Twinned vs Twined - What's the difference?
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(twin)
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.
(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 verbs the difference between twinned and twined
is that twinned is (twin) while twined is (twine).twinned
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Verb
(head)Synonyms
* pairedtwin
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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.”
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See also
* sister cityExternal links
* * *twined
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Verb
(head)twine
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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 .
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