Twining
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Twining is a noun meaning (countable) A layout or motion that twines.
Meaning
(countable) A layout or motion that twines.
More Meanings
- (British, uncountable, regional, Cumbria) complaining or grumbling
- That twines.
- present participle and gerund of twine
Example Sentences
In addition to autonomous movements in one plane we have also autonomous movements in space, such as torsions and twinings.
White breast of the dim sea. The twining stresses, two by two. A hand plucking the harpstrings, merging their twining chords.
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.
Word Forms
- twinings
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include pair, parallel, counterpart, duplicate, couple, matching.
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