Twitch
To pull with a sudden jerk; to pluck with a short, quick motion; to snatch; as, to twitch one by the sleeve; to twitch a thing out of another's hand; to twitch off clusters of grapes.
The act of twitching; a pull with a jerk; a short, sudden, quick pull; as, a twitch by the sleeve.
A short, spastic contraction of the fibers or muscles; a simple muscular contraction; as, convulsive twitches; a twitch in the side.
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. By twisting the stick the compression is made sufficiently painful to keep the animal quiet during a slight surgical operation.
Related Definitions:
Act,
An,
Animal,
Another,
As,
Be,
By,
Can,
Compression,
Contraction,
Convulsive,
Drawn,
During,
Ear,
End,
Hand,
Hole,
Horse,
In,
Is,
Jerk,
Keep,
Lip,
Loop,
Made,
Motion,
Muscular,
Of,
Off,
One,
Operation,
Or,
Out,
Over,
Painful,
Pluck,
Pull,
Quick,
Quiet,
Short,
Side,
Simple,
Sleeve,
Slight,
Snatch,
Spastic,
Stick,
Sudden,
Sufficiently,
Surgical,
The,
Thing,
Through,
Tightly,
To,
Twisting,
Twitch,
Twitching,
Upper,
Which,
With
Twitch Quotations
Fame comes with its own standard. A guy who twitches his lips is just another guy with a lip twitch - unless he's Humphrey Bogart.
Sammy Davis, Jr.
Living next to you is in some ways like sleeping with an elephant. No matter how friendly and even-tempered is the beast, if I can call it that, one is affected by every twitch and grunt.
Pierre Trudeau
At college I'd seen my dead frog's limbs twitch under some applied stimulus or other - seen, but hadn't believed. Didn't dream of thinking beyond or around what I saw.
James Merrill
Twitch Translations
twitch in German is zupfen
twitch in Italian is ticchio
twitch in Swedish is rycka, ryck
Copyright © 2001 - 2012 BrainyQuote
BookRags Media Network
