twi
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It's a recognised English word, but it isn't in the official NASPA Scrabble word list.
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- Letters
- 3
/t͡ʃwiː/
Definition of twi
6 senses · 2 parts of speech · etymology included
name
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A synonym for the Akan language of Ghana, used by all Akan except the Fante.
“She kept her eyes low, and though her Twi was passable, she rarely spoke it.”
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name
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A synonym for the Akan language of Ghana, used by all Akan except the Fante.
“She kept her eyes low, and though her Twi was passable, she rarely spoke it.”
- The station code of Twickenham railway station in England.
- (abbreviation, alt-of, initialism)Initialism of The Welding Institute, a research organization in the UK.
- The station code of Tin Wing stop in Hong Kong.
noun
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(abbreviation, alt-of, initialism)Initialism of tolerable weekly intake.
“In May 2001 an expert committee has decided that tolerable doses should be expressed as tolerable weekly intake (TWI) and established TWI = 14 pg/kg.”
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(abbreviation, alt-of, initialism)Initialism of topographic wetness index.
“The key reason for the replacement of oak forests was attributed to the presence of more pines in the surrounding landscape, lower levels of winter precipitation, and Topographic Wetness Index (TWI), a measure which quantifies terrain-driven variation in soil moisture.”
Definitions from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA.
Etymology
Borrowed from Twi Twi.
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