different between correspondent vs twin

English

Etymology

From Latin, via Middle French or directly, from Medieval Latin correspond?ns, present participle of corresponde?.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?k????sp?nd?nt/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /?k????sp?nd?nt/

Adjective

correspondent (comparative more correspondent, superlative most correspondent)

1. Corresponding; suitable; adapted; congruous.
   • 1594, Richard Hooker, Of the Lawes of Ecclesiastical Politie

     Action correspondent or repugnant unto the law.
2. (with to or with) Conforming; obedient.
   • 1610, The Tempest, by Shakespeare, act 1 scene 2

     ARIEL: Pardon, master: / I will be correspondent to command, / And do my spriting gently.

Translations

Noun

correspondent (plural correspondents)

1. Someone who or something which corresponds.
2. Someone who communicates with another person, or a publication, by writing.
3. A journalist who sends reports back to a newspaper or radio or television station from a distant or overseas location.

Hyponyms

• stringer

Derived terms

Translations

See also

• corespondent
• Correspondent in Wikipedia

References

• correspondent in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.

Dutch

Alternative forms

• korrespondent (before 1996)

Etymology

Borrowed from Middle French correspondant, correspondent, from Latin correspondens.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?k?.r?s.p?n?d?nt/, /?k?.r?.sp?n?d?nt/
• Hyphenation: cor?res?pon?dent
• Rhymes: -?nt

Noun

correspondent m (plural correspondenten, diminutive correspondentje n, feminine correspondente)

1. A correspondent, in particular a reporter.

Related terms

• correspondentie
• corresponderen

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /k?.??s.p??d/

Verb

correspondent

1. third-person plural present indicative of correspondre
2. third-person plural present subjunctive of correspondre

Latin

Verb

correspondent

1. third-person plural present active indicative of corresponde?

Norman

Etymology

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Noun

correspondent m (plural correspondents, feminine correspondente)

1. (Jersey) correspondent

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