twinning

twinning

slang Matching someone else in appearance. You guys are twinning with your sparkly purple phone cases. Look at us, twinning in our gray sweater dresses!
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.
See also:
  • pimpish
  • intersperse among
  • intersperse between
  • intersperse
  • intersperse (something) among (something)
  • intersperse (something) between (something)
  • intersperse (something) throughout (something)
  • intersperse throughout
  • throughout
  • intersperse (something) with (something)
References in periodicals archive
In a diagnostic matchmaking group exercise the expert twins (Kohat, Bannu, Timergarra) and recipient twins (Khar, Miranshah, Sadda and Parachinar) agreed on sub-areas of twinning support.
Twinning Program will enhance service delivery of TMAs of merged districts: Shahram Tarakai
Factors influencing the 'twinning rate': maternal family history of twins, mother's age, maternal height/weight, number of previous pregnancies, race, assisted conception.
10 THINGS YOU DIDN'T KNOW ABOUT TWINS
Assessing the likelihood of a chromosomal abnormality (aneuploidy) in a multiple gestation is complicated by differences in twinning mechanisms (chorionicity versus zygosity) and by the increasing rate of dizygotic twinning with advancing maternal age.
Managing risk--to mother and fetuses--in a twin gestation: begin by determining chorionicity. Discuss the risks of a multiple gestation, prepare parents for premature delivery, and monitor fetal growth as indicated
Being a twin, and experiencing what Schave and Ciriello (1983) termed the twinning bond, carries both advantages and liabilities.
Twin loss: implications for counselors working with surviving twins
Twinning is a formal, substantive collaboration between two organizations.
Twinning U.S. and African AIDS Organizations: NMAC Training in U.S. Cities
Topics include: the special relationship twins share; the unusual language patterns of twins; what twins tell us about cooperation and competition; what losing a twin reveals about grieving; pseudo twins--unrelated siblings who are reared together; the role of fertility treatments in twin and "twinlike" conceptions; how conjoined twins view their coexistence; twins and clones; twins in the courtroom; twinning in the nonhuman animal kingdom; and facts and fallacies of being a twin.
Entwined Lives: Twins and What They Tell Us About Human Behavior
twinning:' says Kenneth Lyons Jones, a pediatrician at the University of California, San Diego.
New theory on the origin of twins