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Definition: Twitching |
TwitchingNoun1. A sudden spasm; especially one caused by a nervous condition. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "twitching" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1588. (references) |
Synonyms: TwitchingSynonyms: twitch (n), vellication (n). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Twitching |
| English words defined with "twitching": apyretic tetanus ♦ Conn's syndrome, cortical epilepsy ♦ epilepsia minor ♦ fasciculation, fibrillate, fibrillation, focal epilepsy ♦ intermittent cramp, intermittent tetanus ♦ jactation, jactitation ♦ petit mal ♦ Saccade, Stringhalt, Subsultus ♦ tardive dyskinesia, tetanilla, tetany, tic, tickling, tingling, titillating ♦ Vellicative. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "twitching": Crichton Browne sign ♦ rope plucking. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | When I'm done with him, he'll be just a twitching little stain on the floor (Addicted to Love; writing credit: Robert Gordon) | |
Movie/TV Titles | The Twitching Hour (1917) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | ||
| Domain | Title |
Books | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Title | Author | Quote |
Grapes of Wrath | Steinbeck, John | Casy looked back at the twitching red face |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | However, facial tics can also include nose twitching or grimaces. (references) | |
Fasciculations (involuntary contractions or twitching of a group of muscles) may also occur. (references) | ||
The person may stare into space for several seconds and may have some twitching or jerking of muscles. (references) | ||
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Twitching" is generally used as a lexical verb (-ing form) -- approximately 87.16% of the time. "Twitching" is used about 148 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Lexical Verb (-ing form) | 87.16% | 129 | 28,132 |
| Noun (singular) | 7.43% | 11 | 106,044 |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 5.41% | 8 | 124,375 |
| Total | 100.00% | 148 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Hypenated Usage | |
Ending with "twitching": curtain-twitching, limb-twitching, one-twitching, tip-twitching. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Language | Translations for "twitching"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Chinese | 抽动 (Twitched). (various references) | |
French | tremblement (twitter), contraction musculaire. (various references) | |
German | zupfend (plucking), zupfen (pick, pluck, plunk, pull, rip, snick, stretch, tear, twang, twitch). (various references) | |
Hungarian | fasza (bitching, bitching twitching, up front). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | ばら荷 (a person who is made to do things or go get things for someone else, actively, alertly, blinking with surprise, bulk goods, crispy, crunching, first-class, flapping open and closed, gaping, in a flash, nimbly, rapidly, skips-most-stations Toukai-line shinkansen, slap, snapping or biting into, snappingsound, suddenly, tearing, to be exposed, to leak out, work hard). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | ひくひく . (various references) | |
Pig Latin | itchingtway.(various references) | |
Scottish | creadhonadh (a twitching). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Misspellings | |
"Twitching" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Twitchen, Twitchin. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "twitching" (pronounced twi"khing) |
| 5 | -w i" kh i ng | switching, witching. |
| 4 | -i" kh i ng | ditching, enriching, hitching, itching, pitching, snitching, stitching. |
| 3 | -kh i ng | approaching, arching, attaching, beaching, belching, bleaching, branching, breaching, broaching, bunching, catching, clinching, clutching, coaching, crouching, crunching, dispatching, drenching, encroaching, entrenching, etching, fetching, flinching, hatching, impeaching, inching, latching, launching, leaching, lunching, lurching, lynching, marching, matching, mulching, munching, overarching, overreaching, patching, pinching, poaching, preaching, punching, quenching, ranching, reaching, researching, retouching, retrenching, scorching, scratching, screeching, searching, sketching, slouching, snatching, squelching, stanching, stretching, teaching, torching, touching, unflinching, vouching, watching, wrenching. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "c-g-h-i-i-n-t-t-w" | |
-1 letter: twinight, witching. | |
-2 letters: hitting, itching, tithing, whiting, withing, witting. | |
-3 letters: chitin, citing, gittin, nitwit, twitch, within, witing. | |
-4 letters: icing, night, thing, tight, tinct, wight, winch, witch. | |
-5 letters: chin, chit, hint, inch, inti, itch, nigh, thin, ting, tint, titi, twig, twin, twit, whig, whin, whit, wich, wing, with. | |
| Words containing the letters "c-g-h-i-i-n-t-t-w" | |
+4 letters: whipstitching. | |
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| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Usage: Modern | 5. Usage: Commercial 6. Quotations: Fiction 7. Quotations: Non-fiction 8. Usage Frequency | 9. Expressions 10. Expressions: Internet 11. Translations: Modern 12. Derivations | 13. Rhymes 14. Anagrams 15. Bibliography |
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