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US
/ˈtwɪn/
]
[ UK /twˈɪn/ ]
[ UK /twˈɪn/ ]
NOUN
- a waterfall in the Snake River in southern Idaho
- (astrology) a person who is born while the sun is in Gemini
How To Use Twin In A Sentence
- So I cringe when a local newsperson shoves a microphone in the face of some young 95-pound twink (Straight Translation: a twink is a skinny homosexual with a lot of moxie). Max Mutchnick: Where Is My Martin Luther Queen?
- In 1850 Joy and Edward Wilson patented twin boilers working in parallel within the same casing.
- An empty plastic 2 litre bottle is tied to a rock, or bag of stones with strong twine or string.
- The excess amniotic fluid was then removed from the recipient twin sac, and antibiotics were placed into the uterine cavity to decrease the risk of infection. Twin-Twin Transfusion Syndrome (TTTS)
- Those brought up in the punk rock era will have a twinge of nostalgia for the days when it was a badge of honour to be gobbed on by your idols.
- Gob Woodhull, an imaginary son of the real 19th-century feminist, spiritualist and free-love advocate Victoria Woodhull, loses his twin brother in the Civil War and builds a vast and elaborate machine whose purpose is to "grieve" so efficiently that it will bring all of history's dead back to life. Time Tripping
- The batwing sleeves and column shape flattered, but her messy hair and heavy make-up could have been more refined. The Sun
- Enveloped in that smell, I would play grown up and sit in the office sometimes, studiously recording the numbers of the vehicles that came in for work on the twin ramps over the six-foot-deep pit where the mufflers were installed.
- Witty and warm with a mischievous twinkle in his eye. The Sun
- The Chorus mentions that Agamemnon and his brother Menelaus are very similar to each other, ‘twin throned, twin sceptered, in twofold power.’