Twig

Definition: Twig

Twig

Noun

1. Small branch or division of a branch; usually applied to branches of the current or preceding year.

Verb

1. Branch out in a twiglike manner; "The lightning bolt twigged in several directions".

2. Understand, usually after some initial difficulty.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "twig" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1321. (references)

Computing

Food & Agriculture

Mining

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Synonyms: Twig

Death

Pay the debt to nature, shuffle off this mortal coil, take one's last sleep; go the way of all flesh; hand in one's checks, pass in one's checks, hand in one's chips, pass in one's chips; join the greater number, join the majority; come to dust, turn to dust; cross the Stygian ferry, cross the bar; go to one's long account, go to one's last home, go to Davy Jones's locker, go to the wall; receive one's death warrant, make one's will, step out, die a natural death, go out like the snuff of a candle; come to an untimely end; catch one's death; go off the hooks, kick the bucket, buy the farm, hop the twig, turn up one's toes; die a violent death. (be killed).

Part

Debris, odds and ends, oddments, detritus; excerpta; member, limb, lobe, lobule, arm, wing, scion, branch, bough, joint, link, offshoot, ramification, twig, bush, spray, sprig; runner; leaf, leaflet; stump; component part; sarmentum.

Crosswords: Twig

I heard that, you twig. (A Bug's Life; writing credit: John Lasseter; Andrew Stanton)

This is nothing compared to the twig of '93 (A Bug's Life; writing credit: John Lasseter; Andrew Stanton)

And wouldn't you rather be a left-handed flea, a crab on a slab at the bottom of the sea, a newt on the root of a banyan tree, a fig on twig in Galilee, than a man who never learns how to be free (Pippin: His Life and Times; writing credit: Roger O. Hirson)

As the Twig Is Bent (1944)

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Books

• Bending the Twig (reference)

• Buck Wilder's Small Twig Hiking & Camping Guide: A Complete Introduction to the World of Hiking & Camping for Small Twigs of All Ages (reference)

• Making Twig Furniture & Household Things (reference)

• Making Twig Garden Furniture (reference)

• More Twig Mosaic Furniture (reference)

  (more book examples)

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Botanist Eric Erbe coats poplar twig samples with an ultra-thin platinum layer and a second layer of carbon for imaging with a scanning electron microscope. Credit: USDA ARS News.

McLendon poking "Senate" wasp nest with "code of ethics" twig. Credit: Library of Congress.

Bwana, I think I just heard a twig snap!. Credit: Library of Congress.

Garden of Mrs. Elon H. Hooker, Greenwich, Connecticut with twig fence and house in background. Credit: Library of Congress.

Barber shop in village of Twig, Minnesota. Credit: Library of Congress.

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

In his hand he held a stick which was limber like a twig of grape vine, and heavy as iron

Pa placed another twig an inch above the water and settled back to watch

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Twig

Expressions using "twig": fir twig ♦ hop the twig ♦ lime twig ♦ twig blight ♦ twig borer ♦ twig girdler ♦ twig on ♦ twig rush ♦ vine twig ♦ young twig. Additional references.

Beginning with "twig": twig-arms, twig-finger, twig-high, twig-like.

Ending with "twig": birch-twig, blood-twig, ML-Twig, olive-twig.

Albanian

modë (fad, fashion, look, mode, rage, style, vogue), marr vesh (arrange, be conscious, catch, discover, find out, get, get into, hear, hear from, know, learn, penetrate, see, understand). (various references)

