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twinadj.n.

Brit. /twɪn/, U.S. /twɪn/
Forms: Old English adj. twinn, (n. plural getwinnas, Middle English itwinnes), Middle English–1500s twynne, Middle English–1600s twinne, Middle English tuine, Scottish twene, Middle English tuynne, Middle English (1500s Scottish) twyne, Middle English (1500s Scottish) tuin, tuinne, tuyne, Middle English–1600s twyn, Middle English–1600s twine, 1500s twynn, 1600s twinn, Middle English– twin.
Etymology: Old English twinn adjective (rare), getwinn adjective and noun, < the stem of twi- comb. form. Compare Old Frisian twina , twine (North Frisian twĕne , twăne ) two together, Old Norse tvinnr , tvennr double, (plural) two, two pairs of, Norwegian tvinne , tvenne , Danish tvende two. In northern Middle English perhaps partly or mainly from Old Norse: compare thrin adj.
A. adj.
†1. Consisting of two; twofold, double. Obsolete (except as in A. 4).
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the world > relative properties > number > specific numbers > two > duality > [adjective]
twifoldc890
twinc1000
double?c1225
tway-fold1303
doublefold1382
twain1398
twin-kina1400
twinlepia1400
four-eared1514
twofold1559
bifold1590
duplar1610
binal?c1640
dual1655
binarious1656
binary system1766
dualistic1832
double-barrelled1837
twinfold1842
c1000 in A. S. Napier Old Eng. Glosses i. 1836 Gemina, .i. duppla, twinnum.
c1000 in A. S. Napier Old Eng. Glosses i. 2605–6 Geminis concentibus, twinnum sangum.
c1175 Ormulum (Burchfield transcript) l. 7737–9 Ȝho brohhte twinne lac forr..her iss twinne lufe sett Bitwenenn menn onn eorþe. Forr uss birrþ lufenn godd & mann.
a1325 (c1250) Gen. & Exod. (1968) l. 485 [Lamech sinned in] Twin-wifing ant twin-manslagt.
1357 Lay Folks Catech. 508 This is principaly done opon twyn wise.
c1400 Rule St. Benet (Prose) 5 Of twine maner at lere his discipilis..at serue god: baþe in word and dede.
†2. Two; a pair of…; the two, both. Obsolete.
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a1325 (c1250) Gen. & Exod. (1968) l. 4020 Hef[t] haueð he mad her .vij. alter, And on ilc brend eft twin der.
a1325 (c1250) Gen. & Exod. (1968) l. 3248 Ðe water up-stod..On twinne half.
a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) l. 523 His heued with in has eien tuin.
a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) l. 21750 Þe laghes tuin sal þou find sua.
a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) l. 9136 His eild was fourti yeir and tuin.
a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) l. 5235 Ioseph had þan suns tuin, Manassen and effraim.
3. (attributive use of B. 1.) Born at the same birth, as two children or animals, or one of such. See also twin brother n., twin sister n.
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the world > life > biology > biological processes > procreation or reproduction > [adjective] > relationship between those born at same time
twinling1573
twin-born1610
twina1616
twinneda1616
trins1887
society > society and the community > kinship or relationship > kinsman or relation > child > relationship to parent > [adjective] > twin
twinling1573
twin-born1610
twina1616
twinneda1616
a1616 W. Shakespeare Comedy of Errors (1623) v. i. 358 He, and I, And the twin Dromio. View more context for this quotation
a1722 E. Lisle Observ. Husbandry (1757) 313 A..twin-lamb.
1751 W. Warburton in Wks. of Alexander Pope III. 282 (note) These groves..can express themselves only like twin-ideots by nods.
1822 T. Mitchell tr. Aristophanes Wasps in tr. Aristophanes Comedies II. 191 By the twin-gods I vow.
1847 W. C. L. Martin Ox 40/2 Every twin female..is not necessarily barren, even when the other calf is a male.
4.
a. Forming a pair or couple; two closely associated, connected, or related, and (usually) alike or equal. (In quot. a1616 said of one thing cut in half; in quot. 1776 loosely of more than two.)In this sense, and in senses A. 4b, A. 4d, A. 5, often hyphenated with the noun (cf. the combinations under Compounds 1, Compounds 2, Compounds 3, Compounds 4, Compounds 5), or occasionally written as one word with it.
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the world > relative properties > relationship > correlation > [adjective] > twin or forming a pair or couple
twin1605
twinneda1616
1605 J. Sylvester tr. G. de S. Du Bartas Deuine Weekes & Wks. i. ii. 33 Th' Elements, twin-twins (two Sons, two Daughters) To wit, the Fire, the Aire, the Earth, and Waters.
a1616 W. Shakespeare Twelfth Night (1623) v. i. 221 An apple cleft in two, is not more twin Then these two creatures. View more context for this quotation
a1618 J. Sylvester tr. Little Bartas in tr. G. de S. Du Bartas Diuine Weekes & Wks. (1621) 778 Those twin-Princes [sc. the sun and moon]..Began their Kingdoms over Day and Night.
1673 R. Leigh Transproser Rehears'd 131 Therefore are the twin-diseases deservedly associated.
1743 P. Francis & W. Dunkin tr. Horace Odes II. iii. xxix. 96 Perhaps some kinder gale, While the twin stars appear, shall fill my joyful sail.
1765 Museum Rusticum 4 20 When you meet with twin fruit, take off the least of them with all possible care not to shake the other.
1776 W. J. Mickle tr. L. de Camoens Lusiad 163 The seven twin-mountains tremble at the sound.
1809–10 S. T. Coleridge Friend (1865) i. xv. 207 These twin truths, or rather..this one great truth considered in its two principal bearings.
1835 A. Ure Philos. Manuf. 117 The leather must..be pierced with twin holes for each double tooth.
1875 E. H. Knight Pract. Dict. Mech. Twin-screws, a pair of screw-propellers on separate shaft[s], and having right-handed and left-handed twists respectively.
1898 J. T. Fowler Durham Cathedral 38 Twin shafts of Purbeck marble.
b. Composed of, or having, two similar and equal (or closely connected or related) parts or constituents; consisting of two joined in one. twin boat, twin steam-engine, twin valve: see quots. c1816, 18752. twin crystal: = B. 3b twin earthquake: see quot. 1906.
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the world > relative properties > number > specific numbers > two > duality > [adjective] > composed of two constituents
twin1584
twiform1607
twofolda1616
twindle1636
twi-natured1868
twi-shaped1875
1584 King James VI & I Ess. Prentise Poesie sig. F Let Christ both God and man your Twinrock [Fr. croupe iumelle] be.
a1661 T. Fuller Worthies (1662) Kent 86 An Ingenuous Yeoman in this County..hath two Ploughs fastened together so finely, that he plougheth two furrows at once, one under another..this device of a Twinne-Plough.
1816 R. Jameson Treat. External Characters Minerals (ed. 2) 220 A crystal..composed of two halves of one..crystal, of which the one-half appears to be turned round. Example, Twin-crystal of felspar.
c1816 A. Rees Cycl. at Steam-Engine In 1811 and 1812 two steam-boats were built..as ferry-boats for crossing the Hudson river. These boats are what are called twin-boats; each of them being two complete hulls united by a deck or bridge.
1826 W. Kirby & W. Spence Introd. Entomol. IV. xlvi. 288 Double Ocellus (Ocellus geminatus). When two ocelli are included in the same circle or spot... Twin Ocellus (Ocellus didymus). When such ocelli join each other.
1848 J. H. Parker Rickman's Styles Archit. Eng. (ed. 5) 152 They may be called twin-windows, consisting of two single lights coupled together.
1875 E. H. Knight Amer. Mech. Dict. III. 2667/2 A large twin channel steamer..has lately been put upon the Dover and Calais ferry.
1875 E. H. Knight Amer. Mech. Dict. III. 2668/2 Twin Steam-engine,..a duplex engine; one in which two engines, complete in their parts, are associated in a single effort.
1875 E. H. Knight Amer. Mech. Dict. III. 2668/2 Twin-valve, a form of valve attached to the discharge outlet of a pump..used for making a double connection, one with the steam-boiler.. and the other..for conducting water wherever desired.
1906 19th Cent. Mar. 465 To earthquakes of this description the name of ‘twin’ has been given, because the double shock is due to two distinct impulses resulting from a single generative effort.
1910 D. W. Thompson tr. Aristotle Hist. Animalium 562 In some twin eggs a thin partition of white intervenes to prevent the yolks mixing.
c. Natural History. Growing or occurring in pairs; geminate.
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the world > plants > part of plant > (defined by) distribution, arrangement, or position > [adjective] > occurring or arranged in twos, threes, etc.
tern1760
twin1812
ternary1830
trimerous1845
1812 S. Edwards New Bot. Garden I. 26 The anthers twin and erect.
1830 J. Lindley Introd. Nat. Syst. Bot. 130 Seeds solitary or twin.
1891 Cent. Dict. Twin..I. a...6. In entom., geminate: applied to spots, punctures, spines, etc., which are close together in pairs.
d. Pertaining to two (persons or things) in close connection.
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1827 R. Southey Devil's Walk v Such a twin-likeness there was in the pair.
1870 W. Morris Earthly Paradise: Pt. III 174 Their twinlife seemed so piteous.
5. Forming one of a pair or couple; closely associated with or related to another.
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the world > relative properties > relationship > correlation > [adjective] > twin or forming a pair or couple > twin or forming one of a pair
twin1605
1605 G. Chapman Al Fooles iii. i Here comes the twyn-Courtier his companion.
1782 W. Cowper Hope in Poems 146 Yesterday's face twin image of to-day.
1835 E. Bulwer-Lytton Rienzi II. iii. iii. 66 True sentiment..is twin with melancholy.
1842 J. C. Loudon Suburban Horticulturist Introd. 1 Having in a twin volume treated of Gardening as an Art of Design and Taste.
B. n.
1.
a. plural. Two children or young brought forth at one birth.
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society > society and the community > kinship or relationship > kinsman or relation > child > [noun] > twins
twinsc1290
twinlinga1382
double1413
twindle1526
twains1580
the world > life > biology > biological processes > procreation or reproduction > [noun] > offspring > multiple offspring: twins
twinsc1290
twinlinga1382
twindle1526
twin1569
a900 Old Eng. Martyrol. 17 Jan. 24 Seo cierece..is neah Lingona byrig, þa man nemneð æt sanctos geminos, æt þæm halgum getwinnum.
a1000 in Cockayne Shrine (1864) 92 Hi wæron getwinnas.
c1275 (?a1200) Laȝamon Brut (Calig.) (1963) l. 6115 Twene ibroðeren itwinnes heo weoren.]
c1290 S. Eng. Leg. I. 322/5 Twynnes boþe huy were.
a1425 (c1395) Bible (Wycliffite, L.V.) (Royal) (1850) Song of Sol. vii. 3 Thi twei teetis ben as twei kidis, twynnes of a capret.
?1518 A. Barclay Fyfte Eglog sig. Avj So yere by yere, two twynnes forthe she brought.
1573 T. Tusser Fiue Hundreth Points Good Husbandry (new ed.) f. 31 Kepe twinnes for breede.
1607 E. Topsell Hist. Foure-footed Beastes 109 They conceiue and bring forth for the most parte twinnes or two at a time.
1793 T. Holcroft tr. J. C. Lavater Ess. Physiognomy (abridged ed.) xxix. 140 I have known twins not to be distinguished from each other, between whose minds there was not the least similarity.
1847 W. C. L. Martin Ox 40/2 The cow..produces..sometimes..twins, and very rarely three.
1852 H. B. Stowe Uncle Tom's Cabin II. xix. 13 My brother and I were twins.
b. singular. One of two children or young brought forth at a birth; with possessive or of = twin brother or sister.
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society > society and the community > kinship or relationship > kinsman or relation > child > [noun] > twins > a twin
twinlinga1382
twinc1440
twindle1674
birth partner1870
the world > life > biology > biological processes > procreation or reproduction > [noun] > offspring > multiple offspring: twins > twins: one of
twinlinga1382
twinc1440
twindle1674
c1440 Promptorium Parvulorum 505/2 Twynne, or twynlynge.., gemellus,..geminus.
1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 283/2 Twyn, jumeau.
a1658 J. Cleveland King's Ret. from Scotl. 19 The divided Dam Runs to the Summons of her hungry Lamb; But when the Twin cryes halves, she quits the first.
