What does distort mean?
Definitions for distort
dɪˈstɔrtdis·tort
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Princeton's WordNet
falsify, distort, garble, warpverb
make false by mutilation or addition; as of a message or story
twist, twine, distortverb
form into a spiral shape
"The cord is all twisted"
contort, deform, distort, wringverb
twist and press out of shape
tinge, color, colour, distortverb
affect as in thought or feeling
"My personal feelings color my judgment in this case"; "The sadness tinged his life"
deform, distort, strainverb
alter the shape of (something) by stress
"His body was deformed by leprosy"
Wiktionary
distortverb
To bring something out of shape.
distortverb
To become misshapen.
distortverb
To give a false or misleading account of
In their articles, journalists sometimes distort the truth.
Etymology: From distortum, past participle of distorquero
Samuel Johnson's Dictionary
To DISTORTverb
Etymology: distortus, Latin.
Now mortal pangs distort his lovely form. Smith.
Wrath and malice, envy and revenge, do darken and distort the understandings of men. John Tillotson.
Something must be distorted, beside the intent of the divine inditer. Henry Peacham, on Poetry.
Wikipedia
distort
In signal processing, distortion is the alteration of the original shape (or other characteristic) of a signal. In communications and electronics it means the alteration of the waveform of an information-bearing signal, such as an audio signal representing sound or a video signal representing images, in an electronic device or communication channel. Distortion is usually unwanted, and so engineers strive to eliminate or minimize it. In some situations, however, distortion may be desirable. For example, in noise reduction systems like the Dolby system, an audio signal is deliberately distorted in ways that emphasize aspects of the signal that are subject to electrical noise, then it is symmetrically "undistorted" after passing through a noisy communication channel, reducing the noise in the received signal. Distortion is also used as a musical effect, particularly with electric guitars. The addition of noise or other outside signals (hum, interference) is not considered distortion, though the effects of quantization distortion are sometimes included in noise. Quality measures that reflect both noise and distortion include the signal-to-noise and distortion (SINAD) ratio and total harmonic distortion plus noise (THD+N).
ChatGPT
distort
Distort refers to the act of altering or misrepresenting the truth, facts, or the way something appears or is perceived, often to suit one's own narrative or objectives. It can also refer to the act of twisting or deforming the physical shape or features of something.
Webster Dictionary
Distortadjective
distorted; misshapen
Distortverb
to twist of natural or regular shape; to twist aside physically; as, to distort the limbs, or the body
Distortverb
to force or put out of the true posture or direction; to twist aside mentally or morally
Distortverb
to wrest from the true meaning; to pervert; as, to distort passages of Scripture, or their meaning
Etymology: [L. distortus, p. p. of distorquere to twist, distort; dis- + torquere to twist. See Torsion.]
Wikidata
Distort
Distort was the second release and first remix album by Darkwave duo Collide which has been out of print for some time. However recently the album has been brought back in stock with a few more tracks and has undergone some more studio remixing and remastering for the 2006 release.
Chambers 20th Century Dictionary
Distort
dis-tort′, v.t. to turn a different way: to force out of the natural or regular shape or direction: to turn aside from the true meaning: to pervert: to misrepresent.—p.adj. Distort′ed.—n. Distor′tion, a twisting out of regular shape: crookedness: perversion.—adj. Distort′ive, causing distortion. [L. dis, asunder, torquēre, tortum, to twist.]
Numerology
Chaldean Numerology
The numerical value of distort in Chaldean Numerology is: 7
Pythagorean Numerology
The numerical value of distort in Pythagorean Numerology is: 6
Examples of distort in a Sentence
Don't worry about anything. Worrying never solved anything. All it does is distort your mind.
Get your facts first and then you can distort them as much as you wish.
Let us take things as we find them: let us not attempt to distort them into what they are not. We cannot make facts. All our wishing cannot change them. We must use them.
Feodor Mikhailovich Dostoyevsky:
Man has such a predilection for systems and abstract deductions that he is ready to distort the truth intentionally, he is ready to deny the evidence of his senses only to justify his logic.
When evangelicals tune into Fox News they know that their beliefs will be represented in a fair and balanced way for consideration, until Fox News came along, Christians could only expect the mainstream media to distort and ridicule their beliefs. Robert Jeffress is also a Fox News contributor( and a fellow Southern Baptist).
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- التشوهArabic
- изопачавам, деформирам, изкривявамBulgarian
- verzerrenGerman
- misprezenti, tordi, distordiEsperanto
- distorsionarSpanish
- vääristellä, vääristää, vääntääFinnish
- distordre, déformerFrench
- cuir as a chuma, cuir casadh i, fiar, cuir cor i, cuir as a ríocht, athchum, camIrish
- csúsztat, torzítHungarian
- memutarbalikkanIndonesian
- deformare, distorcereItalian
- 曲げる, 歪めるJapanese
- ធ្វើអោយខុសពីភាពដើម, បង្ខូចទ្រង់ទ្រាយKhmer
- whakariroMāori
- verdraaien, vervalsen, vervormenDutch
- forvrenge, fordreieNorwegian
- wypaczaćPolish
- distorcerPortuguese
- исказить, искривить, изогнуть, искажать, извратить, изгибать, искривлять, извращатьRussian
- förvrängaSwedish
- บิดเบือนThai
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