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"TWINS" is a plural of: twin. |
Date "TWINS" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1258. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
19th Century Satire | Insult added to Injury. Source: Foolish Dictionary, 1904. |
Biographical Satire | TWINS, Siamese, two men who were closer than brothers. Source: Who was Who: 5000BC - 1914. |
Computing | Two nodes which are children of the same parents. Source: European Union. (references) |
Dream Interpretation | To dream of seeing twins, foretells security in business, and faithful and loving contentment in the home. If they are sickly, it signifies that you will have disappointment and grief. Source: Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted .... |
Slang | Noun. Source: Ryan Anderson. Definition: Two seperate but similar things. Context: When you are driving and you see 20 inch rims. Social Source: Ryan's Crew. Source: Compiled by The University of Oregon. (additional references) |
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(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
The Minnesota Twins are a Major League Baseball team based in Minneapolis, Minnesota. They are in the Central Division of the American League.
- Founded: 1893, as the Kansas City, Missouri franchise in the minor Western League. Moved to Washington, D.C in 1900 when that league became the American League.
- Formerly known as: Washington Senators (1901-1960)
- Home ballpark: Metrodome, Minneapolis
- Uniform colors: Navy blue, Red, and White
- Logo design: The word "TWINS" in red. The entwined letters "TC" appear on the uniform hats.
- Wild Card titles won (0): none
- Division titles won (6): AL West 1969, 1970, 1987, 1991, AL Central 2002, 2003
- American League pennants won (6): 1924, 1925, 1933, 1965, 1987, 1991
- World Series championships won (3): 1924, 1987, 1991
Franchise history
The franchise originated in Washington, D.C in 1901 and played there through the 1960 season.
Washington Senators, 1901-1960
- The team nickname was usually the "Senators", and occasionally the "Nationals" and the "Nats". Even during the period 1907-1927, when their line up boasted the presence of Walter "The Big Train" Johnson the team were never terribly successful. During one portion of its history, the team was so notoriously inept that it inspired San Francisco Chronicle columnist Charley Dryden to joke: "Washington: First in war, first in peace, and last in the American League."
Minnesota Twins, 1961 to present
- The "Minnesota" designation, instead of "Minneapolis", comes from the fact that the team is intended to represent the Twin Cities of Minneapolis-St. Paul. Prior to 1982, the team played its games at Metropolitan Stadium in Bloomington, a suburb south of the Twin Cities. Today, the team plays in the Metrodome, which is in downtown Minneapolis, near the Mississippi River, and the Mall of America now occupies the spot where the Met once stood. The Twins defeated the Atlanta Braves to win the 1991 World Series and the St. Louis Cardinals to win the 1987 World Series. In 1965, they were defeated in the World Series by the Los Angeles Dodgers.
Players of note
Baseball Hall of Famers
- Rod Carew
- Steve Carlton
- Harmon Killebrew
- Kirby Puckett
- Dave Winfield
Current stars
- Eddie Guardado
- Torii Hunter
- Jacque Jones
- Corey Koskie
- Joe Mays
- Doug Mientkiewicz
- Brad Radke
Not to be forgotten
- Bert Blyleven
- Kent Hrbek
- Eric Milton
- Paul Molitor
- Jack Morris
- Tony Oliva
- Frank Viola
Retired numbers
- 3 Harmon Killebrew
- 6 Tony Oliva
- 14 Kent Hrbek
- 29 Rod Carew
- 34 Kirby Puckett
- 42 Jackie Robinson (retired throughout baseball)
External link
- Minnesota Twins official web site
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Minnesota Twins."
(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
The term twin refers to two individuals or one of two individuals who have shared the same uterus (womb), usually born on the same day but not necessarily. There are two different kinds of twins: identical and fraternal.Identical twins occur when a single egg is fertilized and then divides into two separate embryos. The two embryos develop into fetuses sharing the same womb, and generally the same amnion. These monozygotic twins are identical genetically unless there has been a mutation in development, and are necessarily the same gender.
Fraternal twins occur when two fertilized eggs are implanted in the uterine wall at about the same time, within the same menstrual cycle, or in rare cases within one menstrual cycle of each other. These dizygotic twins are no more similar genetically than any siblings and develop in separate amnions, with separate placentae. They may be of mixed gender or the same gender.