1824 Ld. Byron Deformed Transformed i. ii. 81 I saw your Romulus..Slay his own twin.
1899 Westm. Gaz. 4 Mar. 2/1 It's not me..but Hilda, and she's my twin.
1912 A. Keith Human Body viii. 116 All of these ‘acardiac’ or ‘parasitic’ fœtuses are never born alone; they are the twin of a normal child.
c. Astronomy (plural) The zodiacal constellation and sign Gemini n.
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the world > the universe > celestial sphere > zone of celestial sphere > particular signs > [noun] > Gemini
Geminic1400
twin1413
1413 Pilgr. Sowle (1483) v. x. 100 The signe of gemini that ben cleped twynnes or doubles.
1560 B. Googe in tr. ‘M. Palingenius’ Zodyake of Lyfe Pref. sig. *v Saturne..with a backward course he ranne from oute the twinnes apace.
1669 S. Sturmy Mariners Mag. vi. 95 Here in the zodiack begins The Ram, the Bull, the loving Twins.
1727 J. Thomson Summer 11 When now no more th' alternate Twins are fir'd, And Cancer reddens with the Solar Blaze.
1868 W. Lockyer & J. N. Lockyer tr. A. Guillemin Heavens (ed. 3) ii. i. 315 Part of the constellation of the Twins.
d. dialect (plural) Applied to three children born at one birth; triplets.
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1606 Reg. Church SS. Cosmus & Damian, Blean, Kent (transcript of MS) Was Baptyzed three Twines, John, Sara, and Margeret, the sonne and daughters of Liby Strydwicke.
1631–2 Canterbury Transcr., Kingsdown (MS.) Two (of three twinnes) to wit daughters of Christopher Bacheler..were buried.
1646 Inscription at St. Martin de Tours Church, Blyton, Lincs. Hadassah Tabitha Cephas Twins of Robt. and Elizabeth Drury.
e. with twins (strengthening of with child, child n. Phrases 1c(b)). figurative greatly longing. rare.
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the mind > will > wish or inclination > desire > longing or yearning > [adjective]
oflongedOE
alonged?a1300
longinga1425
with child1548
yearning1596
wishfula1616
greening1637
tantalized1660
with twins1768
1768 D. Garrick Let. June in E. Burke Corr. (1844) I. 156 Hearing what a sweet place you have,..I am with twins till I am well delivered at Gregories.
2. figurative.
a. plural. Two persons or things intimately associated, connected, or related (esp. in origin, or from the beginning), or, as in quot. 1785, closely resembling or agreeing with each other; two forming a pair or couple. (In quot. a1600 loosely applied to more than two.)Applied by Puttenham (quot. 1589) to the figure hendiadys n.
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the world > relative properties > relationship > [noun] > that which is related or has affinity > two related things
twin1589
1589 G. Puttenham Arte Eng. Poesie iii. xvi. 147 Another manner of speach when ye will seeme to make two of one.., which therefore we call the figure of Twynnes, the Greekes Endiadis.
a1591 H. Smith Serm. (1637) 395 Sinnes and excuses are twinnes born at a birth.
a1600 A. Montgomerie Sonnets viii. 9 Come, troup of tuinis, about his temple tuyn Ȝour laurell leivis.
a1625 W. Shakespeare & J. Fletcher Two Noble Kinsmen (1634) ii. ii. 18 Never Shall we two exercise, like Twyns of honour, Our Armes againe. View more context for this quotation
1785 W. Cowper Task iv. 738 Two were never found Twins at all points.
1820 P. B. Shelley Ode to Liberty xiii, in Prometheus Unbound 217 Twins of a single destiny.
b. singular. One of two thus related; in early use sometimes = mate, companion; now usually with of, to, or possessive: something closely connected with or resembling the other thing mentioned; a fellow, counterpart.
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the world > relative properties > relationship > [noun] > that which is related or has affinity
brotherOE
cousina1398
relativea1475
sistera1500
cousin-germanc1547
yokefellow1547
ally1566
affinitive1579
twin1592
conjugate1605
sympathizant1620
relatist1640
first cousin1670
family likeness1759
family resemblance1785
society > society and the community > kinship or relationship > marriage or wedlock > married person > [noun] > spouse, consort, or partner
ferec975
matchOE
makec1175
spousea1200
lemanc1275
fellowc1350
likea1393
wed-ferea1400
partyc1443
espouse?c1450
bedfellow1490
yokefellow?1542
espousal1543
spouse1548
mate1549
marrow1554
paragon1557
yokemate1567
partner1577
better halfa1586
twin1592
moiety1611
copemate1631
consort1634
half-marrow1637
matrimonya1640
helpmeet1661
other half1667
helpmate1715
spousie1735
life companion1763
worse half1783
life partner1809
domestic partner1815
ball and chain1921
lover1969
1592 in R. Hyrde tr. J. L. Vives Instr. Christian Woman (new ed.) i. xvi. sig. N3 A woman..with whom she shall both liue a twin.
1616 J. Lane Contin. Squire's Tale xi. 190 Hee..shall have his landes, and her to wifelie twinn.
1699 R. Bentley Diss. Epist. Phalaris (new ed.) 249 Another consequence the very twin to that which went before.
1819 Ld. Byron Don Juan: Canto II clxxii. 205 All who joy would win Must share it—Happiness was born a twin.
1822 J. M. Good Study Med. III. 10 The great sympathetic..nerve..meets its twin from the opposite side.
1867 F. D. Maurice Patriarchs & Law-givers (1877) viii. 168 Love would be seen to be the eternal twin of Truth.
1908 O. Seaman Sweet Uses Obesity in Salvage vii Her bed, as a matter of course, is A twin of the wonder of Ware.
3.
a. A pair of twin children or young; also figurative or gen. a pair, couple, brace. Obsolete exc. dialect.
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the world > relative properties > number > specific numbers > two > pair > [noun]
pairc1300
couple1365
paira1382
gemels1382
pair1391
yokea1425
brace1430
binarya1464
match1542
twin1569
binity?1578
twoa1585
couplement1596
Gemini1602
couplet1604
twain1607
duad1660
dyad1675
duet1749
tway?a1800
doublet1816
two-group1901
two-grouping1901
coupling1961
the world > life > biology > biological processes > procreation or reproduction > [noun] > offspring > multiple offspring: twins
twinsc1290
twinlinga1382
twindle1526
twin1569
1569 in Spenser's Poet. Wks. (1910) I. 494 I saw the roote in hie disdaine Sende forth againe a twinne of forked trees.
1607 E. Topsell Hist. Foure-footed Beastes 248 Commonly they are brought forth in twinnes.
1635 A. Stafford Femall Glory 100 Her soul was delivered of a twinne of vows.
1817 J. Nichols Illustr. Lit. Hist. 18th Cent. II. 657 [He] was born in December, 1744..and was one of a twin.
1901 ‘M. E. Francis’ Pastorals of Dorset 142 ‘The twin’, a fine healthy pair of four-year-old boys.
b. Crystallography. A composite crystal consisting of two (usually equal and similar) crystals united in reversed positions with respect to each other, either by juxtaposition, embedding, or interpenetration. (Also extended to composite crystals consisting of more than two.)
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the world > matter > chemistry > crystallography (general) > crystal (general) > crystal types > [noun] > composite crystals > twin
macle1798
twina1824
a1824 Encycl. Metrop. (1845) XVI. 364/2 Twinning on an octahedral face is seen in the apposition twin of Spinel.
1868 J. D. Dana Syst. Mineral. (ed. 5) 354 Orthoclase... Twins..right- or left-handed... A twin of 4 crystals... A twin of 3 crystals.
1895 N. Story-Maskelyne Crystallogr. vi. §156 The two individuals may present a mere contact at a common surface.., the juxtaposed twin..: or there may be an interlocking of the crystals,..as in the..embedded twin of orthoclase..: or again, there may be a complete mutual interpenetration.., as in..an interpenetrant twin of galena... In the case of polysynthetic twins several or almost innumerable hemi~tropic individual crystals may be combined.
1895 N. Story-Maskelyne Crystallogr. vii. §193 Simple twins composed of two individuals, and..complex twins formed by repeated twinning.
c. local. An agricultural implement with two rows of teeth, for breaking up ploughed land and clearing it of weeds.
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the world > food and drink > farming > tools and implements > [noun] > scarifier
scarificator1776
scarifier1794
rooter1810
hash1821
twin1847
rototiller1923
Rotavator1936
1847 in J. O. Halliwell Dict. Archaic & Provinc. Words
1859 Jrnl. Royal Agric. Soc. 20 i. 216 A pair of ‘twins’, or heavy drag-harrows.
1881 G. F. Jackson Shropshire Word-bk. Suppl. Twins,..for breaking the clods and uprooting the weeds of ploughed land, preparatory to the harrows going on... The implement..is either single or double, and in the latter case is spoken of as ‘a pair of twins’, the several parts being coupled together.
d. elliptical for twin aerial n., twin bed n., twin city n. at Compounds 5, twin-cylinder adj. at Compounds 1, twin-engined adj. aeroplane, twin town n. at Compounds 5.
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1928 Amer. Speech 3 366 ‘Back-spot’.., ‘baby-spots’, ‘sunarcs’, ‘twins’, ‘floods’ and others.
1930 Times 14 Mar. 12/3 As soon as the B.B.C. ‘twins’ came into use and two wave-lengths were available.
1938 O. Nash I'm Stranger here Myself 85 A double bed or twins.
1944 G. L. Nute Lake Superior iii. xii. 277 Superior had hoped to be the terminus of the first railroad to the head of the lake, but when one came, in 1870, its terminal was Duluth rather than the other twin.
1955 D. Scott-Moncrieff Veteran & Edwardian Motor-cars vi. 111 The old long-stroke singles and twins were no longer allowed [in 1911]; only four- and six-cylinder cars.
1963 A. Bird & F. Hutton-Stott Veteran Motor Car Pocketbk. 189 It was soon apparent that the small 4-cylinder engine was destined to supplant the big singles and twins which had served so long for light car work.
1975 B. Meggs Matter of Paradise vi. ii. 167 Nice..room, double bed... Should have made a point to ask for twins.
1976 R. Barnard Little Local Murder i. 11 They've done one before—for a town in Essex with a twin in Canada.
1976 B. Lecomber Dead Weight iii. 45 If I was going into the charter business I had to have a twin—and she was..the only twin on the whole airport that I could afford.
†4.
a. in twin (also contr. itwin), on twin: in or into two parts or divisions; in twain, in two, apart, asunder. (Cf. a-twin adv.1) Chiefly northern. Obsolete.
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the world > relative properties > wholeness > mutual relation of parts to whole > separation > apart or asunder [phrase]
in ( on) twoc890
from sunderOE
to set in sunderc1325
in twinnyc1380
in (on) twain1398
in (into) twaya1400
on twina1400
on part1485
a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) l. 3968 For doute he delt þam in tuin.
a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) l. 6269 He sagh þe see it drau in tuin.
c1400 (?c1380) Pearl l. 251 Fro we in twynne wern towen & twayned, I haf ben a Ioylez Iuelere.
c1400 (?c1380) Cleanness (1920) l. 1047 Quen hit is brused oþer broken, oþer byten in twynne.
c1400 Gamelyn 317 I wil not þis companye parten on twyne.
a1475 Bk. Curtasye (Sloane 1986) l. 735 in Babees Bk. (2002) i. 324 Þe smalle lofe he cuttis euen in twynne.
c1475 Lytylle Childrenes Lytil Bk. (Egerton 1995) in Babees Bk. (2002) i. 18 Kerue not thy brede to thynne, Ne breke hit not on twynne.
1487 (a1380) J. Barbour Bruce (St. John's Cambr.) viii. 175 Sa fer..that thai War in-twyn [1489 Adv. ytwyn] a bow-draucht & mar.
1535 W. Stewart tr. H. Boethius Bk. Cron. Scotl. (1858) III. 226 Quhilk causit him stand..fra him..rycht far in tuyn.
c1540 (?a1400) Destr. Troy 6581 Anoþer..he nolpit to ground, Shent of þo shalkes, shudrit hom itwyn.
†b. Hence (or from twin v.1) twin is used for ‘parting, separation’. Obsolete. rare.
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the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > going away > [noun] > parting from one another
partingc1330
scattering1382
sculda1400
twina1400
a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Coll. Phys.) l. 24285 Ik am wit þe Wit outen twin [Vesp. tuin] and ai sal be Fra nu for euirmar.

