twined
past simple and past participle oftwine
twine
verb[IorT,usually+ adv/prep]
uk/twaɪn/us/twaɪn/to (causeto)wrapround anobjectseveraltimes:
Thevinetwinesaround/upthepole.
Twine the differentcolouredthreadstogether.
See also
entwine
intertwine
Enclosing, surrounding and immersing
- beleaguer
- beleaguered
- beset
- border
- boxsomeone/somethingin
- dunk
- enclosure
- fencesomethingin
- fencesomethingoff
- flooding
- gather
- gift wrap
- gift-wrapped
- siege
- steep
- steepsomething/someoneinsomething
- submersion
- swaddle
- swallow
- swamp
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Bending, twisting and curving
Examplesoftwined
twined
In English, many past and present participles of verbs can be used as adjectives. Some of these examples may show the adjective use.
During a person's life both good and bad things are intertwinedand may follow each other.
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Over time, as the male bourgeoisie's political influence grew, the new "sphere of public opinion" and old "sphere of traditional authority" became increasingly intertwined.
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Instead, they emerge as configurations in an existing social fabric of interdependent nodes and intertwinedrelationships.
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In this region, the labelled fibers were fine caliber axons bearing small varicosities, and were often intertwinedto form tubular configurations.
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Developmental transitions reflect proximal developmental influences, which are often intertwinedwith more distal influences.
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Chap. 12 summarizes the main findings and concludes that language and interaction are intertwinedsystematically and dynamically.
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What one comes to observe and identify as manifestations of social change are the outcomes of this intertwined, two-tiered confrontation at a given moment in time.
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Intertwinedin all his arguments is the belief that, when sociolinguistic research is employed, it is possible to implement meaningful and effective programs.
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Or can they also fall into the realm of the shamanic healing and illness complex, whose specialists may not be so closely intertwinedwith political institutions or for tunes?
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In many respects they weretwinedand intertwined in production and in agree- ments.
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In many ways their productions and interests aretwinedand intertwined.
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Trade is so inter-twinedthat if we were to cut ourselves off for matters of principle there would be no international trade.
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For a while in the mid-1960s, a screen was attached to the top of the wall and the ivytwinedits way up.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.The piezoelectric nanowire is grown vertically on the two microfibers in its radial direction, and they aretwinedto form a nanogenerator.
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- literary-property
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- literary review
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- literary scholar
- literary scholarship
- literary source
- literary study
- literary style
- literary taste
- literary technique
- literary text
- literary theme
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- literary tradition
- literary translation
- literate
- literate culture
- literate society