I. noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a twin bedroom (= with two single beds )
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Do you prefer a double or a twin bedroom?
a twin brother
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Luke and his twin brother Sam went everywhere together.
a twin city British English (= one that has a special relationship with a similar town in another country )
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Strasbourg is Leicester's twin city in France.
a twin sister
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He is devoted to his twin sister.
conjoined twins
fraternal twin
identical twin
Siamese twin
twin bed
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twin-bedded rooms
twin beds (= two single beds in a room )
Twin Towers, the
twin town
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Oxford’s twin town is Bonn.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
identical
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Surprisingly, identical twins rarely arise from the separation into two cells at the two-cell stage.
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But how do these studies explain identical twins who are not identical for alcoholism?
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Seeing double - identical twins , Georgina and Rachel Spruce 20, from Walsall.
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If one identical twin is gay, the chances that his brother is also gay are 50 percent.
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Enlarged ventricles have been found in an identical twin who develops schizophrenia, compared to the one who does not.
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Fed on different diets, two identical twins will grow to different heights.
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If the process goes on for long enough, all the members of a line become, in effect, identical twins .
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Although the brothers are identical twins , they have quite different temperaments.
monozygotic
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The monozygotic twin material consisted of both concordant and discordant twin pairs, and some unpaired healthy twins.
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Each ewe received one set of the monozygotic twins .
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It has proved very accurate; in monozygotic twins a correct classification is obtained in 99% as verified by serological methods.
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These reports indicate concordance rates of over 50% for monozygotic twin pairs compared with under 10% for dizygotic twins.
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It has been reported that the concordance rate for peptic ulcer in monozygotic twins is greater than in dizygotic twins.
siamese
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Afternoons, I convalesce, play patience, match-make a court of Siamese twins .
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We were technically that rarity, Siamese twins .
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Eileen Delaney has five cats in all ... including Pickle's Siamese twin Branston.
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Close as bloody Siamese twins they were.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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I never realized that you and Sammy were twins.
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Joey's my twin .
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Noelle and Craig are fraternal twins.
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Sally and her twin sister still spend a lot of time together now that they are adults.
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There have been a lot of interesting studies done on identical twins separated at birth.
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They look enough like each other to be twins.
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But for identical twins - who share the same genes - it rockets to 45 percent if one twin is already divorced.
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Evidence supporting a genetic component to predisposition comes mainly from a large study of 15924 male twin pairs.
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Identical twins, clearly, are far more concordant in general than are fraternal twins.
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Split twins, passionate, dramatic, vicious, intelligent.
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The twins stood over it, stirring the last embers with their feet.
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They take him, his brother Malachy, 3, and the twins, 1.
II. adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
bed
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He was staring at the twin beds .
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Stairs lead to where the children will be sequestered and it has twin beds and its own bathroom, thank goodness.
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Surkov and I sprawled on the twin beds .
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They slept in twin beds in the front bedroom of 93 Mafeking Street.
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She did not go to the room with the twin beds but to the single room with the sloping ceiling.
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Tamar was lying on one of the twin beds wearing a pair of silk lounging pyjamas.
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Twenty heated minutes later he collapsed on to his twin bed , and turned on the telly.
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There were twin beds and a pair of good-sized windows overlooking the street.
bedroom
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The twin bedrooms are airy, spacious and comfortably furnished.
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Some twin bedrooms which will have a balcony and sea view are available at a supplement.
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Six central apartments are four bedded, with two twin bedrooms , each opening on to the balcony.
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All the simple bedrooms have telephone and twin bedrooms have a balcony.
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Prices based on 4 persons in an apartment with one twin bedroom or 6 persons in an apartment with two twin bedrooms.
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The twin bedrooms have a balcony.
brother
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My twin brother appeared by the age of about ten to have some hearing loss.
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These twin brothers were Giants, but they did not look like the monsters of old.
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I have a twin brother and it seemed that he was allowed to do all the things I wasn't.
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Some may find him placing far too much emphasis on the impact of his alcoholic parents and stillborn twin brother , Jesse.
