English Dictionary

twitch

IPA（発音記号）

/twɪt͡ʃ/

名詞

可算名詞 不可算名詞 くだけた表現

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.

日本語の意味

一時的で小さな、しばしば不随意な体の痙攣や局部的な痙攣運動 / （口語）特に珍しい野鳥などを探し見つける行為

A sudden twitch in his eye made everyone at the meeting look up.

彼の目の突然の小さなぴくっとした動きで、会議中の全員が顔を上げた。

意味（1）

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

I saw a little twitch in the man's face, and knew he was lying.

意味（2）

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

意味（3）

(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.

THE TWITCH is a short stick of strong ash, about the size of a mopstick, with a hole pierced near the end, through which is passed a piece of strong but small cord, and tied in a loop large enough to admit the open hand freely.

意味（4）

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

意味（5）

(mining) The sudden narrowing almost to nothing of a vein of ore.

意味（6）

(birdwatching) A trip taken in order to observe a rare bird.

twitches （ plural ）