Twin vs String - What's the difference?
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Either of two people (or, less commonly, animals) who shared the same uterus at the same time; one who was born at the same birth as a sibling.
Either of two similar or closely related objects, entities etc.
A room in a hotel, guesthouse, etc. with two beds; a twin room.
(US) A twin size mattress or a bed designed for such a mattress.
A twin crystal.
(modifier) Forming a pair of twins.
(modifier) Forming a matched pair.
(transitive, obsolete, outside, Scotland) To separate, divide.
(intransitive, obsolete, outside, Scotland) To split, part; to go away, depart.
(usually in the passive) To join, unite; to form links between (now especially of two places in different countries).
* Tennyson
To give birth to twins.
* 1874 , Thomas Hardy, Far from the Madding Crowd
(obsolete) To be born at the same birth.
(countable) A long, thin and flexible structure made from threads twisted together.
* Prior
(uncountable) Such a structure considered as a substance.
(countable) Any similar long, thin and flexible object.
A thread or cord on which a number of objects or parts are strung or arranged in close and orderly succession; hence, a line or series of things arranged on a thread, or as if so arranged.
* Gibbon
(countable) A cohesive substance taking the form of a string.
(countable) A series of items or events.
(countable, computing) An ordered sequence of text characters stored consecutively in memory and capable of being processed as a single entity.
(music, countable) A stringed instrument.
(music, usually in plural) The stringed instruments as a section of an orchestra, especially those played by a bow, or the persons playing those instruments.
(in the plural) The conditions and limitations in a contract collecively. (compare no strings attached)
(countable, physics) the main object of study in string theory, a branch of theoretical physics
(slang) cannabis or marijuana
A miniature game of billiards, where the order of the play is determined by testing who can get a ball closest to the bottom rail by shooting it onto the end rail.
The points made in a game of billiards.
A strip, as of leather, by which the covers of a book are held together.
A fibre, as of a plant; a little fibrous root.
* Francis Bacon
A nerve or tendon of an animal body.
* Bible, Mark vii. 35
(shipbuilding) An inside range of ceiling planks, corresponding to the sheer strake on the outside and bolted to it.
(botany) The tough fibrous substance that unites the valves of the pericarp of leguminous plants.
(mining) A small, filamentous ramification of a metallic vein.
(architecture) A stringcourse.
To put (items) on a string.
To put strings on (something).
As nouns the difference between twin and string
is that twin is either of two people (or, less commonly, animals) who shared the same uterus at the same time; one who was born at the same birth as a sibling while string is a long, thin and flexible structure made from threads twisted together.As verbs the difference between twin and string
is that twin is to separate, divide while string is to put (items) on a string.twin
English
Alternative forms
* twynne (obsolete)Noun
(en noun)- the twin boys
- twin socks
Derived terms
* conjoined twin * identical twin * Siamese twin *twincestSynonyms
* twindle, twinling, doublet (in the sense of twins and triplets)See also
* twyndyllyng * (hotel room) single, double * twainVerb
(twinn)- Placetown in England is twinned with Machinville in France.
- For example, Coventry twinned with Dresden as an act of peace and reconciliation, both cities having been heavily bombed during the war.
- Still we moved / Together, twinned , as horse's ear and eye.
- “I’ve run to tell ye,” said the junior shepherd, supporting his exhausted youthful frame against the doorpost, “that you must come directly. Two more ewes have twinned — that’s what’s the matter, Shepherd Oak.”
- (Shakespeare)
See also
* sister cityExternal links
* * *string
English
Noun
- Round Ormond's knee thou tiest the mystic string .
- a violin string
- a bowstring
- a string''' of shells or beads; a '''string of sausages
- a string of islands
- The string of spittle dangling from his chin was most unattractive
- a string of successes
- no strings attached
- (Milton)
- Duckweed putteth forth a little string into the water, from the bottom.
- The string of his tongue was loosed.
- the strings of beans
- (Ure)
Synonyms
* See alsoDerived terms
* score string * second stringSynonyms
* (long, thin structure): cord, rope, line * (this structure as a substance): cord, rope, twine * (anything long and thin): * (cohesive substance in the form of a string): * (series of items or events): sequence, series * (sequence of characters in computing): * (stringed instruments): string section the strings, or the string section * (conditions): conditions, provisosDescendants
* Portuguese:Verb
- You can string these beads on to this cord to make a colorful necklace.
- It is difficult to string a tennis racket properly.