twitterer
twitterer

two


Definition: Meaning of, two in English to English dictionary.

Pronunciation: / tuː /

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  1. the number 2
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  2. in twos in groups of two people or things
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  3. put two and two together to guess the meaning of something you have heard or seen
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  4. that makes two of us spoken used to tell someone that you are in the same situation and feel the same way
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  5. two can play at that game spoken used to tell someone that they will not have an advantage over you by doing something because you can do it too
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  6. a year/a week/a moment/an hour etc or two spoken one or a few years, weeks etc
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  7. two sides of the same coin used to talk about two ways of looking at the same situation
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  8. two heads are better than one used to say that two people are more likely to solve a problem or think or an idea than one person working alone
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  9. be in two minds (about something) British English American English to be unable to decide what to do, or what you think about something
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  10. two cents (worth) American English informal your opinion or what you want to say about a subject
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  11. two's company, three's a crowd used to say that it is better to leave two people alone to spend time with each other
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  1. a way of writing 'to' or 'too', used especially in emails and TEXT MESSAGE s
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two used in phrases

  • Tale of Two Cities, A
    1. (1859) a novel by Charles DICKENS, set in London and Paris at the time of the FRENCH REVOLUTION . The start of the book is very well known: 'It was the best of times, it was the worst of times...'. Another famous part is the thoughts of one of the main characters, Sydney Carton, when he is about to be killed by the GUILLOTINE instead of another man that he is pretending to be, so that the other man can live: 'It is a far, far better thing that I do, than I have ever done'.
  • Two Kettle (noun)
    1. a member of the Siouan people who constituted a division of the Teton Sioux
  • Two Thousand Guineas, the
    1. a famous British horse race run at Newmarket
  • bicycle-built-for-two (noun)
    1. a bicycle with two sets of pedals and two seats
  • eighty-two (adjective)
    1. being two more than eighty
  • fifty-two (adjective)
    1. being two more than fifty
  • forty-two (adjective)
    1. being two more than forty
  • in two ways (adverb)
    1. in a twofold manner
  • kill two birds with one stone (verb)
    1. solve two problems at once
  • ninety-two (adjective)
    1. being two more than ninety
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