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TWIN

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Irregular inflected forms: twinned    , twinning   

 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

A duplicate copy

Synonyms:

counterpart; similitude; twin

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Hypernyms ("twin" is a kind of...):

duplicate; duplication (a copy that corresponds to an original exactly)

Derivation:

twin (duplicate or match)

Sense 2

Meaning:

A waterfall in the Snake River in southern Idaho

Synonyms:

Twin; Twin Falls

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural objects (not man-made)

Instance hypernyms:

falls; waterfall (a steep descent of the water of a river)

Holonyms ("Twin" is a part of...):

America; the States; U.S.; U.S.A.; United States; United States of America; US; USA (North American republic containing 50 states - 48 conterminous states in North America plus Alaska in northwest North America and the Hawaiian Islands in the Pacific Ocean; achieved independence in 1776)

Snake; Snake River (a tributary of the Columbia River that rises in Wyoming and flows westward; discovered in 1805 by the Lewis and Clark Expedition)

Sense 3

Meaning:

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

Synonyms:

Gemini; Twin

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Hypernyms ("Twin" is a kind of...):

individual; mortal; person; somebody; someone; soul (a human being)

Domain category:

astrology; star divination (a pseudoscience claiming divination by the positions of the planets and sun and moon)

Sense 4

Meaning:

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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Hypernyms ("twin" is a kind of...):

sib; sibling (a person's brother or sister)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "twin"):

dizygotic twin; fraternal twin (either of two twins who developed from two separate fertilized eggs)

identical twin; monozygotic twin; monozygous twin (either of two twins developed from the same fertilized ovum (having the same genetic material))

Derivation:

twin (give birth to twins)

 II. (adjective) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Being two identical

Synonyms:

duplicate; matching; twin; twinned

Classified under:

Adjectives

Similar:

matched (going well together; possessing harmonizing qualities)

 III. (verb) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Give birth to twins

Classified under:

Verbs of grooming, dressing and bodily care

Hypernyms (to "twin" is one way to...):

bear; birth; deliver; give birth; have (cause to be born)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s

Derivation:

twin (either of two offspring born at the same time from the same pregnancy)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Grow as twins

Example:

twin crystals

Classified under:

Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.

Hypernyms (to "twin" is one way to...):

grow (increase in size by natural process)

Sentence frame:

Something ----s

Sense 3

Meaning:

Bring two objects, ideas, or people together

Example:

The student was paired with a partner for collaboration on the project

Synonyms:

couple; match; mate; pair; twin

Classified under:

Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging

Hypernyms (to "twin" is one way to...):

join (cause to become joined or linked)

Verb group:

match (give or join in marriage)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "twin"):

mismate (provide with an unsuitable mate)

mismatch (match badly; match two objects or people that do not go together)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody

Sense 4

Meaning:

Duplicate or match

Example:

The polished surface twinned his face and chest in reverse

Synonyms:

duplicate; parallel; twin

Classified under:

Verbs of being, having, spatial relations

Hypernyms (to "twin" is one way to...):

agree; check; correspond; fit; gibe; jibe; match; tally (be compatible, similar or consistent; coincide in their characteristics)

Sentence frame:

Something ----s something

Derivation:

twin (a duplicate copy)

Credits

 Context examples: 

Similarly, compared to single-born children, twins were more likely to belong to the highest screen time group.

(High amounts of screen time begin as early as infancy, National Institutes of Health)

Through a similar process, the team also distinguished individual sibling and twin pairs from unrelated pairs in both children and adults.

(Brain Activity Is Inherited, May Inform Treatment for ADHD, Autism, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

Research conducted on members of families, examining the affects of genetics, the environment, or twin offspring.

(Family Study, NCI Thesaurus)

A stem cell transplant may be autologous (a patient’s own blood cells saved earlier), allogeneic (blood cells donated by someone else), or syngeneic (blood cells donated by an identical twin).

(Peripheral blood stem cell transplant, NCI Dictionary)

They are twin thieves who live upon our labor.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

A rare phenomenon in which the bodies of two identical twins are joined in the uterus.

(Conjoined Twins, NCI Thesaurus)

Transplantation may be autologous (an individual's own marrow saved before treatment), allogeneic (marrow donated by someone else), or syngeneic (marrow donated by an identical twin).

(Bone Marrow Transplantation, NCI Dictionary)

They may be twins of a sort.

(A 'Tail' of Two Comets, NASA)

The transplant of an organ, tissue, or cells from one individual to another individual of the same species who is not an identical twin.

(Allograft, NCI Dictionary)

This confirms previous research examining empathy in identical versus non-identical twins.

(Study finds that genes play a role in empathy, University of Cambridge)