Twinning vs Twin - What's the difference?
twinning | twin |
action of the verb to twin
giving birth to twins
the pairing of similar objects (such as towns)
(mineralogy) the formation of twin crystals
(transport) the conversion of a road into a dual carriageway
biparous
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 verbs the difference between twinning and twin
is that twinning is present participle of lang=en while twin is to separate, divide.As nouns the difference between twinning and twin
is that twinning is action of the verb to twintwin 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.As an adjective twinning
is biparous.twinning
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Verb
(head)Noun
(en noun)Derived terms
* crystal twinning * town twinningAdjective
(-)See also
* gemination * twiningtwin
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)