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twig

1  [twig] ,
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–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:
bef. 950; ME; OE twig, twigge, orig. (something) divided in two; akin to OHG zwīg (G Zweig), D twijg; cf. Skt dvikás double

Related forms:
twigless, adjective
twiglike, adjective
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2  [twig] ,verb, twigged, twig⋅ging. British
–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; < Ir tuigim I understand, with E w reflecting the offglide before i of the velarized Ir t typical of southern Ireland; cf. dig 2

twig

3  [twig] ,
–noun British.
style; fashion.
Origin:
1805–15; orig. uncert.
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twig 1   (twĭg)   
n.  
  1. A young shoot representing the current season's growth of a woody plant.
  2. Any small, leafless branch of a woody plant.

[Middle English, from Old English twigge; see dwo- in Indo-European roots.]
twig 2   (twĭg)   
v.   twigged, twig·ging, twigs Chiefly British

v.   tr.
  1. To observe or notice.
  2. To understand or figure out: "The layman has twigged what the strategist twigged almost two decades ago" (Manchester Guardian Weekly).
v.   intr.
To be or become aware of the situation; understand: "As Europe is now twigging, the best breeding ground for innovators who know how to do business is often big, competitive companies" (Economist).

[Irish Gaelic tuigim, I understand, from Old Irish tuicim.]
twig 3   (twĭg)   
n.   Chiefly British
The current style; the fashion.

[Origin unknown.]
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Twig

Twig\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Twigged; p. pr. & vb. n. Twigging.] [Cf. Tweak.] To twitch; to pull; to tweak. [Obs. or Scot.]

Twig

Twig\, v. t. [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.

Twig

Twig\, n. [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.

Twig

Twig\, v. t. To beat with twigs.
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Language Translation for : twig
Spanish: ramita,
German: der Zweig,
Japanese: 小枝
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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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Main Entry: twig
Pronunciation: 'twig
Function: noun
: a minute branch of a nerve or artery twigs of the coronary arteries—C. H. Best & N. B. Taylor>
Merriam-Webster's Medical Dictionary, © 2002 Merriam-Webster, Inc.
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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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