[syn: catch on, get wise, get onto, tumble, latch on, cotton on, twig, get it]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Twig \Twig\, v. t.
To beat with twigs.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
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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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
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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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
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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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
twig
n 1: a small branch or division of a branch (especially a
terminal division); usually applied to branches of the
current or preceding year [syn: branchlet, twig,
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, twig, get it]
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:
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
The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (30 December 2018):
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)