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Twilight Club The Twilight Club is an organization which was founded in the late 19th century with the intention of countering the moral decline of society by bolstering spiritual and ethical awareness. The Twilight Club was inspired by the British philosopher Herbert Spencer.
Twilight Dancers Twilight Dancers is the last installment of director Mel Chionglo and writer Ricky Lee’s trilogy about Macho Dancers. The first part was Sibak: Midnight Dancers in 1994, and the second part was Burlesk King in 1999.
Twilight Express The Twilight Express (トワイライトエクスプレス) is the longest overnight train service operating in Japan. Operated by West Japan Railway Company, East Japan Railway Company and Hokkaido Railway Company, it runs between Osaka in Kansai and the city of Sapporo on the northern island of Hokkaidō.
Twilight Festival Twilight Festival is a weekly event held every Thursday in June and September in downtown Columbia, Missouri. This festival features live music from a variety of local and non-local groups as well as an opportunity to browse through the 110 local shops or the 70 restaurants, bars, and pubs in Columbia's district.
Twilight of Honor Twilight of Honor is a 1963 film starring Richard Chamberlain, Nick Adams, Claude Rains, and featuring Joey Heatherton and Linda Evans in their film debuts. Twilight of Honor is a courtroom drama based on Al Dewlen's novel, with a screenplay by Henry Denker.
Twilight of the Dead Twilight of the Dead is the first book in a series of zombie-themed horror novels written by author Travis Adkins. Twilight of the Dead was originally published by AuthorHouse in May, 2005 and a 'special edition' was released in October, 2006 by Permuted Press.
Twilight of the Gods (album) Twilight of the Gods is the sixth album by Bathory. It continues the exploration of the newly created Viking metal style, and also displays a heavy classical influence; it is titled after an opera by Wagner, and the melody of "Hammerheart" is lifted from Gustav Holst's The Planets.
Twilight of the Gods (Bernice Summerfield) Twilight of the Gods is a novel by Mark Clapham and Jon de Burgh Miller from the Virgin New Adventures with the fictional archaeologist Bernice Summerfield as its main character. The New Adventures were based on the long-running British science fiction television series Doctor Who.
Twilight of the Gods (Doctor Who) Twilight of the Gods is an original novel written by Christopher Bulis and based on the long-running British science fiction television series Doctor Who. The novel features the Second Doctor, Jamie and Victoria.
Twilight Phenomena Twilight phenomenon is produced when unburned particles of missile or rocket propellant and water left in the vapor trail of a launch vehicle condenses, freezes and then expands in the less dense upper atmosphere. The exhaust plume, which is suspended against a dark sky is then illuminated by reflective high altitude sunlight, which produces a spectacular, colorful effect when seen at ground level.
Twilight sleep Twilight sleep is an amnesic condition characterized by insensibility to pain without loss of consciousness, induced by an injection of morphine and scopolamine, especially to relieve the pain of childbirth. Also known as a "zombie state.
Twilight Watch (Russian novel) Twilight Watch (Russian: Sumerechniy Dozor, Сумеречный Дозор) is a fantasy novel Russian writer Sergey Lukyanenko. It's the sequel to Night Watch and Day watch and the third part of tetralogy that concludes with Final Watch.
Twilight Zone literature Twilight Zone literature is an umbrella term for the many books and comic books which concern or adapt The Twilight Zone television series. The Twilight Zone was a pioneer in this area, preceding the more popular literary movements which would follow Star Trek or Star Wars and which is now a staple of all successful movies, television series and video games.
Twilight Zone: The Movie Twilight Zone: The Movie is a movie produced by Steven Spielberg as a theatrical version of The Twilight Zone, a 1950s and 60s TV series created by Rod Serling. It starred Dan Aykroyd, Albert Brooks, Vic Morrow and John Lithgow.
Twilight's Last Gleaming Twilight's Last Gleaming is a 1977 film directed by Robert Aldrich, starring Burt Lancaster and Richard Widmark. It tells the story of Lawrence Dell, a renegade USAF general, who escapes from a military prison and takes over an ICBM silo near Montana, threatening to launch the misslies and start World War III unless the President reveals the real reason why America fought in the Vietnam War.
Twilight-Sky Twilight-Sky is a roleplaying site founded on May 2, 2005 with over 1200 registered members. Originally named December-Romance, an upgrade in the forum software over January and February of 2006 saw the domain name change to its current form (a popular option in a poll created before the upgrade).
