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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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earthquake
English
Etymology
From Middle English erthequake, erd-quake, corresponding to earth +? quake. Compare similar formations in eorþbeofung (“earthquake”, literally “earth-shaking”), eorþdyne (“earthquake”, literally “earth-din”), eorþstyring (“earthquake”, literally “earth-stirring”), eorþhr?rness (“earthquake”, literally “earth-stirring”).
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /????kwe?k/
- (General American) IPA(key): /???kwe?k/
Noun
earthquake (plural earthquakes)
- A shaking of the ground, caused by volcanic activity or movement around geologic faults. [from 14th c.]
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, III.2:
- Her alablaster brest she soft did kis, / Which all that while shee felt to pant and quake, / As it an Earth-quake were: at last she thus bespake.
- 2006, Declan Walsh, The Guardian, 6 Oct 2006:
- Last year's earthquake crushed his house, his livelihood and very nearly his leg, he said, pointing to a plastered limb that refuses to heal.
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, III.2:
- (planetary geology) Such a quake specifically occurring on the planet Earth, as opposed to other celestial bodies. [from 20th c.]
- 1988, Jürgen Oberst and Yosio Nakamura, “A seismic risk for the lunar base” in The Second Conference on Lunar Bases and Space Activities of the 21st Century, Vol. 1, p. 231-233, NASA:
- Since the response of some man-made structures to the ground motion near the epicenter is highly dependent on frequency, a significant difference in potential damage to the structures is expected between earthquakes and moonquakes.
- 1988, Jürgen Oberst and Yosio Nakamura, “A seismic risk for the lunar base” in The Second Conference on Lunar Bases and Space Activities of the 21st Century, Vol. 1, p. 231-233, NASA:
Synonyms
Derived terms
Related terms
- moonquake
- seaquake
- starquake
Translations
Verb
earthquake (third-person singular simple present earthquakes, present participle earthquaking, simple past and past participle earthquaked)
- (intransitive) To undergo an earthquake.
- 1993, Gyeorgos C. Hatonn, The Best of Times: The Worst of Times (page 129)
- Watch the Philippines very closely for the next little while. There is rumbling and earthquaking deep within Pinatubo and increased earthquaking within Mayon.
- 1993, Gyeorgos C. Hatonn, The Best of Times: The Worst of Times (page 129)
See also
- aftershock
- earthquake engineering
- fault line
- Richter scale
- seismic
- seismograph
- seismologist
- seismology
- tremor
- tsunami
Further reading
- earthquake on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- Tectonic hazards/Earthquake on Wikiversity.Wikiversity
- Category:Animations of earthquake impact on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons
Anagrams
- heartquake
Scots
Alternative forms
- yirthquake, yearthquawk
Noun
earthquake (plural earthquakes)
- earthquake
- Synonym: yirdquauk
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