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Twining

adj, name, noun, verb

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Adjective
  1. 1
    That twines. not-comparable

    "White breast of the dim sea. The twining stresses, two by two. A hand plucking the harpstrings, merging their twining chords."

Proper Noun
  1. 1
    A surname. countable, uncountable
  2. 2
    A place in the United States:; A village in Mason Township and Turner Township, Arenac County, Michigan. countable, uncountable
  3. 3
    A place in the United States:; A ghost town in Taos County, New Mexico. countable, uncountable
  4. 4
    A place in the United States:; A neighbourhood in south-east Washington, D.C.. countable, uncountable
Noun
  1. 1
    A layout or motion that twines. countable

    "In addition to autonomous movements in one plane we have also autonomous movements in space, such as torsions and twinings."

  2. 2
    complaining or grumbling British, Cumbria, regional, uncountable

    "Canon Bryan Rowe, quoted in the article. It's going to take months to put right. But you won't hear any twining [Cumbrian dialect for moaning]. Nobody is going: 'Woe is us'. Everybody is just trying to help somebody else."

Verb
  1. 1
    present participle and gerund of twine form-of, gerund, participle, present

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