English-Thai Dictionary

twig

N กิ่งไม้  king-mai

 

twig

N แขนง  ก้าน  กิ่ง  ka-nang

 

twig

VT สังเกต  sang-ked

 

twig

VT เข้าใจ  kao-jai

 

twig

VT เห็น  hen

 

Webster's 1828 Dictionary

TWIG

n.[L. vigeo, with a prefix. ] 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.

 

TWIGGEN

a.Made of twigs; wicker.

 

TWIGGY

a.Full of twigs; abounding with shoots.

 

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

TWIG

Twig, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Twigged; p. pr. & vb. n. Twigging.] Etym: [Cf. Tweak. ]

 

Defn: To twitch; to pull; to tweak. [Obs. or Scot. ]

 

TWIG

Twig, v. t. Etym: [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. Etym: [AS. twig; akin to D. twijg, OHG. zwig, zwi, G. zweig, and probably to E. two. ]

 

Defn: 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 (Zoöl.), 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. (Zoöl.) 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 Twig, v. t.

 

Defn: To beat with twigs.

 

TWIGGEN

TWIGGEN Twig "gen, a.

 

Defn: Made of twigs; wicker. [Obs. ]

 

TWIGGER

TWIGGER Twig "ger, n.

 

Defn: A fornicator. [Eng. ] Halliwell.

 

TWIGGY

TWIGGY Twig "gy, a.

 

Defn: Of or pertaining to a twig or twigs; like a twig or twigs; full of twigs; abounding with shoots. " Twiggy trees." Evelyn.

 

TWIGHT

TWIGHT Twight, v. t.

 

Defn: To twit. [Obs. ] Spenser.

 

TWIGHT

TWIGHT Twight, obs.

 

Defn: p. p. of Twitch. Chaucer.

 

TWIGHTE

TWIGHTE Twight "e, obs.

 

Defn: imp. of Twitch. Chaucer.

 

TWIGLESS

TWIGLESS Twig "less, a.

 

Defn: Having no twigs.

 

TWIGSOME

TWIGSOME Twig "some, a.

 

Defn: Full of, or abounding in, twigs; twiggy. [R.] " Twigsome trees." Dickens.

 

New American Oxford Dictionary

twig

twig 1 |twig twɪɡ | ▶noun a slender woody shoot growing from a branch or stem of a tree or shrub. • Anatomy a small branch of a blood vessel or nerve. DERIVATIVES twigged adjective, twig gy adjective ORIGIN Old English twigge, of Germanic origin; related to Dutch twijg and German Zweig, also to twain and two .

 

twig

twig 2 |twɪɡ twig | ▶verb ( twigs, twigging, twigged ) [ no obj. ] Brit. informal understand or realize something: it was amazing that Graham hadn't twigged before. • [ with obj. ] archaic perceive; observe: nine days now since my eyes have twigged any terra firma. ORIGIN mid 18th cent.: of unknown origin.

 

twig furniture

twig fur ni ture ▶noun a rustic style of furniture in which the natural state of the wood is retained as an aesthetic feature.

 

Oxford Dictionary

twig

twig 1 |twɪg | ▶noun 1 a slender woody shoot growing from a branch or stem of a tree or shrub. 2 Anatomy a small branch of a blood vessel or nerve. DERIVATIVES twigged adjective, twiggy adjective ORIGIN Old English twigge, of Germanic origin; related to Dutch twijg and German Zweig, also to twain and two .

 

twig

twig 2 |twɪg | ▶verb ( twigs, twigging, twigged ) [ no obj. ] Brit. informal understand or realize something: it was amazing that Graham hadn't twigged before. • [ with obj. ] archaic perceive; observe: nine days now since my eyes have twigged any terra firma. ORIGIN mid 18th cent.: of unknown origin.

 

twig furniture

twig fur ¦ni |ture ▶noun [ mass noun ] N. Amer. a rustic style of furniture in which the natural state of the wood is retained as an aesthetic feature.

 

American Oxford Thesaurus

twig

twig noun leafy twigs: stick, sprig, shoot, stem, branchlet.

 

Oxford Thesaurus

twig

twig 1 noun she plucked some leafy twigs from the bushes: small branch, shoot, offshoot, stem, scion; sprig, spray; stick; withy, withe; rare branchlet, ramulus.

 

twig

twig 2 verb Brit. informal she finally twigged what I was driving at: realize, understand, grasp, comprehend, take in, fathom, apprehend, perceive, see, recognize; see the light; informal latch on to, cotton on to, catch on to, tumble to, get, get wise to, get one's head around, wrap one's mind around, figure out, get a fix on, get the message, get the picture; Brit. informal suss; N. Amer. informal savvy.

 

Duden Dictionary

Twiggy

Twig gy Substantiv, feminin , die |Tw i ggy …gi |die Twiggy; Genitiv: der Twiggy, Plural: die Twiggys nach dem gleichnamigen magersüchtigen Mannequin der 1960er -Jahre extrem schlanke junge Frau als Schönheitsideal

 

Sanseido Wisdom Dictionary

twig

twig 1 /twɪɡ /名詞 複 ～s /-z /C 1 小枝 , 枝先, 細枝 (→tree ).2 〘医 〙(神経 血管などの )小枝, 枝脈 .h ò p the tw í g ｟英 話 遠回しに ｠死ぬ (die ); (負債を払わずに )逃げる .tw í g gy 形容詞 小枝の多い ; 小枝のように細い .

 

twig

twig 2 動詞 ～s ; ～ged ; ～ging ｟英 くだけて ｠他動詞 …がわかる, …に気づく ; …を見つける ; 〖～ that節 [wh節 〗]…だと […かが ]わかる .自動詞 わかる .