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单词 twining
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twiningn.

Brit. /ˈtwʌɪnɪŋ/, U.S. /ˈtwaɪnɪŋ/
Etymology: < twine v.1 + -ing suffix1.
The action of twine v.1; twisting, spinning, winding, embracing, writhing.
ΘΚΠ
the world > movement > motion in specific manner > writhing or twisting movement > [noun]
throwingOE
wringinga1375
twining1398
wrenching1398
wresting1398
writhing?a1400
wrying1566
wreathing1571
convolution1597
twinding1602
contortion1611
distorquement1628
distortion1718
twisting1725
quirling1754
circumgyration1843
1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomew de Glanville De Proprietatibus Rerum xvii. cxlii[i]. (Bodl.) lf. 227 b/1 Smal [weþies]..beþ made stronge wiþ..windinge as þrede is wt twynynge.
c1440 Promptorium Parvulorum 505/1 Twynynge (or wyn(d)ynge, of threde..), tortura.
1553 T. Wilson Arte Rhetorique (1580) 101 A priuie twinyng, or close crepyng in, to win fauour.., called insinuation.
a1641 J. Webster & T. Heywood Appius & Virginia (1654) iv. 51 The rude twinings of a leacherous Judge.
a1703 J. Pomfret Poet. Wks. (1833) 21 Love to one centre every twining brought.
1841 R. W. Emerson Man Reformer in Lect. in Wks. (1906) II. 238 Inextricable seem to be the twinings and tendrils of this evil.
1872 G. B. Cheever Lect. Pilgrim's Progress ii. 44 The twinings and wrestlings, the strivings and agonies of Bunyan's spirit.
1875 A. W. Bennett & W. T. T. Dyer tr. J. von Sachs Text-bk. Bot. 772 The Twining of Climbing Plants... Twining is a consequence of unequal growth, of a revolving nutation.
attributive.1648 H. Hexham Groot Woorden-boeck Een Twern ofte twijn-molen, a Twinning-mill.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1916; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

twiningadj.

Brit. /ˈtwʌɪnɪŋ/, U.S. /ˈtwaɪnɪŋ/
Etymology: < twine v.1 + -ing suffix2.
That twines, in various senses; twisting, winding, coiling, writhing, etc.; spec. of a plant: growing spirally round a support.
ΘΚΠ
the world > space > shape > curvature > coil > [adjective]
rollingc1400
whorling1578
wreathing1584
twininga1593
wreathy1644
volvulous1657
coiling1718
vining1806
swirling1807
convolutionary1903
a1593 C. Marlowe in Eng. Parnassus (1600) 480 The Eglantine and Rose..As kind companions in one union grows, Folding their twining armes.
1664 H. Power Exper. Philos. i. 8 The twining tendrils of the Vine.
1669 W. Penn No Cross, No Crown vii. §4 A Crooked, Twining, Twisting Serpent.
1735 W. Somervile Chace iv. 153 Spare not thou The twining whip, but ply his bleeding Sides.
1824 L.-M. Hawkins Annaline II. 213 The thick forest [was] decorated with twining plants.
1861 R. Bentley Man. Bot. i. iii. 107 If such stems twist round other bodies in a spiral manner they are said to be twining.

Derivatives

ˈtwiningly adv. in a twining manner.
ΘΚΠ
the world > space > shape > curvature > coil > [adverb]
verticularly1657
twiningly1731
voluminously1745
wreathingly1821
1731 N. Bailey Universal Etymol. Eng. Dict. (ed. 5) Twiningly, twistingly.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1916; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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