Trundle vs Twin - What's the difference?
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A low bed on wheels that can be rolled underneath another bed.
A small wheel or roller.
A motion as of something moving upon little wheels or rollers; a rolling motion.
(engineering) A lantern wheel, or one of its bars.
To wheel or roll, especially by pushing.
To (cause to) roll slowly and heavily on wheels.
Move heavily (on wheels).
To move (physically).
To move, often heavily or clumsily.
To cause to roll or revolve; to roll along.
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.
As nouns the difference between trundle and twin
is that trundle is a low bed on wheels that can be rolled underneath another bed while twin is (baseball) a player that plays for the.As a verb trundle
is to wheel or roll, especially by pushing.trundle
English
Noun
(en noun)Synonyms
* (low bed on wheels) trundle bedVerb
(trundl)- Every morning, the vendors trundle their carts out into the market.
- to trundle a bed or a gun carriage
- to trundle a hoop or a ball
Derived terms
* trundle outReferences
* "trundle." WordNet® 3.0. Princeton University. 15 Jun. 2007.Dictionary.com. * "trundle." Kernerman English Multilingual Dictionary. K Dictionaries Ltd. 15 Jun. 2007.
Dictionary.com.
Anagrams
*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)