twitch

twitch englannista suomeksi

1. nykäistä, nytkähtää

2. nykiä

3. näpsäyttää

4. nykiminen

5. puristaa

1. nykäisy, nykäys, nytkähdys, säpsähdys, sätky

2. bongaus

3. huulipuristin

4. nytkähtää, hätkähtää

5. nykäistä

6. bongata

twitch englanniksi

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

(ux)

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

3. 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.

(syn)

4. {{quote-text|en|year=1861|author=John Henry Walsh|title=The Horse in the Stable and in the Field

5. A brief, contractile response of a skeletal muscle elicited by a single maximal volley of impulses in the neurons supplying it.

6. The sudden narrowing almost to nothing of a vein of ore.

7. A trip taken in order to observe a rare bird.

8. To perform a twitch; spasm.

9. To cause to twitch; spasm.

10. (RQ:Williams Velveteen Rabbit)

11. To jerk sharply and briefly.

12. (RQ:Pope Rape of the Lock)

13. To exert oneself. (defdate)

14. To spot or seek out a bird, especially a rare one.

15. {{quote-text|en|year=1995|title=Quarterly Review of Biology|volume=70|page=348

16. {{quote-book|en|year=2003|author=Mark Cocker|title=Birders: Tales of a Tribe|url=http://books.google.com/books?id=tv-Noj1Fvc0C|page=52|isbn=0802139965

17. {{quote-book|en|year=2005|author=Sean Dooley|title=The Big Twitch: One Man, One Continent, a Race Against Time|url=http://books.google.com/books?id=fWLmpqL4EMsC|page=119|isbn=1741145287

18. (l) (gloss); a species of grass, often considered as a weed