Twined vs Tined - What's the difference?
twined | tined |
(twine)
A twist; a convolution.
* Milton
A strong thread composed of two or three smaller threads or strands twisted together, and used for various purposes, as for binding small parcels, making nets, and the like; a small cord or string.
The act of twining or winding round.
Intimate and suggestive dance gyrations.
:* The way you jerk, the way you do the twine / You're too much, baby; I'd like to make you mine [...]
To weave together.
To wind, as one thread around another, or as any flexible substance around another body.
* Shakespeare
To wind about; to embrace; to entwine.
* Alexander Pope
To mutually twist together; to become mutually involved; to intertwine.
To wind; to bend; to make turns; to meander.
* Jonathan Swift
To ascend in spiral lines about a support; to climb spirally.
(obsolete) To turn round; to revolve.
(obsolete) To change the direction of.
(obsolete) To mingle; to mix.
As a verb twined
is past tense of twine.As an adjective tined is
furnished with tines.twined
English
Verb
(head)twine
English
Alternative forms
* (l) (obsolete)Etymology 1
From (etyl) twine, twyne, twin, from (etyl) . More at (l).Noun
(wikipedia twine) (en noun)- Typhon huge, ending in snaky twine .
- 1965 Pickett, Wilson , Don't Fight It (blues song), BMI Music.
Etymology 2
From (etyl) twinen, twynen, from (etyl) *.Verb
(twin)- Let me twine / Mine arms about that body.
- Let wreaths of triumph now my temples twine .
- As rivers, though they bend and twine , / Still to the sea their course incline.
- Many plants twine .
- (Chapman)
- (Fairfax)
- (Crashaw)