(~s)
Frequency: The word is one of the 700 most common words in English.
1.
Two is the number 2.
NUM
2.
If you say it takes ~ or it takes ~ to tango, you mean that a situation or argument involves ~ people and they are both therefore responsible for it.
Divorce is never the fault of one partner; it takes ~...
It takes ~ to tango and so far our relationship has been one-sided.
PHRASE
3.
If you put ~ and ~ together, you work out the truth about something for yourself, by using the information that is available to you.
Putting ~ and ~ together, I assume that this was the car he used.
PHRASE: V inflects
4.
to kill ~ birds with one stone: see bird
~ a penny: see penny