Bank Letter of Credit Policy (money) and twin(1) (iou)

Bank Letter of Credit Policy (money)

Definition: [crh] Standards allowing banks to confirm letters of credit by foreign banks supporting the purchase of US exports.

twin(1) (iou)

twin adjective & noun.

A. adjective.
I.
Consisting of two; twofold, double. Long obsolete exc. as passing into branch II. LOE.
Two; both. Only in ME.
II.
That is a twin (sense B.1 below); (of a child or animal) born at the same birth as one Other sibling. LME.
W. C. L. Martin Every twin female..is not necessarily barren, even when the Other calf is a male. C. Morley His twin daughters, Alma and Sophie.
a. Forming a closely related or associated, or similar or equal, pair or couple. L16.
Shakespeare Twelfth Night An apple cleft in two is not more twin than these two creatures. D. Leavitt They shaved together at twin sinks in the bathroom.
b. Composed of or having two associated, or closely related or similar or equal, parts or constituents; consisting of two joined in one. L16.
D. W. Thompson In some twin eggs a thin partition of white intervenes to prevent the yolks mixing.
c. Botany & Zoology. Growing or occurring in pairs; geminate. E19.
Forming one of a pair or couple; closely related to or associated with another. E17.
J. C. Loudon Having in a twin volume treated of Gardening as an Art of Design and Taste.
b. noun.
Either of two children or animals born at the same birth, a child or animal born at the same birth as one Other sibling. ME.
fraternal twin: see FRATERNAL adjective. identical twin: see IDENTICAL adjective 3. Siamese twin: see SIAMESE adjective.
Annual Register He and his twin, Jean Felix. Punch Mrs Potter has given birth to healthy twins.
b. (Usu. Twin.) In pl. The constellation and zodiacal sign Gemini. LME.
c. Each of three triplets. Usu. in pl. dial. E17.
in twin, on twin, in or into two parts or divisions; in twain, in two, apart, asunder. ME-M16.
Either of two closely related or associated, or similar or equal, persons or things; a counterpart. M16.
terrible twins: see TERRIBLE adjective 2b.
P. Scott I sat in one armchair, he in its twin. M. L. King The inseparable twin of racial injustice was economic injustice.
a. A pair of twin children or animals; a pair, a couple, a brace. obsolete exc. dial. M16.
b. An agricultural implement with two rows of teeth, for breaking up ploughed land and clearing it of weeds. dial. M19.
Crystallography. A composite crystal consisting of two (usu. equal and similar) crystals having reversed, rotated, or shifted positions with respect to each Other, united along a plane or interpenetrating. Also, a composite crystal consisting of more than two. Also twin crystal. M19.
glide twin: see GLIDE verb. mechanical twin: see MECHANICAL adjective. multiple twin: see MULTIPLE adjective. PENETRATION twin.
ellipt. A twin bed, a twin-bedded room, a twin-engined aircraft, etc. E20.
Economist The cheapest single room..will cost 22 a night...The cheapest twin will cost 28.
Special collocations & comb.: twin bed either of a pair of matching single beds. twin-bedded adjective (of a room) furnished wth twin beds. twin-bill Baseball = double header (c) s.v. DOUBLE adjective & adverb. twin-birth the birth of twins; arch. a pair of twins (chiefly fig.). twin-born adjective (arch.) born a twin; (of a child or animal) born at the same birth as one Other sibling. twin brother a male twin, a brother born at the same birth as one Other sibling. twin carburettor either of a pair of carburettors in the same engine. twin city (a) N. Amer. either of two neighbouring cities lying close together; spec. in pl., St Paul and Minneapolis in the US, and (Hist.) Fort William and Port Arthur in Canada; (b) a city which has been twinned with another (TWIN verb 3a). twin crystal: see sense 5 above. twin double Racing a system of Betting in which the winners of four successive races must be selected. twin-engined adjective (of an aircraft etc.) having two engines. twin float either of a pair of floats on a seaplane (usu. in pl.). twinflower the linnaea, Linnaea borealis. twin-jet adjective & noun (Aeronautics) (a) adjective (of an aircraft) having two jet engines; (b) noun a twin-jet aircraft. twin lamb disease Pregnancy toxaemia in sheep, apparently caused by malnutrition. twin-law Crystallography the law expressing the relation of components of a twin crystal. twinleaf a N. American woodland plant of the barberry family, Jeffersonia diphylla, the leaves of which are divided in two almost to the base. twin-lens adjective (of a camera) having two identical sets of lenses, either for taking stereoscopic pictures, or with one forming an image for viewing and the Other an image to be photographed. twin-pair a pair of things precisely similar and equal. twin paradox Physics in relativity theory, the conclusion that if one of a pair of twins makes a long journey at near the speed of light and then returns, he or she will have aged less than the twin who remains behind. twin plate plate glass ground and polished on both sides at once in the manufacturing process. twin prime Math. either of a pair of prime numbers whose difference is 2. twin-screw adjective & noun (a) adjective having twin screws; spec. (of a ship) having two screw propellers on separate shafts rotating in opposite directions, to counteract the tendency to lateral vibration; (b) noun a twin-screw ship. twin set a woman's matching jumper and cardigan. twin sister a female twin, a sister born at the same birth as one Other sibling. twin soul literary a kindred spirit. twin species Biology two species which are morphologically identical but reproductively distinct. twin-spot, twin-spotted adjectives (esp. of a moth) having pairs of spots on the wings. twin town a town which has been twinned with another (TWIN verb 3a). twin-tub adjective & noun (a) adjective (of a washing machine) having two separate top-loading drums, one for washing and the Other for spin-drying; (b) noun a twin-tub washing machine.
twinhood noun = twinship L19.
twinling noun (long dial.) = TWIN noun 1 ME.
twinly adverb (rare) to an equal extent, doubly; in an identical degree: E20.
twinship noun the condition of being twin or a twin; the relation of a twin or twins: L17.

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