Twining

Synonyms for "twining" (28 found)

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Closest matches (6)

Noun(5 words)

Strong matches (8)

Related words (14)

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More general

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actionbotanical traitbraidingclimbing mechanismformgrowth habitmorphologyprocessstructuretexturetwistweavingwind

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braidcoilcord twistingrope twistingspiral windingstem twiningtendril twiningtendril windingthread braidingvine twiningwrap

Collocations

14 entries
act of twiningbranch twiningrope twiningtwined fiberstwining aroundtwining growthtwining habittwining mechanismtwining morphologytwining patterntwining stemstwining vinesvine twiningvining growth

Inflections

5 entries
more twiningmost twiningtwinedtwinestwinnings

Derivations

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Sample sentences

4 total sentences available.

Tatoeba + Wiktionary

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.

Source: tatoeba (6211749)

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

Source: wiktionary

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.

Source: wiktionary

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

Source: wiktionary

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