The word ' torture ' comes from the French torture, originating in the Late Latin tortura and ultimately deriving the past participle of torquere meaning ' to twist '.

Another twist to the game comes from the various window-like openings below the penthouse roofs that, in some cases, offer the player a chance to win the point instantly by hitting the ball into the opening ( in other cases, these windows create a " chase ").

The word comes from Latin torquis ( or torques ), from torqueo, " to twist ", because of the twisted shape of the collar.

The film employs a twist, though, when a handsome prince comes knocking.

The uncommonness of the twist ending comes from playing with the basic whodunnit formula, where the cliché is that the detective solves the crime and expose the remaining plot secrets.

The twist comes when he arrives in an abattoir and shows detailed footage of cows being slaughtered to complete the dish.

PGmc * wenđanan comes from Proto-Indo-European *- ‘ to wind, twist ’, which also gave Umbrian preuenda ‘ turn !’ ( imperative ), Tocharian A / B wänt / wänträ ‘ covers, envelops ’, Greek ( Hesychius ) áthras ‘ wagon ’, Armenian gind ‘ ring ’, and Sanskrit vandhúra ‘ carriage framework ’.

The song begins with E ( I dominant ) chord (" He's a real ") and then involves a 5-4-3-2-1 pitch descent between the B ( V dominant ) chord (" nowhere man ") and A ( IV subdominant ) chord (" sitting in "); but the entrancing twist comes where Am ( iv minor ) replaces A in the final verse (" nowhere plans ") and the simultaneous G # note melody creates a dissonant Am / major 7.

The final twist to the mystery comes from science fiction: the theft of the bird stump itself was committed as part of an even grander design, relating to a time and a place both far removed and intimately connected with the events in 2057.

Homer comes over as a reasonable man who wants to live his last day in style, and the closing twist is easily as good as the farewells leading up to it.

The climax is an unexpected twist that comes as Much Afraid despairs of ever reaching the High Places.

The " twist " in the game comes when a space in any one of the four main game play slots becomes vacant.

The twist to the story comes when Anurag throws Anand, Sangeeta and Radhika out of his house without any share in the family assets.

The twist comes when O ' Rourke is sold to a slave trader who is very savvy and intent on taking him down south to make a profit.

In the story's final twist, the woman comes into non-consensual contact with her violating member, and makes allusions to the Ancient Mariner's Tale.

Once, then -- for how many years or how few does not matter -- my world was bound round by fences, when I was too small to reach the apple tree bough, to twist my knee over it and pull myself up.

The Santa Cruz mountains sprawl over three counties, and the roads twist through sky-tapping redwoods down whose furrowed columns ripple streams of rain, even when heat bakes the Santa Clara valley below at the left.

Earthquakes result when movements in the earth twist rocks until they break.

There was another twist on 28 July, however, when FMF Chairman Hari Punja called the lifting of the ban a fabrication.

And suppose a gladiator has been brought to the ground, when do you ever see one twist his neck away after he has been ordered to extend it for the death blow?

A properly made kilt, when buckled on the tightest holes of the straps, is not so loose that the wearer can easily twist the kilt around their body, nor so tight that it causes " scalloping " of the fabric where it is buckled.

2008 saw a new twist to Lebanese politics when the Doha Agreement set a new trend where the opposition is allowed a veto power in the Lebanese Council of Ministers and confirmed religious Confessionalism in the distribution of political power.

The tiger shark must be able to twist and turn in the water easily when hunting to support its varied diet, whereas the porbeagle shark, which hunts schooling fish such as mackerel and herring, has a large lower lobe to help it keep pace with its fast-swimming prey.

An example of when this is necessary is measuring the diameter of 3-flute endmills and twist drills.

In a twist of fate, Stalin himself was edited out of some propaganda films when Nikita Khrushchev became the leader of the Soviet Union, and the city of Tsaritsyn that had earlier been named Stalingrad was renamed Volgograd in 1961.

Line twist in spinning reels can occur from the spin of an attached lure, the action of the wire bail against the line when engaged by the crank handle, or even retrieval of line that is under load ( spinning reel users normally pump the rod up and down, then retrieve the slack line to avoid line twist and stress on internal components ).

She cannot create, but only copy, twist and change things from the real world when constructing her version of it.

The Top of the gaff rigged sail tends to twist away from the wind reducing its efficiency when close-hauled.

* 4-speed manual transmission, ( when three speeds were common ) with an unusual dashboard push / pull / twist linkage

This method does not give an easy understanding if a twist rate is relatively slow or fast when bores of different diameters are compared.

The last two methods have the advantage that they express the twist rate as a ratio and give an easy understanding if a twist rate is relatively slow or fast even when comparing bores of differing diameters.

The original value of C was 150, which yields a twist rate in inches per turn, when given the diameter D and the length L of the bullet in inches.

The story takes a fantastical twist on Joshua's miracles as well: he learns to multiply food from one of the Wise Men and learns to become invisible from another ; however, his ability to resurrect the dead figures strongly into his first meeting with Biff when both boys are six years old.

