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   twin

   /twɪn/

   noun

   • 1. one of two children or animals born at the same birth: "experiments were carried out using sets of identical twins" Similar identical twinsnon-identical twinsfraternal twinsmonozygotic/monozygous twinsdizygotic/dizygous twinsSiamese twins
   • ▪ a person or thing that is exactly like another: "there was a bruise on his cheek, a twin to the one on mine" Similar exact likenessmirror imagedoubleduplicatecarbon copyreplica(living) imagelookalikeclonecounterpartmatchpairfellowmatepartnerDoppelgängerinformal:spitting imagespit and imageringerdead ringer
   • ▪ the zodiacal sign or constellation Gemini.
   • 2. something containing or consisting of two matching or corresponding parts.
   • ▪ a twin-bedded room: "the hotel has 54 rooms, of which 4 are twins"
   • ▪ a twin-engined aircraft.
   • ▪ a twinned crystal.

   adjective

   • 1. forming, or being one of, a pair born at one birth: "she gave birth to twin boys"
   • ▪ forming a matching, complementary, or closely connected pair: "the twin problems of economic failure and social disintegration" Similar matchingidenticalmatchedpairedclosely relatedclosely linkedclosely connectedcorrespondingparallelcomplementaryequivalenttwofolddoubledual
   • ▪ growing in pairs: "twin seed leaves"
   • ▪ (of a bedroom) containing two single beds: "we have twin and three-bedded rooms"
   • ▪ (of a crystal) twinned.

   verb

   • 1. link (a town or district) with another in a different country or cause (two towns or districts) to be linked, for the purposes of friendship and cultural exchange: British "the Russian city of Kostroma is twinned with Durham"
   • ▪ link; combine: British "the company twinned its core business of brewing with that of distilling"

   Word Origin late Old Englishtwinn ‘double’, from twi- ‘two’; related to Old Norse tvinnr. Current verb senses date from late Middle English.

   Scrabble Points: 7

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   TWIN definition: 1. either of two children born to the same mother on the same occasion: 2. one of two very similar…. Learn more.

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   1. a. : either of two offspring produced in the same pregnancy. b. Twins plural: gemini. 2. : one of two persons or things closely related to or resembling each other. 3. : a compound crystal composed of two adjoining crystals or parts of crystals of the same kind that share a common plane of atoms.

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   Twin definition: either of two children or animals brought forth at a birth.. See examples of TWIN used in a sentence.

5. dictionary.cambridge.org › us › dictionaryTWIN | definition in the Cambridge English Dictionary

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   TWIN meaning: 1. either of two children born to the same mother on the same occasion: 2. one of two very similar…. Learn more.

6. www.collinsdictionary.com › dictionary › englishTWIN definition and meaning | Collins English Dictionary

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   Twin is used to describe a pair of things that look the same and are close together.

7. www.thefreedictionary.com › twinTwin - definition of twin by The Free Dictionary

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   Being two or one of two identical or similar people, animals, or things: twin cities; a twin bed.

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   When mammals have two babies at once, each of them is a twin. If you have a twin brother or sister, the two of you are always the same age. There are identical twins, who have the same DNA, and fraternal twins, who are more like two siblings who happen to be born at the same time.