Twining
adj, name, noun, verb ·2 syllables ·Uncommon ·Advanced level
Definitions
- 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 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."
- 1 present participle and gerund of twine form-of, gerund, participle, present
- 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."
- 1 A surname. countable, uncountable
- 2 A place in the United States:; A village in Mason Township and Turner Township, Arenac County, Michigan. countable, uncountable
- 3 A place in the United States:; A ghost town in Taos County, New Mexico. countable, uncountable
- 4 A place in the United States:; A neighbourhood in south-east Washington, D.C.. countable, uncountable
Example
More examples"These orders were not necessary; for in a quarter of an hour's time there grew up all round about the park such a vast number of trees, great and small, bushes and brambles, twining one within another, that neither man nor beast could pass through; so that nothing could be seen but the very top of the towers of the palace; and that, too, only from afar off."
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