Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Born two in a single birth.
- adjective Paired or coupled with something identical or similar.
- adjective Mineralogy Formed by the process of twinning. Used of crystals.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective (Crystallog.) Composed of parts united according to a law of twinning. See
twin , n., 4.
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- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
twin .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective being two identical
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Examples
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There was also in the look a slight something like idiocy, for his soul was not precisely with his body; his thoughts, though concerning his father, were elsewhere; the circumstances of his soul and of his body were not the same; and so, being twinned, that is, divided, _twained_, he was as one beside himself.
Weighed and Wanting George MacDonald 1864
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The Somerset town of Wincanton was officially 'twinned' with the Discworld city of Ankh-Morpork in 2002.
The Discworld Comes to...Somerset? Adam Whitehead 2009
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WPPSS planned Plant 4 at Hanford and 5 at Satsop which would be "twinned" with 1 and 3.
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We now have five 'twinned' places in our small town.
European Union (Information, etc.) Bill Serf 2007
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Safcoc and the various departments would be "twinned".
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The Program will also include support from health personnel from Australian State and regional health authorities who will be 'twinned' to provinces in PNG where the Rural Health Program will operate.
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But Harpurhey officials are so confident of its similarities with its French counterpart that they have proposed a friendship agreement which would see the two regions "twinned".
Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph 2011
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But Harpurhey officials are so confident of its similarities with its French counterpart that they have proposed a friendship agreement which would see the two regions "twinned".
Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph 2011
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"Interactions between teachers bring something that e-mail can't," said Moradov, who teaches at P'sagot School in the Upper Galilee, where all of the "twinned" Israeli schools are located.
J. Weekly 2010
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"Interactions between teachers bring something that e-mail can't," said Moradov, who teaches at P'sagot School in the Upper Galilee, where all of the "twinned" Israeli schools are located.
J. Weekly 2010
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