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convulse
English
Etymology
From Latin convulsus, past participle of convellere (“to pluck up, dislocate, convulse”), from com- (“together”) + vellere (“to pluck, pull”)
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /k?n?v?ls/
Verb
convulse (third-person singular simple present convulses, present participle convulsing, simple past and past participle convulsed)
- (transitive) To violently shake or agitate.
- (transitive) To create great laughter.
- (intransitive) To suffer violent involuntary contraction of the muscles, producing contortions of the body or limbs.
Related terms
- convulsion
- convulsive
- convulsant
Translations
Further reading
- convulse in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
- convulse in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
Italian
Adjective
convulse
- feminine plural of convulso
Latin
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /kon?u?ul.se/, [k?n?u?o??s??]
- (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /kon?vul.se/, [k?n?vuls?]
Participle
convulse
- vocative masculine singular of convulsus
Portuguese
Verb
convulse
- first-person singular (eu) present subjunctive of convulsar
- third-person singular (ele and ela, also used with você and others) present subjunctive of convulsar
- third-person singular (você) affirmative imperative of convulsar
- third-person singular (você) negative imperative of convulsar
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twitch
English
Etymology 1
From Middle English twicchen, from Old English *twi??an, 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”), zweck?n and gizwickan (> German zwicken (“to pinch”)).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /tw?t??/, [t?w??t??]
- Rhymes: -?t?
Noun
twitch (countable and uncountable, plural twitches)
- A brief, small (sometimes involuntary) movement out of place and then back again; a spasm.
- (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.
- Synonym: barnacle
- 1861, John Henry Walsh, The Horse in the Stable and in the Field
- 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.
- (physiology) A brief, contractile response of a skeletal muscle elicited by a single maximal volley of impulses in the neurons supplying it.
- (mining) The sudden narrowing almost to nothing of a vein of ore.
- (birdwatching) A trip taken in order to observe a rare bird.
Derived terms
- nervous twitch
- twitch game
Translations
References
- Twitch in The Free Dictionary (Medicine)
Verb
twitch (third-person singular simple present twitches, present participle twitching, simple past and past participle twitched)
- (intransitive) To perform a twitch; spasm.
- (transitive) To cause to twitch; spasm.
- 1922, Margery Williams, The Velveteen Rabbit
- Their feet padded softly on the ground, and they crept quite close to him, twitching their noses...
- 1922, Margery Williams, The Velveteen Rabbit
- (transitive) To jerk sharply and briefly.
- Thrice they twitched the diamond in her ear.
- (obsolete) To exert oneself. [15th-17th c.]
- (transitive) To spot or seek out a bird, especially a rare one.
- 1995, Quarterly Review of Biology vol. 70 p. 348:
- "The Birdwatchers Handbook ... will be a clear asset to those who 'twitch' in Europe."
- 2003, Mark Cocker, Birders: Tales of a Tribe [1], ?ISBN, page 52:
- "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."
- 2005, Sean Dooley, The Big Twitch: One Man, One Continent, a Race Against Time [2], ?ISBN, page 119:
- "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. "
- 1995, Quarterly Review of Biology vol. 70 p. 348:
Translations
Usage notes
When used of birdwatchers by ignorant outsiders, this term frequently carries a negative connotation.
Derived terms
- atwitch
Etymology 2
alternate of quitch
Noun
twitch (uncountable)
- couch grass (Elymus repens; a species of grass, often considered as a weed)
Translations
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