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wrench
English
Alternative forms
- (15th century): wrenche; (15th century): wrinche; (16th century): wringe
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation, General American) enPR: r?nch IPA(key): /??nt????/
- Rhymes: -?nt?
Etymology 1
From Middle English wrench, from Old English wren?, from Proto-Germanic *wrankiz (“a turning, twisting”). Compare German Rank (“plot, intrigue”).
Noun
wrench (plural wrenches)
- A movement that twists or pulls violently; a tug. [from 16th c.]
- 1897, Bram Stoker, Dracula Chapter 21
- With a wrench, which threw his victim back upon the bed as though hurled from a height, he turned and sprang at us.
- 1897, Bram Stoker, Dracula Chapter 21
- An injury caused by a violent twisting or pulling of a limb; strain, sprain. [from 16th c.]
- (obsolete) A trick or artifice. [from 8th c.]
- c. 1210, MS. Cotton Caligula A IX f.246
- Mon mai longe liues wene; / Ac ofte him liedh the wrench.
- c. 1210, MS. Cotton Caligula A IX f.246
- (obsolete) Deceit; guile; treachery. [from 13th c.]
- (obsolete) A turn at an acute angle. [from 16th c.]
- (archaic) A winch or windlass. [from 16th c.]
- (obsolete) A screw. [from 16th c.]
- A distorting change from the original meaning. [from 17th c.]
- (US) A hand tool for making rotational adjustments, such as fitting nuts and bolts, or fitting pipes; a spanner. [from 18th c.]
- (Britain) An adjustable spanner used by plumbers.
- A violent emotional change caused by separation. [from 19th c.]
- (physics) In screw theory, a screw assembled from force and torque vectors arising from application of Newton's laws to a rigid body. [from 19th c.]
- (obsolete) means; contrivance
- But weighing one thing with another he gave Britain for lost; but resolved to make his profit of this business of Britain, as a quarrel for war; and that of Naples, as a wrench and mean for peace
- In coursing, the act of bringing the hare round at less than a right angle, worth half a point in the recognised code of points for judging.
Synonyms
- (tool): spanner (UK, Australia)
Derived terms
Translations
Etymology 2
From Middle English wrenchen, from Old English wren?an, from Proto-Germanic *wrankijan?. Compare German renken.
Verb
wrench (third-person singular simple present wrenches, present participle wrenching, simple past and past participle wrenched)
- (intransitive, obsolete) To violently move in a turn or writhe. [from 11th c.]
- (transitive) To pull or twist violently. [from 13th c.]
- (transitive, obsolete) To turn aside or deflect. [from 13th c.]
- (transitive, obsolete) To slander. [from 14th c.]
- (transitive, obsolete) To tighten with or as if with a winch. [from 16th c.]
- (transitive) To injure (a joint) by pulling or twisting. [from 16th c.]
- (transitive) To distort from the original meaning. [from 16th c.]
- (transitive, obsolete) To thrust a weapon in a twisting motion. [from 16th c.]
- (intransitive, fencing, obsolete) To disarm an opponent by whirling his or her blade away. [from 18th c.]
- (transitive) To rack with pain. [from 18th c.]
- (transitive) To deprive by means of a violent pull or twist. [from 18th c.]
- (transitive) To use the tool known as a wrench. [from 19th c.]
Translations
Further reading
- wrench on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- Wrench on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons
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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)
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