See TWAIN on Wiktionary
{
"etymology_text": "From twain, in reference to a line in Rudyard Kipling's poem The Ballad of East and West: \"never the twain shall meet\". This was chosen to reflect the difficulty, at the time, of connecting scanners and personal computers.",
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {},
"expansion": "TWAIN",
"name": "en-proper noun"
}
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "name",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
"parents": [
"Entries with incorrect language header",
"Entry maintenance"
],
"source": "w"
},
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "Pages with 1 entry",
"parents": [],
"source": "w"
},
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "Pages with entries",
"parents": [],
"source": "w"
},
{
"kind": "topical",
"langcode": "en",
"name": "Computing",
"orig": "en:Computing",
"parents": [
"Technology",
"All topics",
"Fundamental"
],
"source": "w"
}
],
"glosses": [
"A standard software protocol and applications programming interface (API) that regulates communication between software applications and imaging devices such as scanners and digital cameras."
],
"id": "en-TWAIN-en-name-rRodHFhL",
"links": [
[
"computing",
"computing#Noun"
],
[
"software",
"software"
],
[
"protocol",
"protocol"
],
[
"API",
"API"
],
[
"regulate",
"regulate"
],
[
"communication",
"communication"
],
[
"application",
"application"
],
[
"imaging",
"imaging"
],
[
"device",
"device"
],
[
"scanner",
"scanner"
],
[
"digital",
"digital"
],
[
"camera",
"camera"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(computing) A standard software protocol and applications programming interface (API) that regulates communication between software applications and imaging devices such as scanners and digital cameras."
],
"topics": [
"computing",
"engineering",
"mathematics",
"natural-sciences",
"physical-sciences",
"sciences"
],
"wikipedia": [
"Rudyard Kipling",
"TWAIN"
]
}
],
"word": "TWAIN"
}
{
"etymology_text": "From twain, in reference to a line in Rudyard Kipling's poem The Ballad of East and West: \"never the twain shall meet\". This was chosen to reflect the difficulty, at the time, of connecting scanners and personal computers.",
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {},
"expansion": "TWAIN",
"name": "en-proper noun"
}
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "name",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
"English entries with incorrect language header",
"English lemmas",
"English proper nouns",
"English uncountable nouns",
"Pages with 1 entry",
"Pages with entries",
"en:Computing"
],
"glosses": [
"A standard software protocol and applications programming interface (API) that regulates communication between software applications and imaging devices such as scanners and digital cameras."
],
"links": [
[
"computing",
"computing#Noun"
],
[
"software",
"software"
],
[
"protocol",
"protocol"
],
[
"API",
"API"
],
[
"regulate",
"regulate"
],
[
"communication",
"communication"
],
[
"application",
"application"
],
[
"imaging",
"imaging"
],
[
"device",
"device"
],
[
"scanner",
"scanner"
],
[
"digital",
"digital"
],
[
"camera",
"camera"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(computing) A standard software protocol and applications programming interface (API) that regulates communication between software applications and imaging devices such as scanners and digital cameras."
],
"topics": [
"computing",
"engineering",
"mathematics",
"natural-sciences",
"physical-sciences",
"sciences"
],
"wikipedia": [
"Rudyard Kipling",
"TWAIN"
]
}
],
"word": "TWAIN"
}
Download raw JSONL data for TWAIN meaning in All languages combined (1.5kB)
This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable All languages combined dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-12-21 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-12-04 using wiktextract (d8cb2f3 and 4e554ae). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.
If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.