different between twofold vs twissel

English

Alternative forms

• two-fold

Etymology

From Middle English twofold, from Old English tw?ofeald. Equivalent to two +? -fold; cognate to Icelandic tvöfalt and Dutch tweevoudig.

Adjective

twofold (not comparable)

1. Double; duplicate; multiplied by two.

   The wheat produced a twofold harvest.

2. Having two parts, especially two different parts.

   a twofold nature; a twofold sense; a twofold argument

   • 1874, Ernest Myers (transl.), The Extant Odes of Pindar, translated into English, Pythian Ode III, page 65.

     Had I but landed there and brought unto him a twofold joy, first golden health and next this my song of triumph to be a splendour in his Pythian crown […]

   • 2014, Robert K. Bolger, Scott Korb, "Gesturing Toward Reality: David Foster Wallace and Philosophy

     "Wallace's suggestion for overcoming the epistemological and solipsistic effects of innate selfishness is twofold."

Synonyms

• (double): double, duplicate; see also Thesaurus:twofold
• (having two parts): twin; see also Thesaurus:dual

Derived terms

• twofoldness

Translations

Adverb

twofold (not comparable)

1. In a double degree; doubly.

Synonyms

• double; see also Thesaurus:twice

Translations

References

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

English

Alternative forms

• twistle, twissell

Etymology

From Middle English twisel, twisil, from Old English twisel (“forked, double”), from Old English twisla (“confluence, junction”), from Proto-Germanic *twisil? (“fork, bifurcation”), from Proto-Indo-European *dwis- (“twice, in two”). Cognate with German Zwiesel (“fork”).

Adjective

twissel (comparative more twissel, superlative most twissel)

1. (obsolete) Double; twofold.

Synonyms

• duplicate, twosome; see also Thesaurus:twofold

Noun

twissel (plural twissels)

1. (rare) A double fruit or a pair of like things growing on a tree.
   • 16thC, George Turberville, The Louer, in 1810, Samuel Johnson (series editor & biographies), Alexander Chalmers (additional biographies), The Works of the English Poets, from Chaucer to Cowper, Volume II, page 599,

     As from a tree we sundrie times espie / A twissell grow by Nature's subtile might / And beeing two, for cause they grow so nie / For one are tane, and so appeare in sight;

2. (rare) That part of a tree where the branches separate from the trunk or bole; a fork.

Anagrams

• Wiltses, witless