Twitchname

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  A live streaming service that focuses on video game live streaming.

  • On the Amazon Live homepage, fans can also chat with the host and one another in a Twitch-like side panel next to the live video.

twitchnoun詞源 1/twɪt͡ʃ/

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  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.
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  informalAction of spotting or seeking out a bird, especially a rare one.

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  farrieryhobbieshorsesA 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.
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  medicinephysiologysciencesA brief, contractile response of a skeletal muscle elicited by a single maximal volley of impulses in the neurons supplying it.

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  businessminingThe sudden narrowing almost to nothing of a vein of ore.

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  biologybirdwatchingnatural-sciencesA trip taken in order to observe a rare bird.

  • Siberian Crane [...] Following its departure, there was much speculation that rediscovery at a less inaccessible locality would lead to one of the great twitches of 1981; alas, this was not to be.

twitchverb詞源 1/twɪt͡ʃ/

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  To perform a twitch; spasm.

  • His fingers were nervously twitching.
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  To cause to twitch; spasm.

  • Their feet padded softly on the ground, and they crept quite close to him, twitching their noses...
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  To jerk sharply and briefly.

  • to twitch somebody's sleeve for attention
  • Thrice they twitched the diamond in her ear.
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  obsoleteTo exert oneself.

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  biologybirdwatchingnatural-sciencesTo spot or seek out a bird, especially a rare one.

  • Marsh Sandpiper [...] This delicate ‘mini shank’ has graced our shores for the past six successive years and has become increasingly easy to twitch.
  • "But the key revelation from twitching that wonderful Iceland Gull on 10 March 1974 wasn't its eroticism. It was the sheer innocence of it."
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  biologybirdwatchingnatural-sciencesTo engage in twitching.

  • "The Birdwatchers Handbook ... will be a clear asset to those who 'twitch' in Europe."

twitchnoun詞源 2/twɪt͡ʃ/

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  couch grass (Elymus repens; a species of grass, often considered as a weed)