Found 7 hits - Term: twig, Database: *, Strategy: exact
- [1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
twig \twig\, n. as. twig; akin to d. twijg, ohg. zwimacg,
zwimac, g. zweig, and probably to e. two.
a small shoot or branch of a tree or other plant, of no
definite length or size.
1913 webster
the britons had boats made of willow twigs, covered on
the outside with hides. --sir w.
raleigh.
1913 webster
twig borer zool., any one of several species of small
beetles which bore into twigs of shrubs and trees, as the
apple-tree twig borer amphicerus bicaudatus.
twig girdler. zool. see girdler, 3.
twig rush bot., any rushlike plant of the genus cladium
having hard, and sometimes prickly-edged, leaves or
stalks. see saw grass, under saw.
1913 webster
see also:
twig borer amphicerus bicaudatus twig girdler girdler twig rush cladium
saw grass saw
- [2] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
twig \twig\ twi^g, v. t. imp. p. p. twigged twi^gd;
p. pr. vb. n. twigging. cf. tweak.
to twitch; to pull; to tweak. obs. or scot.
1913 webster
see also:
twigged twigging tweak
- [3] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
twig \twig\, v. t. gael. tuig, or ir. tuigim i understand.
1913 webster
1. to understand the meaning of; to comprehend; as, do you
twig me? colloq. --marryat.
1913 webster
2. to observe slyly; also, to perceive; to discover. "now
twig him; now mind him." --foote.
1913 webster
as if he were looking right into your eyes and
twigged something there which you had half a mind to
conceal. --hawthorne.
1913 webster
- [4] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
twig \twig\, v. t.
to beat with twigs.
1913 webster
- [5] : WordNet (r) 2.0
twig
n : small branch or division of a branch; usually applied to
branches of the current or preceding year syn: branchlet,
sprig
v 1: branch out in a twiglike manner; "the lightning bolt twigged
in several directions"
2: understand, usually after some initial difficulty; "she
didn't know what her classmates were plotting but finally
caught on" syn: catch on, get wise, get onto, tumble,
latch on, cotton on, get it
also: twigging, twigged
see also:
branchlet sprig catch on get wise get onto tumble
latch on cotton on get it twigging twigged
- [6] : Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
83 moby thesaurus words for "twig":
accept, appendage, arm, bine, bough, branch, branchedness,
branchiness, burgeon, catch, catch on, comprehend, craze, cry,
deadwood, descry, dig, discern, distinguish, divine, espy, fad,
fathom, flagellum, fork, frond, furore, get, grasp, hand, imp,
joint, know, leg, limb, link, lobe, lobule, mark, member, mode,
note, notice, observe, offshoot, organ, perceive, pinion, rage,
ramage, ramification, rumble, runner, sapling, sarment, scion, see,
seedling, sense, set, shoot, slip, spear, spray, sprig, sprit,
sprout, spur, stem, stick, stolon, style, sucker, switch, tail,
take, take in, tendril, thallus, tumble to, understand, vogue,
wing
- [7] : The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (27 SEP 03)
twig
tree-walking instruction generator.
a code generator language. ml-twig is an sml/nj
variant.
"twig language manual", s.w.k. tijang, cs tr 120, bell labs,
1986.
1995-01-31
see also:
code generator ml-twig sml/nj
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