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
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
I wish I had a twin, so I could know what I'd look like without plastic surgery.
Joan Rivers
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
It is true that I was born in Iowa, but I can't speak for my twin sister.
Abigail Van Buren
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
Memory is a complicated thing, a relative to truth, but not its twin.
Barbara Kingsolver
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 Peaks was special because it was so groundbreaking. In the early '90s it really changed television a lot. A bunch of weird shows, like Northern Exposure, came on after that.
Sherilyn Fenn
I suppose being his twin made me understand Robin that much more easily.
Maurice Gibb
I think about how best to live my grandmother's twin mantras that 'Life is not a dress rehearsal' and 'Life is not about what happens to you, but what you do with what happens to you.'
Chelsea Clinton
Comic books and The Chronicles of Narnia. My mother used to read those to me and my twin brother growing up.
Shawn Ashmore
I have twin boys, 12, and a daughter, 17.
Lee Majors
I grew up in Colorado - went back there, tried to heal myself and grow and learn, then got a call that David Lynch wanted me to fly back to Seattle so he could meet me for Twin Peaks.
Sheryl Lee
After the 1954 Geneva international conference, Vietnam was divided into two parts. On paper, North and South Vietnam were twin countries born at the same moment.
Nguyen Cao Ky
My twin in the show is Molly Stanton who is so sweet and great and she is totally different from me.
Sara Gilbert
And Twin Peaks, the Film is the craziest film in the history of cinema. I have no idea what happened, I have no idea what I saw, all I know is that I left the theater floating six feet above the ground.
Jacques Rivette
Well, because I have twin seven-year-old boys, I enjoy the gift giving stuff a great deal. We do both Hanukkah and Christmas, so it is a costly, though extremely pleasing proposition.
Fred Melamed
I think the only boundaries are individual and personal. A writer should be free to write about anything he or she wants to, including the twin towers. I have made small references to 9/11 in my past two books.
Michael Connelly
I was born in Champaign in 1918. From the neighborhood elementary and intermediate schools, I went to the University High School in the twin city, Urbana.
James Tobin
Other actors don't get asked about their brothers or sisters, so why do I have to always answer questions about having a twin brother? I suppose it's interesting for everybody other than me.
Luke Treadaway
I was not the midwife of the Law School, but its fraternal twin.
Norman Lamm
We've done all the work that HRC wanted on the twin and the project has been completed. We were consistently up there with the top guys and that is what HRC wanted to prove.
Sete Gibernau
I don't know whether John Roberts has a twin, perhaps a sister or, uh, someone with a Hispanic last name.
John Cornyn
Schools and libraries are the twin cornerstones of a civilized society. Libraries are only good if people use them, like books only exist when someone reads them.
Nicholas Meyer
I was much distressed by next door people who had twin babies and played the violin; but one of the twins died, and the other has eaten the fiddle, so all is peace.
Edward Lear
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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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