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Twin   /twɪn/   Listen
noun
Twin  n.  
1.
One of two produced at a birth, especially by an animal that ordinarily brings forth but one at a birth; used chiefly in the plural, and applied to the young of beasts as well as to human young.
2.
pl. (Astron.) A sign and constellation of the zodiac; Gemini. See Gemini.
3.
A person or thing that closely resembles another.
4.
(Crystallog.) A compound crystal composed of two or more crystals, or parts of crystals, in reversed position with reference to each other. Note: The relative position of the parts of a twin may be explained by supposing one part to be revolved 180° about a certain axis (called the twinning axis), this axis being normal to a plane (called the twinning plane) which is usually one of the fundamental planes of the crystal. This revolution brings the two parts into parallel position, or vice versa. A contact twin is one in which the parts are united by a plane surface, called the composition face, which is usually the same as the twinning plane. A penetration twin is one in which the parts interpenetrate each other, often very irregularly. Twins are also called, according to form, cruciform, geniculated, etc.


adjective
Twin  adj.  
1.
Being one of two born at a birth; as, a twin brother or sister.
2.
Being one of a pair much resembling one another; standing in the relation of a twin to something else; often followed by to or with.
3.
(Bot.) Double; consisting of two similar and corresponding parts.
4.
(Crystallog.) Composed of parts united according to some definite law of twinning. See Twin, n., 4.
Twin boat, or Twin ship (Naut.), a vessel whose deck and upper works rest on two parallel hulls.
Twin crystal. See Twin, n., 4.
Twin flower (Bot.), a delicate evergreen plant (Linnaea borealis) of northern climates, which has pretty, fragrant, pendulous flowers borne in pairs on a slender stalk.
Twin-screw steamer, a steam vessel propelled by two screws, one on either side of the plane of the keel.


verb
Twin  v. t.  
1.
To cause to be twins, or like twins in any way. "Still we moved Together, twinned, as horse's ear and eye."
2.
To separate into two parts; to part; to divide; hence, to remove; also, to strip; to rob. (Obs.) "The life out of her body for to twin."


Twin  v. i.  (past & past part. twinned; pres. part. twinning)  
1.
To bring forth twins.
2.
To be born at the same birth.


Twin  v. i.  To depart from a place or thing. (Obs.) "Ere that we farther twin."





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"Twin" Quotes from Famous Books



... up Hebog, and looked over the glorious vista of the vale, over the twin lakes, and the rich sheets of woodland, with Aran and Moel Meirch guarding them right and left, and the greystone glaciers of the Glyder walling up the valley miles above. And they went up Snowdon, too, and saw little beside fifty fog-blinded tourists, ...
— Two Years Ago, Volume II. • Charles Kingsley
... three hundred matchlock men, with flutes playing, and muskets echoing, and the heads of the warriors decorated with white plumes, on the 16th July entered the frontier town of the kingdom of Efat. Clusters of conical-roofed houses, covering the sides of twin hills, here presented the first permanent habitations that had greeted the eye since leaving the sea-coast—rude and ungainly, but right welcome signs of transition from depopulated waste to the abodes of man. The African seems a robber by ...
— Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, No. 341, March, 1844, Vol. 55 • Various
... Saint Lucia the twin Pitons (Gros Piton and Petit Piton), striking cone-shaped peaks south of Soufriere, are one of the scenic natural highlights of ...
— The 2005 CIA World Factbook • United States. Central Intelligence Agency
... suddenly she poured forth a babble of lamentations, wringing her hands, and rubbing her lips together. She was a woman passed of thirty, but thin still and fair like her brother in the face, for she was his twin. ...
— The Fifth Queen Crowned • Ford Madox Ford
... story the old man told was of a "bit of a trip" he had made to Liverpool, to see some Antwerp Carriers flown from thence to Ghent, and he fixed the date of this by remembering that his twin sons were born in his absence, and that though their birthday was the very day of the race, his "missus turned stoopid," as women (he warned the boy) are apt to do, and refused to have them christened by uncommon names connected with the fancy. ...
— Jackanapes, Daddy Darwin's Dovecot and Other Stories • Juliana Horatio Ewing


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