Conjoined twins are twins whose bodies are joined together at birth. This occurs where the zygote of identical twins fails to completely separate. This condition occurs in about 1 in 100,000 pregnancies.
Researchers suspect that more pregnancies start out as multiples than come to term that way. Early obstetric ultrasound exams sometimes reveal an "extra" fetus, which fails to develop and instead disintegrates and vanishes.
A fetus alone in the womb is caleld a singleton.
Human twins
Historically, about 1 in 80 human births (1.2%) has been the result of a twin pregnancy. The rate of twinning varies greatly among ethnic groups, ranging as high as about 6% for the Yoruba or 10% for a tiny Brazilian village (see Twinning rate at a small village in south Brazil). The widespread use of fertility drugs causing hyperovulation (stimulated release of multiple eggs by the mother) has caused what some call an "epidemic of multiple births". In 2001, for the first time ever in the US, the twinning rate exceeded 3 percent of all births. Thus, over 6% of children born in the US in 2001 were twins.Twin studies refers to the practice of assessing identical twins for medical, genetic, or psychological studies to try to find innate similarities and differences. Twins that have been separated early in life and raised in separate households are the most sought-after for these studies.
Sometimes multiple births may involve more than two fetuses. If there are three, they are called triplets; four, quadruplets; five, quintuplets; six, sextuplets, seven, septuplets, and so on. Before the advent of ovulation-stimulating drugs, triplets were quite rare (1 in 8000 births) and higher order births so rare as to be almost unheard of. Multiple pregnancies are usually delivered before the full term of 40 weeks gestation: the average length of pregnancy is around 37 weeks for twins, 34 weeks for triplets and 32 weeks for quadruplets.
The cause of monozygotic twinning is unknown. Fewer than 20 families have been described with an inherited tendency towards monozygotic twinning. (People in these families have nearly a 50 percent chance of delivering monozygotic twins!) Some evidence suggests that the environment of the womb causes the zygote to split in most cases.
Dizygotic pregancies are slightly more likely in women of African descent, in women between 30 and 40 years old, in tall and heavy women, in women who conceive soon after stopping birth control pills, and in women who have had several previous pregnancies. Women who have been taking fertility drugs have the greatest chance of multiple births, 10-20%.
Twinning in animals
Multiple births are common in many animal species, such as cat, sheep, and ferret. The incidence of twinning among cattle is about 1-4%, and research is underway to improve the odds of twinning, which can be more profitable for the breeder if complications can be sidestepped or managed.
List of twins
Topics related to twin pregnancy
- Pre-term labor
- Twin to Twin Transfusion Syndrome
- Disappearing twins
Twin could also refer to a doppelganger or clone
Twin is a link between two towns, cities, etc. where the councils of each place interact. Usually the twins are in different countries.
Twin can refer to anything in a pair, whether a shoe, or a scientific study, except when the objects have specific differences-such as a cup and a saucer.
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Twin."
