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Definition: 'TWIXT |
'TWIXT1. An abbreviation of Betwixt, used in poetry, or in colloquial language. |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Disappointment | Noun: disappointment; blighted hope, balk; blow; anticlimax; slip 'twixt cup and lip; nonfulfillment of one's hopes; sad disappointment, bitter disappointment; trick of fortune; afterclap; false expectation, vain expectation; miscalculation; fool's paradise; much cry and little wool. |
Failure | Noun: failure; nonsuccess, nonfulfillment; dead failure, successlessness; abortion, miscarriage; brutum fulmen; labor in vain; (inutility); no go; inefficacy; inefficaciousness; Adjective: vain attempt, ineffectual attempt, abortive attempt, abortive efforts; flash in the pan, "lame and impotent conclusion"; frustration; slip 'twixt cup and lip; (disappointment). |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: 'TWIXT |
| Specialty definitions using "'TWIXT": Halloo when out of the Wood ♦ leonine ♦ Poetic Terms ♦ Wall. (references) |
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Screenplays | It is plain the whole town knoweth of the deal 'twixt me and Petruchio. (Moonlighting; writing credit: Eric Blakeney) | |
Movie/TV Titles | 'Twixt Red Man and White (1910) | |
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Lexicography | Devil's Dictionary | LEONINE, adj. Unlike a menagerie lion. Leonine verses are those in which a word in the middle of a line rhymes with a word at the end, as in this famous passage from Bella Peeler Silcox: The electric light invades the dunnest deep of Hades. Cries Pluto, 'twixt his snores: "O tempora! O mores!" It should be explained that Mrs. Silcox does not undertake to teach pronunciation of the Greek and Latin tongues. Leonine verses are so called in honor of a poet named Leo, whom prosodists appear to find a pleasure in believing to have been the first to discover that a rhyming couplet could be run into a single line. |
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| "'TWIXT" is generally used as a preposition (except "of") -- approximately 80.00% of the time. "'TWIXT" is used about 5 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Preposition (except "of") | 80% | 4 | 175,879 |
| Noun (singular) | 20% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 5 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "'TWIXT": slip 'twixt cup and lip ♦ there's many a slip 'twixt the cup and the lip. Additional references. | |
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Beginning with "'TWIXT": 'Twixt-brain. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "'TWIXT"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Czech | neříkej hop, dokud jsi nepřeskoèil (there's many a slip 'twixt the cup and the lip). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Words ending with "ixt": Lixt. (additional references) |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "'-i-t-t-w-x" | |
-1 letter: twixt. | |
-2 letters: twit. | |
-3 letters: tit, wit. | |
-4 letters: it, ti, xi. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)27 54 57 49 58 54 |
| Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)00100111 01010100 01010111 01001001 01011000 01010100 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)' T W I X T |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0027 0054 0057 0049 0058 0054 |
Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)95457435854 |
| 1. Definition 2. Crosswords 3. Usage: Modern 4. Usage: Commercial | 5. Quotations: Non-fiction 6. Usage Frequency 7. Expressions 8. Translations: Modern | 9. Rhymes 10. Anagrams 11. Orthography 12. Bibliography |
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