How to pronounce “twitch”

Meaning

• [Noun]
• 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.
• (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.
• [Verb]
• (intransitive) To perform a twitch; spasm.
• (transitive) To cause to twitch; spasm.
• (transitive) To jerk sharply and briefly.
• (obsolete) To exert oneself. [15th–17th c.]
• (transitive) To spot or seek out a bird, especially a rare one.

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