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/twɪn/ · noun
Either of two people (or, less commonly, animals) who shared the same uterus at the same time; one who was born at the same birth as a sibling..
Reading, the English town, is twinned with Clonmel in Ireland.
Coventry twinned with Dresden as an act of peace and reconciliation, both cities having been heavily bombed during the war.
Still we moved / Together, twinned, as horse's ear and eye.
Yet, Manet heightens its effect by performing the clever ocular trick of practically twinning her with her pictorial counterpart, Madame Lejosne.
“I’ve run to tell ye,” said the junior shepherd, supporting his exhausted youthful frame against the doorpost, “that you must come directly. Two more ewes have twinned — that’s what’s the matter, Shepherd Oak.”
Twinning today is abnormal in all higher primates, and possibly adaptive only in the one species with an obstetrical technology that permits a high rate of survival of twins.
The invert child and her innocent child are together lost children, twinning each other despite their distinctions.
I was awake to the horror of our twinning each other in paralysis, and feared that we would soon talk only about the daily, intimate care serious paralysis demands […]
Use twin when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Twin means Either of two people (or, less commonly, animals) who shared the same uterus at the same time; one who was born at the same birth as a sibling..
Common synonyms include twofold, twindle, twinling, doublet.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
Reading, the English town, is twinned with Clonmel in Ireland.
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