Twin
Being one of two born at a birth; as, a twin brother or sister.
Being one of a pair much resembling one another; standing the relation of a twin to something else; -- often followed by to or with.
Double; consisting of two similar and corresponding parts.
Composed of parts united according to some definite law of twinning. See Twin, n., 4.
One of two produced at a birth, especially by an animal that ordinarily brings forth but one at a birth; -- used chiefly in the plural, and applied to the young of beasts as well as to human young.
A sign and constellation of the zodiac; Gemini. See Gemini.
A person or thing that closely resembles another.
A compound crystal composed of two or more crystals, or parts of crystals, in reversed position with reference to each other.
To bring forth twins.
To be born at the same birth.
To cause to be twins, or like twins in any way.
To separate into two parts; to part; to divide; hence, to remove; also, to strip; to rob.
To depart from a place or thing.
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Twin Quotations
Doubt is a pain too lonely to know that faith is his twin brother.
Khalil Gibran
Speech is the twin of my vision, it is unequal to measure itself, it provokes me forever, it says sarcastically, Walt you contain enough, why don't you let it out then?
Walt Whitman
I wish I had a twin, so I could know what I'd look like without plastic surgery.
Joan Rivers
To have joy one must share it. Happiness was born a twin.
Lord Byron
All who joy would win must share it. Happiness was born a Twin.
Lord Byron
Accuracy is the twin brother of honesty; inaccuracy, of dishonesty.
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Skill is successfully walking a tightrope between the twin towers of New York's World Trade Center. Intelligence is not trying.
Marilyn vos Savant
Every book has some real life in it. I was never pursued by an evil twin clone, but everything else in MR. MURDER was pretty much out of my own life.
Dean Koontz
The great leaders of the second world war alliance, Franklin Roosevelt and Winston Churchill, understood the twin sides of destruction and salvation. Their war aims were not only to defeat fascism, but to create a world of shared prosperity.
Jeffrey Sachs
I really loved Twin Peaks. When I saw the two-hour pilot, they screened it in the big theatre. I said, I don't know what is going to happen. I'm in this and I don't understand it. This is never going to sell. Who's going to watch this thing?
Sherilyn Fenn
Twin Translations
twin in Dutch is tweeling-
twin in German is doppelt, Zwilling, paarig
twin in Spanish is gemelo
twin in Swedish is tvilling
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