Twillingate, Newfoundland and Labrador Twillingate is a town of about 3,000 inhabitants situated on two neighbouring islands in northern Newfoundland. Its name comes from the French word "Toulinquet" which was given to the islands by French fishermen, who named them after a group of islands off the French coast, near Brest, also called Toulinquet.
Twilo Until its closing in 2001, Twilo was the most beloved and, its critics charged, most played-out nightclub to grace the streets of New York City since the seminal Studio 54. The gigantic "superclub" in the Chelsea neighborhood of Manhattan regularly attracted a crowd of thousands to its warehouse-like dancefloor.
Twin Twins in animal biology is a case of multiple birth in which the mother gives birth to two offspring from the same pregnancy, some of the same gender, others of opposite. There are estimated to be around 125 million Twins and Triplets in the world, and just 10 million Identical twins.
Twin (computing) Twin (Text WINdows) is a text-mode] windowing environment written and maintained by Massimiliano Ghilardi; it draws and manages text [[Window (computing)|windows on a text-mode display, like X11 does for graphical windows. It has a built-in window manager and terminal emulator, and can be used as server for remote clients in the same style as X11.
Twin (mythology) In virtually all the mythology of the world, the Twin represents some "other" aspect of the Self, a doppelgänger in some way. Often the twin is the "evil twin", or one may be human and one semi-divine.
Twin boom Twin-boom aircraft have their tailplanes and vertical stabilizers mounted on the tail of either two fuselages or on two booms fixed to either both sides of the single fuselage, the wings or the engine nacelles.
Twin Barrels Burning Twin Barrels Burning is the twelfth album by legendary rock band Wishbone Ash. It is one of the band's heaviest records, capitalizing on the popular New Wave of British Heavy Metal that Wishbone Ash had helped influence.
Twin carbon arc welding Unlike single carbon arc welding, in twin carbon arc welding the arc is maintained between two carbon electrodes held in a special holder. Current is switched on and by operating the mechanism of arc length adjustment the two electrodes are brought closer.
Twin caves Twin Caves is part of the Donaldson/Bronson/Twin system located in Lawrence County, Indiana, within the boundaries of Spring Mill State Park. The system stretches more than four miles and is the longest cave in Indiana.
Twin Cities Zephyr The Twin Cities Zephyr was a passenger train service of the Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad (CB&Q). It was the second "Zephyr" service introduced by CB&Q following the record-setting Denver-Chicago "dawn to dusk dash" of the Pioneer Zephyr trainset.
Twin City Ballers The Twin City Ballers are an American Basketball Association franchise scheduled to begin play in 2006 in Benton Harbor, Michigan. The Ballers will most likely play at Benton Harbor High School, however according to the Herald Palladium, an official arena hasn't been announced for the Ballers.
Twin City Rapid Transit The Twin City Rapid Transit Company (TCRT), also known as Twin City Lines (TCL), was a business that primarily operated streetcars, and buses in the area of Minneapolis-St. Paul, Minnesota, but also tested out other types of transportation including taxicabs and steamboats, along with operation of some destination sites such as amusement parks.
Twin City Sentinel The Twin-City Sentinel was the name of the afternoon newspaper published in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. The Sentinel's masthead was dropped in the mid-1980s when operations were absorbed into its sister paper, the morning Winston-Salem Journal.
Twin City Storm The Twin City Storm are a minor league football team in Normal, Illinois, originally part of the Midwest Football League, who now play as part of the Minor League Football Association. They play their home games at Hancock Stadium.
Twin Coach Twin Coach was a new company formed by the Fageol brothers when they left the Fageol Motor Company [Fageol]] in 1927. They established the company in Kent, Ohio, to manufacture and sell buses with a new concept design.
Twin Cobra is a two-player helicopter scrolling shooting game published by Taito Corporation, distributed in North America by Romstar, and one of the more popular arcade games developed by Toaplan. The game is a sequel to Tiger Heli, and it was ported to the NES, Sega Mega Drive, and PC Engine.
Twin deficit theory The twin deficits theory is the contention that there is a strong link between a current account deficit and a government budget deficit, in the sense that a large budget deficit leads to a large current account deficit. This led to a strong hope, in the investment and housing boom, which sucked in imports and increased Australia's reliance on foreign funds to pay for them, factors which outweighed the impact of the absence of federal government borrowing.