Compounds

C1. With nouns, forming adjectives in sense ‘having or characterized by twin…s, i.e. a pair of (the things named)’.
twin-burner adj.
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1907 Yesterday's Shopping (1969) 219/2 A twin-burner Stove, strongly recommended as a boiler and heater.
1974 Country Life 5 Dec. 1772/1 Refrigerator, twin-burner stove..stainless-steel sink.
twin-cylinder adj.
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1846 T. Craddock Chem. Steam-engine 91 The loss..as that shown by the expansive curve, induced me to devise the arrangement I have designated the Twin-Cylinder Engine.
a1884 E. H. Knight Pract. Dict. Mech. Suppl. 910/1 Twin Cylinder Steam Engine.
1907 Daily Chron. 24 May 9/3 The International Motor Cycle Tourist Trophy Race... Twenty-two single-cylinder and seven twin-cylinder machines have been entered.
twin-engine adj.
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society > travel > air or space travel > a means of conveyance through the air > aeroplane > [adjective] > having one or more than one engine
twin-engined1916
tri-motored1927
twin-engine1931
single-engine1942
single-engined1964
1931 19th Cent. Feb. 155 Twin-engine Farman ‘Goliath’ seaplanes.
twin-float adj.
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1913 Flight 19 Apr. 436 (caption) One of the floats on the twin-float Breguet.
1931 Statesman (Calcutta) 5 Dec. Relieved of the ‘drag’ of the normal-sized twin-float undercarriage the machine's speed..is greatly increased.
1980 P. Lewis Brit. Bomber since 1914 v. 204 During 1933 another Fairey twin-float biplane made its appearance as the Fox Mk. IVM.
twin-fuselage adj.
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1931 19th Cent. Feb. 159 The twin-fuselage Blériot 125 mono-plane.
1980 Jane's Encycl. Aviation II. 305/1 Blackburn T.B. Twin (UK), large twin-fuselage twin-engined seaplane designed to attack Zeppelin airships with incendiary steel darts.
twin-light adj.
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1862 Catal. Internat. Exhib., Brit. II. No. 6720 Twin-light window, with tracery.
twin-power adj.
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1875 E. H. Knight Pract. Dict. Mech. Twin-power Press, one in which the power is brought upon two objects in alternation, as in some machines where the punch and shears are in the same frame.
twin-roller adj.
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1835 A. Ure Philos. Manuf. 118 The twin-roller mechanism, which was perfected..by Arkwright.
twin-track adj.
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1960 Times Rev. Industry Apr. 28/1 A twin-track passenger-carrying conveyor belt..is being constructed in London... Known as speed-walks.. and travolators, at least two dozen installations are already in use in the United States.
1983 Listener 13 Oct. 3/2 When the ‘twin-track’ approach to European nuclear weapons was devised by NATO (make preparations to deploy, but hold arms control talks at the same time) no one seems to have remembered Euclid's principle that parallel lines can never meet.
twin-wire adj.
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1892 Daily News 26 May 6/5 The New Telephone Company... The new exchange will be on the twin-wire or metallic circuit system.
1914 Wireless World Feb. 716 If it [sc. an aerial] is a twin-wire..it would tune, with the same coil, to a longer wave.
C2. With noun + -ed suffix2, forming parasynthetic adjectives in same sense.
twin-balled adj.
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1608 J. Sylvester tr. G. de S. Du Bartas Deuine Weekes & Wks. (new ed.) ii. iv. 145 With sharp bodkins bore they out his eyes:..an end-les night Beclowds for euer his twin-balled sight.
twin-engined adj.
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society > travel > air or space travel > a means of conveyance through the air > aeroplane > [adjective] > having one or more than one engine
twin-engined1916
tri-motored1927
twin-engine1931
single-engine1942
single-engined1964
1916 War Illustr. 1 Jan. 474/1 The twin-engined Caudron biplane.
1942 R.A.F. Jrnl. 27 June 1 The aircraft employed..were..twin-engined Handley-Page bombers.
1974 E. Ambler Dr. Frigo iii. 190 There was a small twin-engined plane waiting.
twin-forked adj.
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1776 W. Withering Brit. Plants (1796) II. 441 Ceratophyllum submersum... Leaves forked... Specimens from Paris had the leaves twin-forked.
twin-headed adj.
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1872 R. Browning Fifine xi The Twin-headed Babe, and Human Nondescript!
twin-hued adj.
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1906 G. G. Coulton tr. Pearl 43 Twin-hued topaz.
twin-leaved adj.
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1861 A. Pratt Flowering Plants & Ferns Great Brit. V. 272 Scilla bifolia (Twin-leaved Squill).
twin-named adj.
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1614 J. Sylvester Bethulia's Rescue vi. 48 Twin-nam'd Ister, and Seaven-mouthed Nile.
1821 Ld. Byron Marino Faliero (2nd issue) i. ii. 34 Twin-named from the apostles John and Paul.
twin-peaked adj.
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1904 W. M. Ramsay Lett. to Seven Churches xvii. 213 A large..part of ancient Ephesus..can be seen only by ascending to the top of the twin-peaked Pion.
twin-spiked adj.
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1861 A. Pratt Flowering Plants & Ferns Great Brit. VI. 133 Twin-spiked Cord-grass.
twin-striped adj.
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1819 G. Samouelle Entomologist's Compend. 423 Geometra costostrigata. The twin-striped Pinion.
twin-towered adj.
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1886 F. Caddy Footsteps Jeanne D'Arc 108 A twin-towered church.
twin-towned adj.
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1878 Archaeologia Cantiana 12 331 The port for London was the twin-towned port of Rutupiae.
twin-tyred adj.
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1916 Chambers's Jrnl. Dec. 829/1 The twin-tired commercial vehicle.
twin-walled adj.
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1913 D. H. Lawrence Love Poems 26 As if..the twin-walled darkness had bled In one great spasm of birth.
twin-wheeled adj.
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1904 Windsor Mag. Jan. 245/1 A twin-wheeled machine like the tricycle.
C3. Objective.
twin-bearing adj.
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1788 R. Burns Let. 25 May (2001) I. 280 A certain girl's prolific twin-bearing merit.
twin-getter adj.
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1837 W. Youatt Sheep xv. 508 Certain rams..have the credit of being twin-getters.
twin-killing adj.
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1895 Pall Mall Gaz. 13 Nov. 2/3 If twin-killing is more reprehensible than drunkenness.
1897 M. Kingsley Trav. W. Afr. 473 This twin-killing is a widely diffused custom among the Negro tribes.
C4. Adverbial (‘as a twin or twins’).
a.
twin-begot adj.
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1865 A. C. Swinburne Atalanta in Calydon 1261 Jason, and Dryas twin-begot with war.
twin-existent adj.
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the world > existence and causation > existence > [adjective] > existent or existing > coexistent or coexisting
consistent1651
coexistent1662
coexistinga1676
twin-existent1860
compresent1912
1860 D. Greenwell Patience of Hope 75 Two principles..within contrariety, twin-existent,..the desire for unity, and the..love of truth.
b.
twin-slumber n.
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1850 ‘S. Yendys’ Roman vii. 121 The foemen, Good and Ill, twin-slumber in the womb of Fate.
C5. Special combinations.
twin aerial n. temporary a twin-wire aerial.
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society > communication > telecommunication > radio communications > radio equipment > [noun] > aerial
radiator1897
aerial wire1899
aerial1902
antenna1902
loop antenna1906
loop aerial1913
twin aerial1913
frame aerial1916
loop1922
beam aerial1926
cage aerial1926
Adcock1928
dipole1929
V antenna1932
beam antenna1935
rig1935
horn1936
whip1940
whip aerial1941
whip antenna1943
polyrod1945
unipole1945
slot aerial1946
slot antenna1946
dish1948
quad1951
V aerial1961
dish aerial1962
rectenna1964
omni-antenna1966
monopole1974
1913 Wireless World June 211/2 The ordinary ‘twin’ aerial used by the Marconi Company on most of their ship-stations.
1928 J. Frost Wireless Man. iv. 17 A twin aerial, or aerial of two wires.
twin-axis n. Crystallography the axis of twinning in a twin crystal, i.e. the line about which either of the constituent crystals would have to revolve to come into the position of the other.
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the world > matter > chemistry > crystallography (general) > crystal (general) > crystal symmetry > [noun] > axis of symmetry > types of
screw axis1843
twin-axis1855
triad axis1909
1855 D. T. Ansted et al. in Orr's Circle Sci.: Inorg. Nature 469 The axis about which the crystals are supposed to revolve is called the twin axis, and the plane to which it is perpendicular the twin plane.
twin-barren n. a barren female calf twin with a male, a freemartin.
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the world > animals > mammals > group Ungulata (hoofed) > group Ruminantia (sheep, goats, cows, etc.) > cow > [noun] > freemartin
freemartin1681
martin1695
twin-barren1778
1778 W. Marshall Minutes Agric. Digest 40 English Beasts of Agricultural Labour..Twin-Barrens.
twin bed n. one of a pair of matching single beds.
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society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > a building > furniture and fittings > bed > types of bed > [noun] > specific sizes of bed
double bed1839
three-quarter bed1919
twin bed1919
queen1955
California king size1957
California king1983
1919 G. B. Shaw Heartbreak House Pref. in Heartbreak House, Great Catherine, & Playlets of War p. xxxviii If the twin flats and twin beds produce a guinea more than Shakespear, out goes Shakespear.
1940 R. Graves & A. Hodge Long Week-end xi. 181 Twin-beds replaced the old..double-bed for married couples.
1973 E.-J. Bahr Nice Neighbourhood i. 8 I pictured her..slipping into bed beside her husband... Of course, they may have had twin beds.
twin-bedded adj. (a) tucked up in a twin-bed (nonce-use); (b) furnished with twin beds.
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society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > a building > furniture and fittings > bed > types of bed > [adjective] > furnished with specific type of bed
bunked1892
twin-bedded1937
1937 G. Frankau More of Us xiii. 138 O happy nests (nest's best!) where Bob and Bill Sleep (sleep?) twin-bedded by their spawn-glad spouses.
1960 News Chron. 27 July 4/3 The writer asked for the best twin-bedded room, with private bathroom.
1981 ‘E. Lathen’ Going for Gold iii. 29 The twin-bedded cubicle.
