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3. she is an absolute twin for the queen synonyms : double, look-alike, likeness, image, duplicate, clone; inf. spitting image, ringer, dead ringer.
http://dictionary.oed.com/cgi/entry/50260611?...twin • noun 1. he and his brother are twins synonyms : identical twin, fraternal twin.
2. where is the twin of that glove? synonyms : mate, match, fellow, counterpart, complement.
3. she is an absolute twin for the queen synonyms : double, look-alike, likeness, image, duplicate, clone; inf. spitting image, ringer, dead ringer
2.
fig. a. pl. Two persons or things intimately associated, connected, or related (esp. in origin, or from the beginning), or, as in quot. 1784,
closely resembling or agreeing with each other; two forming a pair or couple. (In quot. a 1600 loosely applied to more than two.)
Applied by Puttenham (quot. 1589) to the figure HENDIADYS.
1589 PUTTENHAM Eng. Poesie III. xvi. (Arb.) 188 Another manner of speach when ye will seeme to make two of one.., which therefore we call the figure of Twynnes, the Greekes Endiadis. a1591 H. SMITH Serm. (1637) 395 Sinnes and excuses are twinnes born at a birth. a1600 MONTGOMERIE Sonn. viii. 9 Come, troup of tuinis, about his temple tuyn {Ygh}our laurell leivis. 1612 Two Noble K. II. ii. 21 Never Shall we two exercise, like Twyns of honour, Our Armes again. 1784 COWPER Task IV. 738 Two were never found Twins at all points. 1820 SHELLEY Ode to Liberty xiii, Twins of a single destiny!
b. sing. One of two thus related; in early use sometimes = mate, companion; now usually with of, to, or possessive:
something closely connected with or resembling the other thing mentioned; a fellow, counterpart.1540 R. HYRDE tr. Vives' Instr. Chr. Wom. (1592) Niij, A woman..with whom he shall live a twin. 1616 LANE Contn. Sqr.'s T. XI. 190 Hee..shall have his landes, and her to wifelie twinn. 1697 BENTLEY Phal. (1699) 249 Another consequence the very twin to that which went before. 1819 BYRON Juan II. clxxii, All who joy would win Must share it{em}Happiness was born a twin. 1822-7 GOOD Study Med. (1829) IV. 11 The great sympathetic..nerve..meets its twin from the opposite side. 1867 MAURICE Patriarchs & Lawg. viii. (1877) 168 Love would be seen to be the eternal twin of Truth. 1908 O. SEAMAN Salvage, Sweet Uses Obesity vii, Her bed, as a matter of course, is A twin of the wonder of Ware.
http://education.yahoo.com/reference/dictiona...2. One of two identical or similar people, animals, or things; a counterpart.
http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/twin2: one of two persons or things closely related to or resembling each other
Kontext:
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- “the thorny problem of his absolute twin or to use a more popular and somewhat vulgar expression his spitting image” —José Saramago
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