English Dictionary

twiddle

IPA（発音記号）

/ˈtwɪdəl/

名詞

A slight twist with the fingers. / A wiggling movement. / A small decorative embellishment. / A small musical flourish. / A tilde. / A drawn line that is curvy or twisted. / A tiny bit / A tizzy

日本語の意味

指先での軽いひねり、指を使った小さな捻り / くねくねと動く、小刻みな動き / 小さな装飾、細かい飾り付け / 小さな音楽的装飾、短い楽曲の装飾的フレーズ / チルダ（～の記号） / 曲線状、またはねじれた線の形状 / ごくわずかな量、ほんの少し / 騒がしい状態、慌ただしい様子（混乱状態）

He paused, then gave a small twiddle of his fingers before answering.

彼は一瞬ためらい、答える前に指を軽くひねった。

意味（1）

A slight twist with the fingers.

He put away the reciever with receiver with a twiddle of pudgy fingers.

意味（2）

A wiggling movement.

Why should I agree that a twiddle of skirts from right to left and pointing a toe in one direction mean “ He loves me,” while the reverse twiddle and the toe pointed in the opposite direction "He loves me not”?

意味（3）

A small decorative embellishment.

A great many fidgety occupations will come to an end: we shan't put a pattern on a cloth or a twiddle on a jug-handle to sell it, but to make it prettier and to amuse ourselves and others.

意味（4）

A small musical flourish.

. “ Oh, auntie,” she exclaims, “ these great Goths of Englishmen put a twiddle into the last bar of the 'Minstrel Boy,' just fancy that!”

意味（5）

A tilde.

For those places which feed input arcs leading to more than one transition, a twiddle symbol (e.g., '~') may be used as the enabling predicate for one of the transitions.

意味（6）

A drawn line that is curvy or twisted.

It will then be seen that the inscriptions are very nearly alike, but an expert in Arabic or Vedic writing would recognize at once that they differ in more respects than in having a twiddle too much or a twiddle too little.

意味（7）

A tiny bit

Trying to tune in on your own face color is a bit like that: a twiddle too red, a twiddle too pale,

意味（8）

A tizzy

Hey, diddle, diddle, we're all in a twiddle, Although we're cuffed and we're cuffed, To be quite exact we cannot act, For, you see, we are all of us stuffed.

twiddles （ plural ）