What's the difference between twine and yarn?

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.

Yarn


Definition:

  • (n.) Spun wool; woolen thread; also, thread of other material, as of cotton, flax, hemp, or silk; material spun and prepared for use in weaving, knitting, manufacturing sewing thread, or the like.
  • (n.) One of the threads of which the strands of a rope are composed.
  • (n.) A story told by a sailor for the amusement of his companions; a story or tale; as, to spin a yarn.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The fabric protection factors (FPF) of 5 metal meshes, to simulate the weave pattern and yarn dimensions of typical fabrics, and 6 textiles with variable construction (woven and knitted), fibre type and dye were determined using a spectrophotometric assay and human skin testing.
  • (2) The 66 patients were subdivided into four groups according to the type of conduit harvested (single left internal thoracic artery or saphenous vein) and the type of material used for the sternal closure (steel wires or nylon yarns).
  • (3) Facts were mutable, and didn’t need to displace a good yarn.
  • (4) The Way Home, To Save a Life, and hoop-shooting nuns drama The Mighty Macs are, similarly, self-fulfilment yarns in which God is a bit of a backdrop.
  • (5) Finally we’d be in the hands of a pro, someone who knows how to tell a whiz-bang action yarn with a big budget.
  • (6) At first Sabry was just talking to his friends, posting idiosyncratic yarns or musings that gently push at social mores.
  • (7) The investigation was carried out in an asbestos plant producing yarn, cords, gaskets and frictional products.
  • (8) Grafts were woven from polypropylene yarn into conduits 4 mm I.D.
  • (9) • 370-372 Morningside Road, 0131-447 3042, loopylornas.com Slow down with a bit of knitting K1 Yarns, Edinburgh Fabulous knitting shop K1 Yarns is running workshops every Thursday, Saturday and Sunday in August, including Fair Isle knitting classes, beginners courses on knitting and crochet and a very handy class on how to knit socks (prices start from £15).
  • (10) Yarn preparation areas (opening through fine spinning) were studied at two cotton textile mills which had been studied 5 years previously in Shanghai.
  • (11) Raw cotton from 4 machine picked varieties and 2 machine stripped varieties is examined by stereomicroscope and bright-field microscopy for presence of plant trash(bract, leaf, stem, seed, boll, and weed fragments-size range 841-2000mum) that gives rise to cotton dust during yarn manufacturing operations.
  • (12) Also, interleaved between the numbered chapters of Shadow's adventures, are unnumbered chapters headed "Coming to America", in which we get yarns of how travellers to America might have brought their own peculiar spirits and legends to this new land.
  • (13) After decortication of the graft, posterior arches of C1 and 2, and microsurgical excision of the cartilage of the C1-2 lateral joints, the graft was imbedded into the entire C1-2 space, fixed, and tightened using a braid of "nylacap" yarn.
  • (14) Limited environmental sampling, performed using a vertical elutriator in yarn preparation and weaving areas, indicated that exposures were similar to those reported in other parts of the developing world.
  • (15) Risk increased significantly with duration of employment in: production of synthetic yarns, plastic packaging, and miscellaneous chemical compounds; fabricating structural metal and stationary tanks; body factories; electrical plants; and retail sale of paint and wallpaper.
  • (16) On Friday the hunt for these precious treats kicked off again – with a yarn explaining how this year’s production might be disrupted by 200 striking Cadbury workers.
  • (17) Complications such as thromboses, infections and false aneurysms appear to occur randomly after different lengths of implantation, thicker fibrous tissue capsules are associated with velour grafts with highly textured yarns, the incidence of mineralized tissue and of endothelialized luminal surfaces is rare, weft knitted textile prostheses appear less mechanically stable and more sensitive to iatrogenic trauma than warp knitted, and the incidences of lipid and cholesterol adsorption, bacterial colonization and sterile fluid loss need further investigation.
  • (18) An influenza-like illness appeared recently among workers in a plant processing synthetic yarn.
  • (19) You might prefer the story about rights to social security, or you might prefer a yarn about the duty to contribute to social insurance.
  • (20) It was a yarn worthy of Robert Louis Stevenson , an epic befitting of Homer, but the Italian immigration officer who deported him had no interest in the tale.