twain

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twain - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  Twain \Twain\ (tw[=a]n), a. & n. [OE. twein, tweien, tweyne, AS.
     tw[=e]gen, masc. See Two.]
     Two; -- nearly obsolete in common discourse, but used in
     poetry and burlesque. "Children twain." --Chaucer.
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           And whosoever shall compel thee to go a mile, go with
           him twain.                               --Matt. v. 41.
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     In twain, in halves; into two parts; asunder.
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              When old winter split the rocks in twain. --Dryden.
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     Twain cloud. (Meteor.) Same as Cumulo-stratus.
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twain - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :

  twain
      n 1: two items of the same kind [syn: couple, pair,
           twosome, twain, brace, span, yoke, couplet,
           distich, duo, duet, dyad, duad]

twain - Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (26 May 2007) :

  TWAIN
  
     <graphics, standard> An image capture API for Microsoft Windows
      and Apple Macintosh operating systems that
     enables the user to control a scanner or digital camera
     from image processing software.
  
     TWAIN was first released on 1992-02-29 and is currently
     ratified at version 2.0 as of 2005-11-28.  It is maintained by
     the TWAIN Working Group.
  
     Kevin Bier, chairman-emeritus of the TWAIN Working Group and
     the one of the original co-author/editors of TWAIN 1.0, chose
     the name TWAIN after reading letters by Mark Twain.  It was
     unofficially considered to mean "toolkit without an important
     name."
  
     The word "twain" is an archaic form meaning "two".  It appears
     in Kipling's "The Ballad of East and West" - "...and never the
     twain shall meet...", reflecting the difficulty, at the time,
     of connecting scanners and personal computers.  It was
     up-cased to TWAIN to make it more distinctive.  This led
     people to believe it was an acronym, and then to a contest to
     come up with an expansion.  None were selected, but the entry
     "Technology Without An Interesting Name" continues to haunt
     the standard.
  
     The TWAIN Working Group (http://twain.org/).
  
     (2000-02-25)
  

twain - V.E.R.A. -- Virtual Entity of Relevant Acronyms (June 2006) :

  TWAIN
         Technology Without An Important Name
         

twain - U.S. Gazetteer (1990) :

  Twain, CA
    Zip code(s): 95984