What's the difference between twinging and twinning?
Twinging
Definition:
(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Twinge
Example Sentences:
(1) The archive goes back to how Vietnam began to embarrass the US ("a twinge in the public relations nerve" - Mary McCarthy), the womens' liberation movement (illustrated by a tense, and often hilarious, debate between Norman Mailer and Susan Sontag in which she pulls him up on his use of the word "ladies") and George W Bush's invasion of Iraq (the NYRB was the only major publication to oppose the war from the off).
(2) He’s not able to play three games in a week.” Bournemouth manager Eddie Howe signs contract extension Read more Agüero damaged the left hamstring representing Argentina against Ecuador , nine days after feeling a twinge following the Champions League win in Mönchengladbach .
(3) Certainly Paris Saint-Germain – aside from being encouraged by the twinge to the right thigh suffered by John Terry which forced him prematurely from the fray and will require a scan on Sunday – will have learned little other than that the Premier League champions can still be expansive when permitted to revel.
(4) The funny things I remember all have a twinge of sorrow to them.
(5) But when future generations download the recordings, and listen to skylarks and nightingales, cuckoos and turtle doves, will they feel a twinge of sadness that these species are no longer with us?
(6) The Belgian, sufferer of a calf twinge against Southampton last week, was introduced for the final quarter – another boost for Guardiola before Barcelona visit the Etihad.
(7) Reading Scotland's Future, I couldn't at first account for a faint twinge of melancholy, a recognition.
(8) We’re having lunch in Winzavod, a fashionable ex-factory art space in Moscow where they have their office, and I almost feel a twinge of pity for those prison officials.
(9) You had to feel a twinge of pity for Lord Stevenson, who was the chairman of HBOS when it went down the khazi in 2008.
(10) To stay at a club where the fans love you is really important to me.” He is adamant he will not feel even a twinge of jealousy for Klopp.
(11) As I sit in the sun in the little peace garden finally eating my lentil dhal and nursing what is no more than a twinge in the small of the back, I can see what she means.
(12) Just as Ree Dolly is at her most beguiling when her mask momentarily slips, and her face briefly twinges with trauma and adolescent uncertainty, the usually formidable Lawrence's childish vulnerability is her most affecting quality.
(13) Touré was substituted before the end because of a slight twinge in his groin but Pellegrini did not seem too concerned it might prevent his midfielder from playing against Chelsea on Sunday.
(14) Some people may feel a twinge of sadness at some of the items that went the other way – VHS video players, MiniDisc players, local newspapers, nests of tables, bread bins, and jigsaw puzzles have all been removed from the basket in recent years.
(15) The tragedy is, just as not a single doctor in India who helped pregnant women get rid of their girl children will ever be held accountable for what has become an enormous social problem, it is doubtful if any UK doctors will ever feel a twinge of guilt over sex-selective abortion either, regardless of the consequences.
(16) Walker says he had "little twinges" when he saw the Mercury, but says that strikingly his health was good in the days afterwards: if he had made a big mistake, the stress would have manifested itself in stronger symptoms.
(17) Now the veil has been ripped away and we know there are a sizeable number of Tory MPs who are willing to do serious damage to David Cameron and feel no twinge of disloyalty."
(18) Part of me was really annoyed because he hadn't called me back for, like, a month and then I saw him and had this tiny burned twinge of hurt, but it disappeared within a minute because that sort of family bond is so much deeper than any other bond.
(19) Occasionally, however, disturbing sensations, such as "metallic taste", "twinging or stabbing" and "minute electric shock" are reported.
(20) The slightest twinge and I wonder if that's it, if I'm dying right there and then.
Twinning
Definition:
(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Twin
(n.) The assemblage of two or more crystals, or parts of crystals, in reversed position with reference to each other in accordance with some definite law; also, rarely, in artificial twinning (accomplished for example by pressure), the process by which this reversal is brought about.
Example Sentences:
(1) All the twins were born in years 1973-1987, the total number was 2,226 boys and 2,302 girls.
(2) Plasma renin activity (PRA) and aldosterone concentration were measured before and during submaximal exercise in 10 male monozygotic twin pairs who were discordant for smoking.
(3) Symmetrical cases (the so-called siamese twins) have an obvious predominance (92.3%).
(4) From the 32nd week on, the twins' mean weekly BPD increment decreased, this lesser growth rate being more marked than that of singletons.
(5) In the UK the twin threat of Ukip and the BNP tap into similar veins of discontent as their counterparts across the English channel.
(6) There it was found she was not carrying twins but her baby remained in hospital for some weeks with respiratory problems.
(7) Therefore, we conclude that monochorionic twins can be considered monozygotic.
(8) A planet with conditions that could support life orbits a twin neighbour of the sun visible to the naked eye, scientists have revealed.
(9) Presented is the case of a triplet pregnancy with conjoined twins diagnosed antenatally with sonography.
(10) This was either giant teratoma of placenta or malformed twin foetus.
(11) Blood samples were obtained from 18 twin pairs, and the major prostaglandin E2 (PGE2) plasma metabolite 15-keto-13,14-dihydro-PGE2 was measured by RIA after its conversion to 11-deoxy-15-keto-13,14-dihydro-11 beta,16 xi-cyclo-PGE2.
(12) Given his background, Boyle says, growing up in a council house near Bury, with his two sisters (one a twin) and his strict and hard-working parents (his mum worked as a dinner lady at his school), he should by rights have been a gritty social realist, but that tradition never appealed to him.
(13) The affected twin had classical loss of sc fat from her face, upper arms, and trunk as well as associated hypocomplementemia, microscopic hematuria, and a borderline oral glucose tolerance test without hyperinsulinism.
(14) Neuropsychological testing of the affected twin demonstrated marked deficits in all areas of cognitive function.
(15) Therefore, this study evaluates the validity of zygosity diagnosis based on examination of placental membranes, and at the same time evaluates Weinberg's differential rule in a Danish consecutive twin series.
(16) Having already seen off the Winklevoss twins who claimed he stole the idea for Facebook from them , Zuckerberg now faces a convicted fraudster who says he has a contract giving him 84% of the social network.
(17) These adjusted correlation coefficients in MZ twins are 0.5 for both K1 and K5 blood pressure.
(18) Significant intraclass coefficients were observed in MZ twins for the different expressions of RMR.
(19) However, after the exclusion of cases with congenital abnormality association of low birth weight newborn infants and with genital anomalies of the male, the twin birth rate was 1.8 per cent.
(20) The size of right and left middle phalanges in the II-V fingers and the III finger have been studied in 108 pairs of monozygotic and dizygotic twins at 8--19 years of age and in 60 paris (pedagogical experiment) of separated twins (from the same pair), schoolchildren of the 2d--5th forms trained according different programs of physical culture.