twining
Word-form referencestwine
Noun
A layout or motion that twines.
Usage- Countable
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In addition to autonomous movements in one plane we have also autonomous movements in space, such as torsions and twinings.
complaining or grumbling
Usage- Cumbria
- UK usage
- Regional
- Uncountable
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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.
Adjective
That twines.
Usage- not-comparable
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White breast of the dim sea. The twining stresses, two by two. A hand plucking the harpstrings, merging their twining chords.
Word forms
twinings