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(transitive) To weave together. / (transitive) To wind, as one thread around another, or as any flexible substance around another body. / (transitive) To wind about; to embrace; to entwine.

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twine

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Source Word

twine

IPA(Pronunciation)

/twaɪn/

Verb

transitive intransitive obsolete

(transitive) To weave together. / (transitive) To wind, as one thread around another, or as any flexible substance around another body. / (transitive) To wind about; to embrace; to entwine.

Japanese Meaning

糸などを撚り合わせる、または互いに絡み合わせる。 / 糸や細い物質を、他の物の周りに巻き付ける・絡ませる。 / 複数の要素を互いに絡み合わせ、まとめる。

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Twine the reeds together to make a basket.

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葦をより合わせてかごを作ってください。

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Sense（1）

(transitive) To weave together.

Sense（2）

(transitive) To wind, as one thread around another, or as any flexible substance around another body.

Let me twine

Mine arms about that body […]

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Sense（3）

(transitive) To wind about; to embrace; to entwine.

“Let wreaths of triumph now my temples twine,”

The victor cried, “the glorious prize is mine! […]”

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Sense（4）

(intransitive) To mutually twist together; to become mutually involved; to intertwine.

Usually some old crone was squatted on the earth floor, weaving cedar fibre or tatters of old cloth into a mat, her claw-like fingers twining in and out, in and out, among the strands that were fastened to a crude frame of sticks.

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