entwining
present participle ofentwine
entwine
verb[Toften passive]
uk/ɪnˈtwaɪn/us/ɪnˈtwaɪn/totwistsomething together or around something:
Thepicturecapturesthe twoloverswiththeirarmsentwined.
Bending, twisting and curving
- ball up
- bendy
- bent
- bowed
- buckle
- describe
- entwine
- flex
- flexion
- flexure
- fluted
- matted
- meander
- sinuous
- torsion
- tortuously
- tortuousness
- true
- twiddly
- wring
Examplesofentwining
entwining
In English, many past and present participles of verbs can be used as adjectives. Some of these examples may show the adjective use.
In the scientific use of computer simulation, an abstract model is manipulated through a digital machine,entwiningthe epistemic and the technical inextricably together.
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However, if everything is process, abstracting mind away from body is incongruous with the necessaryentwiningof processes of body and mind.
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The pavilion has a projected hip-and-gable roof supported by two columns decorated with carvedentwiningdragons.
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The key aspect is hidden in the already rich textures produced by theentwiningof the three recorder parts.
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Convolution (coiling or twisting) and turbulence (irregulation fluctuation, possibly stormy) involve confused spectromorphologicalentwining, but nevertheless tend to concur in their chaos.
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The intricate pattern of the tiles, full of flowers andentwiningstems, was achieved through the "cuerda seca" technique, followed by ingenious gilding patterns.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.A more likely source is "alliga", binding,entwining.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.The bourgeois public sphere was transformed into a world marked by increasing re-integration andentwiningof state and society which resulted in the modern social welfare state.
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