Tom attached some twine to the kite.
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Twine
//twaɪn//
Synonyms for "twine" (114 found)
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5 entriescoordinate
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8 entriesetymologically related_to
1 entriesmanner of
1 entriesrelated to
13 entriessimilar
6 entriesTranslations
133 translations across 41 languages.
Bulgarian
4 entries- витка noun (a twist; a convolution)
- връв noun (strong thread)
- извиване noun (the act of twining)
- извивка noun (a twist; a convolution)
Catalan
4 entries- circumvolució noun (a twist; a convolution)
- cordill noun (strong thread)
- entrellaçar noun (the act of twining)
- torsió noun (a twist; a convolution)
Chinese Mandarin
1 entries- 合股線 /合股线 noun (strong thread)
Czech
4 entries- motouz noun (strong thread)
- provázek noun (strong thread)
- provázání noun (a twist; a convolution)
- provázání noun (the act of twining)
Danish
2 entries- sejlgarn noun (strong thread)
- snor noun (strong thread)
Dutch
2 entries- tweern noun (strong thread)
- twijn noun (strong thread)
Esperanto
1 entries- plekti verb (to weave together)
Estonian
1 entries- niit noun (strong thread)
Faroese
1 entries- tvein noun (strong thread)
Finnish
1 entries- naru noun (strong thread)
French
3 entries- convolution noun (a twist; a convolution)
- ficelle noun (strong thread)
- torsion noun (a twist; a convolution)
Galician
4 entries- atume noun (strong thread)
- baraza noun (strong thread)
- brenza noun (strong thread)
- embiar noun (the act of twining)
German
4 entries- Drehung noun (a twist; a convolution)
- Kordel noun (strong thread)
- Ranke noun (a twist; a convolution)
- Schnur noun (strong thread)
Hebrew
1 entries- חוּט מְשִׁיחָה noun (strong thread)
Hungarian
3 entries- madzag noun (strong thread)
- spárga noun (strong thread)
- zsinór noun (strong thread)
Ingrian
1 entries- šnurkka noun (strong thread)
Irish
4 entries- ruóg noun (strong thread)
- sníomh noun (a twist; a convolution)
- sníomh noun (the act of twining)
- sreangán noun (strong thread)
Italian
1 entries- spago noun (strong thread)
Latin
1 entries- spacus noun (a twist; a convolution)
Latvian
1 entries- šķeterēt noun (the act of twining)
Malayalam
1 entries- നൂല് noun (strong thread)
Middle English
3 entries- twyn noun (strong thread)
- twynen verb (to weave together)
- twynen verb (to wind, as one thread around another, or as any flexible substance around another body)
Mongolian
2 entries- мушгиа noun (a twist; a convolution)
- эрч noun (a twist; a convolution)
Māori
3 entries- tuaina noun (strong thread)
- kanoi verb (to weave together)
- miro verb (to weave together)
Navajo
1 entries- tłʼóół noun (strong thread)
Norwegian
1 entries- snor noun (strong thread)
Occitan
4 entries- convolucion noun (a twist; a convolution)
- cordèla noun (strong thread)
- crodèl noun (strong thread)
- torcedura noun (a twist; a convolution)
Ottoman Turkish
1 entries- سجیم noun (strong thread)
Polish
1 entries- dratwa noun (strong thread)
Portuguese
2 entries- barbante noun (strong thread)
- cordel noun (strong thread)
Romanian
2 entries- răsucire noun (a twist; a convolution)
- șnur noun (strong thread)
Russian
4 entries- бечёвка noun (strong thread)
- скру́чивание noun (the act of twining)
- сплете́ние noun (a twist; a convolution)
- сплете́ние noun (the act of twining)
Scottish Gaelic
3 entries- snìomh noun (a twist; a convolution)
- snìomh noun (the act of twining)
- snìomh verb (to weave together)
Slovak
1 entries- motuz, špagát noun (strong thread)
Spanish
4 entries- circunvolución noun (a twist; a convolution)
- cordel noun (strong thread)
- cuerda noun (strong thread)
- entrelazar noun (the act of twining)
Swedish
4 entries- bindgarn noun (strong thread)
- bindtråd noun (strong thread)
- garn noun (strong thread)
- säcksnöre noun (strong thread)
Tagalog
1 entries- lani noun (strong thread)
Tày
2 entries- ca̱m verb (to wind, as one thread around another, or as any flexible substance around another body)
- cảo verb (to weave together)
Ukrainian
2 entries- шворка noun (strong thread)
- шпага́т noun (strong thread)
Vietnamese
1 entries- quấn verb (to wind, as one thread around another, or as any flexible substance around another body)
Yup'ik
1 entries- pelacinak noun (strong thread)
Sample sentences
20 total sentences available.
Tom tied his tomato plants to stakes with twine.
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Their breasts erect they rear amid the deep, / their blood-red crests above the surface shine, / their hinder parts along the waters sweep, / trailed in huge coils and many a tortuous twine.
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Awed by the vision and the voice divine / ('twas no mere dream; their very looks I knew, / I saw the fillets round their temples twine, / and clammy sweat did all my limbs bedew) / forthwith, upstarting, from the couch I flew, / and hands and voice together raised in prayer, / and wine unmixt upon the altars threw. / This done, to old Anchises I repair, / pleased with the rites fulfilled, and all the tale declare.
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