In a comic twist Oscar is mistaken for a gay man when meeting with Charles Newman ( made even more humorous by the fact that Peter is genuinely gay, with Oscar's comments leading Newman to think that Peter's the straight one ).

And the slight twist of tension which tightens around the principal character is lost in the middle of the picture when he is shelved for a dull stretch of plot.

In the Lovecraft story, body-switching also takes place, and has an added twist when a third party gets involved without the narrator's knowledge.

Star Trek: Voyager introduced another twist, when " surplus " EMHs, such sophisticated expert systems as to be almost indistinguishable from human, being effectively reduced to slavery, while other, similar systems were turned into sentient prey.

In a bizarre twist a few weeks later, the supporter's club was threatened with a lawsuit in the multi-million class by former coach Trond Sollied, who was briefly mentioned in a by-sentence of the letter as having been in charge when the bad habits of the team had begun.

He raced by within twenty feet of her, roped her around the neck, but a lioness' neck is short and thick and with a quick twist she slipped the noose off.

* Since Big Brother 2, the UK series always opens with a twist which have included the public being able to choose the final housemate out of three possibilities ( Big Brother 2 ), the public voting for a housemate to leave during the first week and then the housemates choosing between the two housemates with the least number of votes ( Big Brother 3 ), First Night Nominations ( Big Brother 4 ), Suitcase Nominations ( Big Brother 5 ), Unlucky Housemate 13 ( Big Brother 6 ), Big Brother Hood ( Big Brother 7 ), an all-female House and the first inclusion of twins as contestants ( Big Brother 8 ), the first couple to enter as housemates and set a secret task to hide their real relationship ( Big Brother 9 ), all " housemates " really being " non-housemates " who had to earn their housemate status ( Big Brother 10 ), a mole entering the House with an " Impossible Task " ( Big Brother 11 ), Jackie Stallone entering a house containing her son's ex-wife ( Celebrity Big Brother 3 ), the entrance of a non-celebrity in a celebrity edition ( Celebrity Big Brother 4 ) and Jade Goody's family announced to be visiting.

Kevin Lally of the Film Journal International commented in his review for the film that " in an ironic casting twist, the Spanish actress Penelope Cruz [...] is much more appealing as Josepha in her previous roles.

The novel deals with its theme of self-reflection also on the level of narratology in that its main topic of mindreading is presented by an omniscient narrator ; a minor ironic twist consists of the novel-within-a-novel motif with the fictitious novelist Helen Reed pondering about the old-fashioned genre of the epistolary novel while her thoughts are presented the very form of letters / emails.

If it weren't for the smart-funny twist she gives to her lines — they're the best in the film — the air on that bus would have been stifling ... she emerges as a slightly softer version of the Linda Hamilton-Sigourney Weaver heroines: capable, independent, but still irresistibly vulnerable ".

The journalists gave her the nickname la collégienne du twist.

In her most recent " death ", the " Aunt May " who died shortly after learning of Peter's secret identity, was, in a widely-derided plot twist, revealed to be a " genetically-altered actress " who impersonated her while May was held captive by villains.

The beginning of the story has a twist, in that a teacher urges the heroine to kill her evil stepmother so that she would take her place.

In France, Ya Ya Twist ( a French language cover of the Lee Dorsey rhythm and blues song " Ya Ya " and the only successful recording of a twist song by a female ) and " Chariot " ( the original version of I Will Follow Him ) became smash hits in 1962, while German and Italian versions of her English and French recordings charted as well.

Many of her poems dwell on death, often with a mischievous twist.

The Borg Queen, stranded in the Alpha Quadrant by the same twist of fate that trapped Picard on her side of the galaxy, discovers that Species 8472 has found a way into the Alpha Quadrant.

( In the humorous twist that closes the episode, it turns out the friend had accidentally slept with Aunt Esther, thinking she was her sister Elizabeth.

The Andrews identify her as their lost daughter, but have a twist to add to the tale: when Fanny was an infant, she was indeed stolen from her parents, but the thieves left behind a sickly infant Joseph in return, who was raised as their own.

She agreed, but " postpones again ", and in what Gillespie calls " a macabre twist of fate ", he was assassinated on her 40th birthday ( April 4 ).

Stephanie returned as a villain once again in October 2005, she, along with her father and, in a surprise twist, her mother fired Raw announcer Jim Ross.

In a strange twist of fate, she ended her relationship with the King in the same way in which she started: used initially as a decoy for Louis and " Madame ", Louise now became a decoy for her own successor, as Louis made her share the Marquise de Montespan's apartments at the Tuileries to prevent the legal manœuvres of the Marquis de Montespan ( who wanted to get his wife back ) and to keep the court from gossiping

" In the 1953 song " Let the Boogie Wooie Roll ," Clyde McPhatter and the Drifters sang, " When she looked at me her eyes just shined like gold, and when she did the twist she bopped me to my soul.