TWIN
\twˈɪn], \twˈɪn], \t_w_ˈɪ_n]\
Definitions of TWIN
- 2006 - WordNet 3.0
- 2011 - English Dictionary Database
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1919 - The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language
- 1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
- 1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
- 1894 - The Clarendon dictionary
- 1898 - American pocket medical dictionary
- 1916 - Appleton's medical dictionary
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being two identical
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(astrology) a person who is born while the sun in in Gemini
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either of two offspring born at the same time from the same pregnancy
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give birth to twins
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grow as twins; "twin crystals"
By Princeton University
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being two identical
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(astrology) a person who is born while the sun in in Gemini
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either of two offspring born at the same time from the same pregnancy
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give birth to twins
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grow as twins, of crystals
By DataStellar Co., Ltd
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Being one of two born at a birth; as, a twin brother or sister.
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Being one of a pair much resembling one another; standing the relation of a twin to something else; -- often followed by to or with.
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Double; consisting of two similar and corresponding parts.
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Composed of parts united according to some definite law of twinning. See Twin, n., 4.
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One of two produced at a birth, especially by an animal that ordinarily brings forth but one at a birth; -- used chiefly in the plural, and applied to the young of beasts as well as to human young.
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A sign and constellation of the zodiac; Gemini. See Gemini.
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A person or thing that closely resembles another.
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To bring forth twins.
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To be born at the same birth.
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To cause to be twins, or like twins in any way.
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To separate into two parts; to part; to divide; hence, to remove; also, to strip; to rob.
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To depart from a place or thing.
By Oddity Software
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A person or thing that closely resembles another.
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Being a twin or twins.
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One of two young produced at a birth.
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The counterpart of another.
By James Champlin Fernald
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Double; made of two separate, but equal, parts; closely resembling; born at the same birth with another.
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One of two born at one birth; a person or thing very like another.
By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer
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One of two born at a birth: one very like another.
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To be born at the same birth: to bring forth two at once: to be paired or suited:-pr.p. twinning; pa.p. twinned.
By Daniel Lyons
By William Hand Browne, Samuel Stehman Haldeman
By Willam Alexander Newman Dorland
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