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De - Pt| English Dictionary: TWAIN | by the DICT Development Group |
| 4 results for TWAIN | |
| From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]: | |
| From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
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Twain \Twain\, a. & n. [OE. twein, tweien, tweyne, AS. tw[emac]gen, masc. See {Two}.] Two; -- nearly obsolete in common discourse, but used in poetry and burlesque. [bd]Children twain.[b8] --Chaucer. And whosoever shall compel thee to go a mile, go with him twain. --Matt. v. 41. {In twain}, in halves; into two parts; asunder. When old winder split the rocks in twain. --Dryden. {Twain cloud}. (Meteor.) Same as {Cumulo-stratus}. | |
| From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]: | |
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Twain, CA Zip code(s): 95984 | |
| From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
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TWAIN Windows} and {Apple Macintosh} {operating systems}. The standard was first released in 1992, and is currently ratified at version 1.9 as of January 2000. TWAIN is typically used as an interface between {image processing} software and a {scanner} or {digital camera}. The word TWAIN is from 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. {Home (http://www.twain.org/)}. (2000-02-25) | |
