What's the difference between intertwine and twine?

Intertwine


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To unite by twining one with another; to entangle; to interlace.
  • (v. i.) To be twined or twisted together; to become mutually involved or enfolded.
  • (n.) The act intertwining, or the state of being intertwined.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The tanycyte shafts extended from the floor of the fourth ventricle into the bundle, and often ran the entire length of the bundle, where they intertwined themselves among neurons and dendrites of the medullary raphe nuclei.
  • (2) Individuation from the parents is closely intertwined with identity formation; families supportive of young people's separation and individuation more often have identity-achieved young people.
  • (3) HCA and low-intensity conflict activities will therefore be discussed as one topic, as they were inextricably intertwined.
  • (4) The biggest technology companies, including Google , Amazon, Apple and Facebook, are increasingly intertwined in our digital lives, particularly through the phones in our pockets.
  • (5) This is hard to do, for generations of interconnectedness have caused the roots of the village and the camp to become so intertwined that it ceases to make sense to speak of them separately.
  • (6) Our experiments used intact DNA rings, but we note that linear DNA molecules, by virtue of their subdivision into closed loops or domains in vivo, can intertwine in the same ways.
  • (7) I find that tragic.” Cruddas is surely right that any account of the intertwined struggle for economic and political power seems missing from these new left accounts that advocate for a basic income on the basis of the end of work.
  • (8) The following features were found only in high density culture; (v) numerous villous cytoplasmic protrusions developed along the area facing adjacent cells, and seemed to intertwine with each other, and (vi) between the hepatocytes, only abortive junctions were found.
  • (9) In a section that stressed that Britain has always been and will always be intertwined with Europe, he said it would be rash to assume that continued postwar stability was inevitable.
  • (10) How it all happened is intertwined with Brown's own character and experience.
  • (11) Less common is placenta increta, in which placental cotyledons become intertwined with the muscular stroma of the uterus.
  • (12) Now that America and China are so intertwined as to be essentially one country – a fact you can’t forget here in San Francisco, where everyone is coding apps for phones made in Shenzhen – Ai’s mashup of the two nations’ oppressed minorities reverberates as a call for reckoning beyond national borders.
  • (13) The reality of antisemitism in Belgium and Europe resembles this rope, with three intertwined ingredients of hate.
  • (14) The fact that we have become so intertwined and tangled with the leadership issues of the Labour party means we have forgotten the core priorities that we should be doing.
  • (15) Several fibres insert on the nasal spine and on the sphenomandibular ligament, where the fibres intertwine.
  • (16) It is clear that the future of our two countries has been, and always will be, intertwined.
  • (17) Small branches of the invading Sertoli cell processes entered into the lumens of the intertwining swollen tubules and occupied their interior to the point that, finally, they completely engulfed the fragmented spermatid cytoplasm.
  • (18) Mayeroff (1971) states "from a loose stringing together of ideas a tight fabric emerges; ideas intertwine and tend to reinforce each other, making for a mutual deepening of meaning and gain in precision".
  • (19) The Russian president, Vladimir Putin , is expected to allow the issue on to the agenda for dinner, reflecting the reality that the fate of the world economy is inextricably intertwined with the risk of a Middle East conflagration.
  • (20) Encapsulated tumorous mass, formed primarily by spindle-shaped histocytes, displayed either in intertwining, criss-cross or whorled fashion in haematoxylin-eosin-stained sections, were supplementary.

Twine


Definition:

  • (n.) A twist; a convolution.
  • (n.) 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.
  • (n.) The act of twining or winding round.
  • (n.) To twist together; to form by twisting or winding of threads; to wreathe; as, fine twined linen.
  • (n.) To wind, as one thread around another, or as any flexible substance around another body.
  • (n.) To wind about; to embrace; to entwine.
  • (n.) To change the direction of.
  • (n.) To mingle; to mix.
  • (v. i.) To mutually twist together; to become mutually involved.
  • (v. i.) To wind; to bend; to make turns; to meander.
  • (v. i.) To turn round; to revolve.
  • (v. i.) To ascend in spiral lines about a support; to climb spirally; as, many plants twine.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) And she had a very good point, because Twine is interminable.
  • (2) tibialis anterior and posterior, whereas the distal diaphysis is nourished exclusively by semicircular vessels of the a. tibialis anterior which twine around the bone and merge with each other at the facies medialis.
  • (3) Once I had harangued a friend into joining, each "twine" (message) took about a minute to load.
  • (4) Thus the twining stem puts itself into tension and uses a helical geometry to generate contact forces which are large relative to the stem weight of 40 mg cm-1.
  • (5) The growth rate of the human cranial base between nasion (N) - tuberculum sellae (Ts) and tuberculum sellae - internal occipital protuberance (= Twining's line (Tw)) were calculated in proportion to nasion - inion (N - I) distance and expressed in two cranial base ratios: (see formulas) The growth rate of the whole cranial base showed a notable stability and a given ratio apparently prevails through into later life.
  • (6) In the network the inter-twining of pairs of fibres and the occurrence of flat fibre spirals (disks) are interpreted as evidence of DNA supercoiling, but other fibres of similar thickness are not visibly supercoiled.
  • (7) Depression Quest , the interactive game aimed at helping players to understand depression, was created using Twine and has gone on to win a number of awards.
  • (8) Expression of twine was observed exclusively in male and female gonads.
  • (9) If you’ve never programmed anything at all and you want to get a little flavour of it, I’d say make a basic Twine game as your very first project, using only the built-in stuff and maybe some “if” statements.
  • (10) The BBC’s confidence and its success are inter-twined with that audience connection and its independence.
  • (11) Ts equals aq is the distance from the tuberculum sellae to the same point, and TW is Twining's line.
  • (12) A refined extract from the root xylem of Tripterygium wilfordii Hook f, a perennial twining vine found in southern China, has been demonstrated to exert a powerful antifertility effect in both rats and human males.
  • (13) Twine, suggesting the slow process of binding, offers just that – its USP is you get to know people via the exchange of messages and reveal your profile photo only when you both feel you have connected personality-wise.
  • (14) Consistency of the cotton twine eliminates individual weighing of each section and uniformity in compactness affords reproducible results.
  • (15) Two proportional methods are introduced to determine the normal position of the floor of the 4th ventricle expressed by two preventricular ratios: (see article); where ds = dorsum sellae, Ts = tuberculum sellae and Tw = Twining's line.
  • (16) The observed gradual rotation of the bundles would serve to stabilize the immature bundle through the physical twining of the composite fibrils while the extensive branching of the bundles observed at 14-days of development and their intimate association with the cellular elements would provide a higher order of structure stabilization.
  • (17) As well as Primark, ABF owns several other large businesses including a grocery division which owns household brands such as Twinings, Kingsmill and Patak's and a sugar operation.
  • (18) As she writes, “I was turning into a hawk.” I may have read too much into this line, because I see signs of hawkishness everywhere in Macdonald’s behaviour: the tugging and twining of her long black hair, the scratching of her arm, the quick, urgent movements, the intensity of her eyes.
  • (19) twine is the second homolog of the fission yeast gene cdc25 to be found in Drosophila.
  • (20) They developed total loss of capture on the 16th and 62nd post-operative day and sikagrams of chest revealed pull out of endocardial catheter due to formation of multi-twined loop in the loose and laxed subcutaneous pulse generator pockets.