TERMINE PREFERITO
Twist
DEFINIZIONE
- n. From the Middle English "twyst" "twyste" "twiste". It refers to the twist of a thread around itself, around its axis, resulting from spinning, twisting, throwing or plying. The number of turns in a given unit of length indicates the tightness of the twist.
CONCETTO PIÙ GENERALE
- wd:Q55294736 (Silk Heritage Thesaurus)
- Yarn by twist
BIBLIOGRAPHIC CITATION
- CIETA. Vocabulary of technical terms of fabrics (English, French, Italian, Spanish). Lyon: Centre International d’Etude des Textiles Anciens, 1964; Burnham, Dorothy. Warp and Weft. A Textile Terminology. Royal Ontario Museum, 1980. Simpson, John; Weiner, Edmund (eds). The Oxford English Dictionary. Oxford : Clarendon Press ; Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 1989. [www.oed.com]
IN ALTRE LINGUE
Torsion
francese
Torcitura
italiano
Torsión
spagnolo
URI
http://data.silknow.org/vocabulary/382
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