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# twine

«twine» in Mova's school dictionary: **to wind or wrap something around something else, or to…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 3 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

verb (twine, twines, twined, twining); noun (a twine)

### meaning for a pupil

1) To twine is to wind or wrap something around something else, or to coil round and round. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/twine/#m1)

2) (noun) Twine is thin, strong string used for tying parcels. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/twine/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

in tales, a rope or snake winds round a person or thing; in the lessons, a plant or snake that twines round a post; in everyday life, string for tying up a parcel

### examples

- Twine the rope around his neck. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/twine/#x1)
- Ivy twines up the old garden wall. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/twine/#x2)
- Snakes twined in her hair. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/twine/#x3)
- Tie the parcel with a piece of twine. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/twine/#x4)

### note

nothing for maths

### In the corpora

- [All the hangings of the court round about were of fine twined linen.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/EXO.1168/)
- [And he made the ephod of gold, blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine twined linen.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/EXO.1185/)
- [And they made upon the skirts of the robe pomegranates of blue, and purple, and scarlet, and twined linen.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/EXO.1207/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «twine» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/twine/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.