What's the difference between thine and twine?

Thine


Definition:

  • (pron. & a.) A form of the possessive case of the pronoun thou, now superseded in common discourse by your, the possessive of you, but maintaining a place in solemn discourse, in poetry, and in the usual language of the Friends, or Quakers.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) It was headed with the following Shakespeare quotation: "To thine own self be true, and it must follow, as the night the day, thou canst not then be false to any man."
  • (2) Photograph: Allstar Prithee, avert thine brain, for this Canadian-Irish production does dance a merry hornpipe upon the very phizog of historical accuracy.
  • (3) For thine is the Kone, the Puncheon and the Gallas, Fer Yaya and Yaya.
  • (4) The ability of 1,3,8-substituted xanthines (1,3-dipropyl-8-(4-(2-aminoethyl)amino)carbonylmethyloxyphenyl) xan thine (XAC), 1,3-dipropyl-8-(4-carboxymethyloxyphenyl)xanthine (XCC), 1,3-dipropyl-8-(2-amino-4-chlorophenyl)xanthine (PACPX), 1,3-dipropyl-8-cyclopentylxanthine (DPCPX), 1,3-diethyl-8-phenylxanthine (DPX) and 8-phenyltheophylline (8-PT)), of 1,3,7-substituted xanthines (1-propargyl-3,7-dimethylxanthine (PGDMX) and caffeine), and of a 3-substituted xanthine (enprofylline) to antagonize the inhibitory effect of 2-chloroadenosine (CADO) on the amplitude of nerve-evoked twitches was investigated in innervated sartorius muscles of the frog.
  • (5) Some other xan-thines and drugs frequently co-administered with theophylline did not affect results.
  • (6) Although the 4 samples were similar in age distribution and none were contracepting, thine proportions becoming pregnant within the 1st 2 years after entry into unions were somewhat different, suggesting the importance of behavioral factors.
  • (7) In any case, the commandment meant only "Thou shalt not kill members of thine own tribe".
  • (8) 1 Know thine enemy It is droll to observe nutritional advice at the public health level; governments and their agencies always approach obesity as though it were a problem of information or – in the popular phrasing – "awareness".
  • (9) "To thine own self be true" from Hamlet is the line that will always be with me.
  • (10) And none of that for-thine-is-the-kingdom "life-changing job" tosh, neither.
  • (11) Thus, the dissociation of ER constituents into two groups (b and c), achieved by subfractionating microsomes by isopycnic centrifugation (Beaufay, H., A. Amar-Costesec, D. Thines-Sempoux, M. Wibo, M. Robbi, and J. Berthet.

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.