twin bedstead n. one of a pair of matching single bedsteads.
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society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > a building > furniture and fittings > bed > parts of bed > [noun] > bedstead > other types
field bedstead1586
lath-bedstead1806
angareb1835
four-poster1836
twin bedstead1900
1900 Heal & Son Catal.: Guest's Room: Paris Exhib. 4 Twin bedsteads. Each 3 feet by 6 feet 6 inches.
1930 Heal & Son Catal.: Matter of Taste in Furnit. 17 Twin bedsteads in limed oak.
twinberry n. U.S. a name for Gaultheria procumbens (also called checkerberry, partridge-berry, or wintergreen), or its fruit.
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the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular medicinal plants or parts > medicinal trees or shrubs > [noun] > non-British medicinal trees or shrubs > wintergreen shrubs
wintergreen1778
mountain tea1785
spice-berry1792
partridgeberry1814
tea-berry1818
ivory plum1828
twinberry1836
ivy-berry1840
partridge bush1843
Gaultheria1848
checker-berry1852
partridge-vine1860
snowberry1866
one-berry1873
the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular medicinal plants or parts > medicinal trees or shrubs > [noun] > non-British medicinal trees or shrubs > wintergreen shrubs > berry
boxberry1706
checker-berry1784
ivory plum1828
twinberry1836
1836 C. P. Traill Backwoods of Canada xiv. 248 This plant is also called winter-green, or twin-berry.
1869 Ann. Rep. Commissioner Agric. 1868 178 in U.S. Congress. Serial Set (40th Congr., 3rd Sess.: House of Representatives Executive Doc.) XV Among them [small fruits] may be noted red and black currants,..twin-berries [etc.].
twin-bill n. Baseball = double-header n. 3.
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society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > ball game > baseball > [noun] > game > match
twin-bill1939
twi-night double-header1939
twilight night1949
twi-nighter1953
1939 in E. J. Nichols Hist. Dict. Baseball Terminol. (Ph.D. thesis, Pennsylvania State Coll.) 81 Twin bill.
1974 Anderson (S. Carolina) Independent 19 Apr. 5 b/1 Virginia's Cavaliers invade Clemson Friday afternoon for a 1:30 Atlantic Coast Conference twin-bill.
twin-birth n. the birth of twins; a pair born or produced as twins, or one of such in relation to the other (usually figurative).
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the world > life > source or principle of life > birth > confinement > [noun] > childbirth or delivery > multiple birth
twinning1573
twin-birth1807
multiple birth1826
1807 S. T. Coleridge To Wordsworth 13 Of smiles spontaneous, and mysterious fear, The first-born they of Reason and twin-birth.
1837 J. G. Lockhart Mem. Life Scott xxv The quarto of Rokeby was followed..by the small volume which had been designed for a twin-birth.
1850 A. Jameson Legends Monastic Orders 238 The portentous twin-birth of the two great mendicant communities.
1912 A. Keith Human Body viii. 113 Twins are common; in Ireland a twin birth has a frequency of one in seventy-two, in England about one in seventy-five.
twin carb n.
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society > occupation and work > equipment > machine > machines which impart power > engine > internal-combustion engine > [noun] > petrol > carburettor
carburettor1896
pot1941
carb1942
percolator1942
carby1956
twin carb1967
twin carburettor1973
1967 Autocar 5 Oct. 47/1 New car called TC (for Twin Carb.), retaining all the special equipment of the basic model.
twin carburettor n. one of a pair of carburettors in the same engine.
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society > occupation and work > equipment > machine > machines which impart power > engine > internal-combustion engine > [noun] > petrol > carburettor
carburettor1896
pot1941
carb1942
percolator1942
carby1956
twin carb1967
twin carburettor1973
1973 ‘R. MacLeod’ Burial in Portugal v. 93 The Lancia had..a high compression alloy engine which sucked fuel through twin carburettors.
twin city n. (a) North American either of two cities that are very close neighbours; spec. in plural (U.S.) St. Paul and Minneapolis, (Canadian) Fort William and Port Arthur; (b) occasionally used of a city in the sense of twin town below.
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society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > district in relation to human occupation > town as opposed to country > city > [noun] > (closely) neighbouring town or city
twin city1856
the world > relative properties > relationship > correlation > [noun] > mutuality or reciprocity > twin town
twin town1955
twin city1973
society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > district in relation to human occupation > town as opposed to country > city > [noun] > other types of city
kine-burghc1225
City of Goda1382
city of refuge (alsorefute)a1425
mother city?a1425
imperial city1550
city dwelling1613
second city1621
out-city1642
garden town1835
hoard-burg1895
garden city1898
cathedral city1902
parasitopolis1927
twin city1973
arcology1985
sustainable city1986
1856 Rock Island (Illinois) Argus 23 Apr. The church bells of the twin-cities [sc. Rock Island, Ill. and Davenport, Iowa] rang out their joyous notes in honor of the achievement [sc. bridging the Mississippi].
1883 Harper's Mag. June 73/2 The twin cities [sc. St. Paul and Minneapolis, Minn.]..emulate each other in metropolitan airs.
1912 J. Sandilands Western Canad. Dict. & Phrase-bk. Twin Cities, when spoken of in Canada, usually refer to Port Arthur and Fort William, neighboring cities and ports in Ontario.
1949 Pioneer-Press (St. Paul, Minnesota) 12 Aug. 1/3 Fog and clouds gave the Twin Cities respite from the hot weather for a few hours Thursday morning.
1968 A. Hailey Airport (1969) iii. iii. 319 Detroit and Windsor, the twin cities straddling the [U.S.–Canada] border.
1973 Guardian 13 Apr. 10/5 Manchester..is what they, laughingly I trust, call the ‘twin city’ of Leningrad.
1980 Quilt World Sept. 28/3 A learning-packed three-day seminar..will be held at a camp on the shores of Silver Lake in the Twin Cities.
twin double n. a system of betting (on horse races, etc.) in which the winners of four successive races must be selected (i.e. two doubles in sequence).
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society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > betting > [noun] > type of bet
swoopstake1599
by-beta1627
levant1714
even money1732
play or pay bet1738
side bet1769
long shot1796
sweep1849
pay-or-play1853
sweepstake1861
pari-mutuel1868
to go a raker1869
flutter1874
skinner1874
by-wager1886
plunge1888
accumulator1889
saver1891
mutuel1893
quinella1902
parlay1904
Sydney or the bush1924
treble1924
daily double1930
all-up1933
round robin1944
double1951
twin double1960
perfecta1961
pool1963
lose bet1964
tiercé1964
Yankee bet1964
Yankee1967
nap1971
superfecta1971
tricast1972
triple1972
trixie1973
telebetting1974
trifecta1974
over-and-under1975
over-under1981
spread bet1981
1960 N.Y. Times 25 Oct. 43/7 The new method, called the twin double, requires a fan to pick four consecutive winners from the sixth through the ninth races.
1979 Internat. Herald Tribune 31 Oct. 23/4 There were seven more races, four more swingers, two daily doubles and a jackpot, or twin double, still to come. Plenty of chances to get well.
twin-face n. Crystallography a face in a twin crystal perpendicular to the twin-axis.
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1878 H. P. Gurney Crystallogr. 99 When the twin axis is perpendicular to a possible face this is called the twin face.
twin floats n. a pair of floats (float n. 8e) on a seaplane.
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society > travel > air or space travel > a means of conveyance through the air > aeroplane > parts of aircraft > [noun] > landing gear > float on seaplane
float1897
twin floats1942
1942 E. Sargent Every Boy's Bk. Aircraft viii. 39 A good example of a military seaplane..is the Fairey Seafox... It has twin floats.
1977 G. R. Duval World Float Planes (caption) The Fairey Fly~catcher was the standard Fleet Air Arm fighter from 1923 to 1934... The land undercarriage was readily interchangeable with twin floats.
twinflower n. an American name for Linnæa, from the flowers being produced in pairs.
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the world > plants > particular plants > trees and shrubs > shrubs > climbing, trailing, or creeping shrubs > [noun] > honeysuckle or woodbine
honeysuckOE
goat leafa1275
woodbinea1300
honeysucklea1400
suckle-bloom14..
bindc1440
goat's leaf1526
caprifoil1578
suckling1653
trumpet honeysuckle1731
white honeysuckle1731
dwarf honeysuckle1812
suckle1816
twinflower1836
fly-honeysuckle1861
linnaea1862
lonicera1863
swamp honeysuckle1958
1836 C. P. Traill Backwoods of Canada xiv. 238 The Americans call this honeysuckle ‘twinflower’.
1845 S. Judd Margaret i. xiv. 106 Beds of purple twin-flower.
twin-jet adj. Aeronautics having two jet engines; also elliptical as n., a twin-jet aircraft.
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society > travel > air or space travel > a means of conveyance through the air > aeroplane > [adjective] > having jet or turbo-jet engines
multi-jet1910
pure-jet1944
turbojet1945
twin-jet1946
society > travel > air or space travel > a means of conveyance through the air > aeroplane > [noun] > with jet engine(s) > types of
superjet1945
twin-jet1946
fan-jet1963
jumbo jet1964
jump jet1964
jumbo1966
super-jumbo1968
tri-jet1968
stretch plane1971
stretch1973
wide-body1979
1946 Jrnl. Royal Aeronaut. Soc. 50 348/1 It may therefore be possible to make more advanced explorations into the transonic region with similar twin-jet installations.
1953 Ann. Reg. 1952 405 An English Electric Canberra B5 twin-jet bomber made history on 26 August by completing a double crossing of the Atlantic in a single day.
1961 E. Brown Wings on my Sleeve 85 We had a standing date to go back to Grove and pick up the first of the Arado 234 B twin jets.
† twin-kin adj. [kin n.1 6b] Obsolete of two kinds, twofold, double.
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the world > relative properties > number > specific numbers > two > duality > [adjective]
twifoldc890
twinc1000
double?c1225
tway-fold1303
doublefold1382
twain1398
twin-kina1400
twinlepia1400
four-eared1514
twofold1559
bifold1590
duplar1610
binal?c1640
dual1655
binarious1656
binary system1766
dualistic1832
double-barrelled1837
twinfold1842
a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) l. 512 Þat kyng of craft wald mensked be wyth tuinkyn scaft.
a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) l. 27677 Þaa dedes þat man mai Vnderstand on tuin-kyn wai.
twin lamb disease n. a pregnancy toxæmia in sheep, apparently caused by malnutrition.
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the world > health and disease > ill health > animal disease or disorder > disorders of sheep > [noun] > other disorders of sheep
pocka1325
soughta1400
pox1530
mad1573
winter rot1577
snuffa1585
leaf1587
leaf-sickness1614
