(a.) Winding around something; twisting; embracing; climbing by winding about a support; as, the hop is a twinning plant.
(a.) The act of one who, or that which, twines; (Bot.) the act of climbing spirally.
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.
Twist
Definition:
(v. t.) To contort; to writhe; to complicate; to crook spirally; to convolve.
(v. t.) Hence, to turn from the true form or meaning; to pervert; as, to twist a passage cited from an author.
(v. t.) To distort, as a solid body, by turning one part relatively to another about an axis passing through both; to subject to torsion; as, to twist a shaft.
(v. t.) To wreathe; to wind; to encircle; to unite by intertexture of parts.
(v. t.) To wind into; to insinuate; -- used reflexively; as, avarice twists itself into all human concerns.
(v. t.) To unite by winding one thread, strand, or other flexible substance, round another; to form by convolution, or winding separate things round each other; as, to twist yarn or thread.
(v. t.) Hence, to form as if by winding one part around another; to wreathe; to make up.
(v. t.) To form into a thread from many fine filaments; as, to twist wool or cotton.
(v. i.) To be contorted; to writhe; to be distorted by torsion; to be united by winding round each other; to be or become twisted; as, some strands will twist more easily than others.
(v. i.) To follow a helical or spiral course; to be in the form of a helix.
(n.) The act of twisting; a contortion; a flexure; a convolution; a bending.
(n.) The form given in twisting.
(n.) That which is formed by twisting, convoluting, or uniting parts.
(n.) A cord, thread, or anything flexible, formed by winding strands or separate things round each other.
(n.) A kind of closely twisted, strong sewing silk, used by tailors, saddlers, and the like.
(n.) A kind of cotton yarn, of several varieties.
(n.) A roll of twisted dough, baked.
(n.) A little twisted roll of tobacco.
(n.) One of the threads of a warp, -- usually more tightly twisted than the filling.
(n.) A material for gun barrels, consisting of iron and steel twisted and welded together; as, Damascus twist.
(n.) The spiral course of the rifling of a gun barrel or a cannon.
(n.) A beverage made of brandy and gin.
(v. t.) A twig.
Example Sentences:
(1) Aberrant forms (elongated and twisted) in the vacuole and double virions in the plasma membrane were observed as early as 65 h after infection.
(2) Electron microscopy shows that at neutral pH, CEA particles consist of homogeneous, morphologically distinctive, twisted rod-shaped particles, about 9 X 40 nm.
(3) Rapid swelling of the knee following a blow or twisting injury is considered a significant injury.
(4) Intermolecular contacts occur in both oligomers in the minor groove: in the B form through twisted guanine-guanine hydrogen bonding, and in the Z form through base-base stacking and the water network.
(5) Ings twisted the knee during his first training session with Klopp in charge and tests have shown the former Burnley forward ruptured an anterior cruciate ligament, meaning that a player who has just broken into England’s senior team will be out for a minimum of six months.
(6) Leicester looked a little sorry for themselves and, with their concentration down, United twisted the knife.
(7) Gowher Rizvi, chief representative of the prime minister, Sheik Hasina, told the Guardian that preparations for the forthcoming elections, were "completely on track" and that the tribunal, probing crimes committed during the 1971 war in which Bangladesh broke away from Pakistan, was about bringing justice previously denied by "the twists and turns" of the country's history.
(8) The base orientations are characterized by a substantial inclination and propellor twist.
(9) Among the non-standard postures examined were: twisting while lifting or lowering, lifting and lowering from lying, sitting, kneeling, and squatting positions, and carrying loads under conditions of constricted ceiling heights.
(10) A vicious feud playing out within Uzbekistan's ruling family took a new twist on Monday , when prosecutors announced that the clan's most flamboyant member faces charges of involvement in mafia-style corruption.
(11) The possible arrangements of molecules within the twisted ribbons have been deduced and are found to be fairly closely related.
(12) Idiopathic torsion dystonia (ITD) is characterized by sustained, involuntary muscle contractions, frequently causing twisting and repetitive movements or abnormal postures.
(13) These results indicate that the polypeptide chain, driven by energetics (nonbonded and electrostatic interactions), is folded into a typical left-handed twisted four-helix bundle with an approximately 4-fold symmetric array, as observed in most four alpha-helix proteins.
(14) In the mutants twist and snail, which fail to differentiate the ventrally derived mesoderm, mitoses specific to the mesoderm are absent.
(15) Fulham were helped by United being forced into a trio of substitutions at the interval, as Rafael succumbed to a twisted ankle, Cleverly had double vision and Evans had back trouble.
(16) Blockage of the balloon system was possibly caused by twisting the system to reach and pass the lesion in the branch of left circumflex coronary artery.
(17) In the tradition of the American author Patricia Highsmith, creator of the charming psychopath Tom Ripley, Rendell used twisting plots to expose twisted minds.
(18) From previous genetic and biochemical studies it was hypothesized that dorsal might be responsible for the activation of the zygotic gene twist.
(19) Finally, the twisted nose was treated by freeing the nasal components, straightening the bone and cartilage, and replacing them in their anatomical positions.
(20) It doesn’t do a lot at the moment, but there’s a lot of potential for a modern twist on board games here.