Synonyms: TWINSSynonyms: Births, Multiple, Multiple births. (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Accompaniment | Noun: duality, dualism; duplicity; biplicity, biformity; polarity. two, deuce, couple, duet, brace, pair, cheeks, twins, Castor and Pollux, gemini, Siamese twins; fellows; yoke, conjugation; dispermy, doublets, dyad, span. |
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Crosswords: TWINS |
| English words defined with "TWINS": apart ♦ bear, biovular, birth, Burt ♦ conjoined twin, Cyril Burt, Cyril Lodowic Burt ♦ deliver, Didymous, different, dissimilar, dissociable, dizygotic twin ♦ fraternal, fraternal twin ♦ Gemel, Gemellipa-rous, Geminy, give birth ♦ have ♦ identical, identical twin, indistinguishable ♦ monovular, monozygotic twin, monozygous twin ♦ separable, severable, Siamese twin ♦ twin, Twinner ♦ undistinguishable, unlike. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "TWINS": A Portrait of J. Random Hacker ♦ CASTOR ♦ Diseases in Twins ♦ Freemartinism ♦ Henneberg ♦ Multiple Birth Offspring ♦ Pigeon Pair ♦ Transplantation, Isogeneic. (references) |
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Screenplays | You guys twins or something (Forrest Gump; writing credit: Eric Roth) I'm treating two sets of Siamese twins with split personalities (Zelig; writing credit: Woody Allen.) We look like the Sabobsy twins. (The North Avenue Irregulars; writing credit: Albert Fay Hill; Don Tait) If it doesn't have Siamese twins in a jar, it's not a fair (The Simpsons; writing credit: Artur Brauner; Paul Hengge) Suddenly I saw two twins walking toward me. I wondered how they would get past (2 ou 3 choses que je sais d'elle; writing credit: Catherine Vimenet; Jean-Luc Godard) | |
Clever | Survivor of Siamese Twins Joins Parents (references; author: unknown) | |
Tongue Twisters | Twelve twins twirled twelve twigs. (references; author: unknown) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Twins of Evil (1971) The Cautious Twins (1960) Never the Twins Shall Meet (1932) Those Terrible Twins (1925) Twins (1925) | |
Song Titles | Doctor! Doctor! (performing artist: Thompson Twins) King For A Day (performing artist: Thompson Twins) Lay Your Hand On Me (performing artist: Thompson Twins) Hold Me Now (performing artist: Thompson Twins) | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
 | White family shown sitting for family portrait. Father and mother with two sons about 9 and 13 years old. Some photos have a set of twins about 6 months old. Credit: Michael Anderson (photographer). |  | Twins with lambs. Credit: USDA. |
 | Hereford twins produced at the ARS Range and Livestock Research Unit at Miles City, Montana. P. Credit: USDA ARS News; photo by Jack Dykinga.. |  | [Mother with twins in "Little Italy"]. Credit: National Library of Medicine. |
 | The Siamese Twins, : first discovered while fishing on the banks of the Siam River by Mr. R. Hunter. / Drawn & Engraved by H. Berthoud. Credit: National Library of Medicine. |  | Underway at high speed in 1943-45. At the time of this photograph, she had been fitted experimentally with a pair of twin .50 caliber machineguns forward, in addition to her normal armament of four Mark XIII torpedoes, two .50 caliber twins in the superstructure and a single 20mm gun aft. This experimental boat ran extensive trials, but the design was not further produced. Credit: NAVY. |
 | Photographed at the Yokosuka Naval Base, Japan, circa February 1954, with USS Yorktown (CVA-10) at right and eleven LCM landing craft in the foreground. Grumman AF "Guardian" anti-submarine aircraft are parked on Sicily's flight deck. Douglas AD "Skyraider" attack planes are parked aft on Yorktown's flight deck. The original caption, released by Commander Naval Forces Far East on 18 February 1954, reads: "Twins, Almost -- The Essex-class carrier USS Yorktown (CVA-10) and her smaller counterpart, the escort carrier USS Sicily (CVE-118), rest side by side during a recent in-port maintenance period at the Yokosuka, Japan, Naval Base". Credit: NAVY. |  | The political "Siamese" twins the offspring of Chicago miscegenation. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Benny and Betty were twins. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | The siamese twins of statesmanship. Credit: Library of Congress. |
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| "Twins 2" by Matty And Sharon Commentary: "The twins." | "Silhouette Twins" by T. Al Nakib Commentary: "Taken in Sharm El-Sheikh, Egypt. Please contact me for usage rights (may contain usage fees for commercial use). Sizes up to 3072x2048." |
