twin

Noun

Noun

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A word that identifies a person, place, thing, or idea.

Plural

twins

Verb

Verb

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A word that expresses an action, state, or occurrence.

present (v1)

twin

past (v2)

twinned

past participle (v3)

twinned

present participle

twinning

3rd person singular

twins

Noun

Noun

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A word that identifies a person, place, thing, or idea.

1. 1.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.

   • The twins are coming over this afternoon.

2. 2.Either of two similar or closely related objects, plans, institutions, people, etc.

   • Your idea is the twin of mine.
   • He is my twin (wearing the same shirt, driving the same car, etc.).
   • Yo, twin, lemme rap at ya.

3. 3.Contains or comprises a pair

   • Do you have a twin brother?

4. 4.Refers to a specific size

   • Do you have a twin brother?

Verb

Verb

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A word that expresses an action, state, or occurrence.

1. 1.To separate, divide.

2. 2.To split, part; to go away, depart.

3. 3.To join, unite; to form links between (now especially of two places in different countries); to pair with.

   • Still we moved / Together, twinned, as horse's ear and eye.
   • Reading, the English town, is twinned with Clonmel in Ireland.
   • Coventry twinned with Dresden as an act of peace and reconciliation, both cities having been heavily bombed during the war.

4. 4.To give birth to twins.

   • Twinning today is abnormal in all higher primates, and possibly adaptive only in the one species with an obstetrical technology that permits a high rate of survival of twins.
   • “I’ve run to tell ye,” said the junior shepherd, supporting his exhausted youthful frame against the doorpost, “that you must come directly. Two more ewes have twinned, that’s what’s the matter, Shepherd Oak.”

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