- Look up
contort or
contortion in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.
Contortion is an act of
twisting and deforming.
Contortion may also
refer to: Contortion...
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Contorts (arguably) is a portmanteau, or a
combination of "contracts" and "torts"
originated by
Grant Gilmore in his book The
Death of Contract. The generally...
- In
organic chemistry,
contorted aromatics, or more
precisely contorted polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons, are
polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) in...
- "Quintuplets 2000" (also
known as "
Contorting Quintuplets 2000" in some
syndicated markets and "Quintuplets" on the
South Park
Studios website) is the...
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About 25
million years ago, a
shift in
plate tectonic movements began to
contort and
crumple the region. This is now most
evident in the
Southern Alps,...
- marble, calcite, obsidian, and opal, and
misleadingly to
materials with
contorted banding, such as "cave onyx" and "Mexican onyx". Onyx
comes through Latin...
- however, he
neglects to have it cured, and dies
suddenly as his
bones contort horrifically. Not to be
confused with osteitis.
Bonerplasia Sa****ay Night...
- Duméril & Bibron, 1853
Ancistrodon contortrix — Baird, 1854
Agkistrodon contorting Abbott, 1869 (ex errore)
Ancistrodon atrofuscus — Cope, 1875 Agkistrodon...
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painting "The
Wrath of Achilles"
depicts the Gr**** hero in a rage, his face
contorted in
anger as he
prepares to slay a
Trojan prisoner.
William Hogarth: English...
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visit the
island (which they
believed to be an
archipelago due to its
contorted shape) were the
Portuguese sailors Simão de
Abreu in 1523, and
Gomes de...
