(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.
Wine
Definition:
(n.) The expressed juice of grapes, esp. when fermented; a beverage or liquor prepared from grapes by squeezing out their juice, and (usually) allowing it to ferment.
(n.) A liquor or beverage prepared from the juice of any fruit or plant by a process similar to that for grape wine; as, currant wine; gooseberry wine; palm wine.
(n.) The effect of drinking wine in excess; intoxication.
Example Sentences:
(1) Gallic wine sales in the UK have been tumbling for the past 20 years, but the news that France, once the largest exporter to these shores, has slipped behind Australia, the United States, Italy and now South Africa will have producers gnawing their knuckles in frustration.
(2) I haven't had to face anyone like the man who threatened to call the police when he decided his card had been cloned after sharing three bottles of wine with his wife, or the drunk woman who became violent and announced that she was a solicitor who was going to get this fucking place shut down – two customers Andrew had to deal with on the same night.
(3) At the bottom is a tiny harbour where cafe Itxas Etxea – bare brick walls and wraparound glass windows – is serving txakoli, the local white wine.
(4) The four members of the committee are all masters of wine, and the chairman is a retired diplomat, Sir David Wright.
(5) I went for a walk, had a locally made sandwich and sat in the dark drinking a glass of wine.
(6) Mann-Whitney U-tests showed that during the 7 years of highest wine consumption the highest rates for breast cancer occurred for females aged 30--59 years, but for women over 60 years of age the result was insignificant.
(7) His latest thinking includes introducing concierge desks to welcome shoppers and tapas bars in its wine departments.
(8) How can the CHOGM leaders condemn the dictatorship of Musharraf but happily wine and dine with Museveni?
(9) And on those occasions where I'm in the mood to take the wine pairing very seriously it's the vegetable dishes that require the most creative thought.
(10) Add the onion, cook for three minutes, stirring, until softened, then add the wine, sage, lemon peel, lemon juice and 150ml water.
(11) Determination of changes in lightness by photoelectric colorimetry provides an objective, quantitative means to evaluate the effects of laser treatment of port wine stains.
(12) The most common inhalant stupefacients were "Butapren" glue, trichlorethylene and "Roxy" fluid; wine and vodka were the alcohols used.
(13) The main cause of oesophageal cancer in western countries is consumption of alcoholic beverages, the degree of risk being much greater for certain spirits than for wine or beer.
(14) Per adult (greater than or equal to 15 years) consumption of beer, wine, spirits and absolute alcohol for a 14-year period (1971--1984) was related to female breast cancer morbidity rates in Western Australia.
(15) By abusing his power, he was engrossed in irregularities and corruption, had improper relations with several women and was wined and dined at back parlours of deluxe restaurants.
(16) If we managed to import a German royal family, why is it not possible for us to also import the German housing system – slowly, bit by bit, along with their Christmas trees and mulled wine?
(17) A solid-phase extraction method with a strong anion exchanger was used to determine these compounds in sweet wines and in grape musts.
(18) The college previously said mothers-to-be should not drink more than two units once or twice a week – a small glass of wine of 125ml is 1.5 units.
(19) In the UK, alcohol consumption has shifted substantially from moderate strength beer sold in pubs to strong lager, cider, wine and spirits sold by supermarkets for drinking at home.
(20) Duty on beer, wine and spirits will increase as planned from midnight Sunday • Tobacco duty will rise immediately by 1% above inflation this year, then 2% • Increase in fuel duty to be staged.