Twig

7 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Twig \Twig\, n. [AS. twig; akin to D. twijg, OHG. zw[imac]g,
     zw[imac], G. zweig, and probably to E. two.]
     A small shoot or branch of a tree or other plant, of no
     definite length or size.
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           The Britons had boats made of willow twigs, covered on
           the outside with hides.                  --Sir W.
                                                    Raleigh.
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     {Twig borer} (Zool.), any one of several species of small
        beetles which bore into twigs of shrubs and trees, as the
        apple-tree twig borer ({Amphicerus bicaudatus}).
  
     {Twig girdler}. (Zool.) See {Girdler}, 3.
  
     {Twig rush} (Bot.), any rushlike plant of the genus {Cladium}
        having hard, and sometimes prickly-edged, leaves or
        stalks. See {Saw grass}, under {Saw}.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Twig \Twig\ (tw[i^]g), v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Twigged} (tw[i^]gd);
     p. pr. & vb. n. {Twigging}.] [Cf. {Tweak}.]
     To twitch; to pull; to tweak. [Obs. or Scot.]
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Twig \Twig\, v. t. [Gael. tuig, or Ir. tuigim I understand.]
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     1. To understand the meaning of; to comprehend; as, do you
        twig me? [Colloq.] --Marryat.
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     2. To observe slyly; also, to perceive; to discover. "Now
        twig him; now mind him." --Foote.
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              As if he were looking right into your eyes and
              twigged something there which you had half a mind to
              conceal.                              --Hawthorne.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Twig \Twig\, v. t.
     To beat with twigs.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  twig
       n : small branch or division of a branch; usually applied to
           branches of the current or preceding year [syn: {branchlet},
            {sprig}]
       v 1: branch out in a twiglike manner; "The lightning bolt twigged
            in several directions"
       2: understand, usually after some initial difficulty; "She
          didn't know what her classmates were plotting but finally
          caught on" [syn: {catch on}, {get wise}, {get onto}, {tumble},
           {latch on}, {cotton on}, {get it}]
       [also: {twigging}, {twigged}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  83 Moby Thesaurus words for "twig":
     accept, appendage, arm, bine, bough, branch, branchedness,
     branchiness, burgeon, catch, catch on, comprehend, craze, cry,
     deadwood, descry, dig, discern, distinguish, divine, espy, fad,
     fathom, flagellum, fork, frond, furore, get, grasp, hand, imp,
     joint, know, leg, limb, link, lobe, lobule, mark, member, mode,
     note, notice, observe, offshoot, organ, perceive, pinion, rage,
     ramage, ramification, rumble, runner, sapling, sarment, scion, see,
     seedling, sense, set, shoot, slip, spear, spray, sprig, sprit,
     sprout, spur, stem, stick, stolon, style, sucker, switch, tail,
     take, take in, tendril, thallus, tumble to, understand, vogue,
     wing
  
  

From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (27 SEP 03) [foldoc]:

  TWIG
       
          Tree-Walking Instruction Generator.
       
          A {code generator} language.  {ML-Twig} is an {SML/NJ}
          variant.
       
          ["Twig Language Manual", S.W.K. Tijang, CS TR 120, Bell Labs,
          1986].
       
          (1995-01-31)