Twinename

• 1

  A surname.

twinenoun詞源 1/twaɪn/

• 1

  A twist; a convolution.

  • Not Typhon huge ending in ſnaky twine:
• 2

  A strong thread composed of two or three smaller threads or strands twisted together, and used for various purposes, as for binding small parcels, making nets, and the like; a small cord or string.

  • The orioles like to build the framework of twine, and it is marvelous how they will loop this around a twig almost as evenly knotted as if crocheted[…]
• 3

  The act of twining or winding round.

  • The Colewort's rankness, but with amorous twine / Clasps the tall Elm
• 4

  Intimate and suggestive dance gyrations.

  • 1965, Wilson Pickett, Don't Fight It (blues song), BMI Music. The way you jerk, the way you do the twine / You're too much, baby; I'd like to make you mine …

twineverb詞源 2/twaɪn/

• 1

  To weave together.

• 2

  To wind, as one thread around another, or as any flexible substance around another body.

  • Let me twine Mine arms about that body […]
  • She was twining her fingers together.
• 3

  To wind about; to embrace; to entwine.

  • “Let wreaths of triumph now my temples twine,” The victor cried, “the glorious prize is mine! […]”
• 4

  To mutually twist together; to become mutually involved; to intertwine.

  • Usually some old crone was squatted on the earth floor, weaving cedar fibre or tatters of old cloth into a mat, her claw-like fingers twining in and out, in and out, among the strands that were fastened to a crude frame of sticks.
• 5

  To wind; to bend; to make turns; to meander.

  • As rivers, though they bend and twine, Still to the sea their course incline:
• 6

  To ascend in spiral lines about a support; to climb spirally.

  • Many plants twine.
• 7

  obsoleteTo turn round; to revolve.

  • dancers twine midst cedar-fragrant glades
• 8

  obsoleteTo change the direction of.

  • For where he turned his sword, or twined his steed, He slew, or man and beast on earth down laid,

這個拼法也被記錄為下列字的變化形：

• twin