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Bill Hicks | Supreme Court says pornography is anything without artistic merit that causes sexual thought, that's their definition, essentially. No artistic merit, causes sexual thought. Hmm. Sounds like...every commercial on television, doesn't it? You know, when I see those two twins on that Doublemint commercial? I'm not thinking of gum. I am thinking of chewing, maybe that's the connection they're trying to make. What? You've all seen that Busch beer commercial, where the girl in the short hot pants opens the beer bottle on her belt buckle, leaves it there, and it foams over her hand and over the bottle and the voice over goes, "Get yourself a BUSCH." Hmm. You know what that looks like, nah, no way. |
Steven Wright | When I have a kid, I want to buy one of those strollers for twins. Then put the kid in and run around, looking frantic. When he gets older, I'd tell him he used to have a brother, but he didn't obey. |
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Grapes of Wrath | Steinbeck, John | I bet she got twins. |
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Health | Twins, triplets, and other multiple births are linked to an increased risk of cerebral palsy. (references) | |
Except for transplants between identical twins, all transplant donors and recipients are immunologically incompatible. (references) | ||
But, since both identical twins have autism more often than both fraternal twins do, researchers think that genes play a role in autism. (references) | ||
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| "TWINS" is generally used as a noun (plural) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "TWINS" is used about 1,142 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 |
| Noun (plural) | 100% | 1,142 | 6,708 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "TWINS": conjoined twins ♦ Diseases in Twins ♦ fraternal twins ♦ Gemini the Twins ♦ identical twins ♦ siamese twins. Additional references. | |
| Hypenated Usage | |
Ending with "TWINS": co-twins, four-year-old-twins, within-twins. | |
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| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
twins.com yang ying | 31 |
bucci twins.com | 8 |
conjoined twins.com | 6 |
trenchcoat twins.com | 3 |
conjoined p.com twins.i | 2 |
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| Language | Translations for "TWINS"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Afrikaans | tweeling (twin). (various references) | |
Albanian | binjakët (Gemini). (various references) | |
Arabic | توأمان. (various references) | |
Bulgarian | близнаци. (various references) | |
Chinese | 雙生 . (various references) | |
Czech | dvojèata. (various references) | |
Danish | tvilling (twin). (various references) | |
Dutch | tweeling (didymus, siblings, twin, twin crystal, twinned crystal). (various references) | |
Esperanto | dunaskitoj, ĝemeloj, ĝemelduo. (various references) | |
Finnish | kaksoset (siblings). (various references) | |
French | jumeaux (twin boys). (various references) | |
German | Zwillinge (Gemini). (various references) | |
Greek | δίδυμα. (various references) | |
Hebrew | תאומים. (various references) | |
Hungarian | ikrek. (various references) | |
Indonesian | anak kembar satu telur (identical twins). (various references) | |
Italian | gemelli (Gemini, twin), fratello (brother, sibling). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 双生児, 双子 (a twin). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | そうせいじ (premature baby), そうせい (bearing twins, creation of world, dense growth, discovery, dying young, early death, healthy growth, invention, origination, people, petitioning the Emperor, the masses), ふたご (a twin). (various references) | |
Manx | lannoonyn, cubbylagh (geminate). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | instway.(various references) | |
Portuguese | gémeos (Gemini, siblings, Twins/the), gêmeos (gemini). (various references) | |
Russian | многоплодие, близнецы, близнец (gemini, quintuplet, triplet), двойня (two at a birth). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | blizanci (twin). (various references) | |
Spanish | gemelos (binoculars, cufflinks, fieldglasses, Gemini, glasses, twin). (various references) | |
Swedish | tvillingar. (various references) | |
Thai | ฝาแฝดซึ่งมีลำตัวติดกันแต่กำเนิด (Siamese twins). (various references) | |
Turkish | ikizler. (various references) | |
