twitch
see also: Twitch
Pronunciation
Twitch
Proper noun
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see also: Twitch
Pronunciation
- IPA: /twɪt͡ʃ/, [tʰw̥ɪt͡ʃ]
twitch
- A brief, small (sometimes involuntary) movement out of place and then back again; a spasm.
- I saw a little twitch in the man's face, and knew he was lying.
- (informal) Action of spotting or seeking out a bird, especially a rare one.
- (farriery) A stick with a hole in one end through which passes a loop, which can be drawn tightly over the upper lip or an ear of a horse and twisted to keep the animal quiet during minor surgery.
- Synonyms: barnacle
- (physiology) A brief, contractile response of a skeletal muscle elicited by a single maximal volley of impulses in the neurons supplying it.
- (mining) The sudden narrowing almost to nothing of a vein of ore.
- French: tic
- German: Zuckung, Zucken
- Italian: tic, spasimo
- Portuguese: tique, espasmo
- Russian: подёргивание
- Spanish: tic
- French: tord-nez, morailles
- German: Nasenbremse, Bremse, Klappe, Kluppe, Knuppe, Maulholz
- Italian: imboccatura
- Portuguese: aziar
- Spanish: aciar, acial
- Italian: spasmo, contrazione, tremito
twitch (twitches, present participle twitching; past and past participle twitched)
- (intransitive) To perform a twitch; spasm.
, [https://web.archive.org/web/20050326212058/http://www.mindspring.com/~randyhoward/new_page_6.htm] - "Why is it that you twitch whenever I say Faith?"
- 1922, Margery Williams, The Velveteen Rabbit
- Their feet padded softly on the ground, and they crept quite close to him, twitching their noses...
- (transitive) To jerk sharply and briefly.
- to twitch somebody's sleeve for attention
- 1717, Alexander Pope, “The Rape of the Lock”, in The Works of Mr. Alexander Pope, volume I, London: Printed by W[illiam] Bowyer, for Bernard Lintot, […], OCLC 43265629 ↗, canto III:
- Thrice they twitched the diamond in her ear.
- (obsolete) To exert oneself. [15th-17th c.]
- (transitive) To spot or seek out a bird, especially a rare one.
- 1995, Quarterly Review of Biology vol. 70 p. 348:
- "The Birdwatchers Handbook ... will be a clear asset to those who 'twitch' in Europe."
- 2003, Mark Cocker, Birders: Tales of a Tribe , ISBN 0802139965, page 52:
- "But the key revelation from twitching that wonderful Iceland Gull on 10 March 1974 wasn't its eroticism. It was the sheer innocence of it."
- 2005, Sean Dooley, The Big Twitch: One Man, One Continent, a Race Against Time , ISBN 1741145287, page 119:
- "I hadn't seen John since I went to Adelaide to (unsuccessfully) twitch the '87 Northern Shoveler, when I was a skinny, eighteen- year-old kid. "
- 1995, Quarterly Review of Biology vol. 70 p. 348:
- French: spasmer
- German: verkrampfen
- Italian: spasimare
- Russian: дёргаться
- Italian: strattonare
- Russian: дёргать
- Italian: individuare, identificare
twitch (uncountable)
- couch grass Elymus repens; a species of grass, often considered as a weed
Twitch
Proper noun
- Short for Twitch.tv#English|Twitch.tv.
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