twitch
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Is twitch a Scrabble word?
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Definition
noun (English)
1. (informal) Action of spotting or seeking out a bird, especially a rare one.countableinformaluncountable
2. (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.Examples: "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."Synonyms: barnaclecountableuncountable
3. (physiology) A brief, contractile response of a skeletal muscle elicited by a single maximal volley of impulses in the neurons supplying it.countableuncountable
4. (mining) The sudden narrowing almost to nothing of a vein of ore.countableuncountable
5. (birdwatching) A trip taken in order to observe a rare bird.countableuncountable
verb (English)
1. (intransitive) To perform a twitch; spasm.Examples: "His fingers were nervously twitching."intransitive
2. (transitive) To cause to twitch; spasm.Examples: "Their feet padded softly on the ground, and they crept quite close to him, twitching their noses..."transitive
3. (transitive) To jerk sharply and briefly.Examples: "to twitch somebody's sleeve for attention"; "Thrice they twitched the diamond in her ear."transitive
4. (obsolete) To exert oneself.obsolete
5. (transitive) To spot or seek out a bird, especially a rare one.Examples: ""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. ""transitive
Definition source: Wiktionary