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He gave his name as Robin Ganguly, his twin brother .
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He has a twin brother named Arthur, who is also 126 at the university here.
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Here he is aged 15 with twin brother Mark, who's a normal size.
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Both his parents and his younger twin brothers died several years ago.
city
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Herculaneum, the twin city to Pompeii, suffered a similar fate but has proved more difficult to excavate.
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After its turbid passage through the twin cities the Ankh could have been one of them.
daughter
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They had twin daughters and two sons.
pillar
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Style in Washington hangs from the twin pillars of conservatism and political correctness.
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The issues of validity and reliability are the twin pillars that prove research to be only mediocre or outstanding.
room
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Prices are based on two people sharing a twin room with private facilities.
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Half board prices are based on twin rooms which can take two extra sofa beds.
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All of the twin rooms and most of the singles have an en-suite shower/WC.
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All the twin rooms are comfortable, and all overlook the attractive courtyard.
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Bedrooms have telephone and twin rooms have a balcony.
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Some twin rooms have a balcony.
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Around 32 people can stay there at any one time in multi-bedded or twin rooms .
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Many twin rooms will take an extra put-you-up bed for a child under 11.
sister
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Sheer panic: Accused describes the barn fire that killed twin sisters .
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Maryellen is the twin sister of a woman Manny had gone out with over ten years ago in New York.
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Mr Goldring said that after Becky died her twin sister Katie was brought into the hospital purely for observation.
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My twin sister is a nurse and I suppose all the blood and thunder of things took me a different way.
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You - both of you - must have know that a twin sister could be the saving of her life!
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I had a twin sister I might never have known about.
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Muhammad Reza was timid, even gentle and self-questioning, quite unlike his twin sister , Ashraf.
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But I hadn't considered the implications of a twin sister on Donna's illness.
tower
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The original station in Colombo had twin towers which housed the first and second-class booking offices at their bases.
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Kuala Lumpur has twin towers that are the tallest buildings in the world.
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Approach the old quarter from any direction, and the twin towers of the baroque cathedral dominate.
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The façade has twin towers of which the spires were added in the 1860s.
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It was built as a side station with twin towers flanking the train-shed.
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The Church of S. Servaas has a Romanesque east end with apse and twin towers .
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And Port Vale are set to take around 22,000 fans to the twin towers for the second time in a week.
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The s façade facing the square with its twin towers is decorated with sculptures by A. Braun.
town
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The initiative is part of Durham's appeal for food and medical aid for the county's twin town of Kostroma.
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Tavernier, who is a native Lyon, Birmingham's twin town , has had a life long love affair with cinema.
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Bolton and Le Mans are also twin towns of similar size and character.
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A choir is raising money to fund a trip to Reutlingen, twin town of Ellesmere Port and Neston.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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twin towers
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a PC with twin disk drives
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I asked for a room with twin beds.
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the twin cities of Minneapolis and St. Paul
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the new twin bridges over the river Clyde
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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All bedrooms are twin with private bathroom; some with a balcony.
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He was staring at the twin beds.
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It was Michael who introduced me to his twin brother Milton.
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Some twin bedrooms which will have a balcony and sea view are available at a supplement.
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The twin problems of ecological and individualist fallacies occur when inferences are drawn about one level of analysis using evidence from another.
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When I first saw them I thought they were twin girls.
III. verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
town
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The East Lothian town has been twinned with Champigny-sur-Marne for more than 30 years.
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Further information can be obtained from town twinning officer Wendy Pickles on 051-666 2121 ext 4544.
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Lowestoft is a town twinned with nowhere, although it is considering a suicide pact with Basildon.
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He has always had a keen interest in town twinning activities, particularly between Middlesbrough and Oberhausen.
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Details are available from town twinning officer Michelle Le-Neveu on Darlington.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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None the less we are twinned with a small town in Hampshire with which we have no real connection.
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The East Lothian town has been twinned with Champigny-sur-Marne for more than 30 years.