The Collaborative International Dictionary
Twin \Twin\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Twinned; p. pr. & vb. n. Twinning.]
To bring forth twins.
--Tusser.To be born at the same birth.
--Shak.
Twinned \Twinned\, a. (Crystallog.) Composed of parts united according to a law of twinning. See Twin, n., 4.
Wiktionary
vb. (en-past of: twin)
WordNet
v. duplicate or match; "The polished surface twinned his face and chest in reverse" [syn: duplicate, parallel]
bring two objects, ideas, or people together; "This fact is coupled to the other one"; "Matchmaker, can you match my daughter with a nice young man?"; "The student was paired with a partner for collaboration on the project" [syn: match, mate, couple, pair]
grow as twins; "twin crystals"
give birth to twins
n. either of two offspring born at the same time from the same pregnancy
(astrology) a person who is born while the sun in in Gemini [syn: Gemini]
a waterfall in the Snake River in southern Idaho [syn: Twin Falls]
a duplicate copy [syn: counterpart, similitude]
See twin
Usage examples of "twinned".
Both halves fully fruited, the twinned spell drew apart, and bucked with a sudden burst of power The bipartite spell channeled, like searing irons, down her arms.
From the low angle he puzzled the tickets with his eyes, exploring how they lay twinned on the mirror, dark writing inaccessibly sandwiched in shadow between the two pairs, the real and the reflected.
My own nails fastened in reply and we became twinned, symmetric, sharing pain, perhaps all we could ever share: her face began to go distorted, half with the strength it took to hurt me, half with what I was doing to her.
Yet, when the twinned lips met, they cleaved, for these mirrored lips of mine were warm and throbbed.
She paused, feeling the deep swash and pull of the twinned symbionts inside her, like a tidal current running below the bridge that was Jadzia.
Out of the country twinned and murderous in a spring of stars let the word bind the body to the wind of the senses bind the invisible nerve of the air bind and loose jess and unfetter the blank and awaiting country here in a season of hawks and O may the word upon word engender past fear and sleep may it ride limning the imagined life of the planets Gilean and Sirrion book and flame here at the Alchemist's Gate where the sound of our singing assembles, dissembles, weaving a veil over nothing.
It was dominated by seven or eight huge glass palaces—if you think of the Crystal Palace, vastly extended and several times twinned, you will have something of the effect and these palaces had been joined over by a sort of skin of glass which carapaced the whole of the city.
In increasing order of importance, they were matter, photons, tachyons, and packets of twinned particles that performed according to what human beings had called “the Einstein-Rosen-Podolsky Separability Phenomenon.
Jilamey whistled at the weight of the instrument, then fitted his fingers into the twinned loops.