 7 definitions found
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
twig
noun: small branch or division of a branch; usually applied to
branches of the current or preceding year [syn: {branchlet},
{sprig}]
verb
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 The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Twig \Twig\, verb (used with an object) [imp. & p. p. {Twigged}; p. pr. & vb. n.
{Twigging}.] [Cf. {Tweak}.]
To twitch; to pull; to tweak. [Obs. or Scot.]
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Twig \Twig\, verb (used with an object) [Gael. tuig, or Ir. tuigim I understand.]
1. To understand the meaning of; to comprehend; as, do you
twig me? [Colloq.] --Marryat.
2. To observe slyly; also, to perceive; to discover. ''Now
twig him; now mind him.'' --Foote.
As if he were looking right into your eyes and
twigged something there which you had half a mind to
conceal. --Hawthorne.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Twig \Twig\, noun [AS. twig; akin to D. twijg, OHG. zwig, zwi, G.
zweig, and probably to E. two.]
A small shoot or branch of a tree or other plant, of no
definite length or size.
The Britons had boats made of willow twigs, covered on
the outside with hides. --Sir T.
Raleigh.
{Twig borer} (Zo["o]l.), 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}. (Zo["o]l.) 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}.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Twig \Twig\, verb (used with an object)
To beat with twigs.
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)
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