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▪ I. twinning, vbl. n.1 Obs. exc. Sc.|ˈtwɪnɪŋ|
[f. twin v.1 + -ing1.]
The action of twin v.1; parting, separation.
a1225Ancr. R. 396 Þe soule luueð þet bodi..& þet is eðcene iðe twinnunge. c1374Chaucer Troylus iv. 1303 Þe twynnynge of vs twayne Wol vs dishese and cruwellyche anoye. c1425tr. Arderne's Treat. Fistula 58 Cleuyng or twynnyng, þat is called rixis. 1591R. Bruce Serm. (Wodrow Soc.) 206 Death is a violent twinning and rugging sundrie of..the soul and the bodie.
▪ II. ˈtwinning, vbl. n.2
[f. twin v.2 + -ing1.]
The action of twin v.2
1. Production of two children or young at a birth; bearing of twins.
1573Tusser Husb. (1878) 81 Ewes yeerly by twinning rich maisters doo make. 1822–9Good Study Med. (ed. 3) V. 226 In Congruous Twinning, or ordinary twin cases, in which there is no disparity of size between the two. 1883Duncan in Brit. Med. Jrnl. I. 497 In the mare, twinning is a far rarer event than in woman and the cow.
2. Coupling, close union or combination; spec. in Cryst. the union of two crystals so as to form a twin crystal (see twin n. 3 b).
1845[see twin n. 3 b]. 1879Rutley Study Rocks x. 87 This twinning is frequently..many times repeated in the felspars. 1898Naturalist 176 A zonal structure as well as twinning—both on the pericline and albite plans.
b. The linking (of two towns or of one town with another) for the purpose of friendship and cultural exchange. Cf. twinned ppl. a. 2 c.
Occas. (as in quot. 1975) used of similar links between institutions such as schools.
1956Harrogate Advertiser 9 June 8/3 French week celebrates the town's pioneer contribution to Le Monde Bilingue in its ‘twinning’ with Luchon, the spa town in the Pyrenees. 1962Guardian 10 Mar. 16/3 The British Bi-Lingual Association..exists to promote the ‘twinning’ of towns in Britain with towns abroad. 1973New Society 8 Feb. 284/2 Twinning [of towns]—a translation of the French term jumelage—became popular after the second world war, and reached a zenith of municipal goodwill in the late 1950s. 1975Globe & Mail (Toronto) 12 Sept. 5/2 Students in Ontario and nine Caribbean countries and the Bahamas will have a chance to learn more about one another's lives through a new twinning program launched by the Ontario Ministry of Education. 1983Listener 6 Jan. 4/1 There is the twinning of cities.
3. attrib., as twinning-axis, -law, -plane, Cryst. = twin-axis, -law, -plane (see twin C.); twinning-machine, -saw, names of apparatus for cutting two combs from a single piece of material.
1875Knight Dict. Mech., Twinning-machine, a machine for cutting two combs (twins) from the single piece... Twinning-saw. 1883Science I. 331/2 The twinning plane is parallel to the ortho-pinacoid.
▪ III. ˈtwinning, ppl. a. rare.
[f. as prec. + -ing2.]
That twins (see twin v.2); in quot., joining, becoming united.
1621G. Sandys Ovid's Met. xi. (1626) 218 Her twinning legs in timber meet. |