redwater1614
mentigo1706
tag1736
white water1743
hog pox1749
rickets1755
side-ill1776
resp1789
sheep-fag1789
thorter-ill1791
vanquish1792
smallpox1793
shell-sicknessc1794
sickness1794
grass-ill1795
rub1800
pine1804
pining1804
sheep-pock1804
stinking ill1807
water sickness1807
core1818
wryneck1819
tag-belt1826
tag-sore1828
kibe1830
agalaxia1894
agalactia1897
lupinosis1899
trembling1902
struck1903
black disease1906
scrapie1910
renguerra1917
pulpy kidney1927
dopiness1932
blowfly strike1933
body strike1934
sleepy sickness1937
swayback1938
twin lamb disease1945
tick pyaemia1946
fly-strike1950
maedi1952
nematodiriasis1957
visna1957
maedi-visna1972
visna-maedi1972
1945 J. F. H. Thomas et al. Sheep v. 93 When in-lamb ewes have a diet which is protein-adequate,..twin lamb disease is never a serious cause of loss.
1974 Country Life 28 Mar. 740/1 Twin-lamb disease..is often fatal.
twin-law n. Crystallography the law or principle of twinning of a twin crystal.
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1895 N. Story-Maskelyne Crystallogr. vi. §162 The twin-law..appears to permit of considerable divergence from precision in the relative orientation of the crystals subject to it.
1895 N. Story-Maskelyne Crystallogr. vii. §281 The twin-laws governing the union of rhombohedral crystals.
1912 Return Brit. Museum 196 Quartz, group of twinned crystals (Japanese twin-law) from New Mexico.
twin-leaf n. a name for the North American herb Jeffersonia diphylla, the leaves being divided each into two leaflets.
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1845–50 A. H. Lincoln Familiar Lect. Bot. (new ed.) App. 115/2 Twin-leaf.
1857 A. Gray First Lessons Bot. (1866) 133 In Jeffersonia or Twin-leaf.
twin-lens adj. designating a camera with two identical sets of lenses, either for taking stereoscopic pictures, or (more commonly) with one forming an image for viewing and the other an image to be photographed.
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society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > photography > camera > [adjective] > types of camera
pinhole1861
twin-lens1894
reflex1907
autofocus1917
miniature1921
autofocusing1922
wide-field1925
beam-splitting1935
point-and-shoot1964
subminiature1968
multi-mode1980
multiprogramme1990
1894 Country Gentlemen's Catal. 158/3 Hand-Cameras... The 5 × 4 Twin Lens Artist Magazine or dark slides—£15 15s. 0d.
1911 Encycl. Brit. XXI. 505/1 (heading) Twin-lens and reflex cameras.
1911 Encycl. Brit. XXI. 505/2 Stereoscopic cameras are another form of twin-lens cameras.
1977 J. Hedgecoe Photographer's Handbk. 19 The twin lens reflex design is much older than the SLR and was one of the most popular ‘advanced’ types of camera prior to World War II.
twin-pair n. a pair of things precisely similar and equal; attributive in twin-pair sheet n.
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twin-pair sheet n. Geometry that part of the surface of a cone of the third or higher degree which meets the concentric sphere in two equal and similar closed curves.
twin paradox n. Physics in relativity theory, the conclusion that if one of a pair of twins makes a long journey at high speed and then returns, he will have aged less than the twin who remains behind.
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the world > matter > physics > relativity > [noun] > Einstein's special theory > paradox of
twin paradox1957
1957 Nature 5 Jan. 35/2 The ‘twin paradox’ is not even qualitatively discernible in any experiment that does not involve relative accelerations.
1982 W. R. Rindler Introd. Special Relativity iii. 51 If the twins A and B, in the twin-paradox ‘experiment’.., visually observe the regular ticking of each other's standard clocks, describe quantitatively what each sees as B travels to a distant point Q and back.
twin-plane n. Crystallography a plane perpendicular to the twin-axis of a twin crystal.
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1855Twin-plane [see twin-axis n.].
twin plate n. Glass-making plate glass which is ground and polished on both sides at once; also attributive.
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society > occupation and work > materials > derived or manufactured material > glass and glass-like materials > [noun] > glass > other types of glass
mirror glass1440
Venice glass1527
green glass1559
bubble glass1591
hard glass1597
window glass1606
bottle glass1626
looking-glass plate1665
opal glass1668
flint-glass1683
broad-glass1686
jealous glass1703
plate glass1728
Newcastle glass1734
flint1755
German sheet glass1777
Réaumur's porcelain1777
cut glass1800
Vauxhall1830
muslin glass1837
Venetian glass1845
latticinio1855
quartz glass1861
muff glass1865
thallium glass1868
St. Gobain glass1870
frost blue1873
crackle-glass1875
opaline1875
crackle-ware1881
amberina1883
opal1885
Jena1892
Holophane1893
roughcast1893
soda glass1897
opalite1899
milchglas1907
pâte de verre1907
Pyrex1915
silica glass1916
soda-lime glass1917
Vita-glass1925
peach-blow1930
borosilicate glass1933
Vitrolite1937
twin plate1939
sintered glass1940
gold-film1954
Plyglass1956
pyroceram1957
float glass1959
solar glass1977
1939 Archit. Rev. 85 104 Twin~plate has arrived to supersede ordinary plate glass.
1962 Gloss. Terms Glass Industry (B.S.I.) 28 Twin-plate process, a process for making polished plate glass in which rolling, annealing and grinding are carried out on a continuously produced ribbon of glass without first cutting it into sections and in which top and bottom surfaces are ground simultaneously.
twin prime n. Mathematics each of a pair of prime numbers whose difference is 2.
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the world > relative properties > number > mathematical number or quantity > [noun] > particular qualities > prime > relating to
Mersenne1892
Fermat('s) number1906
twin prime1930
pseudoprime1949
Skewes1949
1930 T. Dantzig Number iii. 49 It has been shown that the so-called twin-primes, such as (3,5), (5,7),..(41,43), etc., become rarer and rarer as the numbers increase.
1981 Sci. Amer. Feb. 19/2 The largest pair of twin primes given in the December column has now been surpassed by an even larger pair discovered in 1980.
twin-screw adj. having twin screws; spec. of a steamer, having two screw propellers on separate shafts, which turn in opposite directions so as to counteract the tendency to lateral vibration; also elliptical as n. a twin-screw steamer.
ΚΠ
1864 Athenæum 24 Sept. 410/3 Small twin screw boats.
1884 Internat. Health Exhib. Official Catal. 94/1 Patent Twin-screw Bath Fittings.
1891 R. Kipling Light that Failed vii. 123 ‘It's a steamer,’ he said,—‘a twin-screw steamer, by the beat.’
1897 Daily News 17 Feb. 2/7 They had increased their staff of steamboats by adding the twin-screw Connemara.
twin set n. (also with hyphen and as one word) a woman's matching jumper and cardigan.
ΘΚΠ
the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > types or styles of clothing > set or suit of clothes > [noun] > for specific people > for women > other
ensemble1802
Bloomer costume1851
coat and skirt1895
blouse suit1905
jumper suit1908
suit dress1917
tailleur1923
twin set1937
salwar-kameez1955
co-ordinates1959
theatre suit1964
trikini1967
1937 New Yorker 9 Jan. 62 Here you will find sweater classics—twin sets of the conventional type.
1944 M. Laski Love on Supertax iii. 35 I've got a Worth frock..I swopped..for my cashmere twin-set.
1970 Listener 27 Aug. 289/2 Sophia Loren wandering in a tidy twinset across the USSR.
twin soul n. a kindred spirit; also as attributive.phr.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > emotion > love > friendliness > [noun] > friend > second self or kindred spirit
another myself1526
alter ego1537
another I1539
self1557
second self1586
alter idema1618
himself1622
twin soul1868
1868 A. Helps Realmah viii, in Macmillan's Mag. Apr. 468/2 Her soul was a twin-soul to his.
1927 P. G. Wodehouse Meet Mr. Mulliner vi. 172 It seemed to him so plain a proof that they were twin souls that he decided to offer her his hand and heart without delay.
a1930 D. H. Lawrence Mod. Lover (1934) v. 37 You know, love isn't the twin-soul business.
twin species n. [translating French espèce jumelle (L. Cuenot 1929, in Reunion Plénière de la Soc. de Biol. et de ses Filiales, 17–18 Mai 85] Biology two species which are morphologically identical but which are separated by reproductive isolation; cf. sibling species n. at sibling n. Compounds 2.
ΘΚΠ
the world > life > biology > taxonomy > taxon > [noun] > species or sub-species
shapec1400
species1608
subspecies1681
semispecies1825
infima species1843
conspeciesa1856
incipient species1859
relic1873
biological species1876
biological race1878
microspecies1897
clan1916
Jordanon1916
twin species1931
supraspecies1938
sibling species1940
species pair1942
phenon1943
biospecies1953
ochlospecies1962
1931 Archivio Zool. XV. 289 During his studies upon evolution the A. has been led to propose some neologisms that seemed to him useful and he reunites in this study, defining precisely the sense of them. Those neologisms are: statistic adaptation, homochromy, preadaptation, differentative death, differentative fecundity, twin species.
1971 Biol. Abstr. 52 11353/2 (heading) Study of 2 twin species of parasitic copepods.
twin-spot adj. having twin spots; used in collectors' names of various moths having pairs of spots upon the wings.
ΚΠ
1819 G. Samouelle Entomologist's Compend. 423 Geometra quadrifasciaria. The large Twin-spot. —— didymaria. The Twin-spot Carpet.
twin-stock n. a beehive containing two colonies.
ΚΠ
1884 J. Phin Dict. Apiculture 73 Twin-stock, a word that has been borrowed from the German. It signifies a hive containing two colonies.
twin town n. one of a pair of towns (usually in different countries) that have established official links.
ΘΚΠ
the world > relative properties > relationship > correlation > [noun] > mutuality or reciprocity > twin town
twin town1955
twin city1973
society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > district in relation to human occupation > town as opposed to country > town > [noun] > other types of town
country town1598
post town1635
Residenz1824
garden town1835
Residenzstadt1841
hometown1851
tin town1884
ghost town1894
new town1918
shopping strip1935
twin town1955
1955 Harrogate Advertiser 18 June 8/3 In the afternoon they met in the Council Chamber to discuss Le Monde Bilingue Twin Town Scheme.
1976 Southern Evening Echo (Southampton) 2 Nov. 2/2 -Wickham entertained 11 French visitors from their proposed twin town of Villers-Sur-Mer at the Kings Head.
twin-tub adj. (of a washing machine) having two separate top-loading drums, one for washing and the other for spin-drying; also elliptical as n.
ΘΚΠ
the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > cleaning > washing > washing clothes and textile articles > [adjective] > twin-tub (of washing-machine)
twin-tub1962
1962 Which? May 139/1 We carried out washing tests..in a twin-tub washing machine.
1970 New Scientist 15 Oct. 134/1 An overnight soak and a wash (in a twin-tub), did remove some..stains.

