Usually means: Two elements always remaining separate.
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We found 10 dictionaries that define the word never the twain shall meet:

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  1. never the twain shall meet: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. never the twain shall meet: Merriam-Webster
  3. never the twain shall meet: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. Never the twain shall meet: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  5. never the twain shall meet: Wiktionary
  6. Never the Twain Shall Meet: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  7. Never the twain shall meet: Phrase Finder

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  1. never the twain shall meet: Idioms

Definitions from Wikipedia (Never the Twain Shall Meet)

noun:  a 1925 American silent South Seas drama film based on the book by Peter B. Kyne, produced by MGM and directed by Maurice Tourneur, starring Anita Stewart and featuring Boris Karloff in an uncredited bit part.
noun:  a 1931 American drama film produced and distributed by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer and starring Leslie Howard and Conchita Montenegro.
noun:  "Never the twain shall meet" is a line in the Rudyard Kipling poem The Ballad of East and West.


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