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twain

ADJ สอง  song

 

Webster's 1828 Dictionary

TWAIN

a. or n.Two. When old winter splits the rocks in twain.
[Nearly obsolete in common discourse, but used in poetry and burlesque. ]

 

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

TWAIN

Twain, a. & n. Etym: [OE. twein, tweien, tweyne, AS. twegen, masc. See Two. ]

 

Defn: Two; - nearly obsolete in common discourse, but used in poetry and burlesque. "Children twain. " Chaucer. And whosoever shall compel thee to go a mile, go with him twain. Matt. v. 41.In twain, in halves; into two parts; asunder. When old winder split the rocks in twain. Dryden. -- Twain cloud. (Meteor. ) Same as Cumulo-stratus.

 

New American Oxford Dictionary

twain

twain |twān tweɪn | ▶cardinal number archaic term for two: he split it in twain . PHRASES never the twain shall meet used to suggest that two things are too different to coexist: Ulster people are British and Irish people are Irish, and never the twain shall meet. [from Rudyard Kipling's “Oh, East is East, and West is West, and never the twain shall meet. ” ( Barrack-room Ballads (1892 )).]ORIGIN Old English twegen, masculine of twā (see two ).

 

Twain, Mark

Twain, Mark |twān tweɪn | (1835 –1910 ), US novelist and humorist; pseudonym of Samuel Langhorne Clemens. After gaining a reputation as a humorist with his early work, he wrote his best-known novels, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1876 ) and The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1885 ); both give a vivid evocation of Mississippi frontier life.

 

Oxford Dictionary

twain

twain |tweɪn | ▶cardinal number archaic term for two: he split the spar in twain . PHRASES never the twain shall meet used to suggest that two things are too different to exist alongside each other: families were either ‘church ’ or ‘chapel ’ and never the twain shall meet. [from Rudyard Kipling's ‘Oh, East is East, and West is West, and never the twain shall meet ’ ( Barrack-room Ballads, 1892 ).]ORIGIN Old English twegen, masculine of twā (see two ).

 

Twain, Mark

Twain |tweɪn | (1835 –1910 ), American novelist and humorist; pseudonym of Samuel Langhorne Clemens. His best-known novels, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1876 ) and The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1885 ), give a vivid evocation of Mississippi frontier life.

 

Duden Dictionary

Twain

Twain Eigenname |ˈtveːn |amerikanischer Schriftsteller

 

Sanseido Dictionary

TWAIN

TWAIN トウェイン 〖 Technology Without Any Interested （Interesting ） Name 〗スキャナーなど ，コンピューターの画像入力装置用の統一規格 。

 

Sanseido Wisdom Dictionary

TWAIN

TWAIN /tweɪn /〖T echnology W ithout A ny I nteresting N ame 〗名詞 〘コンピュ 〙トウェイン 〘イメージスキャナ用の汎用画像取り込み規格 〙.

 

Twain

Twain /tweɪn /名詞 →Mark Twain .

 

twain

twain /tweɪn /名詞 U C 2つ, 2人 (two ); 一対 .