twitch

twitch

twitch (third-person singular simple present twitches, present participle twitching, simple past and past participle twitched)

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

   • ""Why is it that you twitch whenever I say Faith?"" — [1]

   • 1922, Margery Williams, The Velveteen Rabbit

     Their feet padded softly on the ground, and they crept quite close to him, twitching their noses...

2. (transitive) To jerk sharply and briefly.
3. (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 [2], ISBN 0802139965, page 52:

     ""But the key revelation from twitching that wonderful Iceland Gull on 10 March 1974 wasnt its eroticism. It was the sheer innocence of it.""

   • 2005, Sean Dooley, The Big Twitch: One Man, One Continent, a Race Against Time [3], ISBN 1741145287, page 119:

     ""I hadnt seen John since I went to Adelaide to (unsuccessfully) twitch the 87 Northern Shoveler, when I was a skinny, eighteen- year-old kid. ""

twitch (plural twitches)

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

   I saw a little twitch in the mans face, and knew he was lying.

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

	tic
	brief, small (sometimes involuntary) movement out of place and then back again

	spasimare
	to perform a twitch; spasm

	spasimo
	brief, small (sometimes involuntary) movement out of place and then back again

contrazione

scuòtersi

strappare

strattone

ticchio

tirare

Altri significati:

(informal) Action of a twitcher or compulsive bird watcher.

(transitive) To jerk sharply and briefly.

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

to spot a bird

(intransitive) To perform a twitch; spasm.

to jerk sharply and briefly

(transitive) To spot or seek out a bird, especially a rare one.

To make a sudden uncontrolled movement.

Traduzione 'veloce'

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