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発音

• IPA: /twaɪn/
• 韻: -aɪn

語源 1

From 中期英語 twyn, twyne, twin, from 古期英語 twīn (“double thread, twist, twine, linen-thread, linen”), from Proto-West Germanic *twiʀn (“thread, twine”), from Proto-Germanic *twiznaz, from Proto-Indo-European *dwisnós (“double”), from *dwóh₁ (“two”).

名詞

twine (countable and uncountable, plural twines)

1. A twist; a convolution.
   • 1629, John Milton, “On the Morning of Christs Nativity”, in Poems of Mr. John Milton, […], London: […] Ruth Raworth for Humphrey Mosely, […], published 1646, →OCLC, page 11:

     Not Typhon huge ending in ſnaky twine:

2. A strong thread composed of two or three smaller threads or strands twisted together, and used for various purposes, as for binding small parcels, making nets, and the like; a small cord or string.
   • 1911, Anna Botsford Comstock, Handbook of Nature Study, 24th edition, published 1939, pages 120–121:

     The orioles like to build the framework of twine, and it is marvelous how they will loop this around a twig almost as evenly knotted as if crocheted […]

3. The act of twining or winding round.
   • 1708, [John Philips], “Book I”, in Cyder. […], London: […] J[acob] Tonson, […], →OCLC, page 16:

     The Colewort's rankness, but with amorous twine / Clasps the tall Elm

4. Intimate and suggestive dance gyrations.
   • 1965, Wilson Pickett, Don't Fight It (blues song), BMI Music.

     The way you jerk, the way you do the twine / You're too much, baby; I'd like to make you mine [...]

等位語

• (threads or strands twisted together): sinew

派生語

語源 2

From 中期英語 twinen, twynen, from 古期英語 *twīnian (“to twine, thread”), from Proto-Germanic *twiznōną (“to thread”), from Proto-Indo-European *dwisnós (“double”), from Proto-Indo-European *dwóh₁ (“two”). Cognate with Dutch twijnen (“to twine, contort, throw”), Danish tvinde (“to twist”), Swedish tvinna (“to twist, twine, throw”), Icelandic tvinna (“to merge, twine”).

動詞

twine (third-person singular simple present twines, present participle twining, simple past and past participle twined)

1. (transitive) To weave together.

   Synonyms: betwine, entwine, intertwine; see also Thesaurus:intertwine

2. (transitive) To wind, as one thread around another, or as any flexible substance around another body.
   • c. 1608–1609 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedy of Coriolanus”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene v]:

     Let me twine
     Mine arms about that body […]

   • 1931, Dashiell Hammett, chapter 10, in The Glass Key‎, New York: Vintage, published 1972, page 199:

     She was twining her fingers together.

3. (transitive) To wind about; to embrace; to entwine.
   • 1712 May, [Alexander Pope], “The Rape of the Locke. An Heroi-comical Poem.”, in Miscellaneous Poems and Translations. […], London: […] Bernard Lintott […], →OCLC, canto III:

     “Let wreaths of triumph now my temples twine,”
     The victor cried, “the glorious prize is mine! […] ”

4. (intransitive) To mutually twist together; to become mutually involved; to intertwine.
   • 1941, Emily Carr, chapter 1, in Klee Wyck‎:

     Usually some old crone was squatted on the earth floor, weaving cedar fibre or tatters of old cloth into a mat, her claw-like fingers twining in and out, in and out, among the strands that were fastened to a crude frame of sticks.

5. (intransitive) To wind; to bend; to make turns; to meander.
   • 1713, Jonathan Swift, Cadenus and Vanessa‎:

     As rivers, though they bend and twine,
     Still to the sea their course incline:

6. (intransitive) To ascend in spiral lines about a support; to climb spirally.

   Many plants twine.

7. (obsolete) To turn round; to revolve.
   • 1598, George Chapman, Hero and Leander:

     dancers twine midst cedar-fragrant glades

8. (obsolete) To change the direction of.
   • 1600, Torquato Tasso, translated by Edward Fairfax, Jerusalem Delivered‎, published 1581, Book 20, Stanza 38:

     For where he turned his sword, or twined his steed,
     He slew, or man and beast on earth down laid,

9. (obsolete) To mingle; to mix.
   • 1646, Richard Crashaw, M. Crashaw’s Answer for Hope‎, lines 29–30:

     As lumpes of sugar loose themselues, and twine
     Their subtile essence with the soul of wine.

派生語

• entwine
• intertwine

語源 3

動詞

twine (third-person singular simple present twines, present participle twining, simple past and past participle twined)

1. Alternative form of twin (“to separate”).