twining

See also: Twining

English

A twining plant

Noun

twining (countable and uncountable, plural twinings)

1. (countable) A layout or motion that twines.
   • 1907, Ludwig Jost, Robert John Harvey Gibson, Lectures on plant physiology:

     In addition to autonomous movements in one plane we have also autonomous movements in space, such as torsions and twinings.

2. (British, uncountable, regional, Cumbria) complaining or grumbling
   • 2009 November 23, agency., “Cockermouth starts journey back from flood devastation”, in The Guardian:

     Canon Bryan Rowe, quoted in the article. It's going to take months to put right. But you won't hear any twining [Cumbrian dialect for moaning]. Nobody is going: 'Woe is us'. Everybody is just trying to help somebody else.

Adjective

twining (not comparable)

1. That twines.
   • 1922 February, James Joyce, “[Episode 1]”, in Ulysses, Paris: Shakespeare and Company, […], →OCLC:

     White breast of the dim sea. The twining stresses, two by two. A hand plucking the harpstrings, merging their twining chords.

Verb

twining

1. present participle and gerund of twine

See also

• twinning