twine
see also: Twine
Pronunciation
Twine
Proper noun
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see also: Twine
Pronunciation
- IPA: /twaɪn/
From Middle English twyn, twyne, twin, from Old English twīn, from Proto-West Germanic *twiʀn, from Proto-Indo-European *dwisnós, from *dwóh₁ ("two").
Nountwine
- A twist; a convolution.
- A strong thread composed of two or three smaller threads or strands twisted together, and used for various purposes, as for binding small parcels, making nets, and the like; a small cord or string.
- The act of twining or winding round.
- Intimate and suggestive dance gyrations.
- 1965, Wilson Pickett, Don't Fight It (blues song), BMI Music.
- The way you jerk, the way you do the twine / You're too much, baby; I'd like to make you mine [...]
- 1965, Wilson Pickett, Don't Fight It (blues song), BMI Music.
- French: torsion, convolution
- German: Windung, Verschlingung, Drehung, Ranke, Wicklung
- Russian: сплете́ние
- Spanish: circunvolución, torsión
- French: ficelle
- German: Kordel, Zwirn, Schnur
- Italian: spago
- Portuguese: cordel, barbante
- Russian: бечёвка
- Spanish: cordel, cuerda, guita
- German: Winden, Verdrehen, Zwirnen, Verschlingen, Verwinden, Wickeln, Verzwirnen
- Russian: сплете́ние
- Spanish: entrelazar
From Middle English twinen, twynen, from Old English *twīnian, from Proto-Germanic *twiznōną, from Proto-Indo-European *dwisnós, from Proto-Indo-European *dwóh₁.
Verbtwine (twines, present participle twining; simple past and past participle twined)
- (transitive) To weave together.
- (transitive) To wind, as one thread around another, or as any flexible substance around another body.
- c. 1608–1609 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedy of Coriolanus”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC ↗, [Act IV, scene v]:
- Let me twine
Mine arms about that body […]
- 1931, Dashiell Hammett, chapter 10, in The Glass Key, New York: Vintage, published 1972, page 199:
- She was twining her fingers together.
- (transitive) To wind about; to embrace; to entwine.
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The victor cried, “the glorious prize is mine! […] ”
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- (intransitive) To mutually twist together; to become mutually involved; to intertwine.
- 1941, Emily Carr, chapter 1, in Klee Wyck:
- Usually some old crone was squatted on the earth floor, weaving cedar fibre or tatters of old cloth into a mat, her claw-like fingers twining in and out, in and out, among the strands that were fastened to a crude frame of sticks.
- (intransitive) To wind; to bend; to make turns; to meander.
- 1713, Jonathan Swift, Cadenus and Vanessa:
- As rivers, though they bend and twine,
Still to the sea their course incline:
- (intransitive) To ascend in spiral lines about a support; to climb spirally.
- Many plants twine.
- (obsolete) To turn round; to revolve.
- 1598, George Chapman, Hero and Leander:
- dancers twine midst cedar-fragrant glades
- (obsolete) To change the direction of.
- 1600, Torquato Tasso, translated by Edward Fairfax, Jerusalem Delivered, published 1581, Book 20, Stanza 38:
- For where he turned his sword, or twined his steed,
He slew, or man and beast on earth down laid,
- (obsolete) To mingle; to mix.
- 1646, Richard Crashaw, M. Crashaw’s Answer for Hope, lines 29–30:
- As lumpes of sugar loose themselues, and twine
Their subtile essence with the soul of wine.
twine (twines, present participle twining; simple past and past participle twined)
- Alternative form of twin
Twine
Proper noun
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