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| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | gemini. (various references) |
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| Language | Date | Source | Genesis Chapter 38, Verse 27 |
| Greek (transliterated) | 250 BC | Septuagint | Egeneto de hnika etikten kai thde hn diduma en th gastri authV |
| Latin | 405 | Vulgate | Instante autem partu apparuerunt gemini in utero atque in ipsa effusione infantum unus protulit manum in qua obsetrix ligavit coccinum dicens |
| Renaissance English | 1526 | Tyndale | When tyme was come that she shulde be delyuered beholde there was .ij. twynnes in hyr wobe. |
| Jacobean English | 1611 | King James | And it came to pass in the time of her travail, that, behold, twins were in her womb. |
| Victorian English | 1833 | Webster | And it came to pass in the time of her travail, that behold, twins were in her womb. |
| Basic English | 1964 | Ogden | And when the time came for her to give birth, it was clear that there were two children in her body. |
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| Language | Genesis Chapter 38, Verse 27 |
| Cebuano | Ug nahitabo nga sa panahon sa iyang pag-anak, tan-awa, dihay duruha sa iyang tiyan. |
| Croatian | Kad joj je došlo vrijeme da rodi, pokaže se da nosi blizance. |
| Danish | Da Tiden kom, at hun skulde føde, se, da var der Tvillinger i hendes Liv. |
| Dutch | En het geschiedde ten tijde, als zij baren zou, ziet, zo waren tweelingen in haar buik. |
| Finnish | Kun hänen synnyttämisensä aika tuli, katso, hänen kohdussaan oli kaksoiset. |
| French | Quand elle fut au moment d`accoucher, voici, il y avait deux jumeaux dans son ventre. |
| German | Und da sie gebären sollte, wurden Zwillinge in ihrem Leib gefunden. |
| Haitian Creole | Lè lè a rive pou Tama akouche, yo wè li te gen marasa nan vant li. |
| Hungarian | És lõn az õ szûlésének idején, ímé kettõsök valának az õ méhében. |
| Indonesian-Bahasa Sehari-hari | Ketika sudah waktunya Tamar bersalin, ternyata ia akan melahirkan anak kembar. |
| Indonesian-Terjemahan Lama | Hata, maka apabila perempuan itu hendak beranak nyatalah ada anak kembar dalam rahimnya. |
| Italian | Quand'essa fu giunta al momento di partorire, ecco aveva nel grembo due gemelli. |
| Maori | A ka taka ki te wa e whanau ai ia, na, he mahanga kei roto i tona kopu. |
| Norwegian | Da den tid kom at hun skulde føde, se, da var det tvillinger i hennes liv. |
| Portuguese | Sucedeu que, ao tempo de ela dar à luz, havia gêmeos em seu ventre; |
| Rumanian | Cknd i -a venit vremea sq nascq, iatq cq kn pkntecele ei erau doi gemeni. |
| Russian | чП ЧТЕНС ТПДПЧ ЕЕ ПЛБЪБМПУШ, ЮФП ВМЙЪОЕГЩ Ч ХФТПВЕ ЕЕ. |
| Swedish | När hon nu skulle föda, se, då funnos tvillingar i hennes liv. |
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Derivations | |
Words beginning with "TWINS": twinset, twinsets, twinship, twinships. (additional references) | |
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"TWINS" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Ewins, ptdins, Ptdinsp, tains, tjinas, towins, Tswanas, twant, twen, twhin, twinch, twind, twing, twinks, twinn, twinq, twiny, Twisk, twizn, twun. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "TWINS" (pronounced twi"nz) |
| 4 | -w i" n z | wins, wynns. |
| 3 | -i" n z | begins, bins, fins, grins, inns, ins, Lins, pins, sins, skins, spins, thins, tins, violins, zins. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "i-n-s-t-w" | |
-1 letter: nits, snit, tins, twin, wins, wist, wits. | |
-2 letters: ins, its, nit, sin, sit, tin, tis, win, wis, wit. | |
-3 letters: in, is, it, si, ti. | |
| Words containing the letters "i-n-s-t-w" | |
+1 letter: twains, twines, unwits, wisent. | |
+2 letters: entwist, inswept, intwist, nitwits, stewing, stowing, tawnies, tawsing, townies, townish, twiners, twinges, twinset, untwist, waniest, wasting, westing, whitens, winiest, winters, wintles, wisents, wisting, withins, witness, witneys. | |
+3 letters: downiest, entwines, entwists, fawniest, inswathe, intwines, intwists, midtowns, newsiest, outwinds, ringtaws, snowiest, snowsuit, strawing, strewing, strowing, swathing, swatting, sweating, sweeting, swotting, tawniest, tinwares, tinworks, towlines, township, twankies, tweenies, twenties, twiniest, twinjets, twinkles, twinsets, twinship, twisting, untwines, untwists, unwisest, wainscot, waisting, waitings, weeniest, weltings, wenniest, westings, wettings, whiniest, whisting, whitings, windiest, wingiest, winglets, wingtips, witlings, wittings, wonkiest, worsting, wresting, writings. | |
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