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Twin

noun

1.

Either of two offspring born at the same time from the same pregnancy.

2.

(astrology) a person who is born while the sun is in Gemini. Synonym: Gemini.

3.

A waterfall in the Snake River in southern Idaho. Synonym: Twin Falls.

4.

A duplicate copy. Synonyms: counterpart, similitude.

adjective

1.

Being two identical. Synonyms: duplicate, matching, twinned.

verb

(past & past part. twinned; pres. part. twinning)

1.

Duplicate or match. Synonyms: duplicate, parallel.

2.

Bring two objects, ideas, or people together. Synonyms: couple, match, mate, pair. "Matchmaker, can you match my daughter with a nice young man?" , "The student was paired with a partner for collaboration on the project"

3.

Grow as twins.

4.

Give birth to twins.

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"Twin" Quotes from Famous Books

... he exclaimed. "If that isn't the man who was sneaking around dad's motor shop he's his twin brother! I wonder if those aren't the men who are after the patent model? I must be on my guard!" and Tom, watching the car fade out of sight on the road ahead of him, slowly started his motor-cycle. He ...

— Tom Swift and his Motor-cycle • Victor Appleton

... and glanced at the clock. It looked as if his brother was waiting for him to come off duty. I began to wonder whether the two were going to blow my ten francs. During one of the arguments I shot my bolt. I asked him to tell his twin-brother that the Count Blowfly was here and would be glad if he'd wait. He stared rather, but, after a little hesitation, he slipped out of the room. I think my heart stopped beating until he returned. When he looked at me and nodded, I ...

— Jonah and Co. • Dornford Yates

... it is all so unreal and so stupid. This kind of God is no God at all. The theologian may call Him infinite, but in practice He is finite. He may call Him a God of love, but in practice He is spiteful and silly. I shall have something to say presently about the twin problems of pain and evil; but what so-called orthodoxy has to say is not only no solution of them, it is demonstrably false to ...

— The New Theology • R. J. Campbell

... valuable as well as beautiful in other classes, but her attempts in agricultural machinery are but rude. Here, for example, is a plough. Well, perhaps it is not exactly that which made the trench over which Remus leaped, to be slain by his twin wolf-nursling, but it is the plough of Bocchi Gaetano of Parma, is twelve feet long and weighs something under half a ton. Another, hard by, is two feet longer and has but one handle. Efforts are evident, however, to assimilate the country to the portions of Europe more advanced in mechanical matters. ...

— Lippincott's Magazine, December 1878 • Various

... the twin princes, Really-Is and Seemsto-Be, climb the winding stairs in the palace tower and look away over the Great Wall of Daybyday to the City Sometime in the Land of Yettocome. Many were the hours they spent ...

— The Uncrowned King • Harold Bell Wright

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