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Määritelmät
Substantiivit
- A brief, small (sometimes involuntary) movement out of place and then back again; a spasm.
- couch grass, Elymus repens; a species of grass, often considered as a weed.
- (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.
Verbit
- (intransitive) To perform a twitch; spasm.
- (transitive) To jerk sharply and briefly.
- (transitive) To spot or seek out a bird, especially a rare one.
Esimerkit
- I saw a little twitch in the man's face, and knew he was lying.
- "Why is it that you twitch whenever I say Faith?"
- Their feet padded softly on the ground, and they crept quite close to him, twitching their noses...
- to twitch somebody's sleeve for attention
- Thrice they twitched the diamond in her ear.
- "The Birdwatchers Handbook ... will be a clear asset to those who 'twitch' in Europe."
- "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."
- "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. "
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