Arabic 

‏فهم (accept, apprehend, apprehension, brain, catch, comprehend, comprehension, conceive, conception, discern, discernment, grasp, hear, hear of, intelligence, know, know of, learn, learn about, make out, penetrate, perceive, perception, pick out, pierce, put across, puzzle out, realization, realize, see, see daylight, see the light, seeing, sense, skulk, sort out, take in, understand, understanding, understood), ‏فرع شجرة (bough, branch, limb, offshoot), ‏ملود, ‏موضة (fashion, mode, style, vogue), ‏لمح (allude, behold, catch, catch sight of, descry, espy, glance at, glimpse, hint, imply, see, sight, spy, suggest), ‏لاحظ (catch sight of, eye, keep an eye on, look at, make out, note, notice, observe, perceive, realize, recognize, regard, remark, see, spy, take notice, view), ‏غصين, ‏زي (costume, fad, fashion, garb, guise, style, vogue), ‏أدرك (apprehend, awake, comprehend, feel, follow, get at, observe, overhaul, overtake, penetrate, perceive, pierce, realize, recognize, rejoin, see, see daylight, sense, sober up, take, understand). (various references)

Bulgarian 

схващам (apprehend, compass, comprehend, dig, discover, get, get a hold of, grasp, note, perceive, pick up, see, sense, take in, understand), клонка (spray), вейка (offset, rod, shoot, sprig, switch, windle-straw), загрявам (cotton, heat up, latch). (various references)

Chinese 

枝杈. (various references)

Czech

vìtvièka (stick), uvìdomit, rozumìt (catch, follow, grasp, understand), haluz (spray). (various references)

Danish

kvist. (various references)

Dutch

rank (slender, slim). (various references)

Esperanto

branĉeto. (various references)

Farsi 

فهمیدن(.vt), ترکه (Bequest, Bough, Heirloom, Offshoot, Rod, Scion, Spray, Sprig, Switch, Wand, Wattle), دیدن (Behold, Coneive, Distinguish, Eye, Look, Notice, Observe, Perceive, See, Seeing, Sight, View, Vision). (various references)

Finnish

tertun haara, vitsa, varpu, oksa (bough, branch, knot, snag, spray, sprig), lehvä (spray). (various references)

French

ramille, rameau, piger, petite branche, observer, mode, habits, grappe secondaire, comprendre, brindille, brin, branchettes, aileron. (various references)

Frisian

twiich, tien, ryske. (various references)

German

Zweig (bough, brace, branch, cane, department, leg, path, spray, sprig, stick). (various references)

Greek 

κλαδάκι. (various references)

Hebrew 

יחור (shoot, slip), לולב (bolt, palm branch), שריג (shoot), זמורה (branch, shoot, sprout, tendril, vine twig), זלזל (shoot, sprig, tendril), חוטר (branch, pointer, rod, shaft, shoot, slip), זרד (shoot, sprig, wicker), נטישה (abandonment, branch, tendril). (various references)

Hungarian

gally (bough, snub, spray, sprig). (various references)

Icelandic

kvistur. (various references)

Indonesian

ranting (withe, withy). (various references)

Italian

ramoscello (spray, sprig), rametto (sprig), capire (apprehend, bottom, catch, comprehend, get, make out, penetrate, perceive, pin down, push, read, realise, realize, see, see through, take in, to understand, understand), ala del grappolo. (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

粗朶 (brushwood), 枝 (bow, branch, limb), 小枝 (spray). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

そだ (brushwood), こえだ (spray), えだ (bow, branch, limb). (various references)

Korean 

잔가지. (various references)

Manx

tuig (browse), slattag (parch, small rod, small stick, small switch, stripe, swizzle stick; written accent). (various references)

Papiamen

rama (bough, branch). (various references)

Pig Latin

igtway.(various references)

Portuguese

galho (arm, bough, branch, fescue, limb, offshoot). (various references)

Romanian

ramurã (bough, branch, department, embranchment, filiation, line, offshoot, spray), rãmuricã (sprig), lãstar (bine, brushwood, scion, sprig, sprout, undergrowth), crenguţã, creangã (arm, bough, branch), baghetã magicã (wishing), înţelege (agree, apprehend, bottom, catch, come it, compass, comprehend, conceive, fathom, follow, grasp, interpret, latch on, make of, perceive, read, realize, savvy, scheme, see, see into, seize, take, tumble to, understand). (various references)

