different between twitch vs mixer

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)

1. A brief, small (sometimes involuntary) movement out of place and then back again; a spasm.

2. (informal) Action of spotting or seeking out a bird, especially a rare one.
3. (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.

4. (physiology) A brief, contractile response of a skeletal muscle elicited by a single maximal volley of impulses in the neurons supplying it.
5. (mining) The sudden narrowing almost to nothing of a vein of ore.
6. (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)

1. (intransitive) To perform a twitch; spasm.

2. (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...

3. (transitive) To jerk sharply and briefly.

   • Thrice they twitched the diamond in her ear.

4. (obsolete) To exert oneself. [15th-17th c.]
5. (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. "

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)

1. couch grass (Elymus repens; a species of grass, often considered as a weed)

Translations

English

Etymology

mix +? -er

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -?ks?(r)

Noun

mixer (plural mixers)

1. One who, or a device that, mixes or merges things together.
2. One who mixes or socializes.
3. A machine outfitted with (typically blunt) blades with which it mixes or beats ingredients in a bowl below.
4. A non-alcoholic drink (such as lemonade, Coca-Cola or fruit juice) that is added to spirits to make cocktails.

5. (sound engineering) A mixing console.
7. (US) A dance or other social event meant to foster new acquaintances, as at the beginning of a school year.
8. Any of various social dances involving frequent changes of partners.
9. A device for combining hot and cold water before it emerges from a single spout or shower head.
10. (electronics) A nonlinear electrical circuit that creates new frequencies from two signals applied to it.

Hyponyms

• cement mixer
• concrete mixer
• electric whisk
• hand mixer

Coordinate terms

• blender
• food processor

Related terms

• mix
• mixture

Derived terms

• vision mixer

Translations

Further reading

• drink mixer on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• mirex, remix

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from English mixer.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?m?k.s?r/
• Hyphenation: mi?xer
• Rhymes: -?ks?r

Noun

mixer m (plural mixers, diminutive mixertje n)

1. A mixer (device, esp. kitchen appliance, for mixing).
2. A music mixer.

Derived terms

• staafmixer

Related terms

• mixen

French

Etymology 1

Borrowed from English mix.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mik.se/

Verb

mixer

1. to mix

Conjugation

Etymology 2

Borrowed from English mixer.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mik.sœ?/

Noun

mixer m (plural mixers)

1. mixer (machine for mixing)

Anagrams

• remix

Further reading

• “mixer” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Romanian

Etymology

From French mixer

Noun

mixer n (plural mixere)

1. blender

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