • foible
  • idiosyncrasy
  • kink
  • knot
  • mess
  • mix-up
  • peculiarity
  • proclivity
  • quirk
  • revelation
  • screw-up
  • slant
  • snarl
  • surprise
  • tangle
  • trait
  • turn
  • variation

ripple mark
noun. series of tiny ridges
  • corrugation
  • kink
  • rugosity

quirkiness
noun. eccentricity
  • aberration
  • abnormality
  • anomaly
  • caprice
  • capriciousness
  • foible
  • freakishness
  • hereticism
  • idiocrasy
  • idiosyncrasy
  • irregularity
  • kink
  • nonconformity
  • oddity
  • oddness
  • outlandishness
  • peculiarity
  • queerness
  • quirk
  • singularity
  • strangeness
  • unconventionality
  • unorthodoxness
  • waywardness
  • weirdness
  • whimsicality
  • whimsicalness

singularity
noun. eccentricity
  • aberration
  • abnormality
  • anomaly
  • caprice
  • capriciousness
  • foible
  • freakishness
  • hereticism
  • idiocrasy
  • idiosyncrasy
  • irregularity
  • kink
  • nonconformity
  • oddity
  • oddness
  • outlandishness
  • peculiarity
  • queerness
  • quirk
  • quirkiness
  • strangeness
  • unconventionality
  • unorthodoxness
  • waywardness
  • weirdness
  • whimsicality
  • whimsicalness
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Word Origin & History

kink 1670s, a nautical term, from Du. kink "twist in a rope" (also found in French and Swedish), probably related to O.N. kika "to bend at the knee" (see kick). Figurative sense of "odd notion, mental twist" first recorded in Amer.Eng., 1803, in writings of Thomas Jefferson.

Example Sentences for kink

In this way the tube will not kink or lose its shape while being wound.

She looked at Miss Avery intently, trying to understand the kink in her brain.

There was a kink in my leader about one inch above the hook.

Nothing but the sword of old Xiphius gladius could have made that kink!

He kissed his fingers, and waved them in the direction of Kink's Hotel.

Left to itself, the gang can be trusted not to develop that kink.

His face was olive-coloured, his hair had the suspicion of a kink.

Too, I think her eyes will kink when she finds she has got a dozen eggs and two.

It had fasten'd on a kink in the rope, not far from the end.

John Endlich, straightened, shaking a kink out of his tired back.

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