Dictionary

twining en · ADJ

Meanings

1. (not-comparable) 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:

Deriveds

twiningly

twining en · NOUN

Meanings

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:

Forms

twining en · VERB

Meanings

1. (form-of, gerund, participle, present) present participle and gerund of twine
   form of twine

Relateds

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