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twining

twining noun: a layout or motion that twines. Also the present participle and gerund of twine.

twining: a layout or motion that twines
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Noun

twining (countable and uncountable, plural twinings)

  1. (countable) A layout or motion that twines.
    • In addition to autonomous movements in one plane we have also autonomous movements in space, such as torsions and twinings.1907, Ludwig Jost, Robert John Harvey Gibson, Lectures on plant physiology
  2. (Cumbria, UK, regional, uncountable) complaining or grumbling
    • Canon Bryan Rowe, quoted in the article. It's going to take months to put right. But you won't hear any twining [Cumbrian dialect for moaning]. Nobody is going: 'Woe is us'. Everybody is just trying to help somebody else.2009 November 23, agency., “Cockermouth starts journey back from flood devastation”, in The Guardian

Adjective

twining (not comparable)

  1. That twines.
    • White breast of the dim sea. The twining stresses, two by two. A hand plucking the harpstrings, merging their twining chords.1922 February 2, James Joyce, “[Episode 1]”, in Ulysses, Paris: Shakespeare and Company […], →OCLC

Proper noun capitalized: Twining

Twining (countable and uncountable, plural Twinings)

  1. A surname.
  2. A village in Mason Township and Turner Township, Arenac County, Michigan.
  3. A ghost town in Taos County, New Mexico.
  4. A neighbourhood in south-east Washington, D.C..

Also used as

twining is also the present participle and gerund of twine.

Forms of twining

Noun
pluraltwinings
Proper noun
pluralTwinings

Words formed from twining

Questions about twining

What does twining mean?
Twining means a layout or motion that twines.
What part of speech is twining?
Twining can be a noun, an adjective or a proper noun.
What is the plural of twining?
The plural of twining is twinings.

Words near twining in the dictionary

  1. twinhoods
  2. twinhull
  3. twinhulled
  4. twinhulls
  5. twinight
  6. twining
  7. twiningly
  8. twinings
  9. twinism
  10. twinjet
  11. twinjets

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