| 单词 | twine |
| 释义 | twine (once / 664 pages) nv Twine is the strong braided string that's often tied around a bakery box or used to secure a Christmas tree to the top of your car. Twine can be made of cotton, hemp, or even plastic — it's stronger than string, but thinner than rope. It can be used to stake plants in the garden or to tie up a package of cheese from a deli. Twine can also be a verb meaning "to twist around," the way threads are twisted into a strand of twine. Your cats might twine around each other to sleep, for example. The Old English version was twin, or "double strands of thread." WORD FAMILYtwine: entwine, intertwine, twined, twiner, twines, twining, untwine+/entwine: entwined, entwines, entwining/intertwine: intertwined, intertwines, intertwining/twiner: twiners/untwine: untwined, untwines, untwining USAGE EXAMPLESHe said when he loosened the twine to see if she would back down she instead said he "would pay" for what he was doing. BBC(Dec 21, 2016) In October, pirates left Patino and his brother bound with twine in their small motorized skiff, miles from shore. Seattle Times(Dec 07, 2016) With kitchen twine, tie beef roulades snugly at both ends and center to fully secure. Seattle Times(Dec 07, 2016) 1n a lightweight cord Syn|Hypo|Hyper string chalk line, snap line, snapline a chalked string used in the building trades to make a straight line on a vertical surface packthreada strong three-ply twine used to sew or tie packages cord a line made of twisted fibers or threads 2v spin,wind, or twist together Twine the threads into a rope Syn|Ant|Hypo|Hyper enlace, entwine, interlace, intertwine, lace untwine undo what has been twined together wind, wreathe form into a wreath wattleinterlace to form wattle plash, pleachinterlace the shoots of knot, ravel, tangletangle or complicate splicejoin by interweaving strands piecejoin during spinning distort, twist form into a spiral shape 3v arrange or or coil around Twine the thread around the spool Syn|Ant|Hypo|Hyper roll, wind, wrap unroll, unwind, wind off reverse the winding or twisting of spool wind onto a spool or a reel reelwind onto or off a reel ballform into a ball by winding or rolling clew, clueroll into a ball coil, curl, loopwind around something in coils or loops cheesewind onto a cheese reel off, unreelunwind from or as if from a reel displace, move cause to move or shift into a new position or place, both in a concrete and in an abstract sense 4v make by twisting together or intertwining twine a rope Syn|Hyper enlace, entwine, interlace, intertwine, lace spin,wind, or twist together create, make make or cause to be or to become 5v form into a spiral shape Syn|Ant|Hypo|Hyper distort, twist untwist cause to become untwisted wrench, wring twist and compress, as if in pain or anguish contort, deform, distort, wringtwist and press out of shape entangle, mat, snarl, tangletwist together or entwine into a confusing mass enlace, entwine, interlace, intertwine, lacespin,wind, or twist together spinwork natural fibers into a thread interweave, weaveinterlace by or as if by weaving morphchange shape as via computer animation plaitweave into plaits feltmat together and make felt-like enmesh, ensnarl, meshentangle or catch in (or as if in) a mesh wind, wreatheform into a wreath wattleinterlace to form wattle inweaveweave together into a fabric or design raddle, ruddletwist or braid together, interlace plash, pleachinterlace the shoots of shootvariegate by interweaving weft threads of different colors tinselinterweave with tinsel braid, pleachform or weave into a braid or braids knot, ravel, tangletangle or complicate splicejoin by interweaving strands change form, change shape, deform assume a different shape or form |
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