Derivatives

ˈtwinfold adj. twofold, with the two parts or elements in close connection.Apparently an isolated use.
ΘΚΠ
the world > relative properties > number > specific numbers > two > duality > [adjective]
twifoldc890
twinc1000
double?c1225
tway-fold1303
doublefold1382
twain1398
twin-kina1400
twinlepia1400
four-eared1514
twofold1559
bifold1590
duplar1610
binal?c1640
dual1655
binarious1656
binary system1766
dualistic1832
double-barrelled1837
twinfold1842
1842 Tennyson in Mem. (1897) I. viii. 200 Its [the heart's] twinfold necessity, Capacious both of Friendship and of Love.
ˈtwinhood n. = twinship n.Apparently an isolated use.
ΘΚΠ
society > society and the community > kinship or relationship > kinsman or relation > child > relationship to parent > [noun] > condition of twin
twinship1674
twinism1796
twinhood1871
twinness1909
1871 S. Wilberforce Let. in R. G. Wilberforce Life S. Wilberforce (1882) III. xiv. 387 That mystery of twin-hood which seems to reach into the spirit world.
ˈtwinism n. = twinship n.Apparently an isolated use.
ΘΚΠ
society > society and the community > kinship or relationship > kinsman or relation > child > relationship to parent > [noun] > condition of twin
twinship1674
twinism1796
twinhood1871
twinness1909
1796 C. Burney Mem. Life Metastasio III. 92 My fond twinism has suggested to me, that you pass the chief part of your time in the open air.
twin-like adj.
ΘΚΠ
the world > relative properties > relationship > similarity > [adjective]
ylikeeOE
likeOE
anlikeOE
accordanta1325
of a (also one) mouldc1330
kindred1340
lichy1370
likelyc1384
alikea1393
ontinkela1400
evenly?c1400
similable?a1440
semble1449
of a sort1463
seemable1501
uniform1548
resembled1553
self-like1556
like-natured1566
resembling1573
kindlike1579
of the same, that, every, etc. feather1581
resemblant1581
marrow1585
similar1586
like-seeming1590
twin-like1599
connatural1601
similary1610
semblativea1616
otherlike1620
like-shaped1640
connate1641
homogeneous1641
consimilar1645
congenerous1646
resemblancing1652
congeniousa1656
congenerate1657
equaliform1660
congenial1669
similitive1678
symbolizant1685
synonymous1690
of akin1723
consimilary1736
like-sized1742
cogeneric1777
alike as a row of pins1785
congenerica1834
Siamese1833
congener1867
lak1881
sorty1885
homoeomorphic1902
homogenized1958
1599 T. Nashe Lenten Stuffe 19 A twinlike image of it.
1631 R. Brathwait Whimzies ii. 10 It would doe a mans heart good to see how twinne-like hee and his songman couple.
1816 R. Southey Poet's Pilgrimage to Waterloo Proem ix The playmate of her infancy, Her twin-like comrade.
ˈtwinness n. = twinship n.Apparently an isolated use.
ΘΚΠ
society > society and the community > kinship or relationship > kinsman or relation > child > relationship to parent > [noun] > condition of twin
twinship1674
twinism1796
twinhood1871
twinness1909
1909 Mod. Lang. Rev. 4 197 The resemblance of the scheme of the play [Twelfth Night], with the wonderful likeness of Viola and Sebastian, to that of the Comedy of Errors, with the twinness of the Antipholi.
ˈtwinity n. [after trinity] a group of two in intimate union, two in one.
ΘΚΠ
the world > relative properties > number > specific numbers > one > unity or undividedness > [noun] > unity of two parts
bi-unity1646
twinity1879
the world > relative properties > number > specific numbers > two > duality > [noun] > two in one
bi-unity1646
twinity1879
1879 S. Baring-Gould Germany I. 201 [tr. Schiller] Herder and his wife..form together a sort of sacred twinity.
1889 J. Veitch Knowing & Being i. 22 This may be called a unity; it is rather, if we might invent a term suited to the new and marvellous conception,..an unparalleled and unbegotten twinity.
ˈtwinly adj. characteristic of or befitting a twin (brother or sister).Apparently an isolated use.
ΘΚΠ
society > society and the community > kinship or relationship > kinsman or relation > child > relationship to parent > [adjective] > twin > characteristic of
twinly1796
1796 C. Burney Mem. Life Metastasio III. 98 Accepting of your twinly offer.
1796 C. Burney tr. P. Metastasio Let. in Mem. Life Metastasio III. 259 I am, with usual twinly kindness, yours most faithfully.

Draft additions September 2007

twin-prop adj. and n. (a) adj. (of a vehicle) powered by twin propellers; (b) n. a twin-prop vehicle, esp. an aeroplane.
ΚΠ
1955 Charleston (W. Va.) Daily Mail 12 June 55 The twin-prop boat is now one of the largest steamers on the Kanawha River.
1978 Globe & Mail (Toronto) 30 Sept. 51/1 A three-hour flight in a wind-jostled twin-prop.
1983 Times 9 June 4/3 She..rode on a twin-prop hovercraft.
2000 Vanity Fair (N.Y.) Aug. 117/1 We drove to a bullet-peppered airfield outside of town and boarded an old twin-prop that flew us up Bunce River.

Draft additions June 2014

twin-lens reflex n. Photography a camera with two lenses with equal focal length (typically one above the other), of which one is the taking lens, and the other projects the image via a mirror to a viewfinder; also attributive; abbreviated TLR.The advantage of this design is that the photographer sees (almost) the same view that the camera records, without the blacking out during exposure that occurs with a single-lens reflex.
ΚΠ
1876 Brit. Jrnl. Photogr. 28 July 349/1 The old method exclusively adopted before twin lens cameras were introduced must be reverted to.]
1907 Brit. Jrnl. Photogr. 448/1 A smaller and less expensive pattern of the twin-lens reflex is made without the reversing back.
1957 Pop. Mech. Aug. 173 Shooting what you see in the viewer at a range as close as 12 in. can be done with a twin-lens reflex camera if you first compensate for the difference in the fields of view of the taking lens and the viewing lens.
2001 O. Sacks Uncle Tungsten xii. 138 The Leica was his favorite camera when he went hiking; he preferred to use a twin-lens reflex, a Rolleiflex, for general use.

