What's the difference between swain and twain?

Swain


Definition:

  • (n.) A servant.
  • (n.) A young man dwelling in the country; a rustic; esp., a cuntry gallant or lover; -- chiefly in poetry.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Val Swain, spokesperson for Netpol, a police monitoring group, said: "The Saturday protest is certainly an event that people are traveling to.
  • (2) In the future, says Kalixa’s Colin Swain, even window cleaners and other small trades people will be able to accept cards.
  • (3) Photograph: Jon Swaine for the Guardian However, the shop was then looted during Monday’s unrest, said the shop owner, who is Korean and speaks little English.
  • (4) Taking a value of the Swain-Scott nucleophilicity (n) of 2.5 for an average DNA nucleotide unit [Walles & Ehrenberg (1969) Acta Chem.
  • (5) There is no correlation between the Swain-Scott factors of monofunctional alkylants and their ability to induce chromosomal damage when compared in terms of pharmacological doses.
  • (6) The physical risk to Wesley himself is obvious and outrageous.” Earlier, the Guardian’s Jon Swaine posted pictures and video of heavily armed police pushing protesters back down the streets, and an image he believed to be of the two reporters being arrested.
  • (7) Updated at 1.27am BST 10.02pm BST US vice-president Joe Biden says MH17 was "blown out of the sky" , as the Guardian's Jon Swaine quotes him in full comments from his speech in Detroit.
  • (8) Nigel Swain University of Liverpool I just don’t recognise Viktor Orbán as a ‘tyrant’ | Tibor Fischer Read more • As a keen reader of his novels, I was disappointed with Tibor Fischer’s article.
  • (9) The Swains, with their tiny toilet, which empties into a leach pit – a hole in the ground used to compost faeces when there is no sewage system – are the face of progress.
  • (10) The nucleophilic selectivity (Swain-Scott's constant s) of chloroethylene oxide (CEO), an ultimate carcinogenic metabolite of vinyl chloride, was determined to be 0.71 using the 4-(p-nitrobenzyl)pyridine (NBP) assay (Spears method).
  • (11) In two examples which indicate how execution lengths have varied widely since the move to single-drug, 33-year-old Mario Swain was put to death on 8 November , 2012, for the murder of a woman a decade earlier.
  • (12) Entwistle's elevation creates another vacancy at the top of the corporation, with BBC1 controller Danny Cohen, another former Newsnight editor Peter Barron, who quit to join Google and Entwistle's number two Emma Swain, among the contenders to succeed him as head of BBC Vision.
  • (13) Val Swain, 44, another Fitwatch campaigner, said the post had been been a direct response to what she called the Telegraph's "rogues' gallery" and was never intended to divulge information that was not already "well known".
  • (14) On the basis of Orem's self-care framework, subjects' levels of knowledge in six criterion areas were assessed according to measurement criteria developed by Horn and Swain.
  • (15) Some examples of E lacking Knops, McCoy, Swain-Langley, and York antigens, a serologically related group, were not agglutinated.
  • (16) The presence of either excision-defective mutant can enhance the frequency of mutation (hypermutability) and this hypermutability can be correlated with the Swain-Scott constant S of specific AAs such that as the SN1 character of the DNA alkylation reaction increases, the difference in response between repair-deficient and repair-proficient females decreases.
  • (17) Their swains will arrive in white vests and ill-fitting suit trousers held up by braces.
  • (18) In the case of monofunctional agents, ENNG, ENU, DES and EMS there was a relationship between the induction of chromosome aberrations with the Swain-Scott S-value and O-alkylation with those agents with the lowest S-value and the highest proportion of O-alkylation producing chromosome aberrations at the lowest exposure concentrations.
  • (19) Two conceptual nursing models, Roy's adaptation model and Erickson and Swain's adaptive potential assessment model are explained, and knowledge is identified within these two assessment techniques for adaptation to stress.
  • (20) Some BBC insiders believe that Entwistle's No 2, Swain, is the most natural candidate to take over.

Twain


Definition:

  • (a. & n.) Two; -- nearly obsolete in common discourse, but used in poetry and burlesque.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Since his death on 21 April 1910, Twain's writings have reportedly inspired more commentary than those of any other American author and have been translated into at least 72 languages.
  • (2) Fortunately for us, perhaps more than any other writer Twain was his voice; the result, for all its frustrations, is a revelation.
  • (3) However tangential some of the early sections may be, there is also a great deal here to interest even the casual Twain reader.
  • (4) He begins his first-person narrative in words that echo the famous opening of Twain’s novel ( No 23 in this series ), a frank disavowal of “all that David Copperfield kind of crap”.
  • (5) Those who finish Huck Finn still doubting Twain's own racial attitudes should read Following the Equator or Pudd'nhead Wilson , in which Twain excoriates the "one-drop rule" (the American law decreeing that "one drop of negro blood" made a person black): "To all intents and purposes Roxy was as white as anybody, but the one sixteenth of her which was black out-voted the other fifteen parts and made her a 'negro'."
  • (6) The autobiography's many tender, grieving passages about Susy anticipate what Twain couldn't see coming: the death of another daughter, Jean, on Christmas Eve 1909.
  • (7) He served fleetingly as a Confederate soldier before deserting ("his career as a soldier was brief and inglorious," said the New York Times obituary; in the autobiography Twain includes a sympathetic account of deserting soldiers being shot, without revealing the reason for his sense of identification).
  • (8) To add to the intrigue, I think that weather will also play a huge part in this game - as Mark Twain said "The coldest winter I ever spent was a summer in San Francisco."
  • (9) I like the exact word, and clarity of statement, and here and there a touch of good grammar for picturesqueness" – structure was always a problem for Twain.
  • (10) Like Mark Twain, he was no respecter of the professional qualms of historians, and the one-liners continued to flow.
  • (11) Until it does so, reports of the death of the Washington consensus, like those about Mark Twain, will have been much exaggerated.
  • (12) Mark Twain once said: "Even if you are on the right track, you will get run over if you just sit still."
  • (13) For many critics, the "non-fiction novel", as Capote was calling it, belonged to a tradition dating back to Daniel Defoe's The Storm (1704), in which Defoe used the voices of real people to tell his story, a tradition that boasted many exponents, among them Mark Twain, Dickens, Steinbeck, James Agee and Lillian Ross.
  • (14) "All modern literature comes from one book by Mark Twain called Huckleberry Finn … It's the best book we've had.
  • (15) Mark Twain, Melville, Bradbury, Steinbeck, Vonnegut; authors whose work is about something – that do the kind of writing I aspire to.” According to Smith, this year’s focus on comics “matters a great deal”.
  • (16) There is also a sofa based on the one that Darwin used while listening to his wife, Emma, reading extracts from popular novels, as well as a bookcase that includes a volume of Darwin’s favourite book, Mark Twain’s The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County .
  • (17) It became a residential hotel in 1905 and a celebrated retreat for musicians, painters and men of letters, including Mark Twain, William Burroughs and Tennessee Williams.
  • (18) Since 2001, Live Nation has organised Hyde Park events including Live 8 and concerts by high-profile acts such as Madonna, Bruce Springsteen , Bon Jovi and Shania Twain.
  • (19) To exclude American fiction and drama (no Twain, Steinbeck, or Miller, no Faulkner, no Fitzgerald, or TS Eliot) is – to deploy a literary critical term – plain bonkers.
  • (20) In the north, the choices are more literary (Mark Twain and Laura Ingalls Wilder both lived and wrote about life along the riverside).