and never the twain shall meet

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• never the twain shall meet — phrase used for saying that two things are very different and cannot exist together Thesaurus: different and differentlysynonym Main entry: twain * * * used to suggest that two things are too different to coexist Ulster people are British and… …   Useful english dictionary

• never the twain shall meet — ► never the twain shall meet the two things in question are too different to exist alongside each other. [ORIGIN: from Rudyard Kipling s ‘Oh, East is East, and West is West, and never the twain shall meet’. (Barrack room Ballads (1892)).] Main… …   English terms dictionary

• Never the twain shall meet. — literary something that you say when two things or people are so different that they can never exist together or agree with each other. Psychologists support behavioural therapy, pharmacologists support drugs, and never the twain shall meet …   New idioms dictionary

• never the twain shall meet — these two things or people will never exist together or agree with each other. Psychologists believe in therapy, chemists believe in drugs, and never the twain shall meet …   New idioms dictionary

• Never the Twain Shall Meet (1931 film) — Never the Twain Shall Meet Directed by W. S. Van Dyke Produced by Louis B. Mayer Irving Thalberg Written by Peter B. Kyne(novel:Never the Twain Shall Meet) Edwin J …   Wikipedia

• Never the Twain Shall Meet — For the poem containing this phrase, see The Ballad of East and West. Never the Twain Shall Meet Directed by Maurice Tourneur …   Wikipedia

• never the twain shall meet — used for saying that two things are very different and cannot exist together …   English dictionary

• Never the Twain — For the 1925 film, see Never the Twain Shall Meet. Never the Twain Genre Sitcom Created by Johnnie Mortime …   Wikipedia

• TWAIN — TWAIN, widely known unoffically as Technology Without an Interesting Name. [ [http://www.twain.org/faqs.shtm#What%20is%20TWAIN%20an%20acronym%20for TWAIN Initiative Question: What is TWAIN an acronym for?] ] is a free and open software protocol… …   Wikipedia

• TWAIN — es un estándar destinado a la adquisición de imágenes de un escáner de imagen: una API de captura de imágenes para los sistemas operativos Microsoft Windows y Apple Macintosh. La palabra TWAIN no es oficialmente un acrónimo; sin embargo, es… …   Wikipedia Español

• The Ballad of East and West — is a poem by Rudyard Kipling. It was first published in 1889, and has been much collected and anthologised since. Its first line is often quoted, sometimes as an example of Kipling s attitudes to race and to the Empire; but those who quote it… …   Wikipedia