Russian 

веточка (palm, ramule, sprig), прутик, прут (rod, switch), понимать (apprehend, aprehend, catch on, comprehend, figure out, gain an insight into, get, get to know, perceive, realize, savvies, sense, take, understand, understood). (various references)

Scottish

slat (a rod, rod, switch, wand, yard), meanglan (bough, branch), geug (a branch, bough, branch), gas (bough, gas, stalk, stem of a herb). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

shvatiti (apprehend, apprise, apprize, catch, catch on, comprehend, conceive, figure out, get, grasp, realize, sense, tumble, understand), grančica (larkspur, sprig, twiglet). (various references)

Spanish

ramita (spray, sprig). (various references)

Swedish

spö (cane, rod, switch, whip), kvist (bough, branch, knag, spray, sprig). (various references)

Turkish

sürgün (banishment, bud, deportation, deportee, exile, expatriation, expellee, growth, ostracism, outgrowth, outlaw, outlawry, proscription, relegation, shoot, spine, spray, sprout, tiller, transport, transportation), maden arama çubuğu (dipping rod, dowsing rod), kavramak (absorb, apperceive, appreciate, apprehend, bite, catch, catch on, clasp, clench, clip, clutch, come home, compass, comprehend, conceive, cup, dawn on, digest, discern, fathom, get, get a grip, get hold of, grasp, grip, hold, latch on to, nail, perceive, pick up, realize, see into, seize, sum up, understand), incelemek (analyse, analyze, audit, check over, con, construe, dig, dig out, dissect, examine, examine into, go into, investigate, look into, look through, make a study of, observe, peruse, research, research into, scan, search, study, survey, vet, view), ince dal (rod, sprig, switch, vimen), dal (arm, bough, branch, offset, offshoot, ramification, subsection), anlamak (absorb, accept, appreciate, apprehend, ascertain, be knowledgeable about, be up to, catch, catch on, click, compass, comprehend, conceive, cotton on to, dawn on, deduce, dig, discern, discover, distinguish, fathom, feel, figure out, get, get a grip, get a grip on, get the message, grasp, grip, latch on to, make of, pick out, read, realize, rumble, savvy, see, see into, seize, sense, sum up, take in, understand, wake to, waken, work out), çakmak (be aware of, be ploughed, be plowed, beetle, cotton on to, drive, drive in, flash, flunk, gaslighter, ground, hammer, land, lighter, pitch, ram, root, rumble, spin, stick, strike, tack, tack down, understand). (various references)

Turkmen 

pudak (branch). (various references)

Ukrainian

спостерігати (invigilate, look on, observe, oversee, see, sight, watch), гілочка (branchlet, ramule, sprig), зрозуміти (apprehend, catch, comprehend, conceive, get, grasp, gripe). (various references)

Welsh

ysbrigyn (sprig), brigyn. (various references)

Yucatec

ch'ilib (toothpick). (various references)

planta, ramusculi, talea, virga, virgula. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Derivations

Words beginning with "twig": twigged, twiggen, twiggier, twiggiest, twigging, twiggy, twigless, twiglike, twigs. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Twig" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: awig, dwig, Dzwig, ewig, stwig, taig, tbig, teig, Tewfik, thig, tiw, Tiwag, toig, twag, t'war, tweeg, twi, twid, twie, twif, twiga, twige, twigg, twigy, twim, twing, twio, twix, twoi, Twyi, Tywi. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: git, wig, wit.

-2 letters: it, ti.

+1 letter: twigs, wight.

+2 letters: godwit, tawing, tewing, towing, twiggy, twinge, weight, widget, wights, wiglet, witing, wright, wyting.

+3 letters: batwing, dawting, figwort, godwits, ringtaw, stewing, stowing, tawsing, thawing, trowing, twigged, twiggen, twinged, twinges, twining, wafting, wagtail, waiting, wanting, wasting, weeting, weights, weighty, welting, westing, wetting, whiting, widgets, wiglets, wilting, winglet, wingtip, wisting, withing, witling, witting, wonting, wotting, wrights, writing.