twine

名词 n. 动词 v.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A twist; a convolution. countable,uncountable
    — 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. countable,uncountable
    — 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. countable,uncountable
    — The Colewort's rankness, but with amorous twine / Clasps the tall Elm
  4. Intimate and suggestive dance gyrations. countable,uncountable
    — 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 …
动词 v.
  1. To weave together. transitive
  2. Alternative form of twin (“to separate”). alt-of,alternative
  3. To wind, as one thread around another, or as any flexible substance around another body. transitive
    — Let me twine Mine arms about that body […]
  4. To wind about; to embrace; to entwine. transitive
    — “Let wreaths of triumph now my temples twine,” The victor cried, “the glorious prize is mine! […]”
  5. To mutually twist together; to become mutually involved; to intertwine. intransitive
    — 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.
  6. To wind; to bend; to make turns; to meander. intransitive
    — As rivers, though they bend and twine, Still to the sea their course incline:
  7. To ascend in spiral lines about a support; to climb spirally. intransitive
    — Many plants twine.
  8. To turn round; to revolve. obsolete
    — dancers twine midst cedar-fragrant glades
  9. To change the direction of. obsolete
    — For where he turned his sword, or twined his steed, He slew, or man and beast on earth down laid,
  10. To mingle; to mix. obsolete
    — As lumpes of sugar loose themselues, and twine Their subtile essence with the soul of wine.

词形变化

twines plural twyne alternative twines present,singular,third-person twining participle,present twined participle,past twined past twyne alternative twines present,singular,third-person twining participle,present twined participle,past twined past twyne alternative

词汇关系

衍生词
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词源

词源 1
From Middle English twyn, twyne, twin, from Old English twīn (“double thread, twist, twine, linen-thread, linen”), from Proto-West Germanic *twiʀn (“thread, twine”), from Proto-Germanic *twiznaz, from Proto-Indo-European *dwisnós (“double”), from *dwóh₁ (“two”).
词源 2
From Middle English twinen, twynen, from Old English *twīnian (“to twine, thread”), from Proto-Germanic *twiznōną (“to thread”), from Proto-Indo-European *dwisnós (“double”), from Proto-Indo-European *dwóh₁ (“two”). Cognate with Dutch twijnen (“to twine, contort, throw”), Danish tvinde (“to twist”), Swedish tvinna (“to twist, twine, throw”), Icelandic tvinna (“to merge, twine”).
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