twitch

名词 n. 动词 v.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A brief, small (sometimes involuntary) movement out of place and then back again; a spasm. countable,uncountable
    — I saw a little twitch in the man's face, and knew he was lying.
  2. couch grass (Elymus repens; a species of grass, often considered as a weed) uncountable
  3. Action of spotting or seeking out a bird, especially a rare one. countable,informal,uncountable
  4. 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. countable,uncountable
    — THE TWITCH is a short stick of strong ash, about the size of a mopstick, with a hole pierced near the end, through which is passed a piece of strong but small cord, and tied in a loop large enough to admit the open hand freely.
  5. A brief, contractile response of a skeletal muscle elicited by a single maximal volley of impulses in the neurons supplying it. countable,uncountable
  6. The sudden narrowing almost to nothing of a vein of ore. countable,uncountable
  7. A trip taken in order to observe a rare bird. countable,uncountable
    — Siberian Crane [...] Following its departure, there was much speculation that rediscovery at a less inaccessible locality would lead to one of the great twitches of 1981; alas, this was not to be.
动词 v.
  1. To perform a twitch; spasm. intransitive
    — His fingers were nervously twitching.
  2. To cause to twitch; spasm. transitive
    — Their feet padded softly on the ground, and they crept quite close to him, twitching their noses...
  3. To jerk sharply and briefly. transitive
    — to twitch somebody's sleeve for attention
  4. To exert oneself. obsolete
  5. To spot or seek out a bird, especially a rare one. transitive
    — Marsh Sandpiper [...] This delicate ‘mini shank’ has graced our shores for the past six successive years and has become increasingly easy to twitch.
  6. To engage in twitching. intransitive
    — "The Birdwatchers Handbook ... will be a clear asset to those who 'twitch' in Europe."

词形变化

twitches plural twitches present,singular,third-person twitching participle,present twitched participle,past twitched past

词汇关系

衍生词
fast-twitch nervous twitch sleep twitch slow-twitch twitch fire twitch game twitch gameplay twitch grass atwitch twitchable twitcher twitching untwitchable

词源

词源 1
From Middle English twicchen, from Old English *twiċċan, from Proto-West Germanic *twikkijan (“to nail, pin, fasten, clasp, pinch”).
Cognate with English tweak, Low German twikken, German Low German twicken (“to pinch, pinch off”), zweckōn and gizwickan (> German zwicken (“to pinch”)).
词源 2
alternate of quitch
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