noun
1.
a slender shoot of a tree or other plant.
2.
a small offshoot from a branch or stem.
3.
a small, dry, woody piece fallen from a branch: a fire of twigs.
4.
Anatomy. one of the minute branches of a blood vessel or nerve.
Origin:
before 950; Middle English; Old English twig, twigge, orig. (something) divided in two; akin to Old High German zwīg (German Zweig), Dutch twijg; compare Sanskrit dvikás double
before 950; Middle English; Old English twig, twigge, orig. (something) divided in two; akin to Old High German zwīg (German Zweig), Dutch twijg; compare Sanskrit dvikás double
Related forms
twig·less, adjective
twig·like, adjective
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verb (used with object)
1.
to look at; observe: Now, twig the man climbing there, will you?
2.
to see; perceive: Do you twig the difference in colors?
3.
to understand.
verb (used without object)
4.
to understand.
Origin:
1755–65; < Irish tuigim I understand, with English w reflecting the offglide before i of the velarized Irish t typical of southern Ireland; cf. dig2
1755–65; < Irish tuigim I understand, with English w reflecting the offglide before i of the velarized Irish t typical of southern Ireland; cf. dig2
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twig1 (twɪɡ) ![[Click for IPA pronunciation guide]](http://static.sfdict.com/dictstatic/g/d/dictionary_questionbutton_default.gif) | |
| —n | |
| 1. | any small branch or shoot of a tree or other woody plant |
| 2. | something resembling this, esp a minute branch of a blood vessel |
| [Old English twigge; related to Old Norse dvika consisting of two, Old High German zwīg twig, Old Danish tvige fork] | |
| 'twiglike1 | |
| —adj | |
| twig2 (twɪɡ) | |
| —vb , twigs, twigging, twigged | |
| 1. | to understand (something) |
| 2. | to find out or suddenly comprehend (something): he hasn't twigged yet |
| 3. | rare (tr) to perceive (something) |
| [C18: perhaps from Scottish Gaelic tuig I understand] | |
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Word Origin & History
twig
O.E. twigge, from P.Gmc. *twigan (cf. M.Du. twijch, Du. twijg, O.H.G. zwig, Ger. Zweig "branch, twig"), from the root of twi- (see twin), here meaning "forked" (as in O.E. twisel "fork, point of division"). Twiggy "slender" is recorded from 1562.
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Computing Dictionary
TWIG definition
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)
Example sentences
Traditionally, biologists have celebrated the trunk, branch and twig system of a tree as no accident.
Wanda then picked up a small twig, perched herself on a sapling branch, and poked her stick in a downward direction.
The disease is caused by a non-native fungus which is transmitted by small twig beetles.
He could scarce believe his eyes when he found a twig of an oak, which he plucked from the branch, become gold in his hand.
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