twitch

twitch

englanti

  1. hätkähtää, nytkähtää

  2. nykäistä

  3. sätkiä

  4. bongata

Synonyymisanakirja

twitch

  1. kouristus, spasmi, kramppi, lihaskouristus, suonenveto, lihaskramppi, nykiminen, hermoväre, tic-liike, elohiiri, silmän räpytys, värinä, faskikulaatio, lihassyykimppujen tahaton nykinä.

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Käännökset

englanti

nykäistä, nytkähtää

nykiä

näpsäyttää

nykiminen 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.''

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

(rfquotek)

puhekieltä A brief, contractile response of a skeletal muscle elicited by a single maximal volley of impulses in the neurons supplying it.
puhekieltä To perform a twitch; spasm.
(rfdat) — http://www.mindspring.com/~randyhoward/new_page_6.htm
"Why is it that you twitch whenever I say Faith?"
1922, (w), (w)
Their feet padded softly on the ground, and they crept quite close to him, twitching their noses...
puhekieltä To jerk sharply and briefly.

to twitch somebodys sleeve for attention''

Alexander Pope
Thrice they twitched the diamond in her ear.
puhekieltä 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 http://books.google.com/books?id=tv-Noj1Fvc0C, ISBN 0802139965, 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 http://books.google.com/books?id=fWLmpqL4EMsC, ISBN 1741145287, 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. "
(l) (gloss)

Sitaatit

  • "Oh, I'm gonna beat you so hard, you'll have a twitch. (Aion hakata sinua niin kovaa, että sinulla alkaa nykiä)"

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