Twin Earth thought experiment The Twin Earth thought experiment was presented by philosopher Hilary Putnam in his important 1975 paper "The Meaning of 'Meaning'", as an early argument for what has subsequently come to be known as semantic externalism. Since that time, philosophers have proposed a number of variations on this particular thought experiment, which can be collectively referred to as Twin Earth thought experiments.
Twin Falls, Australia Twin Falls (or Gungkurdul) is located in the Kakadu National Park, in the Northern Territory, Australia near the eastern boundary of the park and 80km south of Jabiru. Accessible by four wheel drive trail, 60km from the Kakadu Highway and near to Jim Jim Falls.
Twin Falls, Labrador Twin Falls are waterfalls, 175 ft (53m) high, located on the Unknown River, a tributary of the Churchill River that drains the central Labrador basin and flows into Lake Melville and the Atlantic Ocean. Hydroelectric power development rights on the river were acquired by the British Newfoundland Corporation (Brinco) in the 1950s.
Twin Galaxies Twin Galaxies is an organization which tracks video game world records through a website, a Book of World Records, and a diverse program of promotions designed to crown the champions of the electronic gaming industry.
Twin Lakes Library System The Twin Lakes Library System provides the citizens of Milledgeville, Georgia with access to over 70,000 items, including books, movies, music, and periodicals. TLLS handles over 12,000 reference requests per year, and provides hundreds of fun and educational programs.
Twin Lakes Trailhead The Twin Lakes Trailhead or Wrights Lake Trailhead is located at the north end of Wrights Lake road off of HWY 50 a few miles east of Kyburz, California just to the west of Lake Tahoe. Wrights Lake road is not plowed in winter.
Twin Lakes, Adams County, Colorado This article is about an unincorporated neighborhood in the near northern suburbs of Denver. For the unincorporated village of the same name in the Rocky Mountains, please see Twin Lakes, Lake County, Colorado.
Twin Mountain and Potomac Railroad Twin Mountain and Potomac Railroad, was built in 1911 to haul fruit from Twin Mountain Orchards to Keyser. It was a narrow gage railroad and the freight was transferred to the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad at Keyser.
Twin Mountain, New Hampshire Twin Mountain is a village within the town of Carroll in the White Mountains of New Hampshire. It is named for two prominent summits which rise to the south of the village, North Twin Mountain (4,761 ft/1,451 m) and South Twin Mountain (4,902 ft/1,494 m).
Twin paradox As early as 1905 in his landmark paper on special relativity, On the Electrodynamics of Moving Bodies, Albert Einstein predicted that a clock which is moved away and brought back will lag behind stationary clocks. Einstein called that result "peculiar", but the calculation is straightforward (see section entitled "Specific Example") and the example was not presented as paradoxical, despite his suggestion in the introduction to the paper that only relative motion between objects should matter.
Twin Peaks Twin Peaks is an American serial drama created by David Lynch and Mark Frost. The show was set in the fictional town of Twin Peaks in northeast Washington state, while the filming took place in northwest Washington.
Twin Peaks in popular culture With the popularity and cult appeal of the David Lynch and Mark Frost-created ABC television drama Twin Peaks, references to the series and elements from its story have appeared in numerous parody and popular culture usage during both the series' broadcast and thereafter.
Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me is a 1992 movie directed by David Lynch and starring Sheryl Lee, Moira Kelly, Ray Wise, Chris Isaak, Kyle MacLachlan and Kiefer Sutherland, as well as an appearance from David Bowie. The movie title is sometimes given as Fire Walk With Me.
Twin Ports The Twin Ports of Duluth, Minnesota and Superior, Wisconsin are located at the western part of Lake Superior (the westernmost of North America's Great Lakes). They are twin cities and seaports, connected to the Atlantic Ocean through the Great Lakes and the St.
Twin rivers r-10 school district The Twin Rivers R-10 School District was created in 1969 through the consolidation of the Fisk-Rombauer School District, Broseley School District, and Qulin School District. The Senior Class of 1970 decided on the name of the district, it's mascot (The Royals), school colors of royal blue and white, the yearbook "The Royal Shield", and the newspaper, "The Royal Scepter".
Twin Rocks, Oregon Twin Rocks is an unincorporated community in Tillamook County, Oregon, United States, on the Oregon Coast. Oregon Geographic Names states that Twin Rocks was named for two 100-foot-high rocks offshore in the Pacific Ocean.
