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Määritelmät
Substantiivit
- 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.
- Either of two similar or closely related objects, entities etc.
- A room in a hotel, guesthouse, etc. with two beds; a twin room.
- (US) A twin size mattress or a bed designed for such a mattress.
- A twin crystal.
- (modifier) Forming a pair of twins.
- (modifier) Forming a matched pair.
Verbit
- (transitive, obsolete, outside, Scotland) To separate, divide.
- (intransitive, obsolete, outside, Scotland) To split, part; to go away, depart.
- (usually in the passive) To join, unite; to form links between (now especially of two places in different countries).
- (intransitive) To give birth to twins.
- (intransitive, obsolete) To be born at the same birth.
Esimerkit
- the twin boys
- twin socks
- Placetown in England is twinned with Machinville in France.
- For example, 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.
- “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.”
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