different between comparable vs twin

English

Etymology

From Middle French comparable, from Latin compar?bilis.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?k?mp(?)??bl?/, /k?m?pæ??bl?/
• (US) IPA^(key): /?k?mp(?)??bl?/, /k?m?pæ??bl?/
• (US, Mary–marry–merry merger) IPA^(key): /k?m?p???bl?/

Adjective

comparable (comparative more comparable, superlative most comparable)

1. (often with to) Able to be compared (to).

2. (often with to) Similar (to); like.
3. (mathematics) Constituting a pair in a particular partial order.

4. (grammar) Said of an adjective that has a comparative and superlative form.

Usage notes

The pronunciation /?k?mp(?)??bl?/ is not possible with sense 4.

Related terms

• comparability
• comparableness
• incomparable
• uncomparable
• non-comparable, noncomparable

Translations

Noun

comparable (plural comparables)

1. Something suitable for comparison.

Asturian

Etymology

From Latin compar?bilis.

Adjective

comparable (epicene, plural comparables)

1. comparable

Related terms

• comparar
• incomparable

Catalan

Etymology

From Latin compar?bilis.

Pronunciation

• (Balearic) IPA^(key): /kom.p???a.bl?/
• (Central) IPA^(key): /kum.p???a.bl?/
• (Valencian) IPA^(key): /kom.pa??a.ble/

Adjective

comparable (masculine and feminine plural comparables)

1. comparable

   Antonym: incomparable

Derived terms

• comparablement

Related terms

• comparar
• incomparable

Further reading

• “comparable” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.

French

Etymology

From Latin compar?bilis.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /k??.pa.?abl/

Adjective

comparable (plural comparables)

1. comparable (suitable to be compared)

Related terms

• comparabilité

Further reading

• “comparable” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Galician

Alternative forms

• comparábel

Etymology

From Latin compar?bilis.

Adjective

comparable m or f (plural comparables)

1. comparable

Related terms

• comparar
• incomparábel / incomparable

Further reading

• “comparable” in Dicionario da Real Academia Galega, Royal Galician Academy.

Spanish

Etymology

From Latin compar?bilis.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kompa??able/, [kõm.pa??a.??le]

Adjective

comparable (plural comparables)

1. comparable

   Antonym: incomparable

Related terms

• comparar
• incomparable

Further reading

• “comparable” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.

English

Alternative forms

• twynne (obsolete)

Pronunciation

• enPR: tw?n, IPA^(key): /tw?n/, [tw??n]
• Rhymes: -?n

Etymology 1

From Middle English twinne, twynne, from Old English ?etwin, ?etwinn (“twin, multiple”, noun) and twinn (“twin, two-fold, double, two by two”, adjective), from Proto-Germanic *twinjaz, *twinaz (“two each”), from Proto-Indo-European *dwino- (“twin”), from *dwóh? (“two”). Cognate with Scots twyn (“twin”), Dutch tweeling (“twin”), German Zwilling (“twin”), Swedish tvilling (“twin”), Faroese tvinnur (“a double set”), Icelandic tvenna (“duo, pair”), Lithuanian dvynys (“twin”), Russian ?????? (dvojnja, “twin”).

Noun

twin (plural twins)

1. Either of two people (or, less commonly, animals) who shared the same uterus at the same time; one who was born at the same birth as a sibling.
2. Either of two similar or closely related objects, entities etc.
3. A room in a hotel, guesthouse, etc. with two beds; a twin room.
4. (US) A twin size mattress or a bed designed for such a mattress.
5. (aviation) A two-engine aircraft.
6. (crystallography) A twin crystal.

Synonyms

• twindle, twinling, doublet (in the sense of twins and triplets)

Derived terms

Translations

See also

• twyndyllyng
• (hotel room): single, double
• twain

Verb

twin (third-person singular simple present twins, present participle twinning, simple past and past participle twinned)

1. (transitive, obsolete outside Scotland) To separate, divide.
2. (intransitive, obsolete outside Scotland) To split, part; to go away, depart.
3. (usually in the passive) To join, unite; to form links between (now especially of two places in different countries).

   • Still we moved / Together, twinned, as horse's ear and eye.

4. (intransitive) To be paired or suited.
5. (intransitive) To give birth to twins.
6. (intransitive, obsolete) To be born at the same birth.

See also

• sister city

Etymology 2

From Middle English *twin, *twyn, from Old English twin, twinn (“twin; double”, adjective), from Proto-Germanic *tw?hnaz (“occurring in a pair; twofold; double”), from Proto-Indo-European *dwóh? (“two”). Cognate with Icelandic tvennur (“double”), Gothic ???????????????????????????????? (tweihnai, “two each”).

Adjective

twin (not comparable)

1. double; dual; occurring as a matching pair

2. forming a pair of twins.

Synonyms

• (forming a matched pair): twofold; see also Thesaurus:dual

Derived terms

Translations

Further reading

• twin in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• twin in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
• twin at OneLook Dictionary Search

Anagrams

• Wint

Old English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /twin/

Adjective

twin

1. Alternative form of twinn

Declension