Draft additions December 2016

twin-fin adj. and n. Surfing and Windsurfing (a) adj. (of a surfboard or sailboard) having two fins (fin n.1 Additions); (b) n. a twin-fin surfboard or sailboard.
ΚΠ
1970 C. Carroll in Surfer Nov. 58 The twin-fin surfboard is the breakthrough that surfing has demanded for the last couple of years.
1971 Galveston (Texas) Daily News 24 July 13/4 (advt.) Surfboard sell out. Single fins $10 up. Twin fins $60 up.
2001 P. Dixon Compl. Guide Surfing i. 16 I once owned a remarkable 10-foot Simmons twin-fin board.
2016 W. Larsen Assassin's Silence 93 Slaton had taken up surfing... He came across an old fiberglass twin-fin in a woodshed.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1916; most recently modified version published online June 2022).

twinv.1

Forms: see preceding; cf. also twine v.2
Etymology: Middle English twinnen , < twin adj. and n. For the development of the senses compare twin adj. 4.
Obsolete exc. Scottish.
1.
a. transitive. To put asunder (properly two things or persons, or one from the other); to separate, disjoin, disunite, sunder, sever, part, divide; †to deliver, set free; figurative to distinguish.
ΘΚΠ
the world > relative properties > wholeness > mutual relation of parts to whole > separation > separate [verb (transitive)]
to-twemec893
sunderOE
asunderOE
shedOE
dealOE
shill1049
skillc1175
to-twinc1175
twinc1230
disseverc1250
depart1297
slita1300
to-throwc1315
parta1325
drevec1325
devisec1330
dividec1374
sever1382
unknit?a1425
divorce1430
separea1450
separate?a1475
untine1496
to put apart1530
discussa1542
deceper1547
disseparate1550
apart1563
unjoint1565
shoal1571
divisionatea1586
single1587
dispart1590
descide1598
disassociate1598
distract1600
dissolve1605
discriminate1615
dissociate1623
discerpa1628
discind1640
dissunder1642
distinguish1648
severize1649
unstring1674
skaila1833
cleave1873
dirempt1885
c1230 Hali Meid. 13 Engel & meiden beon euening in uertu of meidenhades mihte þah eadinesse ham twinni ȝette & to-tweame.
a1250 (?a1200) Ancrene Riwle (Titus) (1963) 86 Euch an itwinned [?c1225 Cleo. to twimed (read to twinned); c1230 Corpus itweamet].
a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Gött.) l. 7948 Þi hous..Sal neuer be tuinned [Fairf., Trin. Cambr. twynned] be fra suord.
a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) l. 390 For to tuin dai fra night.
a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) l. 22912 Nan es..þat can tuin þat erth þat com o man Fra þat erth þat es bredd o best.
c1400 N. Love tr. Bonaventura Mirror Life Christ (1907) 252 Our bodily felauschip is twynned, and now moste I nedes be departed fro the.
?c1450 Life St. Cuthbert (1891) l. 6704 Twede fra scotlande bernyce twynnes.
a1500 (a1460) Towneley Plays (1994) I. vii. 64 From hell he will theym twyn.
a1500 (a1460) Towneley Plays (1994) I. ii. 21 With cheke-bon,..Shal I the and thi life twyn.
a1500 (a1460) Towneley Plays (1994) I. i. 3 Oone God in persons thre Which may neuer twynnyd be.
1513 G. Douglas tr. Virgil Æneid vi. vii. 11 From the sweit lyf twynnit vntymusly.
1637 [see sense 2a].
1686 G. Stuart Joco-serious Disc. 58 Then out he drew a gully knife With that he twinned me and my life.
1832 W. Motherwell Poems 184 The waves and cruel wars hae twinn'd My winsome luve frae me.
1855 Fraser's Mag. 51 95 Ah, my cruel cruel step~dame, who hath twinn'd our love for aye.
†b. To divide or share; to part with. Obsolete. rare.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > possession > relinquishing > relinquish or give up [verb (transitive)] > part with or let go
twinc1330
forbeara1400
twina1400
to depart withc1485
omit1531
to depart from1548
to leave hold1556
sunderc1600
impart1606
ungrasp1621
disfingera1652
shed1667
to leave go1776
unclutch1816
part1818
dispart with1820
c1330 R. Mannyng Chron. (1810) 86 Þing þat a man wynnes, It is told purchase, whedir he it hold or tuynnes.
1790 A. Shirrefs Poems 74 Narrow's the saul wha winna twin his gear To..help the poor!
c. To deprive of.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > possession > loss > taking away > take away [verb (transitive)] > deprive (of)
benimc890
to do of ——eOE
bedealc1000
disturbc1230
bereavec1275
reave?a1300
acquitc1300
benemec1300
deprivec1330
privea1382
subvertc1384
oppressc1395
abridgea1400
to bate of, from1399
lessa1400
nakena1400
dischargea1425
privatec1425
to bring outa1450
abatec1450
sever?1507
spulyie?1507
denude1513
disable1529
distrain1530
destituec1540
destitutec1540
defalk1541
to turn out of ——1545
discomfit1548
wipe1549
nude1551
disannul?a1556
bereft1557
diminish1559
benoom1563
joint1573
uncase1583
rid1585
disarm1590
visitc1592
ease1600
dispatch1604
unfurnisha1616
rig1629
retrench1640
unbecomea1641
disentail1641
cashier1690
twin1722
mulct1748
fordo1764
to do out of ——1796
to cut out1815
bate1823
deprivate1832
devoid1878
1722 A. Ramsay Tale Three Bonnets i. 12 His [Samson's] Strength, Of which she twin'd him at the Length.
a1800 Fine Flowers in Valley in F. J. Child Eng. & Sc. Pop. Ballads (1882) I. i. 220/1 She's taen out her little pen-knife, And twinnd the sweet babe o its life.
1887 J. Service Life Dr. Duguid xvi. 103 It was just like the twinnin' him o' his vera life to part wi a plack.
2. intransitive.
a. Of two persons or things: To go asunder; to separate, part.
ΘΚΠ
the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > going away > go away [verb (intransitive)] > part or go away in different directions
dealc1000
shedc1000
twin?c1225
departc1290
to-go13..
parta1325
severc1375
disseverc1386
to part companya1400
discontinue1576
to fall apart1599
flya1677
separate1794
dispart1804
split1843
the world > relative properties > wholeness > mutual relation of parts to whole > separation > separate, come, or go apart [verb (intransitive)]
to-dealeOE
shedc1000
asunderOE
to-twemea1225
sunderc1225
twin?c1225
atwin?a1400
to make separationc1450
separe1490
twain15..
sever1545
unsever1609
spread1611
separate1638
disclaim1644
to come apart1764
to go separate ways1774
twine1886
?c1225 (?a1200) Ancrene Riwle (Cleo. C.vi) (1972) 291 Leoue freont beoð sari hwen haschulen to tw [i] nnen.
1340 R. Rolle Pricke of Conscience 1823 When þe body and þe saule salle twyn.
c1374 G. Chaucer Troilus & Criseyde (Corpus MS.) iv. 788 Though in erthe ytwynned be we tweyne.
a1425 Edward, Duke of York Master of Game (Digby) xxv And or þei twynne þei moste acorde where þe metynge shall be on þe morowe.
?a1500 Chester Pl. (E.E.T.S.) i. 271 Lightenes, darkenes, I byd yow twyn.
1567 Compend. Bk. Godly Songs (1897) 60 How suld we twin [1621 twine] that na man can depart?
1637 S. Rutherford Lett. (1863) I. 209 We should never twin again, except heaven twinned and sundered us.
1790 Scots Songs I. 77 We twa will never twin.
†b. To depart, go away (also in weakened sense, to go, proceed); to escape, get free. Obsolete.
ΘΚΠ
society > travel > aspects of travel > departure, leaving, or going away > depart, leave, or go away [verb (intransitive)]
to come awayeOE
wendeOE
i-wite971
ashakec975
shakeOE
to go awayOE
witea1000
afareOE
agoOE
awayOE
dealc1000
goOE
awendOE
rimeOE
to go one's wayOE
flitc1175
depart?c1225
partc1230
to-partc1275
atwitea1325
withdrawa1325
to turn one's (also the) backc1330
lenda1350
begonec1370
remuea1375
removec1380
to long awaya1382
twinc1386
to pass one's wayc1390
trussc1390
to turn awaya1400
returnc1405
to be gonea1425
recede1450
roomc1450
to come offc1475
to take one's licence1475
issue1484
walka1500
to go adieua1522
pikea1529
avaunt1549
trudge1562
vade?1570
discoast1571
leave1593
wag1594
to go off1600
troop1600
hence1614
to set on one's foota1616
to pull up one's stumps1647
quit1811
to clear out1816
slope1830
to walk one's chalks1835
shove1844
to roll out1850
to pull out1855
to light out1859
to take a run-out powder1909
to push off (also along)1923
the world > action or operation > safety > escape > [verb (intransitive)] > from confinement
atburstc1000
outbreakOE
strayc1330
aventc1375
twinc1386
out-wina1425
to break away1535
disengage1647
to break bounds1816
to cut loose1828
c1386 G. Chaucer Monk's T. 15 O Lucifer..Now artow sathanas, þat mayst nat twynne Out of miserie, in which þat thou art falle.
c1400 J. Lydgate Flour of Curtesye 256 And if you liste I dyed, I wolde assente, As ever twinne I quik out of this lynde!
c1405 (c1387–95) G. Chaucer Canterbury Tales Prol. (Hengwrt) (2003) l. 835 Now draweth cut er þt we ferrer twynne He which þt hath the shorteste shal bigynne.
c1422 T. Hoccleve Learn to Die 183 I keepe nat þat y shal hennes twyne [rhyme synne].
c1480 (a1400) St. James Great 375 in W. M. Metcalfe Legends Saints Sc. Dial. (1896) I. 108 Out of þis warld þat we ma twene but schame, det, or dedly syne.
a1605 A. Montgomerie Devotional Poems in Poems (1910) v. 22 Or thou be sommound by vncerten death,..Sen tym is precious tak it or ȝe tuin.
†c. With from: To separate oneself from; to part from, take leave of; to depart from, leave, forsake, renounce. Obsolete.
ΘΚΠ
the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > going away > go away [verb (intransitive)]
wendeOE
i-wite971
ashakec975
shakeOE
to go awayOE
witea1000
afareOE
agoOE
atwendOE
awayOE
to wend awayOE
awendOE
gangOE
rimeOE
flitc1175
to fare forthc1200
depart?c1225
part?c1225
partc1230
to-partc1275
biwitec1300
atwitea1325
withdrawa1325
to draw awayc1330
passc1330
to turn one's (also the) backc1330
lenda1350
begonec1370
remuea1375
voidc1374
removec1380
to long awaya1382
twinc1386
to pass one's wayc1390
trussc1390
waive1390
to pass out ofa1398
avoida1400
to pass awaya1400
to turn awaya1400
slakec1400
wagc1400
returnc1405
to be gonea1425
muck1429
packc1450
recede1450
roomc1450
to show (a person) the feetc1450
to come offc1475
to take one's licence1475
issue1484
devoidc1485
rebatea1500
walka1500
to go adieua1522
pikea1529
to go one's ways1530
retire?1543
avaunt1549
to make out1558
trudge1562
vade?1570
fly1581
leave1593
wag1594
to get off1595
to go off1600
to put off1600
shog1600
troop1600
to forsake patch1602
exit1607
hence1614
to give offa1616
to take off1657
to move off1692
to cut (also slip) the painter1699
sheera1704
to go about one's business1749
mizzle1772
to move out1792
transit1797–1803
stump it1803
to run away1809
quit1811
to clear off1816
to clear out1816
nash1819
fuff1822
to make (take) tracks (for)1824
mosey1829
slope1830
to tail out1830
to walk one's chalks1835
to take away1838
shove1844
trot1847
fade1848
evacuate1849
shag1851
to get up and get1854
to pull out1855
to cut (the) cable(s)1859
to light out1859
to pick up1872
to sling one's Daniel or hook1873
to sling (also take) one's hook1874
smoke1893
screw1896
shoot1897
voetsak1897
to tootle off1902
to ship out1908
to take a (run-out, walk-out, etc.) powder1909
to push off1918
to bugger off1922
biff1923
to fuck off1929
to hit, split or take the breeze1931
to jack off1931
to piss offa1935
to do a mick1937
to take a walk1937
to head off1941
to take a hike1944
moulder1945
to chuff off1947
to get lost1947
to shoot through1947
skidoo1949
to sod off1950
peel1951
bug1952
split1954
poop1961
mugger1962
frig1965
the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > going away > go away from [verb (transitive)] > part from
twinc1386
part1496
to depart with1502
to fall from ——1600
the world > action or operation > behaviour > customary or habitual mode of behaviour > unaccustomedness or state of disuse > give up a habit or practice [verb (transitive)]
leaveeOE
forsakec1175
waive1340
twinc1386
refuse1389
to set aside1426
relinquish1454
abuse1471
renouncec1480
disaccustom1483
to break from1530
to lay aside1530
disprofess1590
dropa1616
to set bya1674
decline1679
unpractise?1680
slough1845
shake1872
sluff1934
kick1936
c1386 G. Chaucer Pardoner's Prol. 102 Yet kan I maken oother folk to twynne From Auarice.
a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Coll. Phys.) l. 23182 Fra þat dai forþe..Sal neuir fra bodi sauil tuin.
1406 T. Hoccleve La Male Regle 42 Whan fro thee twynned shee.
1430–40 J. Lydgate tr. Bochas Fall of Princes (Bodl. 263) i. xiv. 62/1 Whan the sperit shal fro the bodi twynne.
c1430 J. Lydgate Minor Poems (Percy Soc.) 247 Thy feet embracyng fro whiche I shal nat twynne, Mercy requeeryng.
c1480 (a1400) St. Pelagia 182 in W. M. Metcalfe Legends Saints Sc. Dial. (1896) II. 209 Men but nombre..haf I gert..fra god twyn.
d. With with: To part with; to take leave of; to deprive oneself of, give up.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > possession > relinquishing > relinquish or give up [verb (transitive)] > part with or let go
twinc1330
forbeara1400
twina1400
to depart withc1485
omit1531
to depart from1548
to leave hold1556
sunderc1600
impart1606
ungrasp1621
disfingera1652
shed1667
to leave go1776
unclutch1816
part1818
dispart with1820
a1400–50 Alexander 2750 He..takis þam of his tresoure & twynnes with þaim faire.
1486 Bk. St. Albans E iij b When he [the hare] is female and kyndelis hym with in In .iij. degrees he hem berith or he with hem twyn.
1591 R. Bruce Serm. Edinb. iii. sig. G1v Noe heart..can twin with the thing that it loueth without exceding sorrow.
1629 W. Mure True Crucifixe Introd. 38 As crucified to sinne Readie for Him, with each thing els to twinne Wee labour should.
1721 A. Ramsay Katy's Answer iii He's unco sweer To twin wi' his gear.
†e. To break asunder; to burst or cleave in twain. Obsolete.
ΘΚΠ
the world > existence and causation > creation > destruction > breaking or cracking > break [verb (intransitive)]
burstc1000
breakc1175
rendc1275
cracka1400
perbreak?a1400
crazec1430
twinc1450
frush1489
to fall apart1761
fracture1885
c1450 Cov. Myst. (Shaks. Soc.) 326 Myn herte with peyn is pressyd, For sorwe myn hert doth twynne.
a1513 H. Bradshaw Lyfe St. Werburge (1521) ii. v. sig. o.iv For whiche the citezens..Were sore disconsolate like for to twyn.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1916; most recently modified version published online December 2021).