Twin Sisters (film) Twin Sisters is the English-language title of De Tweeling, a 2002 Dutch film, directed by Ben Sombogaart, based on the novel The Twins by Tessa de Loo, with a screenplay by Dutch actress and writer Marieke van der Pol.
Twin tail A twin tail is a specific type of vertical stabilizer arrangement found on some aircraft. Two vertical stabilizers — often smaller on their own than a single conventional tail would be — are mounted at the outside of the aircraft's horizontal stabilizer.
Twin Toboggans (Hersheypark) Two identical Chance Toboggan-style roller coasters stood where the Mini-Himalaya exists currently. Riders would enter two-person cars, which were pulled to the top of a vertical lift inside a shaft, before spiraling down around the shaft, and hitting a small drop.
Twin Towers Correctional Facility The Twin Towers Correctional Facility, also referred to in the media as Twin Towers Jail, is a complex erected in Los Angeles, California to house inmates of the Los Angeles County Courts; it is the world’s largest jail. The facility comprises a male psychiatric ward in Tower One, and a female jail in Tower Two.
Twin-arginine translocation (Tat) pathway The twin-arginine translocation, or Tat, pathway is a protein export, or secretion pathway found in plants, bacteria, and archaea. It serves to actively translocate folded proteins across a phospholipid membrane bilayer.
Twin-A Formed in 2003 by former London/Sire recording artist John Lardieri, Twin-A picks up where Lardieri left off, but with a new rhythm section and a raw exuberance that the original seemed to lack. Paul Ogunsalu (of Wax Poetic) and NYC session drummer Jorge Pertuz compliment Lardieri’s powerful and compelling voice perfectly.
Twin-lens reflex camera A twin-lens reflex camera (TLR) is a type of camera with two objective lenses of the same focal length. One of the lenses is the photographic objective (the lens that takes the picture), while the other is used for the waist-level viewfinder system.
Twin-screw type supercharger The twin-screw type supercharger is a positive displacement type device that operates by pulling air through a pair of meshing lobes not dissimilar to a set of worm gears. Twin-screw superchargers are also known as Lysholm superchargers (or compressors).
Twin-tip ski A modified version of their alpine counterpart, twin-tip skis are designed to enable a skier to take off and land backward while jumping, or to simply ski backwards down a slope. The name "twin-tip" comes from the shape of the ski.
Twin-turbo Twin-Turbo, also called bi-turbo by some, refers to a turbocharged engine, usually larger than 2500 cc, on which two turbochargers compress the intake charge. There are two different twin turbo configurations, parallel twin-turbo and sequential twin-turbo.
Twin-X The name of the group carries its meaning, two young identical twins born in Ogun state that hail from the popular ancient city of Ibadan, Oyo state and presently based in Lagos Nigeria. They started music from the church in 1991, but their current style of music was influenced by Bob Marley, Fela Kuti, Ebenezer Obey etc.
Twin/Tone Records Twin/Tone Records (also spelled TwinTone) was a record label based out of Minneapolis, Minnesota that operated from 1977 until 1994 and helped several local groups receive national attention. The Suburbs were featured as Twin/Tone's first release, The Suburbs in 1978, as well as the label's last, Viva!
Twinax cable Twinax cable is a cable specified for the IBM 5250 terminals and printers, which are used with IBM's midrange hosts, which are currently AS/400 (Application System 400) minicomputers (which are now called iSeries or i5), and also with its predecessors, such as the S/36. The data transmission is half-duplex, balanced transmission, at 1 Mbit/s, on a single shielded, 110 Ω twisted pair.
Twinbee Twinbee (ツインビー) is a video game series by Konami, which consists mainly of vertical shooters, although it has delved in other genres as well. It stars the eponymous bee-shaped robot Twinbee and its "female" counterpart Winbee.
Twinbee RPG Twinbee RPG is a video game published and developed by Konami, which features 3D graphics and made for the PlayStation. This simplistic console role-playing game, set in the complete universe of the series, is possibly the final game in the Twinbee series.
Twinemen Twinemen is a Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA band created by former members of Morphine and Face to Face. The group includes Dana Colley (saxophone / vocals), Billy Conway (percussion / vocals / sometimes acoustic guitar), and singer and guitarist Laurie Sargent (lead singer / lead guitar).
Twinfield Twinfield is an online financial accounting package designed for Small and Medium Enterprises based on the Software as a Service ideology. It is produced and maintained by Twinfield International, based in The Netherlands.
