EXAMPLES | WORD ORIGIN | IDIOMS noun a cardinal number, 1 plus 1.
a symbol for this number, as 2 or II.
a set of this many persons or things.
a playing card, die face, or half of a domino face with two pips.
adjective amounting to two in number.
RELATED WORDS pair ,
double ,
couple ,
team ,
binary ,
amphibian ,
diploid ,
span ,
duplicity ,
dichotomy ,
twin ,
duet ,
brace ,
duality ,
bifurcation ,
twain ,
twins ,
dos ,
deuce ,
dyad
Nearby words twitter , twitterpated , twittery , twixt , twizzle , two bits , two can play at that game , two cents , two gentlemen of verona, the , two heads are better than one Idioms in two , into two separate parts, as halves: A bolt of lightning split the tree in two.
put two and two together , to draw a correct conclusion from the given circumstances; infer: It didn't require a great mind to put two and two together.
Origin of two before 900; Middle English; Old English twā (feminine and neuter; cf.
twain ); cognate with
German zwei; compare
Latin duo, Greek dýo Can be confused to too two Dictionary.com Unabridged
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Examples from the Web for two Interesting that those who sat in judgment of him found those two sets of beliefs to be incompatible.
If anything the work the two cops and the maintenance guy were doing deserves more respect and probably helped a lot more people.
Toomey lives here with her husband, Mark, a managing director at Goldman Sachs, and their two daughters.
But no more so than the Sodexo building maintenance man or the two cops who were also killed in the crossfire.
France 24's coverage of two developing hostage situations in Paris on Friday.
There were numerous sheepfolds and two cattle pens, but the rest of the country round was quite open.
Two days afterwards, on the 9th of September, I arrived with the commissary at Milan.
As I have already said, we had made four oars, but our boat was so small that only two were necessary.
The servant followed with the two cases and the bag, and laid them upon the table, then placed himself at the door.
The women and children were being hurried to the ships, and two ladies were hastening past my friend.
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British Dictionary definitions for two noun the cardinal number that is the sum of one and one. It is a prime number See also number (def. 1) a numeral, 2, II, (ii), etc, representing this number
music the numeral 2 used as the lower figure in a time signature, indicating that the beat is measured in minims
something representing, represented by, or consisting of two units, such as a playing card with two symbols on it
Also called: two o'clock two hours after noon or midnight
in two in or into two parts break the bread in two
put two and two together to make an inference from available evidence, esp an obvious inference
that makes two of us the same applies to me
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determiner amounting to two two nails (as pronoun ) he bought two Show More
Related forms Related adjectives: binary, double, dual Related prefixes: di-, bi- Word Origin for two Old English twā (feminine); related to Old High German zwā, Old Norse tvau, Latin, Greek duo
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Word Origin and History for two n. Old English twa, fem. and neuter form of twegen "two" (see twain ), from Proto-Germanic *twai (cf. Old Saxon and Old Frisian twene , twa , Old Norse tveir , tvau , Dutch twee , Old High German zwene , zwo , German zwei , Gothic twai ), from PIE *duwo (cf. Sanskrit dvau , Avestan dva , Greek duo , Latin duo , Old Welsh dou , Lithuanian dvi , Old Church Slavonic duva , first element in Hittite ta-ugash "two years old").
Dance style two-step is recorded from 1900. Twofer is first recorded 1911 (originally in reference to cigars), from two for (a dollar, etc.). Two cheers for _____ , expressing qualified enthusiasm first recorded 1951 in E.M. Forster's title "Two Cheers for Democracy." Two-dimensional is recorded from 1883; figurative sense of "lacking substance or depth" is attested from 1934.
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Idioms and Phrases with two In addition to the idioms beginning with two
two bits two can play at that game two cents two left feet, have two of a kind two shakes of a lamb's tail two strikes against two strings to one's bow two ways about it two wrongs do not make a right also see:
fall between the crack (two stools) for two cents game that two can play goody-two-shoes in two shakes it takes two kill two birds with one stone know all the answers (a thing or two) lesser of two evils like as two peas in a pod no two ways about it of two minds put two and two together that makes two of us thing or two wear two hats The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary
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