Twin

[twin]

(astrology) a person who is born while the sun is in Gemini

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Being one of two born at a birth; as, a twin brother or sister.

Noun
a duplicate copy

Noun
a waterfall in the Snake River in southern Idaho

Noun
(astrology) a person who is born while the sun in in Gemini

Noun
either of two offspring born at the same time from the same pregnancy

Verb
give birth to twins

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Verb
grow as twins; "twin crystals"

Verb
bring two objects, ideas, or people together; "This fact is coupled to the other one"; "Matchmaker, can you match my daughter with a nice young man?"; "The student was paired with a partner for collaboration on the project"

Verb
duplicate or match; "The polished surface twinned his face and chest in reverse"

Adjective S.
very similar

a.
Being one of two born at a birth; as, a twin brother or sister.

a.
Being one of a pair much resembling one another; standing the relation of a twin to something else; -- often followed by to or with.

a.
Double; consisting of two similar and corresponding parts.

a.
Composed of parts united according to some definite law of twinning. See Twin, n., 4.

n.
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.

n.
A sign and constellation of the zodiac; Gemini. See Gemini.

n.
A person or thing that closely resembles another.

n.
A compound crystal composed of two or more crystals, or parts of crystals, in reversed position with reference to each other.

v. i.
To bring forth twins.

v. i.
To be born at the same birth.

v. t.
To cause to be twins, or like twins in any way.

v. t.
To separate into two parts; to part; to divide; hence, to remove; also, to strip; to rob.

v. i.
To depart from a place or thing.

Twin

Twin , a. [OE. twin double, AS. getwinne two and two, pl., twins; akin to D. tweeling a twin, G. zwilling, OHG. zwiniling, Icel. tvennr, tvinnr, two and two, twin, and to AS. twi- two. See Twice, Two.] 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 the relation of a twin to something else; -- often followed by to or with. Shak. 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, ∨ 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 (Linn'91a 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.

Twin

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. &hand; 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.

Twin

Twin , v. i. [imp. & p. p. Twinned ; p. pr. & vb. n. Twinning.] 1. To bring forth twins. Tusser. 2. To be born at the same birth. Shak.

Twin

Twin, v. t. 1. To cause to be twins, or like twins in any way. Shak.
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

Twin, v. i. To depart from a place or thing. [Obs.] "Ere that we farther twin." Chaucer.

Being one of two born at a birth; as, a twin brother or sister.

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.

To bring forth twins.

To cause to be twins, or like twins in any way.

To depart from a place or thing.

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Usage Examples

Doubt is a pain too lonely to know that faith is his twin brother.

What Churchill described as the twin marauders of war and tyranny have been almost entirely banished from our continent. Today, hundreds of millions dwell in freedom, from the Baltic to the Adriatic, from the Western Approaches to the Aegean.

All who joy would win must share it. Happiness was born a Twin.

Skill is successfully walking a tightrope between the twin towers of New York's World Trade Center. Intelligence is not trying.

Misspelled Form

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Other Usage Examples

I was much distressed by next door people who had twin babies and played the violin but one of the twins died, and the other has eaten the fiddle, so all is peace.

The birth of science as we know it arguably began with Isaac Newton's formulation of the laws of gravitation and motion. It is no exaggeration to say that physics was reborn in the early 20th-century with the twin revolutions of quantum mechanics and the theory of relativity.

Memory is a complicated thing, a relative to truth, but not its twin.

Well, because I have twin seven-year-old boys, I enjoy the gift giving stuff a great deal. We do both Hanukkah and Christmas, so it is a costly, though extremely pleasing proposition.