Twinflower Twinflower (sometimes written twin flower, scientific name Linnaea borealis) is a woodland subshrub, treated either in the family Caprifoliaceae, or sometimes in its own family Linnaeaceae. The stems are slender, pubescent and prostrate, growing to 20-40 cm long, with opposite evergreen rounded oval leaves 3-10 mm long and 2-7 mm broad.
Twink (gay slang) Twinkie, twinkle, or the most common abbreviation twink, is used in gay slang to describe an attractive young or young-looking gay male (usually in his twenties) with a slender build, only slightly muscular, with little or no body hair (often referred to as a "swimmer's build").
Twink (home perm) Silky Curler Twink by Elida was a popular brand of home perm kit that was available in Britain in the late 1960s and 1970s, retailing for about 37 pence. It was promoted using full-page advertisements in women's magazines, such as the leading title Woman, and became a household name.
Twinkie (slur) Some American Indians use the term "Twinkie" to refer to a European American, with little or no social or blood links to any tribe, who claims to be an American Indian. Particularly applies to those who claim to be shaman, healers, or other prominent respected positions in Indian culture.
Twinkie defense In jurisprudence, a "Twinkie defense" is a criminal defendant's claim that some unusual factor entered into the causes or motives of the alleged crime, named for the murder defense of Dan White. "Twinkie defense" is a derogatory label implying that a criminal defense is artificial or absurd.
Twinkie the Kid Twinkie the Kid is the mascot for Hostess's golden, cream-filled snack cakes and is a registered trademark of Interstate Bakeries Corporation. He has appeared on product packaging, in commercials, and as collectible related merchandise.
Twinkie-Wiener Sandwich The Twinkie-Wiener Sandwich (also known as a Twinkie Dog, or sometimes misspelled Twinkie-Weiner Sandwich) is a favorite snack of "Weird Al" Yankovic. The unorthodox snack food was first shown in Weird Al's movie UHF, in which Al makes the snack in order to cheer up his friend after Al gets them both fired.
Twinlab Twinlab Corporation is an American company that manufactures and markets vitamins, minerals, and bodybuilding supplements. It was originally founded by David and Jean Blechman in 1968 and run by them and their sons – Neil, Brian, Ross, Steve and Dean.
Twinrova and , collectively referred to as the , are a pair of fictional witches from The Legend of Zelda series. Their name is derived from "twin" and the Japanese word "rōba" (老婆), meaning "old woman".
Twins (film) Twins is a 1988 comedy film directed by Ivan Reitman about unlikely twins (played by Arnold Schwarzenegger and Danny DeVito) that were separated at birth. The core of the film is the relationship between Devito's streetwise character and Arnie's Ingenue persona.
Twins (group) Twins is a Hong Kong-based female Cantopop duo created in the summer of 2001 by Albert Yeung's Emperor Entertainment Group (EEG). Twins is made up of two young ex-models, Charlene Choi Cheuk-Yin (蔡卓妍) and Gillian Chung Yan-Tung (鍾欣桐), who by birth is originally Chung Ka-Lai.
Twins (TV series) Twins was an American situation comedy series that first aired on The WB in the United States and on CTV in Canada in September 2005. The series is produced by KoMut Entertainment (creators of the hit NBC comedy Will & Grace) in association with Warner Bros.
Twins-Athletics rivalry This Twins-Athletics rivalry began in the expansion season of 1969 when the A's and Twins were placed in the American League Western Division. The Twins ended up winning the West both times thanks to players such as 1969 MVP Harmon Killebrew, hitting machines Rod Carew and Tony Oliva as well as Cy Young Award winner Jim Perry and reliever Ron Perranoski.
Twins-White Sox rivalry The rivalry between the Minnesota Twins and Chicago White Sox is intense but relatively recent, probably coming from the 2000s. The two teams are natural rivals, having played in the same divisions since 1969 (the American League West Division from 1969-1993 and the AL Central Division since the divisional realignment in 1994).
Twinsburg Public Library The Twinsburg Public Library is located in Twinsburg, a community located northeast Summit County, Ohio, roughly halfway between Akron and Cleveland. It began as the Samuel Bissell Memorial Library in 1910 but its name was changed in 1931 to comply with new laws regarding tax funds.
Twinsen Twinsen is the name of the main character and hero in the computer/video games Little Big Adventure and Little Big Adventure 2 (also known as Relentless: Twinsen's Adventure and Twinsen's Odyssey, respectively).