twinv.2

Etymology: < twin adj. and n.
1.
a. intransitive. To bring forth two children or young at a birth; to bear twins.
ΘΚΠ
the world > life > biology > biological processes > procreation or reproduction > multiply or reproduce [verb (intransitive)] > bring forth multiple offspring at a birth
twin1573
the world > life > source or principle of life > birth > confinement > be confined [verb (intransitive)] > give birth > multiple birth
twin1573
twindle1845
1573 T. Tusser Fiue Hundreth Points Good Husbandry f. 34v Eaws yerely by twining, rich masters do make.
1587 W. Harrison Hist. Descr. Iland Brit. (new ed.) iii. i. 219/2 in Holinshed's Chron. (new ed.) I Kine..now and then twin.
1614 C. Brooke in W. Browne Shepheards Pipe sig. F6v Whiles thy Rams do Tup, thy Ewes do twyn.
1659 P. Heylyn Examen Historicum i. 108 The world had..never increased to such vast multitudes in so short a time, if Eve had not twinned at least at every birth.
1817 M. Keating Trav. II. 187 The ewes of this country rarely twin.
1874 T. Hardy Far from Madding Crowd I. xv. 186 Two more ewes have twinned.
b. transitive. To conceive or bring forth as twins, or as a twin with another.
ΚΠ
a1616 [implied in: W. Shakespeare Timon of Athens (1623) iv. iii. 3 Twin'd Brothers of one wombe. View more context for this quotation].
1626 G. Sandys tr. Ovid Metamorphosis ix. 176 From each seuer'd head Each of her hundred necks two fiercer bred: More strong by twinning heires.
1770 H. Brooke Fool of Quality V. xvii. 261 I have..a sister, twinned with me in the womb.
c. intransitive in passive sense: To be born at the same birth with; to be the twin brother or sister of another. ? Obsolete.
ΘΚΠ
the world > life > source or principle of life > birth > be born [verb (intransitive)] > together
twina1616
a1616 W. Shakespeare Othello (1622) ii. iii. 205 Tho he had twin'd with me, both at a birth. View more context for this quotation
1701 I. Watts Indian Philos. in Horæ Lyricæ ix Might I but see That gentle nymph that twinn'd with me.
1790 By-stander 308 If a brother..who had twinned with him should dare [etc.].
2.
a. transitive. To couple, join, unite, combine (two things or persons) closely or intimately. literal and figurative. Also spec. to cause (towns) to be twinned (chiefly in passive): see twinned adj. 2c.
ΘΚΠ
the world > relative properties > wholeness > mutual relation of parts to whole > fact or action of being joined or joining > join (together) [verb (transitive)] > couple or yoke together
couplec1330
twinc1394
yokea1400
accouple1548
conjugate1570
ingeminate1609
incouple1611
jugate1623
adjugate1730
wive1886
society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > district in relation to human occupation > town as opposed to country > town or city > [verb (transitive)] > link with another
twin1957
c1394 P. Pl. Crede 496 Here y touche þis two, twynnen hem I þenke.
1608 B. Jonson Descr. Masque Visct. Haddington 289 in Characters Two Royall Masques In Gemini, that noble powre is showne, That twins their hearts; and doth, of two, make one.
1611 Bible (King James) Exod. xxvi. 24 They shall be coupled [margin. twinned] together beneath. View more context for this quotation
1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost xii. 85 True Libertie..alwayes with right Reason dwells Twinn'd, and from her hath no dividual being. View more context for this quotation
1725 W. Halfpenny Art of Sound Building 22 To form a Centre so, that the Mason..shall twin their Arches thereon.
1851 Ld. Tennyson Princess (ed. 4) i. 17 Still we moved Together, twinn'd as horse's ear and eye.
1957 Harrogate Advertiser 16 Mar. 13/5 Harrogate was the first town in the country to be twinned with a French town—Luchon.
1983 Guardian Weekly 6 Feb. 13/5 One thousand towns and villages from each country have been twinned.
b. intransitive. To be coupled; to join, combine, unite; to be parallel or equal, to agree. spec. Of a town or city: to become twinned with (another).
ΘΚΠ
the world > relative properties > relationship > equality or equivalence > be or become equal [verb (intransitive)]
evenOE
peerc1400
aperea1450
apparagea1450
likea1450
to make odds evena1616
sharea1616
twin1626
size1639
equalize1906
society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > district in relation to human occupation > town as opposed to country > town or city > [verb (intransitive)] > become linked with another
twin1973
1626 [implied in: G. Sandys tr. Ovid Metamorphosis xi. 218 Her twinning legs in timber meet. (at twinning adj.)].
1638 G. Sandys Paraphr. Iob xxxvii. 48 in Paraphr. Divine Poems O how inscrutable! his equitie Twins with his Power.
1652 E. Benlowes Theophila x. lxxvi. 189 Wealth twins with Fear.
1973 Daily Tel. 1 Feb. 1/4 Liverpool is to go ahead with a plan to ‘twin’ with the port of Haiphong in North Vietnam.
1977 Cornish Times 19 Aug. 15/5 Pleyber-Christ, the Breton town with which it is proposed that Lostwithiel should ‘twin’.
c. Crystallography (transitive) To unite (two crystals) according to some definite law so as to form a twin crystal (see twin n. 3b). Only in passive, and in verbal noun (twinning n.2 2).
ΘΚΠ
the world > matter > chemistry > crystallography (general) > crystal (general) > crystal types > formation of twins [verb (transitive)]
twina1824
a1824 Encycl. Metrop. (1845) XVI. 364/2 Twinning on an octahedral face is seen in the apposition twin of Spinel.
1883 Encycl. Brit. XVI. 363/2 Occasionally a simple form is twinned with a more complex one, as in chabasite.
1895 N. Story-Maskelyne Crystallogr. vii. §193 Crystals twinned on an octahedron-face.
1895 N. Story-Maskelyne Crystallogr. vii. §194 Two crystals twinned round an axis.
3. transitive. To be, or furnish, a ‘twin’ or counterpart to; to match, parallel.
ΘΚΠ
the world > relative properties > relationship > equality or equivalence > make equal [verb (transitive)] > be equal to or match
to be even witheOE
match?1529
countervail1530
even1582
suit1583
patterna1586
amate1590
proportionate1590
parallela1594
fellow1596
to hold its level with1598
adequate1599
coequal1599
twin1605
paragonize1606
peer1614
to come upa1616
proportiona1616
paragon1620
parallelize1620
tail1639
to match up to (also with)1958
1605 1st Pt. Jeronimo sig. C A suite iust Of Andreas, cullers, proportiond in all parts, Nay twas his own.
1869 Good Words Mar. 176 Thou hast no mate To..twin those matchless heights.
1873 J. R. Lowell Graves Eng. Soldiers Concord 32 O'erhead the balanced hen-hawk slides, Twinned in the river's heaven below.
4. Agriculture. To break up or clear (land) with a ‘twin’ (twin n. 3c). local.
ΘΚΠ
the world > food and drink > farming > cultivation or tillage > breaking up land > break up land [verb (transitive)] > with other implements
rut1775
twin1841
rib roll1971
1841 C. H. Hartshorne Salopia Antiqua Gloss. Twinning to tak away the scutch.
1859 Jrnl. Royal Agric. Soc. 20 i. 217 Some of the turnip-soil, broken up and then ‘twinned’.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1916; most recently modified version published online June 2020).
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