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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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reflex
English
Etymology
From Late Latin reflexus, past participle of reflectere (“to bend back”). Photography sense is from noun sense meaning “reflection”.
Pronunciation
- (noun, adjective) IPA(key): /??i?fl?ks/
- (verb) IPA(key): /???fl?ks/
Noun
reflex (plural reflexes)
- An automatic response to a simple stimulus which does not require mental processing.
- 1970, Stanis?aw Lem, trans. Joanna Kilmartin and Steve Cox, Solaris:
- For a while, I shall have to make a conscious effort to smile, nod, stand and perform the thousands of little gestures which constitute life on Earth, and then those gestures will become reflexes again.
- 1970, Stanis?aw Lem, trans. Joanna Kilmartin and Steve Cox, Solaris:
- (linguistics) The descendant of an earlier language element, such as a word or phoneme, in a daughter language.
- Synonym: derivative
- Antonym: etymon
- Coordinate term: cognate
- The descendant of anything from an earlier time, such as a cultural myth.
- 1898, Christian Brinton, in The Century
- The superstition of the loup-garou, or werewolf, belongs to the folklore of most modern nations, and has its reflex in the story of "Little Red Riding-hood" and others.
- 1898, Christian Brinton, in The Century
- (chiefly photography) Reflection or an image produced by reflection. The light reflected from an illuminated surface to one in shade.
Translations
Adjective
reflex (comparative more reflex, superlative most reflex)
- Bent, turned back or reflected.
- 1677, Matthew Hale, The Primitive Origination of Mankind, Considered and Examined According to the Light of Nature
- the reflex act of the soul, or the turning of the intellectual eye inward upon its own actions
- 1677, Matthew Hale, The Primitive Origination of Mankind, Considered and Examined According to the Light of Nature
- Produced automatically by a stimulus.
- (geometry, of an angle) Having greater than 180 degrees but less than 360 degrees.
- 1878, James Maurice Wilson, Elementary Geometry, MacMillan, page 10:
- A polygon is said to be convex when no one of its angles is reflex.
- 1895, David Eugen Smith and Wooster Woodruff Bernan, New Plane and Solid Geometry, page 7:
- An angle less than a right angle is said to be acute; one greater than a right angle but less than a straight angle is said to be obtuse; one greater than a straight angle but less than a perigon is said to be reflex or convex.
- 1958, Howard Fehr, “On Teaching Dihedral Angle and Steradian” in The Mathematics Teacher, v 51, National Council of Teachers of Mathematics, page 275:
- If the reflex region is the interior of the angle, the dihedral angle is reflex.
- 1991, B. Falcidieno et al, “Configurable Representations in Feature-based Modelling” in Eurographics '91: Proceedings, North-Holland, page 145:
- A reflex edge of a polyhedron is an edge where the inner dihedral angle subtended by two incident faces is greater than 180°.
- 2001, Esther M. Arkin et al, “On the Reflexivity of Point Sets”, in Algorithms and data structures: 7th International Workshop, WADS 2001: Proceedings, Springer, page 195:
- We say that an angle is convex if it is not reflex.
- 2004, Ana Paula Tomás and António Leslie Bajuelos, “Quadratic-Time Linear-Space Algorithms Generating Orthogonal Polygons with a Given Number of Vertices”, in Computational Science and Its Applications – ICCSA 2004 Proceedings, part 3, Springer, page 117:
- P denotes a polygon and r the number of reflex vertices.
- 1878, James Maurice Wilson, Elementary Geometry, MacMillan, page 10:
- (painting) Illuminated by light reflected from another part of the same picture.
Synonyms
- (of an angle): re-entrant
Derived terms
Translations
Verb
reflex (third-person singular simple present reflexes, present participle reflexing, simple past and past participle reflexed)
- (transitive) To bend, turn back or reflect.
- To respond to a stimulus.
Anagrams
- Flexer
Catalan
Etymology
From Latin reflexus, first attested 1803.
Adjective
reflex (feminine reflexa, masculine plural reflexos, feminine plural reflexes)
- reflected
- Synonym: reflectit
- (psychology) reflex
- (botany) reflexed
- (linguistics) reflexive
- Synonym: reflexiu
Noun
reflex m (plural reflexos)
- reflection (something that is reflected)
- Synonym: reflexió
- reflex (an automatic response to a simple stimulus)
Further reading
- “reflex” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
- “reflex” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
- “reflex” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.
References
Czech
Noun
reflex m
- reflex
Related terms
- See flexe
Further reading
- reflex in P?íru?ní slovník jazyka ?eského, 1935–1957
- reflex in Slovník spisovného jazyka ?eského, 1960–1971, 1989
Dutch
Etymology
Borrowed from French réflexe, from Latin reflexus.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /re??fl?ks/, /r??fl?ks/
- Hyphenation: re?flex
- Rhymes: -?ks
Noun
reflex m (plural reflexen, diminutive reflexjes n)
- reflex (automatic response by an organism)
- Synonym: reflexus
Derived terms
- reflexachtig
- reflexmatig
Descendants
- ? Indonesian: refleks
Hungarian
Etymology
From German Reflex, from French réflexe.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [?r?fl?ks]
- Hyphenation: ref?lex
- Rhymes: -?ks
Noun
reflex (plural reflexek)
- reflex (an automatic response to a simple stimulus which does not require mental processing)
- (photography) reflection
- Synonyms: visszfény, tükröz?dés
Declension
Derived terms
References
Further reading
- reflex in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh: A magyar nyelv értelmez? szótára (’The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language’). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: ?ISBN
Romanian
Etymology
From French réflexe, from Latin Reflex.
Adjective
reflex m or n (feminine singular reflex?, masculine plural reflec?i, feminine and neuter plural reflexe)
- reflex
Declension
Swedish
Etymology
From French réflexe, first attested 1811.
Noun
reflex c
- a reflex, a (quick and spontaneous) reaction
- a reflector (tag, strip or band; carried by pedestrians and bicyclists to be visible from automobiles)
Declension
References
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