Twinstick A twinstick, in Canadian broadcasting, is a term for two television stations, broadcasting in the same market, which are owned by the same company. The term derives from the use of "stick", in broadcasting industry jargon, as a term for a broadcast transmitter tower.
Twinsun Twinsun is a fictional planet featured in the PC games Little Big Adventure and Little Big Adventure 2. According to the introductory text of the first game, it is a relatively new planet on the outskirts of a remote galaxy.
TwinVQ TwinVQ (transform-domain weighted interleaved vector quantization) is an audio compression technique developed by Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation (NTT). The compression technique has been used in both standardized and proprietary designs.
Twipra Kingdom Twipra Kingdom (known as the Tripura Kingdom in the sanskritized form) was one of the largest ancient Kingdoms of the Tipra people of the Bodo-Kachari ethnicity in the North eastern part of South Asia having a chronicle of 184 Kings till the present times.
Twipra Students Federation Twipra Students Federation, was formed as the Tribal Students Federation in 1968. During the years of its existence, TSF has been the main ethno-nationalist students organization amongst the tribal students of the state.
Twirling Twirling is any of several artforms, hobbies, or sport and recreational activities accomplished by spinning or rotating the twirled object either for exercise, or in a rhythmic, or otherwise artful manner. Though the origin of twirling is impossible to ascertain, twirling enjoyed a steady growth in popularity in the twentieth century.
Twisleton-Wykeham-Fiennes Baronets The Twisleton-Wykeham-Fiennes Baronetcy, of Banbury in the County of Oxford, is a baronetcy in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom. It was created in 1916 for the Liberal politician Eustace Edward Twisleton-Wykeham-Fiennes, who had previously represented Banbury in Parliament.
Twist (dance) The Twist was a rock and roll dance popular in the early 1960s named after the song that originated it, The Twist. It was the first major international rock and roll dance style in which the couples did not have to touch each other while dancing.
Twist (ride) The Twist, also known as the Twister, Cyclone, Sizzler, Scrambler or Grasscutter is a highly successful ride made up of three arms with clusters attached which have cars attached to them. Both the main arm and the clusters rotate creating a weaving effect.
Twist compression tester The Twist Compression Tester ("TCT") is a hydraulically operated bench-top apparatus used to evaluate the level of friction and/or wear between two materials under lubricated or non-lubricated conditions.
Twist ending A "twist ending" or "surprise ending" is an unexpected conclusion or climax to a work of fiction, which may contain an irony, or cause the audience to reevaluate the rest of the story. A twist ending is the conclusive form of plot twists.
Twist ending in anime A twist ending in anime series is usually more complex than a twist ending in other genres, usually because many anime series consist of many, many twists and unexpected plot developments spread out over the course of a series, so the final twists in a series are often more complicated than twist endings in conventional mysteries (it is not terribly uncommon for the twists to be so complex that it is hard for many viewers to figure out just what was going on at times).
Twist fungus Twist fungus (Dilophospora alopecuri) is a fungus found in southern Australia, the Middle East and Europe. Recent research by scientists from Western Australia has found the fungus is capable of controlling organisms that cause ARGT.
Twist N' Shout Twist N’ Shout is a steel looping roller coaster located at Loudoun Castle Theme Park in Galston, South-West Scotland. It opened in 2003 as a part of the new rides line-up brought in by new owner, Henk Bembom.
Twist serve A Twist serve (or American Twist) is a type of serve in tennis. It is also known as a Kick/Kicker serve, but only because the term 'Kick/Kicker serve' now refers to both the Twist and Topspin serves (this often causes a confusion when referring to one or the other).
Twist tie A twist tie is a metal wire encased in a thin strip of paper or plastic used to tie the openings of bags such as garbage or grocery bags. They are often included with boxes of sandwich baggies or trash bags and come in several lengths.
Twisted Edge Snowboarding Twisted Edge Snowboarding is a snowboarding game for the Nintendo 64 released in 1998. (1999 in Europe) While it is easy to see that Twisted Edge was meant to compete with the other popular Nintendo 64 game 1080 Snowboarding, Twisted Edge didn't get much recognization mainly because it was developed by a third-party company and at the time, snowboarding games weren't very big.
Twisted horseshoe roll A twisted horseshoe roll is a roller coaster element in which there are two inversions (much like a cobra roll or batwing). It begins with a clockwise corkscrew, a 180 degree banked turn, and ends a second corkscrew, this one going counter-clockwise.

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