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单词 twin
释义

twin

See also: Twin

English

Identical twins Mark and Scott Kelly, both former NASA astronauts.

Alternative forms

  • twynne (obsolete)

Pronunciation

  • enPR: twĭn, IPA(key): /twɪn/, [tw̥ɪn]
  • Audio (US)(file)
  • Rhymes: -ɪn

Etymology 1

PIE word
*dwóh₁

From Middle English twinne, twynne, from Old English ġetwin, ġetwinn (“twin, multiple”, noun) and twinn (“twin, two-fold, double, two by two”, adjective), from Proto-Germanic *twinjaz, *twinaz (“two each”), from Proto-Indo-European *dwino- (“twin”), from *dwóh₁ (“two”). Cognate with Scots twyn (“twin”), Dutch tweeling (“twin”), German Zwilling (“twin”), Swedish tvilling (“twin”), Faroese tvinnur (“a double set”), Icelandic tvenna (“duo, pair”), Lithuanian dvynys (“twin”), Russian двойня (dvojnja, “twin”).

Noun

twin (plural twins)

  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.
  2. Either of two similar or closely related objects, entities etc.
  3. A room in a hotel, guesthouse, etc. with two beds; a twin room.
  4. (US) A twin size mattress or a bed designed for such a mattress.
  5. (aviation) A two-engine aircraft.
  6. (crystallography) A twin crystal.
Synonyms
  • twindle, twinling, doublet (in the sense of twins and triplets)
Derived terms
  • conjoined twin
  • evil twin
  • identical twin
  • Irish twin
  • mirror-image twin
  • monozygotic twin
  • quasi-twin
  • Siamese twin
  • twincest
  • Twin Cities
  • twin city
  • Twin Falls
  • twinjet
  • Twin Lakes
  • twin paradox
  • twin speech
  • twin talk
  • vanishing twin
Translations
twin crystal — see twin crystal
See also
  • twyndyllyng
  • (hotel room): single, double
  • twain

Verb

twin (third-person singular simple present twins, present participle twinning, simple past and past participle twinned)

  1. (transitive, obsolete outside Scotland) To separate, divide.
  2. (intransitive, obsolete outside Scotland) To split, part; to go away, depart.
  3. (usually in the passive) To join, unite; to form links between (now especially of two places in different countries); to pair with.
    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.
    • 1847, Alfred Tennyson, “Part 1”, in The Princess: A Medley, London: Edward Moxon, […], OCLC 2024748:
      Still we moved / Together, twinned, as horse's ear and eye.
    • 2006, Aruna D'Souza; Tom McDonough; Tom Mc Donough, The Invisible Flâneuse?: Gender, Public Space, and Visual Culture in Nineteenth-century Paris, Manchester University Press, →ISBN, page 60:
      Yet, Manet heightens its effect by performing the clever ocular trick of practically twinning her with her pictorial counterpart, Madame Lejosne.
  4. (intransitive) To give birth to twins.
    • 1874, Thomas Hardy, Far from the Madding Crowd:
      “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.”
    • 1992, George Christopher Williams, Natural Selection: Domains, Levels, and Challenges, Oxford University Press on Demand, →ISBN, page 79:
      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.
  5. (transitive) To be, or be like, a twin to (someone else); to match in some way.
    • 2009, Kathryn Bond Stockton, The Queer Child, or Growing Sideways in the Twentieth Century, Duke University Press, →ISBN, page 111:
      The invert child and her innocent child are together lost children, twinning each other despite their distinctions.
    • 2017, Christina Crosby, A Body, Undone: Living On After Great Pain, NYU Press, →ISBN, page 111:
      I was awake to the horror of our twinning each other in paralysis, and feared that we would soon talk only about the daily, intimate care serious paralysis demands […]
  6. (intransitive) To be, or be like, a pair of twins (for example, to dress identically); to be paired or suited.
    • 2018, Vivian Blue, Your Heart Is Mine: A Criminal Romance, Sullivan Group Publishing, →ISBN:
      “I see you got us twinning today.” Byrd kissed Lay quickly. “I wanted you to dress like me today,” he admitted.
    • 2019, Lisa Mullarkey, Paisley, ABDO, →ISBN, page 17:
      “We're totally twinning today!” said Zoey. “You sure are,” said Chef Piper. “I whipped up a special dessert for tonight.”
See also
  • sister city

Etymology 2

From Middle English *twin, *twyn, from Old English twin, twinn (“twin; double”, adjective), from Proto-Germanic *twīhnaz (“occurring in a pair; twofold; double”), from Proto-Indo-European *dwóh₁ (“two”). Cognate with Icelandic tvennur (“double”), Gothic 𐍄𐍅𐌴𐌹𐌷𐌽𐌰𐌹 (tweihnai, “two each”).

Adjective

twin (not comparable)

  1. Double; dual; occurring as a matching pair.
    twin beds, twin socks
  2. Forming a pair of twins.
    the twin boys
Synonyms
  • (forming a matched pair): twofold; see also Thesaurus:dual
Derived terms
  • twin bed
  • twin city
  • twin-clutch gearbox
  • twin crystal
  • twin-engine
  • twinhulled
  • twin killing
  • twin prime
  • twin quasar
  • twin room
  • twin screw
  • twin-size
  • twin town
  • V-twin
Translations

Further reading

  • twin in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
  • twin in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911
  • twin at OneLook Dictionary Search

Anagrams

  • Wint

Middle English

Noun

twin

  1. Alternative form of twyn

Old English

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /twin/

Adjective

twin

  1. Alternative form of twinn

Declension

Declension of twin — Strong
SingularMasculineFeminineNeuter
Nominativetwintwintwin
Accusativetwinnetwinnetwin
Genitivetwinnestwinretwinnes
Dativetwinnumtwinretwinnum
Instrumentaltwinnetwinretwinne
PluralMasculineFeminineNeuter
Nominativetwinnetwinna, twinnetwin
Accusativetwinnetwinna, twinnetwin
Genitivetwinratwinratwinra
Dativetwinnumtwinnumtwinnum
Instrumentaltwinnumtwinnumtwinnum
Declension of twin — Weak
SingularMasculineFeminineNeuter
Nominativetwinnatwinnetwinne
Accusativetwinnantwinnantwinne
Genitivetwinnantwinnantwinnan
Dativetwinnantwinnantwinnan
Instrumentaltwinnantwinnantwinnan
PluralMasculineFeminineNeuter
Nominativetwinnantwinnantwinnan
Accusativetwinnantwinnantwinnan
Genitivetwinra, twinnenatwinra, twinnenatwinra, twinnena
Dativetwinnumtwinnumtwinnum
Instrumentaltwinnumtwinnumtwinnum
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